All Home & DIY articles – Page 276
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Sir Terence Conran: Habitat should become high street Ikea
Habitat should become more like its parent company Ikea in order to restore its fortunes, Habitat founder Sir Terence Conran said this week.
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Analysis
Charity begins on the high street
Working with charities isn’t just part of being a good corporate citizen – done the right way it can motivate staff and generate free PR.
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Analysis
Plastic bags: Has the problem been exaggerated?
With a target of reducing plastic bag usage by 70 per cent by next spring, retailers are doing all they can to minimise their waste, but has the problem been exaggerated? Liz Morrell sorts fact from fiction
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Analysis
Sir Terence Conran: Design Icon
21 years after he was Retail Week’s first interviewee, Sir Terence Conran tells Tim Danaher why today’s retailers need to develop a passion for product
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News
Toogood retires from Carpetright board
Martin Toogood has retired from his role of non-executive director at Carpetright.
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Casino targets UK with discount e-tail site
French retail giant Casino is to debut in the UK with the launch of its non-food discount web site Cdiscount.com.
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Argos homes in on value seekers
Catalogue store group Argos is offering four years’ interest-free credit on furniture for the first time, as it woos value-conscious shoppers.
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August blow cements September sales fears
Analysts fear non-food like-for-likes will dip further in September, after the BRC revealed a comparable store sales fall of 1 per cent in August.
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Trading toughens for Dunelm
Value homewares retailer Dunelm has posted a leap in preliminary profits, but like-for-like sales have plummeted in the new financial year.
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Galiform and Merchant Equity settle MFI row for £8 million
Building supplies group Galiform has agreed to pay Merchant Equity Partners 8 million in settlement of a dispute arising from the sale of MFI’s retail business to the private equity firm.
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Asda to open five Asda Living stores this year
Asda will open a further five Asda Living stores across the UK this year, bringing its total to 21.
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Housing policy brings industry little comfort
The Government’s 1 billion raft of initiatives to kick-start the housing market is unlikely to improve retail trading, store chiefs and analysts have said.
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Campaign for carpet to pile on other flooring
The carpet industry’s Fun On The Floor campaign, designed to promote the value and appeal of carpet, could be extended to other types of flooring, such as vinyl, according to Carpetright.
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Opinion
Act tough now and win later
As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.
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Christmas in the balance
Sector braced for toughest season since the 1980s, with December like-for-like drop expected.
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Opinion
An opportunity for shoppers
Retailers need to counter the despondency that the media is instilling in their customers.
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Interest rate held at 5%
The Bank of England has held the interest rate at 5 per cent for the fifth month running despite increasing fears of an imminent recession.
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Price rises to hit non-food
Price hikes of more than 6 per cent on non-food items such as T-shirts, shoes and sofas are possible next year, because of the sterling’s collapse against the euro and the dollar.
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Hob snaps up store at Leeds’ Clarence Dock
Culinary retailer Hob has taken its third UK store and its second outside London as part of a raft of signings to Clarence Dock in Leeds.