All Fashion articles – Page 792
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Christmas e-tail sales to rise 15 per cent
Online spend will continue to grow this Christmas with year-on-year sales expected to rise 15 per cent.
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Beales sales director quits
Beales sales director Neil Jones has resigned from the department store chain.
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Marks & Spencer to anchor Wolverhampton scheme
Marks & Spencer has signed to anchor Multi Development’s Summer Row scheme in Wolverhampton.
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John Lewis Partnership agrees new Ocado deal
The John Lewis Partnership has agreed to a five-year brand and sourcing agreement with Ocado and transferred its stake in the online grocer to its pension fund.
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EBTM sales rise
Sales for online music and clothing retailer EBTM increased by 17 per cent in the 24 weeks to October 17.
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Forever 21 in talks for first UK store
US fashion retailer Forever 21 is closing in on its first UK store signing, in London’s Covent Garden.
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Sales pick up at John Lewis
Sales have begun to improve at John Lewis, down just 1.3 per cent last week, helped by the cold snap in the weather.
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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.