All Retail Week articles in 14 December 2007
Browse all news stories and articles from this date or time period.
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News
Woolworths gives stores Simpsons branding for DVD push
Woolworths is to transform its fascias to canary yellow next week to promote The Simpsons Movie , which is released on DVD on Monday.
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News
Today to smash online shopping record
Today is expected to be a record shopping day online, with sales forecast to reach 370 million, treble a usual day’s rate.
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News
John Lewis bullish on Christmas after top week
John Lewis has forecast record Christmas sales after the department store registered its biggest ever weekly sales.
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News
Baugur to bid for Moss Bros this week
Baugur is expected to approach Moss Bros as early as this week in a takeover thought to value the menswear retailer at 40 million
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News
Baugur confirms Moss Bros bid interest
Baugur has confirmed it is considering acquiring Moss Bros in a takeover thought to value the menswear retailer at 40 million.
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News
Hobbs hires former Jaeger creative director
Hobbs has appointed Sandy Verdon creative director at the womenswear retailer.
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News
JD snaps up Bank
The John David Group, owner of sports fashion chain JD, has bought branded fashion retailer Bank for 18.5 million.
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News
Consumer confidence at a low
A third of consumers said the economy is their biggest fear in the next six months, according to the Nielsen-British Retail Consortium Consumer Confidence Survey .
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News
Exponent acquires handbag brand
Upmarket handbag brand Radley has been bought by private equity firm Exponent in a deal worth 130 million.
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News
London suffers worst retail sales for two years
Central London suffered its worst retail sales for more than two years in November, hailing an ominous outlook for Christmas in the capital, according to the London Retail Consortium (LRC).
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Opinion
Make the most of the weather
It was raining last week, quite heavily at one point and everybody emerging from the tube on their way in to work was reaching for their umbrellas.
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News
Asda's number two heads back to Wal-Mart Canada
Asda chief operating officer David Cheesewright is to return to Canada to be president and chief executive of parent Wal-Mart’s Canadian business.
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News
Carpetright profits climb
Carpetright posted a pre-tax profit increase of 1.4 per cent to 27.7 million in the first half and remains in talks with founder Lord Harris about a management buy-out.
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News
Game's sales rocket
PC and video game specialist retailer Game’s sales soared in the 45 weeks to December 8.
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News
Robertson takes top job at BRC
Former B&Q marketing director Stephen Robertson, most recently marketing director at Woolworths, has been named director-general of the British Retail Consortium.