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M&S shareholders back Rose
Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM. Rose has staunchly defended his promotion to the dual role of Chairman and chief executive with the board voicing their support for the move. ...
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NewsM&S to up PoS security with system roll-out
Marks Spencer is to introduce a new IT security system at the point of sale (PoS).
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Shop price rise for June stays below inflation
June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.
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Borders invests in store communications IT
Borders is to implement a store communication system as part of the software refresh it is undertaking this year.
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Otto cuts late payments with automated calling
Mail order retail group Otto UK has increased payments received on time by 17 per cent by calling customers with an automated reminder.
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Opinion
Third-generation phone, first-generation service
If the chatter on the web is anything to go by, many customers have been disappointed by the process put in place by O2 for pre-registered customers to get their hands on the new 3G iPhone.
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Primark picks C&A man for Continental move
Value fashion specialist Primark has poached an executive from European retailer C&A as it prepares for expansion on the Continent.
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Croydon named hotspot for fashion theft
Croydon in south London has been named the worst place for fashion fraud, suffering the highest amount of stock loss or shrinkage caused by theft.
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Sainsbury's tags chickens as theft rises
Sainsbury’s is attaching security tags to frozen chickens to combat soaring theft of both value and top-of-the-range birds.
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Waitrose hiring signals convenience push
Waitrose is understood to have hired a head of convenience as it gears up to take on the likes of Sainsbury’s Local and M&S Simply Food.
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Summer Row gets green light
Legal action that had threatened the beginning of construction work on Multi Development’s Summer Row scheme in Wolverhampton has been dropped.
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Modus plans overhaul of Lincoln’s retail offer
Modus has submitted plans for a mixed-use scheme in Lincoln to open in early 2012.
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Opinion
A tenants' market
Speaking to a leading expert on the retail market at today’s Fashion Retail Academy graduation ceremony, we got onto the subject of new shopping centres and why, if the market is so bad, they all seem to be opening almost fully let.
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M&S shareholders back Rose
Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM.
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Marks & Spencer pulls out of Taiwan
Marks & Spencer is to close all its stores in Taiwan after just 14 months of trading in the country, dealing another blow to the embattled retailer.
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Morrisons ups ante in price war
Morrisons has delivered another blow in the supermarket price wars with the creation of a fresh family meal for 4.
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Jacques Vert profits fall
Womenswear retailer Jacques Vert has announced a drop in operating profit before exceptional items to 4.7 million for the year to April 28, from 5.7 million last year.
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Dunelm like-for-likes fall
Out-of-town specialist homewares retailer Dunelm recorded a 2.4 per cent fall in like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to June 28, 2008. Total sales rose 7.7 per cent in the period.
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DVD sales rocket
DVD sales continue to soar, with first-quarter sales up 3.3 per cent on the same period last year.
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Opinion
Location, location, location
It’s always easy to be wise after the event, but the demise of Ilva in the UK has to be seen as an accident waiting to happen.