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AnalysisGetting retail mergers right
Bringing two retailers together does not always ensure instant success or results. Mark Faithfull looks at the secrets of getting the process right
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AnalysisHas Best Buy really raised the bar in electricals retailing?
Best Buy is promising to take service to a new level in electricals, but does it and how have established rivals responded to its launch? Retail Week went undercover to find out
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AnalysisThe retail brain drain
More senior staff are leaving big business and setting up on their own.
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AnalysisJoseph Wan
The Harvey Nichols chief executive isn’t holding out for UK economic recovery and is instead charging forward with new formats to drive growth.
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OpinionPutting on a united front
Individual talent alone is not enough, it is great teams that win the day.
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OpinionVAT increase will not derail retail’s recovery
Everyone in retail knows that balancing the books and getting the economy back on track is going to be vital
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GalleryLimelight Marketplace, New York
Less of a store of the week and rather more of a destination of the month, Limelight Marketplace is the successful outcome of remodelling a former nightclub housed in a Gothic revival church.
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GalleryMaking sense of a bigger home
Homewares retailer HomeSense has opened a larger footprint store, but can shoppers make sense of their surroundings.
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AnalysisRising costs spell trouble for fashion
With the planned VAT increase, dollar pressure, and increases in raw materials and labour costs, how will fashion retailers cope, asks Lisa Berwin
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AnalysisWalmex to step up Central American stores growth
Scot Rank, the chief executive of Walmart’s Central American unit, Walmex, confirmed to a conference audience last week that the company has identified 300 new cities in Mexico and Central America where it could open stores, in addition to further expansion in the 348 cities in the region in which ...
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OpinionAdopting a consumer goods outlook
This reflection of FMCG brands’ best practice by major retailers can also extend to how they structure their organisations or would like to be perceived.
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OpinionRetail surgery: We have just been purchased by new private owners. How can we expect the culture and running of the business to change?
We have just been purchased by new private owners. How can we expect the culture and running of the business to change?
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OpinionRetail surgery: We have focused on retaining the profitable customers on our database, rather than acquiring new ones. How do we get the balance right?
We have focused on retaining the profitable customers on our database, rather than acquiring new ones. How do we get the balance right?
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NewsOcado presses button on IPO
Home shopping group Ocado is to float on the London Stock Exchange after interim EBITDA surged 181% to £8m.
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NewsPrivate equity house Isis invests £4m in gifts etailer GettingPersonal.co.uk
Private equity house Isis has invested £4m in online gifts retailer GettingPersonal.co.uk.
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Opinion
Dixons is back...sort of
DSG International is renaming itself Dixons Retail, which is an eminently sensible move
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Ed and Dia launch a free loyalty card
Carrefour’s discount stores in France, operated under the Ed and Dia banners, have launched a free loyalty card called Club Dia.The retailer will run a promotion where twice a month, for 15 days, loyalty card holders are granted immediate reductions on more than 200 products. The scheme will cover both ...
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Carrefour to open its first cash-and-carry outlet in Argentina
Carrefour will open its first cash-and-carry outlet in the country later this year, adding to its Express y Mini convenience stores and local hypermarkets.The retailer will use the Brazilian brand Atacadão, which it has already exported to Colombia.The first Argentinean Atacadão will open before the end of the year in ...
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Kroger’s profits decline
Grocery retailer Kroger’s net profit declined 14.1% to $373.7m (£251.6m) in the first quarter to May 22. Total sales, including fuel, rose 8.7% to $24.8bn (£16.7bn), while sales excluding fuel increased 3.1%. Like-for-like supermarket sales, without fuel, were up 2.4%. Kroger’s chairman and chief executive David Dillon said: “The total ...