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The technology world is buzzing after Google launched an internet browser yesterday. Some suspect that the application, called Chrome, is just the beginning of Google’s ambitions to develop its own web-based operating system.
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Retail Week has launched a reader survey to find out what you think about both our print and online coverage of the industry.
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Berghaus to open second UK store
Outdoor specialist Berghaus is to open a second store in the UK and has laid out plans to enter the Chinese market next year.
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DSGi suffers poor first quarter
Electricals giant DSGi has revealed that like-for-like sales and margins have continued to fall during its first quarter.
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Suits You reveals new look
Formal menswear chain Suits You has unveiled its first new-look store at Dudley’s Merry Hill shopping centre.
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Price rises to hit non-food
Price hikes of more than 6 per cent on non-food items such as T-shirts, shoes and sofas are possible next year, because of the sterling’s collapse against the euro and the dollar.
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M&S overhauls food ads
Marks & Spencer will break with its established food advertising campaign this Sunday, when the first of a new generation of ads will be aired on ITV1.
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What's the Verdict?
With prescient timing, Verdict has today predicted a revival in retail parks at the expense of city centre retail locations.
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Delayed Newbury centre finally given green light
Standard Life and Shearer Property Group have given the Parkway scheme in Newbury the go-ahead after a string of delays following questions over the project’s viability.
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Hob snaps up store at Leeds’ Clarence Dock
Culinary retailer Hob has taken its third UK store and its second outside London as part of a raft of signings to Clarence Dock in Leeds.
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Ireland’s Pavilions development unveils blueprint for extension
Irish developer Chartered Land has submitted an application for an extension to its Pavilions shopping centre at Swords, north of Dublin, which would significantly increase the scheme’s retail offer.
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Out-of-town retail parks to ‘lead retail renaissance’
Out-of-town retail is set to bounce back from the economic gloom and will be more successful than town centres in instigating a retail resurgence, a Verdict survey has claimed.
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Sainsbury's embarks on own-brand drive
Sainsbury’s has launched a multimillion-pound campaign to drive sales of its own-brand products.
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Hunter takes charge at Wyevale as Hodkinson quits
Jim Hodkinson has stepped down as executive chairman of garden centre group Wyevale, Retail Week can reveal.
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Adili seeks extra funding
Ethical fashion e-tailer Adili is seeking additional funding by issuing share capital to its largest investor Hawk Investments.
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Asos chief nets £352,000 in pay and bonuses
Asos chief executive Nick Robertson took 352,000 in pay and bonuses last year after bucking the downturn and more than doubling pre-tax profits at the business to 7.3 million.
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Smallbone trebles profits
Furniture retailer Smallbone became the latest luxury retailer to buck the downturn, more than trebling its pre-tax profit for the six months to June 30. However, the retailer remains cautious about the future trading environment.
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Stick to your design guns
You might be forgiven for thinking that we're experiencing a little local economic difficulty.
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Jil Sander changes hands
Private equity firm Change Capital Partners has sold luxury fashion retailer Jil Sander to Tokyo-listed apparel group Onward and its European subsidiary GIBO, for €167 million ( 135.5 million).
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Fads owner makes a loss
Strategic Retail, which owns home furnishings retailer Fads, has revealed a loss of 145,000 for the year to March 1 compared with profit of 194,000 the year before.