All People articles – Page 399
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News
Asda launches online recruitment drive
Asda has kicked off a drive to tempt staff to its stores with the launch of a 100,000 online recruitment campaign.
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News
Financial turmoil set to add to retailers’ woes
Intense turmoil in the financial markets precipitated by Lehman Brothers’ collapse will pile pressure on retailers’ finances, bankers have warned.
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Analysis
Kieron Smith: The next chapter
Not prepared to surrender to Amazon, The Book Depository managing director Kieron Smith thinks there is plenty of room for others in the online book sector. Nicola Harrison meets him.
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Analysis
Ian Livingstone: Retailer on Call
His training at Dixons taught former retail high-flier Ian Livingston the disciplines he is putting into effect as BT’s new chief executive.
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News
TK Maxx poaches Julian Baker from Ann Summers
Ann Summers marketing and business development director Julian Baker is leaving the company to join TK Maxx.
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John Gildersleeve set to join Figleaves as chairman
Lingerie e-tailer Figleaves has drafted in retail big-hitter John Gildersleeve as non-executive chairman.
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Toogood retires from Carpetright board
Martin Toogood has retired from his role of non-executive director at Carpetright.
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Faith chiefs exit as chain nears administration
Senior management at shoe chain Faith are set to leave the business as it is expected the chain will be put into administration this afternoon.
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Clinton Cards managing director to stand down
Clinton Cards managing director Mike Bugler is to stand down at the end of January 2009.
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Best Buy unveils new international team
US electricals giant Best Buy has revealed its new management team for its international operations.
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Blackwell boss steps down
Blackwell UK chief executive Vince Gunn has left the retailer with immediate effect.
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M&S mole speaks out
The man at the centre of the Marks & Spencer whistleblower case has claimed that the retailer carries out intense surveillance of staff, causing a “culture of fear”.
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M&S hits back in sacking row
Marks & Spencer has hit back with a scathing attack on the GMB union in the row over the sacking of its “whistle-blower” employee.
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Opinion
Act tough now and win later
As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.
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News
Christmas in the balance
Sector braced for toughest season since the 1980s, with December like-for-like drop expected.
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News
Shop Direct avoids strike with pay deal
Home shopping business Shop Direct has averted strike action, after staff members voted in favour of a revised pay offer.
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Opinion
How labelling can give retailers the edge
For any football fan, the Holy Grail is going to Wembley. As you can imagine after the emotional highs and lows of watching my team, Cardiff City, get to the Cup Final for the first time since 1927 (even I wasn’t around then), I was not thrilled by the prospect ...
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Opinion
An opportunity for shoppers
Retailers need to counter the despondency that the media is instilling in their customers.
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Analysis
Voices of experience
This will be the first downturn many retailers have worked through, but there are those who have been here before. Some of retail’s most distinguished names tell Charlotte Hardie in their own words how to deal with a slowdown.