All articles by Lisa Berwin – Page 54
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Dune on a mission to up presence overseas
Footwear chain Dune is to ramp up its overseas expansion with a target of 50 shops outside the UK within the next five years.
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Ashley’s Sports Direct to go back to basics
Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley said that the retailer would go back to basics to cope with a trading environment it described as “the hardest we have faced in our history”.
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Receivers called in at Dawnay Day
Two private shareholders of Austin Reed may be pursued for their assets as receivers were called in at Dawnay Day.
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JD changes name to drive fashion
Sports retailer John David Group has changed its name to JD Sports Fashion.
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Austin Reed distances itself from Dawnay Day crisis
Austin Reed said it should not be affected by the financial troubles at Dawnay Day, which was involved in buying the fashion retailer in January last year.
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River Island profits slip
Profits at young fashion chain River Island have been hit, but sales rose 8.5 per cent despite the challenging market.
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Co-op poised to complete Somerfield takeover
The Co-operative Group is this week expected to complete its 1.6 billion takeover of rival chain Somerfield.
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Analysis
It’s all in the detail
Presentation and style have given Jeremy Hackett’s tailoring outfit an edge. He tells Lisa Berwin how he has built on its successes
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Tesco takes on Argos with first catalogue shop launch
Tesco has launched its first Argos-style shop-in-shop at its Homeplus store in Bristol, which opened this week.
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Ideal to relaunch flagship channel after web revamp
TV shopping group Ideal Shopping Direct is to revamp its main channel Ideal World in an attempt to refresh its identity and attract more customers.
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Dune hires John Egan as chief exec
Shoe chain Dune has appointed former Mosaic-owned Shoe Studio boss John Egan as chief executive.
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Gap sales fall again
US fashion retailer Gap continued to feel the pinch in June, with group like-for-like sales plummeting 7 per cent.
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Walmart in line for £100m lift as it ups ante in fashion
US retail giant Walmart is taking steps to reinvigorate its fashion offer in a move that retail watchers say could add at least £100 million to its sales.
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Oxford Circus to get £4m makeover
Oxford Circus is set to receive a 4 million makeover to help ease congestion for shoppers at the busy London intersection.
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Croydon named hotspot for fashion theft
Croydon in south London has been named the worst place for fashion fraud, suffering the highest amount of stock loss or shrinkage caused by theft.
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PM calls on consumers to curb food waste
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on UK consumers to stop making “unnecessary” food purchases, in an effort to curb almost £1 billion of food wasted each year.
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OKA enjoys first-half growth
Furniture and interiors retailer OKA Direct has bucked the downward trend in the homewares sector to report 24 per cent year-on-year growth for its first half.
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Stylo makes board appointment
Shoe retailer Stylo has today announced the appointment of Terry Bond as a non-executive director.
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Rose faces investor rebellion
More than a quarter of Marks & Spencer investors could this week abstain or vote against Sir Stuart Rose’s elevation to executive chairman.
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Esom out as M&S issues profit warning
M&S has this morning issued a shock profit warning as it announced that its director of food Steve Esom has left the business.