All Marks & Spencer articles – Page 87
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NewsInfographic: Fashion price tracker – online womenswear data
Fashion price data from the week ending October 01, 2014: The average online price per item and percentage of products on markdown from the top ten womenswear retailers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Building operating models for a multichannel future
Some of the UK’s biggest retailers are radically changing the way they run their businesses to ensure they are ready for a multichannel future.
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NewsFears over fashion sector as clothing sales dry up in warm September
Alarm bells are sounding over the fashion sector after a warm September prompted Next to warn third quarter sales had been hit.
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AnalysisInternational analysis: Where's hot and where's not in global retail?
With problems ranging from regulation to political unrest, are the BRICs no longer the hottest new retail markets on the block?
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OpinionNick Bubb’s verdict: Tesco - it’s the hypermarkets, stupid
It is often said that “it’s the economy, stupid”, but the root of Tesco’s current predicament is its over-exposure to hypermarkets.
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OpinionComment: Dave Lewis’s baptism of fire as Tesco boss
Tesco’s chief executive Dave Lewis has to take decisive action to define his strategy following the revelation of the retailer’s overestimated profits.
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AnalysisInternational analysis: How Primark could build an American empire
The lucrative US market offers rich rewards for UK retailers that can crack it. Retail Week looks at whether Primark might be one of them
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AnalysisAnalysis: Tesco’s Robin Terrell and Jason Tarry profiled
UPDATED: Tesco multichannel director Robin Terrell and clothing boss Jason Tarry have both been handed new roles as part of the grocer’s reshuffle, unveiled on Monday.
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NewsTesco persuades M&S to release CFO Alan Stewart early amid accounting crisis
Tesco’s new chief financial officer, Alan Stewart, will join the grocer today after a deal was struck with Marks & Spencer to terminate his contract early.
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NewsBreakfast briefing: Retail news on Tesco, M&S and Dixons Carphone
Retail news round-up on September 23, 2014: Tesco strikes deal with M&S to get Alan Stewart on board early, Sir Richard Broadbent undert pressure to quit as Tesco chairman, Dixons Carphone proceeds with plan to buy 50 to 100 Phones 4u stores.
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OpinionComment: Alibaba is the perfect springboard for China ecomm expansion, says M&S
According to reports, Alibaba – China’s ecommerce giant – is set to break records with the largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) in history, as it floats its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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AnalysisAnalysis: 99p Stores targets convenience supermarkets with retail overhaul
The budget retailer 99p Stores is undergoing an overhaul and raising its ambitions, chief operating officer Tony Brown tells Retail Week.
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AnalysisScottish independence: Retail chief executives give their verdict
On the day Scotland heads en masse to the polling booths, Retail Week rounds up how retail bosses expect Scottish independence will impact the retail industry and affect consumers.
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NewsMarks & Spencer to launch in Scandinavia with 15 stores
Marks & Spencer is launching a raft of stores in Scandinavia and will make its Nordic debut with a flagship store in Helsinki next month.
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InterviewInterview: Sir Stuart Rose on start-ups, food retail and sustainability
As he prepares to join the House of Lords, the former M&S boss speaks to Retail Week.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How retailers are embracing the developer’s mindset
As shoppers continue to migrate online, retailers are thinking like developers about how best to utilise their empty store space.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is it time for retail parks to be reinvented?
Game-changing innovations in the mall market have masked a lack of innovation in retail parks. Is the sector ripe for a leap forward?
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AnalysisAnalysis: What are the challenges of overseas expansion for UK retailers?
UK retailers are being lured by the riches on offer in international markets, but overseas expansion is fraught with danger.
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NewsMore than 100 British businesses sign open letter calling for business rates reform
The big four grocers are among more than 100 of Britain’s biggest companies that have called for the controversial business rates system to be overhauled in an open letter published today.
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AnalysisAnalysis: UK retailers expand horizons for international stores
China may be a hot market, but UK retailers’ overseas store choices demonstrate their international expansions will be even further afield.