All Property articles – Page 172
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OpinionBlog: What is the importance of customer service?
What is the importance of customer service in creating an experience for shoppers, and the significance of the workforce in this delivery.
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NewsJigsaw targets click-and-collect as it aims to double online sales
Premium fashion retailer Jigsaw aims to almost double online sales by investing in click-and-collect and website improvements.
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NewsDutch value retailer Hema to open stores in the UK
Dutch value retailer Hema is planning to launch in the UK during the first half of this year.
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NewsDunelm second-quarter sales boosted by TV campaign and catalogue
Dunelm’s like-for-likes increased 2.9% in the second quarter boosted by its new catalogue and first TV ad campaign.
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NewsBreakfast briefing: Retail news on Marks and Spencer, Lush and supermarkets
Retail news round-up on January 7, 2014: Lush posts Christmas sales surge as full year profits fall, Marks & Spencer house broker Citi cuts £10m from annual pre-tax profit forecast, Major supermarket chains to sign up for twice as much warehouse space in 2014
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NewsMaplin reports strong Christmas trade as it opens first airport store
Maplin is to open its first airport store next month after enjoying a surge in Christmas custom in December.
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OpinionBlog: Property industry should take a risk on new breed of online expansionists
Since the advent of online retailing, there has been no shortage of analysts and observers ready to predict that pure players would, literally, set up shop. Yet this forecast has proven largely incorrect so far.
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AnalysisAnalysis: 13 retail predictions for 2014
What can retail expect from 2014? Rebecca Thomson takes a look at what the industry will be doing – and talking about – this year, as well as the key trends
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AnalysisAt a glance: The O2 Arena’s proposed luxury retail development
Land Securities has entered discussions with the owners of the 02 Arena in London to open a luxury designer outlet at the venue. Retail Week takes a look at the proposals.
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NewsLand Securities in talks to open luxury outlet centre in O2 Arena
Land Securities is in discussions with the owners of the O2 Arena in London to open a luxury designer outlet at the concert venue.
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NewsRemaining 42 Barratts stores shuttered by administrators
Administrators to Barratts have closed the troubled footwear retailer’s final stores two months after it collapsed.
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OpinionBlog: Why is Carrefour boss Georges Plassat backing the hypermarket model?
Given the scale of change taking place across the retail industry, it’s hardly surprising that both retailers and landlords are pretty much obsessed with understanding all the new channels available to them and their customers.
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OpinionBlog: Late Christmas shopper rush makes physical stores all the more vital
Online plays an undeniably huge role in retail, and especially so during the golden quarter. Yet it is the performance of retailers’ physical stores in the next few days that will prove make or break for some store groups this Christmas as shoppers leave it later than ever.
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NewsWestfield to restart controversial Bradford development
Westfield is to begin construction works on its stalled Bradford Broadway shopping development in January next year.
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NewsCoombes opens first electricals store to pick up Comet share
Clive Coombes, the property tycoon who unsuccessfully vied to save the Comet name, will open the first store of his new electricals venture this weekend.
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NewsFootfall improvement lifts retail Christmas hopes
Consumer footfall rose sharply last week, indicating that the Christmas rush to stores hoped for by retailers may at last have kicked off.
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NewsComment: Sports Direct has a lot to play for
Soaring sales and a double-digit rise in profits might reasonably be expected to be cause for celebration.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sporting Pro Kensington High Street, London
Sporting goods shops tend to fall into two types - those that are brand-owned and offer a complete mono-brand universe, such as Niketown or an Adidas store, and those that are not.
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AnalysisInnovation: Westfield trials same-day delivery in the US
Westfield Labs is trialling a same-day delivery pilot in two of its US shopping centres over the Christmas period.
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NewsIn pictures: Primark opens first French store in Marseille
Primark opened its first French store yesterday at the Grand Littoral centre in Marseille.