All Retail Week articles in 19 October 2007 – Page 3
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Analysis
Life's a beach
Alastair Parker-Swift’s free-spirited attitude and outdoors lifestyle did him no harm when he set up Crew Clothing but, as the chain has grown, life has got more serious. Lisa Berwin meets him
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News
Reliance insists India plans will benefit locals
Reliance Retail has hit back at critics who claim its expansion in India will have a negative effect on the country’s traditional retail.
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News
No washout for US as retail sales rise
September’s US retail sales have eased fears that warm weather and housing market woes will lead to the worst autumn season for clothing retailers since 2002.
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News
Retail sales inch up in September
Retail sales volumes increased 0.6 per cent between August and September, with the largest increases occurring in non-food, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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News
HMV opens gaming zone in Edinburgh
HMV will open a state-of-the-art gaming zone in its Edinburgh store today.
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News
Analysts allay French fears over law reform margin hit
Fears that French food retailers will face further margin pressure and deflation on branded goods following planned law reforms next year have been challenged by industry observers.
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Sainsbury’s King defends grocery code of practice
Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King has mounted a robust defence of the controversial Supermarkets Code of Practice ahead of the Competition Commission delivering its grocery inquiry findings this month.
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Analysis
In a class of its own
As the Oxford Summer School prepares for its 79th course next year, Katie Kilgallen learns why delegates never forget it
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News
Hamleys ups web ante with £50m sales target
Hamleys is ramping up its online business with a sales target of 50 million in the next five years, up from the 4 million it has forecast for the year to March.
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News
Blue Inc holds its own with healthy profits as it bolsters store numbers
Independent menswear specialist Blue Inc has fought off tough competition in the young fashion market to push up profits and drive expansion.
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Bhs takes on mid market at Meadowhall
Bhs opened a new-look store at the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield last week, which owner Sir Philip Green believes will make the mid-market format an “automatic destination”.
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Wyevale commits to being carbon neutral by 2010
Garden centre chain Wyevale has published a consultation document called the Ten Commitments detailing how it will deliver its plan to become carbon neutral by 2010.
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News
Carphone’s geeks to go nationwide
Carphone Warehouse is to roll out its Geek Squad home service proposition nationwide after a successful trial in London.
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Mothercare driven by soaring multichannel sales
Mothercare has delivered a healthy second quarter performance, led by its UK multichannel arm Direct in Home, which reported a sales increase of 102 per cent – a 27.8 per cent like-for-like lift.
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Tesco extends books contract with EUK
Tesco has extended Entertainment UK's (EUK) contract to supply all of Tesco’s UK stores with books. The existing contract, due to expire at the end of February, has been extended by a further 12 months.
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Opinion
Supply chain is sexy
Unlike buying or marketing, supply chain isn’t up there as one of the sexy functions within retailing. That’s an oversight that this column aims to put right.
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News
Supermarkets bounce back
Grocery sales have grown by 5 per cent year on year in the 12 weeks to October 7, according to the TNS Worldpanel grocery market share figures.
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Net-A-Porter bolsters growth with database IT
Net-A-Porter has upgraded from a free version of its database software to a paid-for one to support its continued growth.
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Galeria Kaufhof tests MagicMirror in giant German RFID tagging trial
Metro-owned German department store Galeria Kaufhof has installed an RFID-enabled changing-room mirror.
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Shoppers back in-store IT to cut packaging on goods
Consumers are increasingly open to the idea of using in-store devices to deliver greater product information, according to research by the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD).