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OFT launches fresh probe into supermarket price fixing
The UK’s four biggest grocers are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for allegedly fixing prices of health, beauty and grocery products.
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AnalysisRetail Power List 2008: 80-100
80 Alan Giles, chairman, Fat Face2007 RANK: 51One of the industry’s most recognised figures, the former HMV chief executive is now firmly established as chairman of rapidly growing surfwear chain Fat Face.He oversaw the£360 million sale of the business to Bridgepoint Capital last March and has embarked on a rapid ...
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AnalysisRetail Power List 2008: 60-79
60 Jgeir Jnesson, executive chairman, Baugur2007 RANK: 3 The Icelander has slipped out of the retail limelight this year, having handed over the role of Baugur chief executive to Gunnar Sigurdsson. He has not slipped out of the headlines, though, as the Icelandic police’s economic crime department are investigating previous ...
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AnalysisRetail Power List 2008: 40-59
40 Tim Mason, chief executive, US, Tesco2007 RANK: 89Tim Mason may well have the toughest job at Tesco right now. The chief executive of the grocer’s fledgling Fresh & Easy convenience store is in the throes of fixing its juggernaut roll-out programme, which was halted for three months in March.To ...
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Analysis
Business partners
Buyers and merchandisers are like two sides of the same coin and, when they work together, they can really lift a brand. So what skills do today’s fledgling stars need, asks Alison Clements
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AnalysisRetail Power List 2008: 30-39
30 Kate Bostock, executive director, clothing, Marks & Spencer2007 RANK: 39A prot駩 of fashion genius George Davies and his Next successor David Jones, Bostock is the most powerful woman in fashion. And she is now in with a chance of becoming the most powerful woman in retail if she succeeds ...
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Opinion
Sainsbury's needs to step up non-food online
Sainsbury’s will launch a new home brand in two stores this weekend as part of its drive to ramp up its non-food offer, as revealed in today’s Retail Week.
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Asda sells mobile handsets for a fiver
Asda is battling for its share of the lucrative mobile phone market with its launch of a pay-as-you-go mobile handset for just 5 today.
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John Lewis sales power ahead
John Lewis department stores registered a 7 per cent sales rise for the week, despite the unhelpful cold weather.
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T-Mobile appoints new retail director to drive growth
T-Mobile UK has appointed Andrew Coull as director of retail as it eyes further retail growth.
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Retailers slam ONS figures
Top retailers and economists have condemned puzzling data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which pointed to a 2 per cent rise in the volume of goods sold in the first quarter of the year.
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Supermarkets face cigarette price-fixing inquiry
Retailers, including the big four supermarkets, are facing allegations of price-fixing on cigarettes from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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Analysis
Quiet revolution
B&Q’s rolling revamp programme is a key part of Kingfisher’s attempt to revive the DIY chain. John Ryan visits the latest store to get the treatment in Sutton and gives a progress report
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AnalysisRetail Power List 2008: 20-29
20 Don McCarthy, chairman, House of Fraser and Aurum Holdings2007 RANK: 31When Don McCarthy was elected to Baugur’s board last June, it signified his role as a key player in the Icelandic investor’s inner circle. And, with his fingers in so many pies, he might now be one of the ...
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Opinion
How can retailers keep everybody happy?
The world is short of agricultural land. There are an increasing number of mouths to feed. The emerging middle classes in developing countries are looking for badges of affluence, one of which is to forsake the vegetarian diets of their grandparents to demand more meat.
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Opinion
E-tail is different from retail
An e-commerce site can drive business, but don’t approach it in the same way as stores
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AnalysisRetail Power List 2008: 10-19
10 Marc Bolland, chief executive, Morrisons2007 RANK: 18Not many in the grocery sector gave Marc Bolland much hope when he took the helm in 2006. Having come from brewery Heineken, he knew little about UK supermarkets, joining the grocer after the upheaval of its Safeway takeover and spending the first ...
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Elaine Gray mulls combining Ethel Austin and MK One
Value fashion veteran Elaine Gray is considering investing in both Ethel Austin and MK One and could potentially combine the two struggling chains.
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Sainsbury’s ups non-food with homewares assault
Supermarket chain targets slice of Tesco and Asda’s non-food share with new Tu brand
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B&Q to step up multichannel offer after successful trials
DIY giant B&Q is to ramp up its multichannel offer this month to increase its share of the 19.5 billion online retail market.