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Mothercare mums’ forum to tap into craze for social networking
Maternity specialist Mothercare is to launch a social networking forum to more powerfully exploit its unique retail status
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More mixed fortunes as grocers outshine ailing general market
A welter of trading updates brought mixed news. Although retailers such as Game and Dunelm impressed, general retailers remained unpopular.
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Matalan accelerates repayment of debt
Value fashion retailer Matalan has paid back more than 47 million of debt to its banks ahead of schedule and has strongly rebuffed speculation that it was heading for a financial crunch
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John David to launch e-tail site for Scotts arm
John David Group, which owns JD Sports, will launch a transactional web site for Scotts, its fashion arm, before the end of the year
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Mystery surrounds jewellery chief Piasecki’s suspension
Mystery surrounds the suspension of Goldsmiths’ founder and executive chairman Jurek Piasecki following a boardroom dispute. Piasecki has headed private jewellers Goldsmiths for 25 years and is a 15 per cent shareholder in the group, which is owned by major stakeholder Baugur
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Opinion
Time for online retail to grow up
Every year, we hear that it will be a record Christmas for online sales, that the internet is hurting the high street and that those retailers without a web presence will miss out. All undeniably true
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Park Retail creates ad to bolster confidence
Christmas savings firm Park Retail will launch an advertising campaign next week to focus on the safety of customer’s money, as it faces a 30 per cent fall in savings this year
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Gadgetshop alters logo ahead of web relaunch
Gadgetshop has revamped its brand and logo, ahead of its web site relaunch next week.
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House of Fraser axes chief women’s buyer
House of Fraser is scrapping the role of head of buying for womenswear only nine months after it began a restructure of its buying divisions
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Profits falls at Swedish furniture giant Ikea
Profits at Swedish furniture giant Ikea slid 8 per cent to 67.9 million in the year to August 31, 2006, according to accounts filed at Companies House. Sales rose 2 per cent to 1.09 billion for the year.
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Belgian maternity retailer prepares to break into UK
Belgian maternity and childrenswear retailer Pr maman is to launch in the UK next year, taking on market leaders Mothercare and Mamas & Papas.
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High street sales climb in September
Retailers weathered toughening high street conditions to post a sales rise in September, but the slower rate of growth experienced since May continued.
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NewsTheo Paphitis axes Partners and Stationery Box
Partners and Stationery Box are to disappear from the high street, as Theo Paphitis’s Chancerealm converts the stores to its Ryman brand.
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Opinion
STORE MANAGER'S DIARY: Maggie Porteous, John Lewis, Manchester
Many years ago, I was a manager in the children’s shoe department of John Lewis at Brent Cross. I was young and childless and couldn’t understand why we hadn’t trained our customers better! I was amazed that they all turned up to buy their children’s shoes and uniforms just hours ...
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Bonmarché to march into footwear sector
Value fashion retailer Bon-march is to launch a footwear collection next year.
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Co-op sets out to promote best of British as food sales shoot up
The Co-operative Group’s food division is to embark on a drive to push British food products, as it revealed profits and like-for-like sales up sharply for the 28 weeks to July 28.
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Former Safeway boss joins UBS
Carlos Criado-Perez, former boss of supermarket Safeway, has joined global investment banking business UBS.
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Analysis
Rules of attraction
Are the design rules for selling online the same as those that are used on the high street? John Ryan investigates the art of retailing on the web
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Analysis
Platform for growth
As e-commerce matures, can retailers gain a competitive edge from developing their own web site, or are they better off working with a service provider? Joanna Perry reports