Tim Danaher
London
Tim Danaher is the editor of Retail Week
Recent activity
Blog Posts (172)
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It's goodbye from me
It’s been a fascinating time to cover this brilliant industry
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Schuhbusiness
One of retail’s unsung success stories celebrated its 30th birthday last night.
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Happy birthday Sir Terence
Sir Terence Conran, who celebrated his 80th birthday with a dinner in London last night, was a true retail visionary
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Tesco comes out fighting
Tesco’s like-for-like sales fall in the UK is big news, but Phil Clarke didn’t seemed fazed by the challenge ahead today
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Westfield revisited
Returning to Westfield Stratford two weeks after opening showed that trade had settled down after the first day frenzy, but that the shoppers now are the ones retailers will want
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Comments (52)
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Comment on: Uncharitable me
I absolutely take the point, and I'm not saying charity shops are a blight, just too many of them. But if they are now such professional outlets, and selling new product as many are, should they then still have the advantage of 80% business rates relief?
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Comment on: Uncharitable me
Thanks to our friend Paul Turner-Mitchell in Rochdale for pointing out that his MP raised this issue in Parliament last year and that the idea was dismissed by minister Bob Neill. Do we think this will be fate of many of Mary Portas's ideas
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Comment on: Why Steve Jobs changed retail
Well spotted! You beat me to it - corrected now
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Comment on: Birmingham's BID to get shoppers back
I did think of you when I saw George Lamb on the catwalk Ian - he has to do something these days now you've deposed him from 6 Music!
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Comment on: Mary’s regal retail roadshow in Rotherham
It's about the High Street review - we arranged to do an interview with Mary and she was there so I went to Rotherham to do it. In truth - as you'll have seen if you saw Newsnight that evening - we did the interview walking round the town and there wasn't particularly the opportunity to spend time with the shopkeepers. I think I've given a very fair appraisal of both the challenges that Rotherham faces and the many positive steps being taken there, which Mary praised as well. As I wrote, I had local people stopping me in the street who'd seen me interviewing Mary telling me I had to write how bad it was - you can't just write the positives, you have to tell it how it is. Retail Week isn't a consumer title - it's primarily about the business of multiple retailing - and our readership is relatively small and specialised. Very happy to insert some hyperlinks on Monday but with the best will in the world RW is not going to drive many shoppers to these stores. On the alternative uses, I don't think anyone is ruling out other non-retail uses - residential is an example of what can be done but agree education etc also has a role to play.
