More on Me + Em – Page 3032
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N Brown sales rocket
Good weather in May helped home shopping group N Brown increase turnover 12.3 per cent for the 17 weeks to June 28.
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Tesco challenges Competition Commission
Tesco today launched a legal challenge to one of the remedies recommended by the Competition Commission’s two-year long probe into the grocer sector.
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Opinion
When small is beautiful
Despite what many acknowledge to be dire trading conditions, new shops continue to roll out of the store development pipeline and investment is clearly still being made in store design.
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Gallery
Wigmore to relocate as it gets brand facelift
Specialist sports retailer Wigmore is relocating to a new unit from its long-standing store on Wigmore Street in London’s West End.
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Baugur considers move to UK
Icelandic investor Baugur is considering whether it could relocate to the UK after the conviction for bookkeeping offences of executive chairman J n sgeir J hannesson.
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Matalan profits double
Value clothing and homewares group Matalan almost doubled profits last year.
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Asos profits rocket 117%
Online fashion retailer Asos continues to buck the downturn, recording pre-tax profits up 117 per cent to 7.3 million.
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Beales sales slump
Department store operator Beales has recorded a 6.4 per cent drop in like-for-like gross sales and warned there will be no uplift for the remainder of its financial year.
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Analysis
Roll with it
Paper, energy, landfill and even water savings are being made at Sainsbury’s as it rolls out double-sided till receipt printers, finds Joanna Perry
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AnalysisSomething to shout about?
These days, communicating your green policy can be tricky: be too vocal and you’ll get accused of greenwash. John Ryan discovers that most retailers are taking a low-key approach instead
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Opinion
Don’t discount the discounters
Michael and Vicky are a couple in their early 30s. They have one child, both have secure, professional jobs, are comfortably off and own their own home in a nice south London suburb. They live five minutes from one of Sainsbury’s flagship stores. But they choose to drive past it ...
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Redevelopment forces Martin Margiela to relocate UK store
Belgian designer fashion retailer Maison Martin Margiela is relocating its only standalone UK store.
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Style Mile BID plan to drive Glasgow retail
A campaign has been launched to raise the profile of retail and general commerce in Glasgow city centre.
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Belfast’s Connswater to get £6m overhaul
Irish developer Killultagh Estates is to invest 6 million in the refurbishment of the Conns-water shopping centre to the east of Belfast.
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AnalysisBattle on the western front
Westfield London is banking on drawing shoppers from the capital’s other retail hubs when it opens in October, but how severe could the outflow be? Ben Cooper investigates the effect it could have
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AnalysisSharper Focus: reinventing the DIY retailer
Ailing DIY retailer Focus is being reinvented by its management team. John Ryan visits the first new-look store in Wantage, with chief executive Bill Grimsey and brand director Richard Bird
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Opinion
Retailers can’t afford not to go green
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ latest report, Sustainability: are consumers buying it?, highlights consumers’ increasing concerns about sustainability and their willingness not only to buy into the notion, but to change their behaviour.
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Opinion
Reinvention will be our lifeline
Continually striving to improve everything we do will help retailers ride out this downturn
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Ikea turns to emerging markets for growth
Ikea is shifting its focus for expansion towards developing markets such as China, Russia and Eastern Europe in the wake of the consumer spending downturn.