All articles by George MacDonald – Page 254
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Analysis
Can M&S claw back food sales?
Marks & Spencer’s food offer has gone from hero to zero. Chief executive Sir Stuart Rose is determined to regain the initiative, but faces big problems. George MacDonald investigates
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Analysis
Mounting recession speculation sends retail stocks into tailspin
The pall of looming recession hung black over the City all week, pitching the entire market into steep decline.
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News
Rose reigns as shareholders back promotion to chairman
Marks & Spencer shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of electing chief executive Sir Stuart Rose to the position of executive chairman at Wednesday’s AGM.
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Sainsbury's e-tail service restored
Sainsbury's e-tail site is working again after being put out of action for much of the day because of supplier technical problems.
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Tories caution on out-of-town quashing independents
A Conservative Party commission on the future of small shops has recommended the party adopts a tough stance against out-of-town parks to protect town centres.
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Carrefour hypermarket sales slide
International retail giant Carrefour is to speed up the pace of change after second quarter sales slipped at its French hypermarkets.
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Opinion
Woolies needs a merry Christmas
From Cardiff to Cheshunt, Paddington to Paisley, retail’s bunkers are readying themselves for the year’s biggest blowout – Christmas. Retailers that depend on second-half performance for the bulk or entirety of their profits – and there are plenty of them – will be chewing their nails in anxiety, because the ...
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News
Lots of sandwiches and a few spats: M&S AGM sketch
They came, they ate his sandwiches and they voted for him.
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News
Primark picks C&A man for Continental move
Value fashion specialist Primark has poached an executive from European retailer C&A as it prepares for expansion on the Continent.
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News
Sainsbury's tags chickens as theft rises
Sainsbury’s is attaching security tags to frozen chickens to combat soaring theft of both value and top-of-the-range birds.
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News
Argos staff vote to strike
Argos distribution staff have voted to strike over pay after rejecting a 4 per cent offer from the chain’s parent, Home Retail Group.
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NewsWorse to come
As M S like-for-like sales plunge, fears grow industry may never fully recover from downturn
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Opinion
It’s bad, but it’ll get worse
No offence to Beales, but it’s come to something when it’s capitalised at three times as much as the two quoted sofa retailers.
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News
Qataris increase stake in Sainsbury's
The Qatar Investment Authority has upped its stake in Sainsbury’s to 26 per cent.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – July 4, 2008
The magic has well and truly evaporated from the retail Camelot created at Marks & Spencer by Sir Stuart Rose.
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News
Flying Brands to shut Greetings Direct after US move flops
Home shopping group Flying Brands is to shut its Greetings Direct business after its US launch failed.
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John Lewis sales slide 8%
John Lewis has posted an 8.3 per cent fall in sales at its eponymous department store business for the week to June 28.
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News
Baugur move to UK looks likely
Baugur, the Icelandic investor that controls swathes of the UK high street, is expected to announce today its intention to move to the UK.
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News
Rubik's Cube to be Christmas best-seller
Vintage 1980s toy the Rubik’s Cube is likely to be a Christmas bestseller, according to variety store group Woolworths.
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News
Former Body Shop employee fined for insider dealing
A former Body Shop employee has been fined 85,000 for insider dealing in the retailer’s shares.