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Whole Foods boss happy with London store’s performance
Whole Foods Market chairman and chief executive John Mackey has mounted a robust defence of the performance of its debut UK store in London.
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People Tree gets £1 million injection
People Tree has landed a 1 million cash injection from financier Oikocredit to help fund a year of expansion for the ethical fashion brand.
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Specsavers seals £4.5m global broadband deal
Specsavers has signed a £4.5 million five-year deal with Vanco to provide a broadband network spanning six countries.
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Sainsbury’s plans to step up its at-source security tagging
Sainsbury’s is hoping to extend its source-tagging programme after completing the roll-out of security technology to all its supermarkets.
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Tesco to expand its use of electronic shelf-edge labels
Tesco is to extend its use of electronic shelf-edge labelling (ESL) using a system from Swedish vendor Pricer.
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Opinion
Retailers must iUp the competition
Apple has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide that will see it sell a selection of the broadcaster’s programmes through iTunes for £1.89 an episode.
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Asda to invest £400m in expansion
Asda will open about 20 stores over the next year and push its online operation as part of a 400 million expansion programme.
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Old Navy president steps down
Gap is searching for a new president of its Old Navy brand after Dawn Robertson stepped down 16 months after being drafted in to turn around flagging sales.
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Thorntons profits and sales jump 14%
Thorntons has delivered a 14 per cent increase in pre-tax profits and total sales for the 28 weeks to January 12.
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Tesco defends its £2 chickens
Tesco has defended its decision to sell whole chickens for less than 2, vowing that it is the grocer itself that shoulders the price cut.
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NewsRetail Solutions relocates
This year’s Retail Solutions show is to relocate to ExCel in London from its former home at Birmingham’s NEC.
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Elvi rescued by mystery buyers
Plus-size womenswear retailer Elvi is back in business after mystery investors bought it out of administration.
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Belfast’s Royal Exchange gets go-ahead
The government of Northern Ireland has agreed the terms of a deal with the developers of a retail-led, mixed-use scheme known as the Royal Exchange.
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Asda like-for-likes climb
The UK’s second largest grocer Asda delivered mid-single-digit like-for-like sales growth in 2007.
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Fred Perry takes Brighton unit
Fashion retailer Fred Perry has taken a unit on Dukes Lane in Brighton to unveil a “Laurel” store, one of two concepts operated by the brand.
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Opinion
New formats, new shoppers?
The London property scene has been awash with flagship debuts in the past few weeks.
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Tesco to ramp up sales of local products
Tesco plans to sell 400 million of local products in UK stores this year.
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Arnotts to axe 580 jobs
Irish department store group Arnotts has said it will make up to 580 staff redundant.
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Morrisons calls for new OFT team over price-fixing dispute
Morrisons is demanding that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) replace its team that is investigating the alleged milk price fixing in the grocery sector.