All Retail Week articles in 12 December 2008
Browse all news stories and articles from this date or time period.
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News
John Lewis online sales set to break daily record
John Lewis expects today (December 8) to be its biggest to date for online sales after notching up a record week at Johnlewis.com.
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Opinion
Would German-style regulation save UK retailers from their Sales?
Walk around almost any German city at the moment and you will immediately notice that something's different. Where are the reductions? Why aren't retailers on Sale ahead of Christmas, like in dear old GB?
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Analysis
Oxford Street festival attracts 2 million shoppers
More than 2 million shoppers flooded London's West End this weekend taking advantage of big retail discounts and a traffic-free Regent Street and Oxford Street in the run-up to Christmas, it was claimed today.
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News
Asda people director David Smith steps down
David Smith, Asda's people director, will retire from the grocer in January.
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News
Oxford Street festival draws 2 million shoppers
More than 2 million shoppers flooded London's West End this weekend taking advantage of big retail discounts and a traffic-free Regent Street and Oxford Street in the run-up to Christmas, it was claimed today.
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News
Like-for-like retail sales slide 2.6 per cent
Retail Sales Monitor: UK like-for-like retail sales slipped 2.6 per cent in November, and total sales fell for a second consecutive month for the first time since records began in 1995.
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News
Verdict: Retail profits to dive in 2009
Retailers should brace themselves for one of the worst years on record in 2009, as high street spending goes into reverse and retail profits nosedive.
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News
Land of Leather ends takeover talks
Land of Leather has ended talks with parties interested in buying the business, saying the offers would fail to deliver shareholder value.
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News
M&S faces lawsuit from Interflora over Google searches
Flowers delivery business Interflora is reportedly suing Marks Spencer for buying its brand name as a keyword on Google.
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News
Carphone's David Ross 'faces FSA inquiry'
Former Carphone Warehouse deputy chairman David Ross is to be investigated by the Financial Services Authority for possible breaches of stock market rules, according to reports.
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News
Morrisons replaces wide area network
Morrisons is to quadruple its wide area network capacity after signing a three-year deal with Cable & Wireless.
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News
Tesco triggers toys price war
Tesco has sparked a price war after slashing the prices of hundreds of its toys by up to 60 per cent.
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News
Peacocks hit by credit insurer
Fashion retailer Peacocks is understood to have become the latest retailer to have some of its credit insurance cut.
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News
Debenhams to launch third three-day Sale
Debenhams is to launch another three-day Christmas Sale, just three days after its last 20 per cent-off promotion and its third in four weeks.
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News
Morrisons to automate space planning with Galleria system
Morrisons will begin using a merchandising system from Galleria next year to automate the creation of merchandising plans. Currently the supermarket chain creates these plans manually.
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Opinion
Klick: Maxed out
The names of Max Spielman and Klick might not be regulars on the pages of Retail Week, but with over 300 stores on the UK high street, the collapse of the photo processing group which owned them is more bad news for the retail property world.
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News
Shopping centre pipeline dries up
The amount of UK shopping centre space in the pipeline has dramatically decreased and could take up to five years to pick up, a CB Richard Ellis study has claimed.
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News
Hammerson submits Southampton plans
Hammerson has put in an application to develop a mixed-use scheme in Southampton.