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OpinionRetail surgery: How can international returns be made easier?
How do I make the international returns process easier to manage?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Consumer Rights Directive: what are the effects?
How will the new Consumer Rights Directive affect retailers?
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OpinionNext shows how to weather the new year
As far as retailers are concerned, Father Christmas seems to have got stuck in the chimney.
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NewsOasis mobile site turns discounting on its head
Visitors to Oasis’s mobile site this week didn’t get quite the bargain they were expecting in the January Sales.
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AnalysisRetail resolutions for 2012
Retailers reveal the business resolutions that they will be sticking to during the good and bad of 2012. By Gemma Goldfingle and Alex Lawson.
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NewsAurora like-for-likes soar 13% over Christmas
Fashion group Aurora, which runs Oasis, Warehouse and Coast, like-for-like sales soared 13% over the festive period.
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OpinionScribbler launches personalisation
In the online greetings card market, Moonpig.com has been leading the pack for nearly 10 years, having introduced personalisation very early on.
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NewsResponse to Portas will not be brought forward
The Government will not bring forward its response to Mary Portas’s high street review despite calls from an MP to speed up the process after a run of retail administrations in the past month.
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NewsQVC makes a pig’s ear of flogging an e-reader
Note of warning: when selling e-readers on live TV check what’s on the screen of the device.
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NewsMorrisons raids Sainsbury's for marketing director
Supermarket group Morrisons has poached a senior Sainsbury’s staffer to become marketing director.
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NewsLush reports strong Christmas trading
Christmas sales at beauty retailer Lush “exceeded expectations” as customers were pulled in by own-brand products and the “engaging” store experience.
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NewsWaitrose enjoys "very strong" Christmas
Waitrose has capitalised on a strong online offer to deliver a positive Christmas performance.
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NewsClintons Christmas like-for-likes edge up
Greetings card retailer Clinton Cards like-for-likes edged up 0.4% in the five weeks to January 1 as a “renewed focus on the right customer offer and improved service” paid off.
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NewsJJB shows improving performance over Christmas
Embattled sports retailer JJB like-for-likes rose 5% in the 4 weeks to December 26.
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Carrefour sells 97 supermarket properties
Carrefour has sold 97 supermarket properties to La Française AM, an investment fund majority-owned by Crédit Mutuel Nord for e365m (£305.5m).The properties were previously held by Carrefour’s real-estate branch, Carrefour Property. Carrefour will continue to operate the stores through 12-year leases under its Carrefour Market banner.
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Esprit launches new concept store
Hong Kong-based clothing retailer Esprit has launched a new concept store in Cologne as part of a strategy to strengthen its brand image and profitability. The store, dubbed the ‘lighthouse’ shop, operates from an urban loft space where shoppers can unwind as well as buy clothing.Esprit project manager Mike Ross ...
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Primark to open its first store in Austria
Value fashion retailer Primark is to open its first store in Austria at the Sillpark Shopping Centre in the city of Innsbruck. The store is due to open in the later part of summer this year and is expected to have a sales area of about 43,055 sq ft.The Austrian ...
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NewsPotential buyers circle Hawkin’s Bazaar chain
The administrator to troubled toy and novelties retailer Hawkin’s Bazaar aims to receive all expressions of interest in the business by the end of this week, following the collapse of owner Tobar Group.
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NewsThe ‘right mix’ puts a spring in Schuh’s step
Footwear retailer Schuh has revealed an 8.2% increase in pre-tax profit to £14.8m in the year to March 27, 2011 after benefiting from having the “right product mix”.