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The White Company to launch expansion drive
Homewares and accessories retailer The White Company is to embark on ambitious expansion after reporting bumper full-year profits for the second year running.
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Games Workshop turnover flat
Games Workshop is continuing its store closure programme and rationalisation of its manufacturing and supply chain as part of a programme of cost reduction.
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EBTM turns a profit
Branded music apparel retailer Everything But The Music (EBTM) made 3.59 million in the year to October 31 last year.
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Ahold mulls selling Schuitema stake to CVC
Dutch retailer Ahold is in talks to sell its majority stake in 443-store supermarket business Schuitema to private equity firm CVC.
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Asda's interest in Somerfield hots up
Asda is thought to have engaged investment bank Lazard to advise it on a potential 2.5 billion bid for Somerfield, according to The Times .
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Morrisons’ Christmas ahead of the pack
Morrisons trounced its supermarket competitors to report a bumper Christmas, when like-for-like sales advanced 9.5 per cent in the six weeks to January 6.
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Fifa to open raft of global stores
Fifa will open hundreds of branded outlets around the world in time for the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.
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Thomas Pink gets revamp for St Pancras
Upmarket shirt retailer Thomas Pink will open a new-look store in the retail development at St Pancras International train station at the end of February.
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Dolcis enters administration
Beleaguered footwear chain Dolcis has today been placed in administration after owner John Kinnaird lost the battle to save the retailer.
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HMV to roll out new look after Christmas sales soar
Following market-bucking Christmas trading, entertainment retailer HMV is to roll out its next-generation store format.
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B&Q to stop selling patio heaters
B&Q is to no longer stock gas patio heaters, following claims that they are harmful to the environment.
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Paxman attacks M&S smalls
Sir Stuart Rose is set to talk pants with BBC’s inquisitor-in-chief Jeremy Paxman following an e-mail from the Newsnight presenter.
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Sports Direct warns of tough year ahead
Sports Direct has warned that it expects the UK retail sector to become more challenging over the next six months, but it expects to exceed profit expectations for the full year.
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The White Company has sparkling Christmas
Multichannel lifestyle retailer The White Company has revealed strong trading over Christmas. Sales in the 10 weeks to December 29 rose 12 per cent, giving a 7 per cent like-for-like uplift.
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Kinnaird in talks to buy Envy
Retail entrepreneur John Kinnaird is understood to be in talks with fashion group Alexon to buy its struggling menswear chain Envy.
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Retail sales slow down
Shoppers opened their purses sparingly at Christmas, as official figures showed retail sales started to slow down.
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Metro sells Extra chain
German retail and wholesale giant Metro Group has sold its Extra supermarket chain to Rewe Group for an undisclosed sum.
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John Lewis and Waitrose sales climb
Department store chain John Lewis’s sales momentum shows no sign of slipping in 2008, as the retailer posted sales up 5.4 per cent for the week to January 12.