All Analysis articles – Page 146
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AnalysisPower List: Risk-takers and innovators in retail reap rewards
Conditions remain hard in retail, but the risk-takers are coming out on top as this year’s Retail Week Power List makes clear.
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AnalysisBHS: Six questions Sir Philip Green is likely to face from MPs at hearing
As Sir Philip Green’s parliamentary inquiry looms, what questions will he have to answer about his involvement in BHS and its collapse?
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AnalysisStore of the week: McDonald's surprises with inspiring Oxford Street branch
The golden arches gleam with a bright interior design that uses technology to make dining fun and efficient, finds John Ryan.
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AnalysisPower List: New bosses at Net-a-Porter, Boots and Asda profiled
How high up Retail Week’s Power List of the most influential retailers will these three recently appointed bosses be placed?
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AnalysisProfile: Who is Asda's incoming chief executive Sean Clarke?
It’s fair to say Asda shocked the retail market this morning when it named Sean Clarke as its next president and chief executive.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What will Philip Day do with the Austin Reed brand?
Edinburgh Woollen Mill acquired the Austin Reed and Country Casuals brands last week amid the wreckage of the 116-year-old fashion retailer’s collapse.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Lotte Shopping – rebuilding an Asian retail giant
South Korea’s largest multi-format conglomerate Lotte Shopping has published its Q1 results for 2016, indicating the first signs of recovery.
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AnalysisInfographic: Matalan's profits take a hit, plus the latest retail sales stats
The week in words and numbers, June 10, 2016: Walmart’s Dave Cheesewright on Asda, Matalan’s figures and the latest retail sales stats
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AnalysisAnalysis: Big data goldmine still waiting to be exploited by retailers
How the UK’s leading retailers are harnessing systems, tools and technologies to effectively exploit big data to drive up profits.
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AnalysisEuro 2016: The chief execs that make up retail's fantasy team
As this summer’s European Championships edge ever closer, Retail Week selects its fantasy football team from across the industry.
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AnalysisSWOT analysis: What does Amazon Fresh's arrival mean for grocers?
Amazon has thrown down the gauntlet to the supermarkets after launching its Fresh grocery proposition in the UK this morning.
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AnalysisBHS inquiry: What's £1.5m between friends?
It is not often, possibly never, that a business select committee hears of death threats, but today that and other accusations flew thick and fast.
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AnalysisStart-up of the week: Menswear etail stylist service Thread
Thread is a fashion technology start-up combining personal stylists with algorithms to select items for users. Chief executive Kieran O’Neill explains more.
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AnalysisPeople moves: Sergio Bucher joins Debenhams and all the May moves
Vice-president of Amazon Fashion Europe new chief at Debenhams; Rowe cuts M&S management; Jody Ford to replace Stan Laurent at PhotoBox.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Seven retailers that excel at in-store customer experience
The retail headlines this year, from administrations to parliamentary enquiries and falling footfall, might suggest a sector in crisis.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Lidl unveils Portuguese expansion plans
Schwarz Group, owner of Lidl and Kaufland, is to invest €6.5bn this year as it seeks further growth and continues to build solid foundations for the years ahead.
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AnalysisOpinion: BHS - will the British public miss the department store chain?
BHS’s 164 stores will close shutters for the last time in the coming weeks, bringing an end to its 88-year history. But will anyone miss it?
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AnalysisProfile: House of Fraser’s new chief customer officer David Walmsley
House of Fraser is set to benefit from the appointment of former M&S digital director David Walmsley, who replaces Andy Harding.
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AnalysisRetail Diary: London’s posh Poundland and Pets at Home pups on Brexit
Poundland gets an upmarket competitor, Pets at Home pups get Brexit jitters and there is more than meets the eye at this new bookstore.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Three ways Walmart is using technology to drive efficiency
Walmart is driving efficiencies in its distribution centres by using “emerging sciences” to speed up a number of everyday processes.