More on Me + Em – Page 2898
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Tesco launches £9 Valentine's Day promotion
Tesco is to take on Marks & Spencer with its Valentine’s Day luxury meal promotion, offering a meal for two for 9.
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Baugur in administration
Updated: Baugur’s stakes in retailers House of Fraser, Hamleys, Aurum and Iceland have been placed in to administration.
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Smallbone secures £5.9m financing package
Luxury furniture retailer Smallbone has secured a 5.9m financing package after revealing it had a challenging fourth quarter in 2008.
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Glitnir makes demands on Baugur; buyers circle Hamley's
Nationalised Icelandic bank Glitnir has demanded repayments from beleaguered Icelandic investor Baugur, as tensions between it and its lenders intensify.
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Monsoon looks overseas as UK market weakens
Monsoon founder Peter Simon said that the fashion retailer's first set of results since he took it private last year were encouraging given the tough trading conditions.
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John Lewis sales down in last week of January
John Lewis has reported that sales slipped in the last week of January, but stressed that the month as a whole had been “hugely fruitful”.
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Tesco develops new department store format for Czech Republic
Tesco is to open a department store under a new fascia in the Czech Republic at the end of February.
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AnalysisMultichannel debate: On the pulse
Retailers’ multichannel strategies may have come a long way but there are still plenty of challenges. Joanna Perry joins some of the UK’s top e-tail directors to find out what their new priorities are
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Traditional home shopping retailers fail to engage customers
Catalogue operators are failing to fully engage with customers, as the home shopping sector continues to change gear to an increasingly online-dominated market.
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Baugur in meltdown
Baugur’s tangled web of retail investments will move closer to unravelling today as the investor begins a moratorium process likely to lead to administration.
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Baugur's interests hang in the balance
Uncertainty hung over the future of Baugur’s interests in quoted companies after the investor was placed in the Icelandic equivalent of Chapter 11.
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Baugur: Retailers' hopes high for high street future
The retail industry has reacted with a degree of optimism that the demise of Baugur could signal the end of months of uncertainty for its brands and ring in positive changes to the high street.
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Buyers eye Baugur chains as investor's fate unclear
Arcadia owner Sir Philip Green is in a “position to buy” assets that may come into play as a result of Baugur’s likely administration.
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Opinion
Baugurs house of cards collapses
A chill fell on the high street in more ways than one this week. As the big freeze bit, Icelandic investor Baugur filed for its home country’s equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Retailers abandon expansion plans as Indian market sours
International brands’ aggressive expansion into India has hit the wall as Indian retail companies encourage their foreign partners to put roll-out plans on hold.
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AnalysisPoundland: Sound as a Pound
As the downturn bites, discount retailers like Poundland are stealing a march. John Ryan talks to chief executive Jim McCarthy about its no-frills approach and evolving store design
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AnalysisConsumer behaviour: All in the mind
Research shows that women are more demanding when they shop and influence up to 80 per cent of purchases. Charlotte Hardie finds out how retailers can cash in by tapping into the female psyche.
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Cortefiel: Global thinking
The downturn has forced Spanish fashion giant Cortefiel to review its UK expansion, but global franchise boss Alex Cara tells Amy Shields that growth is still on the agenda for the retailer
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Clinton Cards enters talks to refinance
Clinton Cards is in informal discussions with its lenders as it seeks to renew its revolving credit facilities.
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OpinionIt's time to regain your margin
I joked in a previous column that some of us might visit our shops in December, hear Wham’s Last Christmas and genuinely wonder whether it might be. I rather wish I hadn’t now.