All Next articles – Page 22
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DataData: Top 50 retailers by sales during 2015/16 financial year
Retail Week’s ranking of the UK’s top 50 retailers by sales for the 2015/16 financial year sees The Range, Inditex and Asos enter the table for the first time.
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NewsAnalysis: Return policies of the UK’s top 20 retailers
As John Lewis slashes its returns policy from 90 days to 35, we take a look at the models of the top 20 UK retailers.
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AnalysisData: Five fastest-contracting shopping centre retailers
Blue Inc was the fastest-contracting retailer in UK shopping centres last year as the troubled clothing chain streamlined its portfolio.
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AnalysisProfile: Dunelm product director Fiona Lambert
Dunelm has drafted in Asda’s former vice-president for own-brand design and development as its new product director.
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AnalysisConsumer 2017: How shoppers splashed their cash in 2016
Last year Next chief executive Lord Wolfson highlighted shoppers were opting to spend money on experiences such as restaurants or cinema visits, rather than products.
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OpinionOpinion: Happy Christmas, but a challenging New Year?
It was late, cliff-hangingly late. But, as usual, Christmas did come for retailers.
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AnalysisEtail Evolution: Next's website through the years
Since 1982, Next has been a fixture on the UK high street. After launching its Next Directory in 1988, it was early to launch an ecommerce website in 1999.
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AnalysisThis week in retail: Super Thursday to reveal Christmas winners
This week brings a blizzard of updates that will give insight into how retailers fared over the vital golden quarter.
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VideoThe Retail Week: Next, B&M Bargains and grocery results
The Retail Week team sits down to discuss the first results to come in after Christmas and look ahead to how the grocers will fare.
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DataRetail league table: Christmas trading 2016
Find out how retailers have performed during the critical Christmas 2016 trading period, with our league table comparing like-for-like sales.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What's to blame for Next’s poor Christmas?
Next’s fourth quarter numbers marked a period of falling sales and shrinking profits for the former high street wonder kid.
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NewsToday in retail: Next numbers signal pain ahead
It’s been a day of contrasts as Next revealed gloomy Christmas trading results amid joyful tidings from other retailers.
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NewsNext's pre-Christmas sales slump as price rises loom
Next’s full-price sales fell in the all-important fourth quarter, contrary to the retailer’s expectations.
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NewsRetail shares fall as Deutsche Bank warns on prospects
Shares in Halfords, Next and Debenhams have slipped today after a warning from Deutsche Bank analysts over the retail outlook for 2017.
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NewsToday in Retail: Prices, Poundland's first Sale and retail prospects
Although 2016 is now a memory, 2017 has already brought the latest instalment in a familiar tale. Morrisons has unveiled a new round of price cuts.
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NewsReview of the Year: Fashion's annus horribilis
The past 12 months have been some of the most eventful ever for fashion retailers, with CVAs, administrations and the odd death threat making it a year to remember.
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NewsToday in Retail: Black Friday boosts November sales
It’s no huge surprise that sales, as measured by the Office for National Statistics, were up last month.
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AnalysisHot or not: The highs and lows of fashion in 2016
What have been the top trends of 2016? And which factors have been turning fashion companies off?
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Fashion retailers' year
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on what fashion retailers have been up to this year, from athleisure to the impact of the weather
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AnalysisBHS: Primark, Sports Direct, Next take on vacant stores
The controversial collapse of BHS earlier this year left 163 empty stores across the UK.