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Sainsbury's gives Delta Two three weeks
Grocer wants takeover negotiations wrapped up before the end of the month
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Hobbs eyes India entry to double turnover
Ladies fashion chain Hobbs will run a slide rule over opportunities in India next year, as part of its ambitious global expansion plans. Hobbs chief executive Nick Samuel said international growth in countries such as India would help it double the group's turnover to£200 million over the next few years. ...
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DSGi seals deal for first airport PC World at T5
DSGi-owned PC World will open its first store in an airport at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 in March. The 1,720 sq ft outlet will sit alongside three newly designed Dixons Tax Free stores, each with a different proposition, at the long-awaited new terminal. The PC World shop will provide a wide ...
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Tesco outlines mission to up non-food estate
Tesco is gunning to more than double its number of Homeplus non-food stores in the UK. Tesco Homeplus operations director Alison Horner said the UK’s biggest supermarket will add 10 shops to its existing portfolio of seven Homeplus stores. She added that Tesco has identified six new sites, but a ...
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Habitat closes in on e-tail as it rejigs site
Habitat has overhauled its UK web site this week in a move thought to be its first step towards creating a fully transactional site. The furniture retailer is testing an e-commerce platform in France as it considers a similar package for other markets. Habitat has refreshed its UK site with ...
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Reevoo woos retailers with relaunch
Online product review company Reevoo has relaunched its web site with a new service as it aims to double its retail customers over the next six months. Last month, Reevoo.com relaunched to drive traffic to retailer’s web sites. Customers click on the product review, choose from a list of retailers ...
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MFI to sponsor new Hell's Kitchen series
MFI is to sponsor the next series of TV show Hell’s Kitchen in a package worth about£1 million. The retailer will use its MFI – Feel Right at Home ad campaign strategy for the series, which features new host chef Marco Pierre White. MFI chief executive Gary Favell said: “Title ...
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Netto sales rise as product and stores refreshed
Netto managing director Richard Lancaster has revealed the supermarket’s profits and like-for-like sales are substantially up this year, driven by enhancements made to its stores and product. Lancaster, who took the helm at Netto earlier this year, said: “Our improved sales performance has been driven by a combination of factors ...
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Borders UK deal nears as parent's sales soar
The sale of Borders UK is understood to be imminent, although the US retailer was silent on the issue as it posted second-quarter figures. Entrepreneur Luke Johnson’s private equity business, Risk Capital Partners, is thought to be the front-runner to buy the chain, which has also been eyed by WHSmith. ...
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King plans brand influx at House of Fraser
House of Fraser will unveil a raft of big-name brands in stores this autumn, but has warned it will toughen supplier terms. Body Shop, Mappin & Webb, Thomas Pink and The Pen Shop are among the debutantes at the retailer, which was bought by Baugur last November for£341 million. It ...
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Adams calls time on discounting strategy
Adams chief executive David Carter-Johnson has vowed to return the struggling childrenswear retailer to profitability by ditching its heavy discounting strategy. Carter-Johnson said the retailer would deploy significantly fewer buy-one-get-one-half-price discount promotions and long Sale periods, which it used to rely heavily on grow sales. “Adams had been making sales ...
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Bank holiday heatwave keeps shoppers off the high streets
The sunny bank holiday weekend delivered a boost to some food and general merchandise retailers, but fashion chains suffered as footfall tumbled on the high street. Garden centre Wyevale found the sunny weather a welcome relief after the deluges earlier in the summer. Chief executive Barry Stevenson said: “We were ...
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Toys R Us recalls Chinese-made crayons and paints
Toys R Us has recalled 27,000 Chinese-made paints and crayons from its US stores over concerns about excessive quantities of lead
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Debenhams to push upmarket image with ad assault
Debenhams aims to bolster sales of its own-label and Designers at Debenhams ranges with the launch of a multimillion-pound advertising campaign tomorrow. The quirky autumn press ads will feature menswear, womenswear and childrenswear in high-fashion recreations of eccentric British clubs and societies, such as The Kettering Kite Club in Ted ...
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Asda becomes first grocer to offer online pharmacy
Asda has become the first UK supermarket to sell pharmacy products online, in a move that could see it process electronic prescriptions next year. Last week, Asda soft launched Asda-pharmacy.co.uk, which sells over-the-counter products and items that some customers may be embarrassed to purchase in stores. The 1,500 products range ...
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Boots seals online deal for Pessina’s healthcare drive
Major deal with medical journal steers giant further into the healthcare arena
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Sears underperforms in second quarter
Sales dwindle at both Kmart grocery chain and eponymous department store business