All articles by Jennifer Creevy – Page 101
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News
Hilco bosses join MFI board
Two senior directors at turnaround specialist Hilco are understood to have joined the board of furniture giant MFI in a move that throws further speculation on the retailer’s future.
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Space NK to open in US Bloomingdale’s stores
Health and beauty retailer Space NK has struck a deal with US department store Bloomingdale’s to open concessions in the US.
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Waitrose opens third market town store
Waitrose opened its latest market town store last week at Brackley in Northamptonshire.
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Opinion
Discounters have a chance to turn shoppers for good
Shoppers are voting with their feet and figures released this week show that consumer spend in discount supermarkets has reached record levels.
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Price war hots up as Netto slashes staples
Danish discount supermarket Netto has waded into the UK’s grocery price war by slashing the price of key staple items.
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Tesco to revive British tea break
Tesco is to give away tea and biscuits at 252 stores across the UK this week in an effort to revive the traditional British tea break and lift sales.
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Boots UK rejigs marketing and trading teams
Boots UK, the UK health and beauty arm of Alliance Boots, has restructured its marketing and trading teams as part of its ambition to become the world’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer.
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Ocado to expand beyond food
Ocado is to expand beyond food into areas such as clothing and health and beauty as it notches up sales of 1 billion.
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Retailers unite against landlords
The UK’s biggest retailers have united against their landlords, calling for a radical change in the way they pay rents as the credit crunch continues to bite.
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Opinion
Co-op should focus on what it does best
The long-awaited Co-op-Somerfield deal was finally completed this week with little pomp and ceremony.
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Thorntons: the city view
Thorntons will open five new-format stores next month after posting a like-for-like sales increase of 3.6 per cent for the 10 weeks to June 28, writes Jennifer Creevy.
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Analysis
Medicine man
With his passion for organic produce, Jonathan Hook was the natural choice to head Neal’s Yard Remedies. He tells Jennifer Creevy why the retailer has a strong future
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M&S slashes men's suit to £24
Marks & Spencer slashed the price of selected men’s suits yesterday to only 24 as it started its summer Sale.
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John Lewis Sale puts retailer back on course
John Lewis has ended its falling sales trend with a strong week for its clearance Sale, recording sales up 5.9 per cent for the week to July 12.
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Asda launches price-cuts weekend
Asda is to slash the price of a dozen core groceries this weekend as shoppers start to feel the pinch towards the end of the month.
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Co-op chief: Somerfield integration will be easy
Co-operative Group chief executive Peter Marks has insisted the retailer’s integration of Somerfield will be smooth and without culture clashes.
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Asda pencils in September relaunch date for George
Asda will relaunch its George clothing brand in September as it seeks to make the label the UK’s biggest-selling fashion brand by volume before the end of 2011.
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Co-op buys Somerfield for £1.56bn
The Co-operative Group has sealed its long-awaited 1.56 billion deal to buy Somerfield.
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MFI calls in restructuring expert
Furniture retailer MFI is understood to have called in corporate restructuring company Kroll Talbot Hughes (KTH) as the credit crunch bites.
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Retailers fined over tobacco price fixing
Five retailers and a tobacco manufacturer have agreed to pay the biggest collective penalty ever imposed by the Office of Fair Trading after admitting their role in cigarette price fixing.