All General merchandise articles – Page 271
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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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Clinton Cards prelims impress
Clinton Cards has posted preliminary results ahead of City expectations.
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Family Dollar sales success tainted by slowdown fears
Discount US retailer Family Dollar has warned that rising energy costs and inflationary pressures will dampen its core low-income customers’ spend, despite posting a robust full-year performance.
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Arcandor woos five bidders for €5bn estate
German mail order and retail group Arcandor, owner of the loss-making Karstadt department store chain, has attracted five binding bids for its high street property portfolio, estimated to be worth between €4.5 billion and €5 billion ( 3.11 billion and 3.45 billion).
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Beales appoints Bhs retail director as chief executive
Department store Beales has appointed Tony Brown as group chief executive.
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John Lewis sales hit by warm weather and rugby
Department store John Lewis posted a dip in sales for the week ending October 6, as strong comparables from last year, warm weather and the rugby world cup hit sales over the weekend.
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Opinion
What happened to the Jessops I loved?
During my art college days at Leicester, the photographic retailer Jessops held a special place in my education and future career development. The Leicester store was the first that Frank Jessop opened and it was there that I bought my first camera.
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Opinion
Where would we be without our customers?
Store manager’s diary – Ruth Siegler, Lush, Guildford
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News
WHSmith profits rocket
WHSmith has reported soaring group profits, but both total and like-for-like sales dropped.
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Opinion
BRC sales data lifts mood with general retailers outperforming
General retailers had another good week as they outperformed the All Share index, although they still lagged behind on the year. Stronger than expected BRC’s sales data lifted the mood, although the organisation noted that widespread price-cutting contributed to the rise.
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Retailers right to remain cautious
So Sir Terry Leahy says consumer confidence is on the way back up, and this week’s BRC sales figures showed that shoppers returned to the high street in healthy numbers in September. At the same time, retailer after retailer is reporting strong performances.
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Halfords motors ahead with a like-for-like uplift in first half
Motor accessories retailer Halfords reassured that the wheels were not coming off its business as it posted a like-for-like sales jump of 5.5 per cent in the 26 weeks to September 28.
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The Sun launches online shop
News Group Digital has launched an online price-comparison shopping portal for bestselling newspaper The Sun.
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Boots to go into battle over medicine fee cuts
Alliance Boots is poised to challenge the Department of Health on its decision last week to reduce the fees it pays to pharmacies and cut the price of medicines.
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Woolies warns of toy shortages at Christmas
Children’s Christmas wishes could be shattered this year, as Woolworths admitted it could run out of some of this year’s must-have toys two weeks before the big day.
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Carphone Warehouse UK marketing director leaves
Carphone Warehouse’s UK marketing director Dominic Rowell has left the retailer.
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News
Clinton Cards prelims impress
Clinton Cards has posted preliminary results ahead of City expectations.
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Analysis
Fire in his belly
More famous today for his role as an investor in Dragons’ Den than as a shopkeeper, Theo Paphitis has made a career of rescuing retailers on the brink of collapse. Liz Morrell enters the Dragon’s lair
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NHS payment changes threaten Boots' profits
Health and beauty giant Alliance Boots faces a profits blow of as much as 80 million following a government decision to cut medicine payments to pharmacies.