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Baugur denies bid is on for French Connection
Baugur, which this week upped its stake in French Connection to 20 per cent, has ruled out bidding for the fashion retailer.
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Land of Leather like-for-likes slump
Land of Leather recorded a poor first-quarter performance as it began to feel the effects of five successive interest rate rises.
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Opinion
Contact customers with care
Twice in the past week, I have felt let down by the way my data has been used by consumer-facing organisations.
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Borders UK stores take control of web site
Borders UK has implemented a system from Tangent Labs to allow its stores to control the content on their own web pages.
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Thresher signs PayPoint deal for convenience
Thresher Group has formalised its relationship with PayPoint by signing a five-year exclusive contract with the bill payment terminal operator.
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Tesco reveals its vision for Second Life-style web site
Tesco.com has hinted at some of the developments it is planning to make to its web site to keep up with changing consumer demands.
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Tie Rack adopts e-marketing tool to deliver more efficient strategy
Tie Rack is to begin using an online marketing system to create and deliver marketing campaigns to its 240 stores worldwide more efficiently.
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Woolworths sales climb
Variety retailer Woolworths revealed that group sales jumped 16.6 per cent in the 38 weeks to October 27, beating market expectations.
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Competition Commission report: at a glance
A breakdown of the key findings and proposed remedies
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Debenhams unveils Christmas windows
Debenhams has unveiled an all-singing, all-dancing Christmas window display to up the ante for the most memorable festive display on London’s Oxford Street.
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Sports Direct ups stake in Umbro
Sports Direct has almost doubled its stake in Umbro to 29.9 per cent, raising doubt over Nike’s planned takeover of the makers of the England football team kit.
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Competition Commission: big supermarkets could be forced to sell landbanks
The Competition Commission has said the biggest supermarkets may be forced to sell their land holdings in its eagerly anticipated provisional findings of its grocery inquiry.
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US bond issue first for Tesco
Supermarket giant Tesco has raised US$2 billion ( 967.7 million) in its first bond issue in the US.
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Silverburn shopping centre in Glasgow opens
Retail Property Holdings’ 350 million Silverburn shopping centre in Glasgow opened its doors last week.
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Opinion
Online shopping malls put internet threat centre stage
This evening the UK’s first online shopping mall goes live, with more than 250 fashion retailers to choose from. Casobi.com has rounded up some of the best names in independent fashion such as Bench, Converse, Diesel, Guess, Gucci, Paul Smith and Puma and arranged them in the familiar form of ...
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Minister urges retail to work with authorities
Minister for Local Government John Healey this week called for the retail sector and local authorities to work more closely to bring investment to deprived areas.
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Metro Q3 sales climb
Metro has forecast a positive performance for the remainder of this year after recording healthy sales in its third quarter.
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Piasecki steps down from Goldsmiths
Goldsmiths chairman Jurek Piasecki is to step down as chairman after more than 25 years with the jewellery retailer.
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Value of stolen goods hits ten-year high as attacks on store staff soar
The value of stolen goods from retailers has hit a ten-year high according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
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Supermarkets “do not have a monopoly”
The supermarket sector is one of the most competitive segments of UK retailing and it is virtually impossible for one player to form a monopoly, according to Verdict Research.