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Deutsche cuts target price for Sainsbury’s
A top City bank has downgraded its Sainsbury’s share price target ahead of the grocer’s second-quarter update next week.
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Primark targets Germany in plan to take on Europe
Value fashion giant sets sights on 40bn German fashion market
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Credit crunch
Credit may be hard to come by in world financial markets at the moment, but in the IT industry it’s a different matter
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Stores play catch up
A quick dash into M&S in Hammersmith yesterday certainly highlighted the point that customer expectations have been raised by the internet.
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Bhs to be debt free as Green revives profits
Billionaire Sir Philip Green’s Bhs chain will be debt free by Christmas and the tycoon insisted it is not for sale.
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Debenhams reveals home-only format
Debenhams has opened its first store devoted solely to homewares, in the Middle East.
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JJB to test new-look store as it sets overhaul strategy in motion
Sports retailer JJB Sports is to trial a new-format store in November, as part of chief executive Chris Ronnie’s reinvigoration plan.
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JJB could have a sporting chance
Sales down, profits more than halved –there seemed little to cheer in JJB Sports’ interims last week. But the retailer’s share price ticked up as analysts responded enthusiastically to the update.
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Tesco reveals US plan as profits soar again
Tesco will kick-start its US operation by opening five Fresh and Easy convenience stores next month, and is examining opportunities in more cities on the US’ West Coast already.
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Tesco’s biggest hurdle so far
No retailer is immune to the weather, not even Tesco. Yet in the same way that July’s squalls gave way to something resembling an Indian summer, the UK’s biggest retailer’s interims showed that once the climate had calmed down, normal service was very much resumed.
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Slow first half for Tesco
Retail giant Tesco will unveil its first-half results next week and some analysts are forecasting its UK like-for-like figures could be the weakest for years.
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Mandela opens giant mall in South Africa
Former South African president Nelson Mandela presided over the opening of the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere in Soweto, South Africa, last week. An excited crowd welcomed Mandela, 89, back to the Johannesburg township where he once lived.
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Maxeda plans growth beyond Netherlands
Food, fashion and DIY retailer Maxeda will expand aggressively outside of the Netherlands, as a result of rising profits for the first half of this year.
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Opinion
Liberating luxury at Liberty
Loss-making department store Liberty has, in the past, lacked a certain je ne sais quois.
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Autumn is here
The leaves are beginning to turn and with them the fortunes of fashion retailers.
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The day the music dies
Music retailers are disappearing from the high street, but is anybody bothered?
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Developers are proving doommongers wrong
For the past two years the industry has bemoaned the amount of space coming onto the market. Cries of “too much space” and “retailers not expanding” have been heard up and down the country. While everyone eagerly awaits the plans for new shopping developments, they also adopt a cautionary view ...
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American Apparel signs two as it bolsters London footing
US casual clothing retailer American Apparel is to increase its presence in London with two West End signings.
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AnalysisClose to home
It has been a challenging year for Ikea, but the company is confident its new ad campaign has captured the consumer mood. Amy Shields learns more from its UK head Peter Hogsted
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Opinion
Food service is grocers’ new battleground
Steve Gotham, project director, Allegra Strategies