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Baltimore Business Journal by , New Media Editor Related: Sports Business, Retailing & Restaurants Dan Sawall has resigned as vice president of retail for Under Armour. New Media Editor- Baltimore Business Journal Email | Twitter Under Armour Inc.'s top retail executive Dan Sawall has resigned from his role at the Baltimore sportswear maker, effective June 1. Sawall, 57, is stepping down to “pursue other interests,” Under Armour said Tuesday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. At Under Armour, Sawall was charged with merchandising, planning and allocation, retail marketing and store construction. Sawall joined Under Armour (NYSE: UA)

Puget Sound Business Journal Amazon.com Inc. Amazon.com Inc. Latest from The Business Journals 'MIB 3' unseats 'Avengers' at box officeVance Corp. sells Plaza 600 building in Seattle's South Lake Union for .9MAmazon cuts ALEC ties Follow this company and Independent Publishers Group (IPG) have settled a three-month long dispute over electronic books. Publishers Weekly reports terms of the deal between Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and IPG weren't disclosed. In February, Amazon pulled nearly 5,000 e-book titles from its site in a dispute with IPG, the second-biggest independent publishers group in the

A Tacoma, Wash. man apparently angry that a friend's hardware store isn't doing well has been charged in an ill-conceived arson attempt at a Home Depot store in Seattle, reports the Seattle Post Intelligencer. Prosecutors say Randol W. Stebner, 53, started two small fires near the Aurora Avenue North superstore on May 14. Stebner admitted to lighting the fires and said he would do it again, according to court documents obtained by the newspaper. 

A new report by Jones Lang LaSalle found that with 92 percent of retailers selling online, 68 percent maintaining brick-and-mortar stores and 64 percent utilizing catalogs, retailers are embracing a multichannel approach to meet buyer expectations and battle for market share.

Williams-Sonoma has launched an in-store clienteling initiative to strengthen the associate/customer relationship by offering one-on-one service. The retailer believes that product knowledge is critical to differentiating the brand from others and the clienteling initiative is key to gaining customer engagement and loyalty.

Ann Taylor, a division of New York-based Ann Inc., plans to open its first-ever international stores in Toronto. The two stores are slated to open in fall 2012. The new boutiques will be designed to feel like a stylish, modern home for an intimate shopping experience. Currently the company operates 274 stores across the United States. 

Mark Carges joined eBay as its Chief Technology Officer in 2008, and he immediately called eBay's search engine "broken." He set into motion plans to launch a new search engine in a project called Cassini that was originally slated to launch in 2012, according to The Register. A May 4th Reuters article says eBay now plans to launch Cassini in 2013, but the company has not commented on why it postponed the launch. eBay has made changes that impact search since 2008, including rolling out product catalogs in some electronics categories, for example. Reuters says a search for iPod

American Apparel, the vertically integrated clothing manufacturer based in downtown Los Angeles, has announced the launch of a new mobile store serving Japan. The store, located at mobile.americanapparel.co.jp, will be the company's first venture into the mobile e-commerce space. Japan was chosen for the launch as its customers are among the most attuned to the potential of mobile shopping. "Mobile marketing is more important in Japan than in any other region. The majority of teenagers in Japan actually use their mobile phones for apparel shopping..."

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