All Retail Week UAT articles in 12 October 2007 – Page 6
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Analysis
A walk in the park
Retail parks are trying to compete with town centre rivals by giving shoppers more reasons to stick around when they visit. Liz Morrell reports on the rise of experience-led schemes
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News
Carphone Warehouse UK marketing director leaves
Carphone Warehouse’s UK marketing director Dominic Rowell has left the retailer.
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News
Dutch grocer pilots mobile phone payment system with LogicaCMG
Dutch supermarket C1000 has embarked on a six-month pilot of a payment system that ditches debit cards in favour of mobile phones.
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AnalysisGrowing pains
Retail parks have evolved in a way that few could have envisaged five years ago. But is the rise of powerful fashion offers and comfortable coffee houses enough to gloss over deeper issues for some schemes? Mark Faithfull reports
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News
HMV outsources data centre as part of savings drive
HMV Group is in the process of relocating and consolidating its server estate after signing a managed services contract with Syan.
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News
Rail operator tests water with combined retail and ticket shop
The third test store in the trial of a combined ticket office and convenience shop concept operated by Merseyrail will open at the end of the month.
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Opinion
Two horse race
Looking back at a press release from 2002 it’s clear to see how much the retail software market has consolidated.
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Opinion
The tide is turning for retail parks
A tough market has forced landlords to be more creative with their space to pull in retailers
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News
Lovelock steps down from Jacques Vert
Mosaic chief executive Derek Lovelock will retire as non-executive chairman of womenswear retailer Jacques Vert on November 1.
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News
EBTM widens losses after year of growth
Music-inspired fashion e-tailer EBTM (Everything But The Music) has increased its turnover to 1.4 million after a year on the acquisition trail, but still made a loss overall.
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News
Sainsbury's sales climb
Sainsbury’s revealed second-quarter sales rose 4.7 per cent (excluding fuel), in line with company expectations.
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News
Gap plans push into the Philippines
Gap is set to open a dozen stores in the Philippines by 2012.
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News
Carphone eyes £56m profits for first half
Carphone Warehouse is expecting pre-tax profits of 53 million to 56 million for its first half, according to a trading update released this morning.
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News
Retailers fear Budget means £100m tax hit
Proposals to allow shire counties and the Greater London Authority to tax businesses to fund local projects will cost retailers 100 million.
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News
Littlewoods to scrap 280 jobs
Multichannel retailer Littlewoods is poised to axe 280 jobs nationwide in a bid to streamline its operations.
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News
Cambridge centre signs fashion trio
Fashion retailers Hugo Boss and Ted Baker and jeweller Links of London have signed up to the Grand Arcade retail scheme in Cambridge.
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News
Crossrail link to drive sales in the West End
London’s West End is set to benefit from the Crossrail project, which was given the go-ahead last week.
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News
Westfield’s Derby centre opens six months early
Westfield and Hermes opened their 340 million shopping centre in Derby this week, six months ahead of schedule.
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News
Nevisport hits the buffers
Scottish outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Nevisport has fallen into liquidation just two weeks after it was reportedly bought by Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley for 2.5 million.
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Opinion
Crossrail is beacon of hope for east Oxford Street
While Prime Minister Gordon Brown is being attacked from every political corner at the moment, the property industry should be thanking him. Last week, he gave the go-ahead for the Crossrail link – something that has been mooted since 1990.