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NewsJD Sports Fashion reveals 82% jump in half-year profits
JD Sports Fashion has reported an 82% leap in half-year profits as its flagship sports facscia continues to perform strongly.
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NewsBreakfast briefing: Retail news on Ocado and M&S
Retail news round-up on September 16, 2015: Ocado warns Morrisons can’t launch rival online service and M&S recalls faulty baby toy rattles.
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NewsTech & Ecomm: ‘Tech should not overtake human interaction’, says Dixons Carphone
Dixons Carphone chief marketing officer Julian Diment argues technology should not be allowed to overtake human interactions when being introduced in-store.
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NewsAmerican Eagle launches UK ecomm site as it seeks to test demand for more stores
American Eagle has launched its ecommerce site in the UK as it seeks to test demand and identify the best locations for a store roll-out.
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NewsTech & Ecomm: N Brown to launch ecomm platform with single view of customer
N Brown will launch an overhauled ecommerce platform in November that will give it a single view of customers across all channels and brands.
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NewsH&M hit by warm August but third-quarter sales up 11%
H&M revealed slowing sales growth in August, blaming “unseasonably warm weather”, but third-quarter sales soared 11%.
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NewsOcado 'not fearful' of Amazon Fresh, says finance boss Tatton-Brown
Ocado finance boss Duncan Tatton-Brown insists the etailer has no fear of Amazon as it prepares to bring its grocery offer to the UK.
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NewsTech & Ecomm: The challenges facing payment consistency and becoming cashless
Creating a seamless experience across all channels is one of the key payment challenges facing retailers, according to retail executives.
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NewsCard Factory founder Dean Hoyle invests in The Works and appointed chairman
Card Factory founder Dean Hoyle has made a ‘sizeable’ investment in discounter The Works and will become its chairman.
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NewsKingfisher reduces core ranges by 78% as it moves to unify businesses
Kingfisher has reduced the number of SKUs across its core range by 78% as boss Veronique Laury seeks to create ‘One Kingfisher’.
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AnalysisRetail Week Hackathon: Twenty-four hour video blog
As teams compete to simplify the multichannel shopping experience, watch our video coverage here. Updated hourly throughout the 24 hours.
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NewsTech & Ecomm: House of Fraser's Andy Harding on its restructure progress
House of Fraser’s chief customer office has heralded its restructure to a more customer-centric approach, but admitted there is work to do.
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NewsClothing prices help peg UK inflation rate back to 0%
The UK inflation rate fell back to 0% in August, down from 0.1% the previous month, largely due to a smaller rise in clothing prices.
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NewsOnline retail sales growth in August weakest for 15 years
Online retail sales in the UK recorded their weakest August growth for 15 years last month, according to latest figures from IMRG.
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OpinionMorrisons is being deserted by investors but Potts could rekindle success
So far, the market hasn’t taken much to Morrisons’ newish chief executive David Potts’ ideas about turning around the grocer.
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NewsTech & Ecomm: Shop Direct CIO on how it has prepared for Black Friday
Shop Direct group chief information officer Andy Wolfe said the retailer has “tested the hell” out of its systems ahead of Black Friday.
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AnalysisTech & Ecomm: Watch – John Roberts on personalisation and Ao.com’s future
Ao.com’s boss gave the opening keynote at Retail Week’s Tech & Ecomm conference. He sat down afterwards to discuss the key topics.
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NewsTech & Ecomm: ‘A lot of guff talked about personalisation', says Ao.com boss
Ao.com boss John Roberts believes there is a lot of “guff” talked about personalisation and argues more needs to be done to put the customer first.
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AnalysisStart-up of the week: Mobile commerce and analytics platform Grability
Start-ups in retail technology are growing and Retail Week is highlighting some of the best. This week Grability is in the spotlight.
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NewsMorrisons pilots new logo as boss Potts ramps up transformation plan
Supermarket giant Morrisons is testing a new fascia as boss David Potts ramps up his bid to rejuvenate the embattled grocer.