All Home & DIY articles – Page 209
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NewsKingfisher’s sales rise despite slump at B&Q
Kingfisher’s second quarter impressed analysts, despite a slump in UK sales as bust rival Focus launched a closing down Sale.
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NewsStakebuilding raises Blacks’ share price
The market edged up over the week but retailers of all types were becalmed.
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NewsRetail employment falls as non-food stores cut staff
Retail employment fell 0.4% in the second quarter of this year, equivalent to 3,100 fewer full-time jobs.
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AnalysisRetail Week On The Road: Wales and the Southwest
We visit Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Bristol.
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NewsJohn Lewis encouraged by demand for new season's product
Department store chain John Lewis has reported strong demand for new season’s lines as it moved out of the Sale period.
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GalleryHow retailers are selling the Sales
Roll up, roll up… it’s Sale time, and as retailers scramble to rid themselves of unwanted stock, Retail Week considers the many ways there are to skin a marked-down cat. John Ryan reports from Westfield London
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AnalysisSteve Johnson
Never afraid of a challenge, the new Dreams chairman is well equipped to take on the difficult big-ticket sector. Nicola Harrison reports
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NewsB&Q becomes a beauty contestant
Former Superdrug boss Euan Sutherland has brought a lot to B&Q since taking the helm in 2008.
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NewsJohn Lewis back on store trail with smaller format
Fashion to play a significant role in new mid-sized John Lewis department store format for second-tier towns
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NewsIn focus: Arcadia
Coinciding with the ending of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince’s honeymoon on Sir Philip Green’s yacht – and with Kate Moss’s Topshop collections now history – Retail Week Knowledge Bank has been undertaking the more prosaic exercise of updating its Arcadia and Bhs profiles in the wake of the financial ...
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NewsWorldStores to create umbrella brand
WorldStores, operator of niche websites such as PatioHeatersWorld.co.uk and MattressesWorld.co.uk, is to develop an umbrella brand following an £8.5m venture capital cash injection.
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NewsAllders goes national again with website
Department store Allders launched a transactional website this week, which chief executive Andrew MacKenzie said could turn over more than its high street store in the next three years.
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OpinionPrivate equity still has an eye for retail
The £533m acquisition of Jimmy Choo by Labelux is the latest of a stream of retail M&A transactions to successfully complete since the credit markets reopened.
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NewsMatalan posts quarterly sales fall
Value fashion group Matalan has posted a quarterly sales decline and warned that trading conditions remain tough, despite an uptick in July.
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NewsUnited Carpets posts level profits
United Carpets aims to increase its market share in core categories after holding profitability last year.
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NewsWhite Company EBITDA rockets as boss prepares to step down
Fashion and homewares retailer White Company has defied the economic gloom to post a better than expected 37% surge in EBITDA to £10.7m in the year to March 27.
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NewsReturn to sales growth puts Dunelm on course
Value homewares retailer Dunelm expects full year profit to be in line with expectations after revealing like-for-like growth improved in the fourth quarter.
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OpinionFrom crisis comes opportunity
The retail collapses of the past few weeks were sad news for those losing their jobs, but the focus on failure meant the bigger picture was obscured: crisis for one means opportunity for others, and good quoted retailers are seizing it.
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NewsGeneral retail cheer despite torrid trading
As the general market slid on renewed Eurozone crisis fears, retailers outperformed, although they were still down in the week leading up to Wednesday’s raft of updates.
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NewsDreams appoints Steve Johnson as chairman to navigate downturn
Bed specialist Dreams has hired former Woolworths boss Steve Johnson as chairman, replacing John Clare, who is retiring from the retailer.