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LK Bennett bidders emerge
Private equity firms Phoenix Equity Partners and Golden Gate Capital are understood to be vying to buy fashion and footwear retailer LK Bennett.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – May 9, 2008
Magic Circle member Simon Fox has performed a skilful conjuring act at entertainment group HMV.
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Hunter bids to block Dobbies’ rights issue
Scottish business tycoon Sir Tom Hunter is trying to block Tesco-controlled garden centre chain Dobbies’ rights issue unveiled last month.
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HMV sales surge
Entertainment retailer HMV has posted a set of sparkling sales for the year ending April 26.
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John Lewis and Waitrose sales growth steady
Department store group John Lewis and stablemate grocer Waitrose posted solid sales for the week to May 3.
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Bolton’s Victoria Plaza scheme gains four more
Bolton’s Victoria Plaza development has secured four additional tenants.
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Opinion
Hopes live on for Boots debt deal
The idea that debt markets may be starting to relax again looked like a triumph of hope over experience as renewed attempts by Alliance Boots’ lenders to offload loans came to nought.
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Moss Bros’s future uncertain as Baugur weighs up options
Men’s formalwear retailer Moss Bros Group remained in limbo this week after potential buyer Baugur confirmed only that it and investment vehicle Newco continued to review due diligence.
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Opinion
My first 100 days speaking up for retail
Tomorrow is my 100th day as British Retail Consortium director -general, so I’ve been looking back through my diary.
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Land of Leather sales slump set to continue
Land of Leather’s negative like-for-like sales are expected to continue for the rest of the year, as the City forecasts that there will be no upturn for the troubled furniture sector.
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Opinion
Sunshine brings cheer for retail
“If you open your door in the morning and there’s a blizzard, you’re not going to buy a summer dress.” So said Sir Philip Green in his interview with Retail Week last month. So Green and many other retailers like him must have been celebrating as some decent weather finally ...
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NewsSainsbury’s price cuts are ‘sign of the times’
Sainsbury’s has begun a huge promotional push in an effort to lure cash-strapped shoppers into its stores and to its web site.
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DSGi installs ex-Tesco man to shake up ops
Electricals giant DSGi has hired a former Tesco director to take up the new position of operations development director as chief executive John Browett prepares to unveil turnaround plans next week.
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Lush on mission to double UK stores after 30% rise in profits
Handmade-cosmetics retailer Lush will forge ahead with its expansion plans after posting a 30 per cent uplift in group pre-tax profits to 10.3 million.
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Austin Reed up despite ‘worst fashion downturn in memory’
Austin Reed’s earnings in its first year of private ownership have risen sharply.
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MK One chief quits as fears of break-up grow
MK One chief executive Dominic Galvin has left the fashion retailer after it was sold to retail restructuring specialist Hilco.
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Endless steps in to save The Works
Beleaguered bookseller The Works has been bought by private equity company Endless, as forecast by Retail Week ( March 28 ).
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Oxford Street to say goodbye to ‘Golf Sale’ men
Oxford Street’s infamous “Golf Sale” man, an emblem in the eyes of many of everything that is wrong with London’s premier shopping thoroughfare, faces exile within months.
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Specsavers setting its sights on £1bn sales
Optician Specsavers is gunning to hit sales of £1 billion next year as it steps up its plans for global expansion.
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Uniqlo unveils UT Gallery spin-off in East End
Japanese fashion retailer Uniqlo has opened a pop-up shop off east London’s Brick Lane, called UT Gallery.