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  • Habitat.jpg
    Analysis

    Home is where the hurt is

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    With the high-profile collapse of Habitat and a struggling big-ticket market, what does the future hold for home specialists? Nicola Harrison reports

  • Colin Temple, Managing director, Schuh
    Analysis

    Colin Temple

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The managing director of Schuh believes selling the business to Genesco makes good commercial sense, and is aiming for rapid expansion. By Gemma Goldfingle

  • JML
    Analysis

    What it’s like to work at JML...

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The inside view from head of creative Thomas Bateman

  • Simon Burke is chairman of HobbyCraft and Superquinn
    Opinion

    Time to mobilise

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Retailers need to capitalise on how mobile devices are changing habits, says Simon Burke

  • George Macdonald
    Opinion

    Tesco shines in central Europe

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    As headlines here were dominated by retailer collapses such as Habitat and Homeform, Tesco was reminding the City of its international counterweight to the troubled UK market.

  • macdonald george cutout
    Opinion

    General retailers defy market and bad news

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Retailers may have gone down like dominoes over the week but despite the slew of bad news publicly quoted general retailers were up versus the market generally.

  • Tim Danaher, Editor
    Opinion

    Retail’s week of woe could be just the start

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    In bad times, weak retailers fail. None of the names that have hit difficulty in the past week will have come as a surprise to anyone who follows the sector.

  • Fashionation, Berlin
    Gallery

    Fashionation, Peek & Cloppenburg Berlin

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Putting things politely, German department store Peek & Cloppenburg might be labelled somewhat conservative in its approach to store design and visual merchandising - this is probably not where you come for radical thinking.

  • John Ryan, Editor
    Opinion

    At the crossroads

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The fourth Retail Week Interiors finds the retail design industry at something of a turning point.

  • C&A, Cologne
    Gallery

    The world, C&A style

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    European value retailer C&A has created a new format for its stores that has been trialled at the Cologne flagship. John Ryan reports

  • Sterling
    Analysis

    On budget and on time?

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    What does a project manager do and what is the best approach for a particular task? John Ryan reports

  • Flooring
    Analysis

    The floor is all yours

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Floor coverings might not be the first thing a retailer thinks about when envisaging a shiny new store format or reviving a tired shop, but few elements of a store interior can make such a dramatic difference or enable a store to hit this year’s on-trend quite so definitely.

  • corian_westfieldMall_Corian_08
    Analysis

    The innovation generation

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Tough times in the retail sector have undoubtedly reduced R&D budgets but the industry continues to prove itself capable of genuine innovation. By Mark Faithfull

  • C&A Sao Paolo
    Analysis

    On being a winner

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The Retail Week Interiors Awards have proved, over their 14 years, to be a real feather in the cap of retailers seeking recognition for their store designs, but is there more to winning than this? John Ryan reports 

  • Asics footwear
    Gallery

    Back to Asics

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Running shoe brand Asics has opened a flagship store in Amsterdam that couples futuristic design with technology. John Ryan reports

  • TopshopKnightsbridge.JPG
    Analysis

    Does store design matter?

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    When trade is sticky, is there any point in digging deep to redesign stores? We ask four of those for whom design is a central preoccupation to justify their chosen discipline

  • Etailers must focus on profitability
    Opinion

    Retail surgery: Which area of online retail achieves the most growth?

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Which area of my online retail business should I focus attention on the most to achieve higher growth?

  • Scan this QR code with your phone to see how retailers are using them
    Analysis

    QR codes

    2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

    They’re meaningless hieroglyphics to some but for those in the know, QR codes allow retailers to engage with customers via their smartphones

  • Carrefour_Planet.jpg
    News

    Dixons subsidiary to develop Carrefour web offer

    2011-06-30T14:15:00Z

    Dixons subsidiary Pixmania has signed a deal to develop an online non-food offer for French retail giant Carrefour.

  • jane_norman.jpg
    News

    Jane Norman store closure list revealed

    2011-06-30T11:53:00Z

    The 33 stores that will close as a result of Jane Norman’s administration have been revealed.