More on Me + Em – Page 3067
-
News
MFI offers five years’ interest free credit deal
MFI has launched its first five-year interest-free credit promotion, as its customers are squeezed by the credit crunch.
-
News
Carpetright eyes takeovers in tough climate
Carpet and floorings specialist Carpetright is on the hunt to snap up smaller rival retailers, as it revealed challenging trading in its UK and Ireland business.
-
News
Waitrose chief says food prices will fall
Waitrose managing director Mark Price believes that the rise in food prices will be halted by the autumn.
-
News
Asos picks Paperchase IT boss to drive web
Asos has poached Paperchase global IT chief Gary Mudie to bolster its growing web site, as it revealed a sharp rise in full-year sales.
-
News
T-Mobile retail chief targets broadband sales
The new retail boss of T-Mobile has vowed to ramp up sales of mobile broadband products.
-
Analysis
Free wheeler
He may have once come close to bankruptcy, but Nick Wheeler, founder of shirt business Charles Tyrwhitt, tells Charlotte Dennis-Jones why he loves being his own boss
-
News
HomeSense makes UK debut with Poole store
TK Maxx parent TJX opened its first HomeSense store in the UK at Poole last week.
-
News
The Pier boss makes exit after business review
The Pier managing director John Higgins has stepped down from the homewares retailer following a shake up by its Icelandic parent Lagerinn.
-
News
Next takes Home Retail to court over copycat furniture claims
Fashion-to-homewares retailer Next has begun legal action against Argos over alleged design infringement of its children’s bedroom furniture range Storm.
-
News
Gillis ups ante for Blacks chiefs with £4m incentive bonanza
Outdoors specialist Blacks is to launch a 4 million incentive scheme for 25 top executives in an attempt to improve shareholder value and restore the retailer to its former glory.
-
OpinionThe customer is always right…
Another week, another tale of fashion sector woe. More retailers took a battering in the headlines this week.
-
News
Sound Control falls into administration
Sound Control, the UK’s biggest musical instruments retailer, has collapsed into administration.
-
Analysis
Home Retail Group: the City view
Argos, Home Retail’s flagship chain, delivered record profits last year, but the outlook is cloudy.
-
News
M&S could double stock value if it focuses on cash, analyst claims
Marks & Spencer’s stock is languishing below the level of Sir Philip Green’s abortive 400p-a-share offer in 2004, but could it be worth 850p?
-
Gallery
Store of the week: Karen Millen, SoHo, New York
The Karen Millen store in Lower Manhattan’s fashionable SoHo district, which was completed last month, is an example of a retailer responding sensitively to its local environment.
-
News
South Korea’s Lotte eyes India and Vietnam
South Korea’s largest retailer, Lotte Shopping, is targeting India and Vietnam as part of its plans to expand in some of the world’s fast-growing economies.
-
News
US retailers lure consumers as first tax rebates come in
Many of the US’s biggest retailers are offering promotional incentives for customers to trade in tax rebate cheques, as the first payments from President Bush’s US$100 billion ( 50.21 billion) tax giveaway arrived in bank accounts and through the post on Monday.
-
NewsRose to offload stake in Lane Fox business
Sir Stuart Rose will attempt to diffuse the latest Marks Spencer boardroom fallout by selling his stake in Martha Lane Fox’s karaoke business Lucky Voice.
-
News
New Look’s overseas sales to overtake UK
New Look’s Phil Wrigley has said the retailer’s international sales are likely to exceed its UK operation’s in the next five years.
-
Analysis
A tale of two nations
As the slowdown starts to take its toll, a more complex picture of which areas are suffering most is beginning to emerge. Katie Kilgallen investigates the geographical divide