Sports retailer Dick's Sporting Goods is cutting back on Adidas and its Reebok marque to fit a clothing line on its shelves. The line, Calia, by singer Carrie Underwood, will be the main focus of a move to bring more gear and apparel for women into the chain's outlets.

British Airways has come out as the top consumer brand in the UK for the second year in a row, according to the latest Consumer Superbrands survey. Rolex retains second place in the annual survey, administered by The Centre for Brand Analysis. It is based on votes of 2,500 adults and 33 senior executives. The BBC rose one place to third, while Microsoft climbed two places to fourth and Nike leapt 11 places to fifth.

The LF-SA subcompact concept that Lexus has revealed at the Geneva auto show is an oddball matchbox car that would compete in Europe against the Mini hatchback and Audi A1. Said Alain Uyttenhoven, head of Lexus in Europe, "The SA stands for small adventurer. It's the most compact Lexus ever." Executive VP Mark Templin said the car is a way of getting the brand's stylists to think about the future, which will be defined by mega-cities.

Visa and Pizza Hut, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, introduced a new platform for ordering and receiving pizza. The two companies, along with Accenture, revealed the connected-car program. It uses Visa Checkout, Visa's online payment service, cellular connectivity, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Beacon technology at Pizza Hut restaurants. That latter lets staff know when a customer is arrived and ready for the order. The companies plan to start testing it in Northern California this spring.

A unit of video game chain GameStop Corp. won an auction for the right to take over more than 160 stores that bankrupt consumer-electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. was planning to close. In court documents filed Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., RadioShack said GameStop's Spring Communications Holding will pay $15,000 a store to take over leases at locations around the U.S. Spring has about two months to decide which stores it wants.

Dunkin' runs on cluelessness, but the good news is the company's ploy with the Liverpool Football Club is sure to be a case study: how to spend a lot of money to get people really hot under the collar. The company tweeted a photo of an alternative club crest for the team it sponsors, replacing Liverpool's two eternal flames, which memorialize the 96 people who died in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, with iced coffees. This tweet kinda says it all: "Typical yanks! No thought of honour, just concerned with shoving your product down peoples throats to make a profit." Iced, …

Department stores' share of total U.S. general merchandise, apparel, accessories and furniture sales have been cut by more than half over the last two decades. Cincinnati-based retailer Macy's is looking for ways to stay ahead of the game. The company plans to acquire a beauty and spa retailer. It also is looking into an off-price concept along the lines of Nordstrom Rack. And there are plans for stores in the Middle East and other markets. Analysts agree the company needs to look at ways to diversify.

Infiniti, at the Geneva Auto Show, said it will target younger affluent customers with its QX30 compact crossover. Infiniti unveiled the concept at the show, and the production version will be "highly influenced by the sleek concept," said Roland Krueger, Infiniti CEO. It will be the automaker's first entry in the compact crossover segment, rivaling Audi Q3, Mercedes-Benz GLA and BMW X3.

The National Restaurant Association has its 2015 list of top five food trends, and Southeast Asian cuisine is number five, with the Vietnamese sandwich being a big must-try. Peruvian food is next. The third most mentioned is a trend toward "regional" cuisine, meaning identifying not just which country is the source, but which precise region within it. After that is "authentic" which means dishes as they are actually served in the land from whence they come. Ethnic fusion is the most-cited trend.

BlackBerry is launching a collection of apps and services, BlackBerry Experience Suite, that takes pieces of the company's core platform and offers them up to Android, iOS and Windows devices. The effort is meant to seed the non-BlackBerry world with the company's core features for the world of business functionality. Some of them are from BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Users can, therefore, try BlackBerry features on the devices they already use.