All Poundland articles – Page 30
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NewsRetail gets ready for make or break Christmas week
Retailers bank on promotions to drive people into shops in the final few days.
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NewsPoundland to open first Dealz store outside Ireland
Value retailer Poundland will open its first Dealz store outside Ireland, on the Isle of Man this week.
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AnalysisIn for a pound
Poundland’s popularity has continued to grow thanks to the appeal of its single-price point and broad product range, and now boss Jim McCarthy plans to attract web customers too. By Tiffany Holland.
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News99p Stores reopens former Hub store
99p Stores has acquired a former Hub shop after the variety store retailer, founded by Poundland co-founder Davd Dodd, went bust last month.
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NewsPoundland profit surges as cash strapped consumers seek value
Poundland underlying EBITDA surged 34% to £31.7m in the year to March 27 as the retailer continues to pull in cash strapped shoppers in the downturn.
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NewsPoundland-owner eyes Nordic counterpart
Value retailer Poundland’s private equity owner is reportedly in talks to buy the retailer’s Nordic counterpart Europris for between €400m and €500m (£345m to £430m)
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OpinionPoundland distances itself from Poundworld
Fixed pricing, pound retailing, the round pound – call it what you like, but it seems to be everywhere I turn.
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GalleryIn pictures: Bringing out the best
In the most trying of circumstances this week retailers bonded with the affected communities like never before.
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NewsPoundland to open in Ireland under Dealz fascia
Single price point retailer Poundland is to expand into the Republic of Ireland trading under the name Dealz.
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AnalysisAt the margins
At every turn, retailers are staring at rising costs. With deflation a thing of the past, how can they manage their margins and remain profitable? Charlotte Hardie considers the challenges ahead.
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NewsWilkinson trials contactless payment
Variety chain Wilkinson is to trial contactless payments across 25 stores, ahead of a potentialroll-out of the technology across its 350 stores.
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A third of Woolworths stores still vacant two years after closure
A third of Woolworths’ 800 former stores still lie empty two years after the shutters came down, and experts believe that they are likely to remain vacant because of their locations.
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AnalysisPassing on the VAT increase
With VAT set to rise retailers will struggle to absorb the increase, especially as other costs are rising. Some are already putting prices up to make January’s change less noticeable, Nicola Harrison discovers
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OpinionDifferentiation will be key in 2011
It’s that time of year for peeping over the parapet to stare at the new year.The trouble with predictions is that so often the reality turns out to be much wilder than the forecasts.
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NewsHomewares and cooking bestsellers this Christmas at Hub
Variety store group Hub expects homewares and cooking to be bestsellers this Christmas.
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OpinionEtail is redefining the retail property market
The names of the retailers taking stands at this year’s British Council of Shopping Centres said everything about today’s retail property market. Five of the top six supermarkets were there competing for sites, as were value retailers Wilkinson, Poundland and Store Twenty One, vying for space in an increasingly crowded ...
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NewsWilkinson boosts its own-brand offer by introducing food lines
Variety chain Wilkinson has launched its first range of own-brand food products.
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AnalysisQuality takes upper hand in value battle
Customers are redefining value and ‘returning to quality’. So what does the future hold for discount retailers?
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AnalysisContactless payments: Out of contact
Contactless is approaching tipping point, but concerns remain about costs and whether shoppers will embrace the system without a national consumer awareness campaign.