All Fashion articles – Page 786
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Ghost to resurrect luxury stance
The new owner of Ghost will take the fashion brand back to its luxury roots after rescuing it from administration last week.
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Interest rate cut met with caution by analysts
The Bank of England’s shock decision to slash interest rates to 3 per cent will help heavily indebted retailers, but analysts remain cautious about the immediate impact on consumers.
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Signet UK like-for-likes slide
Jewellery retailer Signet’s UK arm has suffered an 8 per cent fall in like-for-like sales in the past three weeks of trading.
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Retail’s elite toast festive West End traffic-free day
London Mayor Boris Johnson joined retail’s elite this week to promote Oxford Street’s traffic-free day, which will fall on Saturday December 6.
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Peacocks defies crunch with rising sales and profit
Peacocks has revealed credit-crunch defying sales as it benefits from consumers trading down.
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Baugur insists it’s ‘business as usual’
Baugur chief executive Gunnar Sigurdsson has said the Icelandic investor has no intention of altering its portfolio of brands and that it is “business as usual”.
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M&S to slow openings as profits crash
Marks & Spencer is to slow the rate of openings for its Simply Food chain as part of a host of cost-saving measures after its half-year profits fell by a third to 297.8 million.
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Primark sets sights on Euro stores assault
Primark has signalled that it is preparing for further expansion in Spain and Portugal after revealing it has outperformed the fashion market.
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Asda profits knocked by price-fixing probe
Asda suffered a fall in full-year pre-tax profits after having to set aside an allowance for legal costs resulting from the Office of Fair Trading’s investigations into milk and tobacco price-fixing.
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Next’s Simon Wolfson: Christmas rush will come late
Next chief executive Simon Wolfson is expecting a “nerve-wracking” Christmas for retailers.
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Opinion
Marks and Spencer must fire on all cylinders
Sir Stuart Rose was telling anyone who would listen this week that he is a glass-half-full type of guy. But even he had to look pretty hard to find much good news in this week’s M&S interims.
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Spindler: mutual decision to leave Debenhams
Debenhams managing director Angela Spindler has denied she has been restructured out of the department store retailer, saying her exit at the end of the month was based on a mutual decision.
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Industry share prices on the up despite persistent poor trading
General retail stocks bounced back this week, jumping more than 20 per cent after taking a hammering the previous week, despite more bad news on trading.
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Blacks banking on late Christmas sales surge
Blacks Leisure is bracing itself for a late Christmas sales rush this year.
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Asda reports strong clothing and grocery sales in October
Asda's comparable store sales last month were strongest in grocery and clothing, parent company Wal-Mart’s October results have revealed.
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Urban Outfitters like-for-like sales jump
Like-for-like sales at US fashion and lifestyle retailer Urban Outfitters climbed 10 per cent across its fascias in the three months to October 31.
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Decathlon sizes up MFI stores in administration
Decathlon is eyeing stores put into administration by furniture retailer MFI last month as potential sites for its store expansion programme.
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Analysis
Westfield London: Centre of London
London’s retail landscape has been altered in one fell swoop with the opening of Westfield London. Ben Cooper examines the mall’s opening while John Ryan assesses its stores.
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News
Interest rate slashed to 3%
The Bank of England has cut the interest rate by 1.5 percentage points to 3 per cent in a move that has been welcomed by retailers.
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Opinion
MK One and Ghost: an uphill battle
The futures of two very different fashion retailers have been assured. But for how long?