More on Me + Em – Page 3019
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BrightHouse profits surge
Furniture and electricals retailer BrightHouse has posted soaring profits as credit-crunched consumers flock to its stores.
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Opinion
Green alert
Seems a pity to rake over last week’s green theme once more, but passing a branch of surf-cum-outdoorwear retailer Howies it was hard not to stare at the eco-message that it was putting out.
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Boots slammed over supplier terms
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has named and shamed Alliance Boots as one of the worst payers to small suppliers.
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Ocado to expand beyond food
Ocado is to expand beyond food into areas such as clothing and health and beauty as it notches up sales of 1 billion.
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TM Lewin profits jump 21%
TM Lewin has bucked the downturn, posting a 14 per cent sales rise and EBITDA up 21 per cent in its full year.
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MK One creditors to get 1p in every £1 owed
Creditors of MK One, the value clothing chain that went into administration in May, will receive 1p at most for every 1 they are owed.
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Retailers unite against landlords
The UK’s biggest retailers have united against their landlords, calling for a radical change in the way they pay rents as the credit crunch continues to bite.
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Central London outperforms rest of UK
Retail sales in central London have continued to outpace the UK as a whole.
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Families’ disposable income still shrinking
The average family is 9 a week worse off compared with June last year, Asda’s income tracker has found.
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Analysis
Web write-offs
Unintelligible sentences, jargon, spelling mistakes… the standard of writing on retailers’ web sites can be woefully bad. Charlotte Hardie spells out why it’s costing them dearly and what needs to be done
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Tesco to build straw-powered energy plant
Tesco has been given the go ahead to build Britain’s first straw-powered, combined heat and power plant.
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Analysis
Waste not, want not
Electricals retailers have found WEEE compliance far from straightforward. Katie Kilgallen asks how they are coping a year on and whether the Government has got the regulations right
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AnalysisStore Twenty One: The store that’s come of age
In today’s market, the best value retailing compares with many of the mid-market’s big names. John Ryan heads to Pitsea in Essex to see how Indian-owned Store Twenty One is shaping up
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Analysis
Two sides to every story
ERP systems tend to only ever make the headlines when they go wrong, but the positive impact they can have on a retail business is still tremendous, as Joanna Perry discovers
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Analysis
Clamping down on out-of-town
The Government’s latest report on planning could make out-of-town development more complex as it strives to protect town centres. Ben Cooper investigates the implications of the changes
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Analysis
Good sourcing will keep shoppers coming back
I’m pleased to say that the warm sunny days we had in May lifted our figures. And, after a couple of weeks off, I’m now ready to face what we have left of the summer season, which will hopefully bring more people to town and into the store.
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Analysis
People first
In tough times, it can be tempting for retailers to revert to outdated top-down management as they squeeze costs. But losing sight of staff is the worst thing they could do, says Katie Kilgallen
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Opinion
Co-op should focus on what it does best
The long-awaited Co-op-Somerfield deal was finally completed this week with little pomp and ceremony.
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Dune on a mission to up presence overseas
Footwear chain Dune is to ramp up its overseas expansion with a target of 50 shops outside the UK within the next five years.
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Thorntons: the city view
Thorntons will open five new-format stores next month after posting a like-for-like sales increase of 3.6 per cent for the 10 weeks to June 28, writes Jennifer Creevy.