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NewsBoohoo.com in marketing push to raise profile
Online fashion retailer Boohoo.com has launched a marketing campaign to raise its profile.
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NewsWaterstone’s unveils its new look and logo
Bookseller Waterstone’s has unveiled its new branding, designed to reflect the retailer’s “new direction”.
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NewsWaitrose still UK’s fastest growing supermarket
Waitrose has reported like-for-like sales up 3.4% in the quarter to the end of April, maintaining its position as the fastest-growing supermarket in the UK.
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NewsAustralian chain Coles poaches UK retailers
Australian grocer Coles has hired another clutch of UK retailers, reporting to retail and operations director Stuart Machin.
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NewsUnion Market to open first store in July
The first Union Market - the farmers’ market-cum-supermarket run by a former Tesco executive and a former Whole Foods executive - will open in July.
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NewsNew owner looks to exit Lombok after 10 months
Furniture chain Lombok’s owner, private equity firm Privet Capital, is seeking to exit the business less than 10 months after it bought it.
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NewsM&S confident of profits from mobile shoppers
Marks & Spencer expects its optimised website for mobile phones to become profitable “very quickly” as its customers take advantage of the convenience of the offer.
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NewsNew Asda boss Andy Clarke faces ambitious targets
Asda’s incoming chief executive Andy Clarke faces an “uphill battle” to achieve the retailer’s ambitious targets in food and non-food, according to City analysts.
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NewsMohamed Al Fayed: 25 crazy years in retail
Always controversial, always eccentric and not a man to be crossed, UK retail will be a less colourful industry following Mohamed Al Fayed’s £1.5bn sale of Harrods this week.
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NewsRefreshing French Connection
While market debutant SuperGroup has reported a surge in sales and likely profits, another fashion retailer in a similar mould is engaged in a battle to restore profitability.
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NewsBrokers look for continuity at M&S
Analysts took a relaxed approach to news that finance boss Ian Dyson is leaving Marks & Spencer.
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NewsDebenhams impresses with Danish acquisition
Analysts have reacted positively following a trip to see Debenhams’ Danish department store chain, Magasin du Nord, last week.
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AnalysisPark life: retail parks bouncing back
Retail parks have been on the back foot, but new names are now starting to freshen up their offers and draw footfall.
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AnalysisHow to crack the challenge of retail in India
India is a market in transition, where organised retail has only recently made inroads. But how can retailers tap this burgeoning market and what are the pitfalls? John Ryan reports from Mumbai
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AnalysisJim McCarthy: From paper boy to Poundland chief executive
From paper boy to chief executive, retail is in the Poundland boss’s blood. Nicola Harrison talks to the man who’s eye for convenience has turned in more than a pound or two
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AnalysisPrivate equity rushes back into retail
After two years on the sidelines private equity money is back in retail. George MacDonald finds out why and what investors are looking for
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AnalysisCrisis in Greece hampers international retailers
International retailers such as Delhaize Group, which has seen almost double-digit growth every quarter for the past two years in Greece, will be watching the situation there closely.
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AnalysisAbsent without leave
When acts of god keep staff from work, how should employers handle pay, asks Liz Morrell