Philip Wiggenraad
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Data: Top 20 international retailers by UK sales
Aldi is the largest international retailer in the UK, ahead of Amazon and Lidl.
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Data: Top 30 UK retailers by international sales
Tesco remains the UK retailer with the highest level of international sales, but British fashion brands and pureplays have made headway.
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Data: The UK's top 10 retailers by staff efficiency
Increases in staff costs to sales ratio across the retail sector have been accelerating as the national living wage starts to bite.
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Data: The UK's top 30 multichannel retailers
In 2017, there aren’t many retailers that don’t operate an ecommerce site, but being a successful multichannel retailer is so much more than simply opening an online store.
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Data: The UK's 100 highest-paid retail bosses
Majestic Wine boss Rowan Gormley, WHSmith chief Stephen Clarke and Tesco’s group chief executive Dave Lewis were the highest-rewarded retail executives last year, exclusive Retail Week analysis has revealed.
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Data: Screwfix fortunes contrast with B&Q
Screwfix boss Andrew Livingston has exited the business, leaving it in a position of having comfortably outperformed its Kingfisher stablemate B&Q in recent years.
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Brexit one year on: What does the data tell us?
The UK economy may have shown more resilience than predicted, but Philip Wiggenraad discovers that the impact of Brexit cannot be brushed off that easily.
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Top 30 bricks-and-mortar retailers by sales density
Premium retailers Apple and Burberry top this year’s ranking, while Aldi is the best performing food retailer.
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Data: Can Dave Lewis overcome Tesco’s margin challenge?
Tesco’s recovery is in full swing, but much work remains to reach its ambitious margin target
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Data: Top 20 retailers by UK online sales
Retail Week Prospect’s league table of the largest retailers by UK online sales does not throw up many surprises, with Amazon continuing to lead the way, well ahead of Tesco.
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Brexit: Survival lessons from the last recession
The reduced consumer spending that is expected in the run-up to Brexit is spurring many retailers to expand overseas. What can we learn from retailers’ expansion during the credit crunch?
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Data: How Card Factory has outgunned Clintons
Card Factory’s full-year results may be slightly underwhelming compared with its high standards of recent years, but it is still comfortably outperforming principal rival Clintons.
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Growing fast: International focus puts Farfetch on top
The Aptos Growth Retailer of the Year was awarded to Farfetch because of the fashion hub’s exponential rise to become a challenger to the likes of Net-a-Porter.
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Data: Asos vs Zalando – battle of the etail giants
Zalando’s 2016 results, unveiled this morning, shows how it is pulling away from rival Asos. Retail Week Prospect analyses the performance of the etailing giants.
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Data: How can Laura Ashley return to growth?
Laura Ashley’s disappointing first-half performance has put its recovery into question. Retail Week Prospect looks at how it can get back on track.
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Data: 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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The top 10 fastest-growing retailers in the UK
Growth is the holy grail for retailers, particularly in a shifting trading landscape in which technology is transforming shopping habits.
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Data: Top 15 UK retailers by international sales
Tesco remains the UK retailer with highest level of international sales, despite some overseas retrenchment.
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Data: The top 30 retailers by store openings
Poundland tops the ranking owing to its acquisition of 99p Stores, while a large number of c-store operators make the top 30.
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Data: As M&S cuts 525 jobs, how does its staff productivity stack up?
Marks & Spencer is cutting jobs to become a leaner business, but boss Steve Rowe may have limited room to drive productivity further.