All Retail Week articles in 12 October 2007 – Page 6
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Opinion
Baugur’s interest in Sports Direct is far from innocent
Two of retail’s most high-profile companies have become unlikely bedfellows.
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News
Retailers fear Budget means £100m tax hit
Proposals to allow shire counties and the Greater London Authority to tax businesses to fund local projects will cost retailers 100 million.
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News
Carphone eyes £56m profits for first half
Carphone Warehouse is expecting pre-tax profits of 53 million to 56 million for its first half, according to a trading update released this morning.
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News
EBTM widens losses after year of growth
Music-inspired fashion e-tailer EBTM (Everything But The Music) has increased its turnover to 1.4 million after a year on the acquisition trail, but still made a loss overall.
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News
Delta Two to bid for Sainsbury's this week
Delta Two is understood to have finished examining Sainsbury’s books and it appears likely the suitor will make a firm offer for the grocer this week.
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News
Lord Harris on brink of making Carpetright bid as sales soar
Lord Harris, chairman and chief executive of Carpetright, is poised to make a cash offer for the retailer after receiving the go-ahead to make a bid from the carpet retailer’s board.
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News
Strong first half for N Brown
Home shopping group N Brown has delivered strong first-half results, with like-for-like sales up 10.6 per cent.
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News
Nevisport hits the buffers
Scottish outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Nevisport has fallen into liquidation just two weeks after it was reportedly bought by Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley for 2.5 million.
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News
New Look heir killed in car crash
Andrew Singh, heir to the New Look clothing fortune, has been killed in a car crash in London.
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News
Clinton Cards prelims impress
Clinton Cards has posted preliminary results ahead of City expectations.
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News
Carphone Warehouse UK marketing director leaves
Carphone Warehouse’s UK marketing director Dominic Rowell has left the retailer.
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News
Pension row threatens Sainsbury's deal
The 10.6 billion takeover of Sainsbury’s by Delta Two will not be backed by founding family shareholders unless the Qatari investment fund agrees to inject 2 billion into the deficit-hit pension fund.
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News
Gap plans push into the Philippines
Gap is set to open a dozen stores in the Philippines by 2012.
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News
Zavvi unveils new logo
Zavvi managing director Simon Douglas has unveiled the company’s new logo, which has been “designed to reflect Zavvi’s dedication to being a truly multi-channel, independent entertainment retailer”.
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News
Sainsbury's £1.5 billion pension guarantee
Delta Two is reportedly putting the finishing touches to a 1.5 billion guarantee for Sainsbury’s pension fund.
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News
Sainsbury's to go 100% fair trade on TU t-shirts
Sainsbury’s has vowed to covert all its TU t-shirts to ethically sourced fair-trade cotton by January next year.
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NewsFocus store disposals to raise £68 million
DIY group Focus is to sell 41 stores for a total of £68 million as it undergoes a restructure, following its acquisition in July by investment firm Cerberus.
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News
Littlewoods to scrap 280 jobs
Multichannel retailer Littlewoods is poised to axe 280 jobs nationwide in a bid to streamline its operations.
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News
Tesco defiant over online estate agency plans
Tesco may push ahead with plans to launch an online estate agency despite fierce opposition from other estate agents and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).