All Waitrose & Partners articles – Page 93
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Opinion
The slightly less private Ryan
Was the Oracle Retail Week Awards last night and I reckon it was the best yet.
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AnalysisMark Price: Leader of the pack
Named Retail Leader of the Year at last night’s Oracle Retail Week Awards, Mark Price has transformed Waitrose.
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NewsJohn Lewis defies bad weather with 14.8% sales uplift
Department store chain John Lewis posted a 14.8% sales increase last week to £50.4m, when sales of fashion and home products were strong.
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NewsWaitrose targets £10bn sales
Managing director Mark Price on a mission to remain fastest-growing grocer and grab market share
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OpinionPrimark: the fashion retailer for our supermarket age
Primark celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, and its double success at the Oracle Retail Week Awards last night perhaps represented its coming of age.
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NewsOracle Retail Week Awards 2010: The Winners
The full list of winners from last night’s Oracle Retail Week Awards.
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NewsWaitrose hires celebrity chefs as ‘food ambassadors’
Waitrose has hired celebrity chefs Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal to act as food ambassadors for the brand.
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NewsRWC2010: Charlie Mayfield warns against expecting quick recovery
John Lewis Partnership chairman Charlie Mayfield opened the Retail Week conference this morning with a warning that retailers need to be careful of a false dawn in the economy.
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NewsTesco market share up as it piles pressure on Asda
Tesco’s Clubcard double points scheme has helped the market leading grocer take share from arch-rival Asda, the latest till roll data shows.
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NewsFashion drives strong week for John Lewis while lottery win boosts Waitrose bacon butty sales
Department store chain John Lewis recorded an uplift in turnover of 15.1% to £51.9m last week.
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AnalysisThe benefits of local sourcing
Local sourcing can not only be cost effective, it can help build community ties, says Liz Morrell
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News
Customer satisfaction with top retailers improves
Customers’ satisfaction with retailers improved for the first time after three quarters of small declines, according to the National Customer Satisfaction Index.
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NewsFashion drives John Lewis sales rise
Strong fashion and home sales helped department store chain John Lewis increase year on year turnover by 12.5% to £49.5m last week.
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AnalysisOne New Change: Big change in the big City
Can Land Securities’ soon to open, mixed-use development wake the City up to a new kind of retail offer?
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OpinionRetailers will need a watertight story to float
Increasing scepticism means that those retailers that want to get IPOs away will need a watertight story and be floating for the right reasons
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NewsDoubts raised over Ocado IPO
Doubts have been raised about the stock market flotation potential of Ocado, after it emerged that Waitrose is to launch a competing online operation in central London within two years.
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NewsWeak comps help John Lewis to strong week
John Lewis sales were up 31.9% last week, helped by weak comparatives from last year when heavy snow hit most of the country.
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NewsRetailers compete for share of £1.6bn Valentine’s sales bonanza
Retailers are gunning for a £1.6bn pay day from Valentine’s Day sales this weekend, with grocers hoping cash-strapped lovers eat at home rather than go out to a restaurant.
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OpinionCustomers demand quality over price in food
Times may be tight but when it comes to food, customers still want quality says Mark Price
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NewsJohn Lewis to invest a further £7.5m in home format
John Lewis will open its second home store, John Lewis at home, in Croydon in the autumn and has committed to investing a further £7.5m in the format.