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    Sports Direct profits plummet

    2008-07-10T09:07:02Z

    Sports Direct has revealed a 51.1 per cent slump in full-year underlying pre-tax profits to 85 million, during what it called the most difficult trading period in its history.

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    Primark hit by weather

    2008-07-10T08:33:14Z

    Primark sales jumped 14 per cent in its third quarter, but like-for-like sales were hit by weak trading in April.

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    Lots of sandwiches and a few spats: M&S AGM sketch

    2008-07-09T17:43:50Z

    They came, they ate his sandwiches and they voted for him.

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    Oxford Circus to get £4m makeover

    2008-07-09T16:59:21Z

    Oxford Circus is set to receive a 4 million makeover to help ease congestion for shoppers at the busy London intersection.

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    M&S shareholders back Rose

    2008-07-09T16:10:00Z

    Shareholders have showed their support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM. However, 17 per cent of shareholders abstained.

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    M&S shareholders back Rose

    2008-07-09T16:03:13Z

    Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM. Rose has staunchly defended his promotion to the dual role of Chairman and chief executive with the board voicing their support for the move. ...

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    M&S to up PoS security with system roll-out

    2008-07-09T11:06:00Z

    Marks Spencer is to introduce a new IT security system at the point of sale (PoS).

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    Shop price rise for June stays below inflation

    2008-07-09T11:02:00Z

    June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.

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    Borders invests in store communications IT

    2008-07-09T10:55:42Z

    Borders is to implement a store communication system as part of the software refresh it is undertaking this year.

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    Otto cuts late payments with automated calling

    2008-07-09T10:49:07Z

    Mail order retail group Otto UK has increased payments received on time by 17 per cent by calling customers with an automated reminder.

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    Primark picks C&A man for Continental move

    2008-07-09T09:00:06Z

    Value fashion specialist Primark has poached an executive from European retailer C&A as it prepares for expansion on the Continent.

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    Croydon named hotspot for fashion theft

    2008-07-09T08:53:36Z

    Croydon in south London has been named the worst place for fashion fraud, suffering the highest amount of stock loss or shrinkage caused by theft.

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    Sainsbury's tags chickens as theft rises

    2008-07-09T08:39:47Z

    Sainsbury’s is attaching security tags to frozen chickens to combat soaring theft of both value and top-of-the-range birds.

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    Waitrose hiring signals convenience push

    2008-07-09T08:31:31Z

    Waitrose is understood to have hired a head of convenience as it gears up to take on the likes of Sainsbury’s Local and M&S Simply Food.

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    Summer Row gets green light

    2008-07-08T13:09:00Z

    Legal action that had threatened the beginning of construction work on Multi Development’s Summer Row scheme in Wolverhampton has been dropped.

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    Modus plans overhaul of Lincoln’s retail offer

    2008-07-08T13:04:00Z

    Modus has submitted plans for a mixed-use scheme in Lincoln to open in early 2012.

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    M&S shareholders back Rose

    2008-07-08T11:54:13Z

    Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM.

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    Marks & Spencer pulls out of Taiwan

    2008-07-08T09:45:15Z

    Marks & Spencer is to close all its stores in Taiwan after just 14 months of trading in the country, dealing another blow to the embattled retailer.

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    Morrisons ups ante in price war

    2008-07-08T08:59:10Z

    Morrisons has delivered another blow in the supermarket price wars with the creation of a fresh family meal for 4.

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    Jacques Vert profits fall

    2008-07-08T08:57:43Z

    Womenswear retailer Jacques Vert has announced a drop in operating profit before exceptional items to 4.7 million for the year to April 28, from 5.7 million last year.