All Retail Week articles in 21 December 2007 – Page 2
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News
Brighthouse sales up
Hire-purchase retailer Brighthouse posted double-digit growth for the year, boosted by new store openings.
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3 and T-mobile deny merger talks
Mobile phone operators and retailers T-Mobile and 3 deny they were in talks to merge their UK operations as they formed a joint venture to combine their 3G mobile access networks.
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BestBuy posts strong profits
Profits at BestBuy soared 52 per cent to US$228 million ( 113.6 million) in its third quarter.
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Sports Direct profits collapse
Pre-tax profits at Sports Direct slumped 35.2 per cent to 52 million in the first half.
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Dreams automates estate management to cut costs
Dreams has automated its property management process with a system from K3.
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Goldsmiths is latest to add rating and review service to web site
Goldsmiths will introduce ratings and reviews to its web site in the new year.
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Moss Bros buys software to aid IT best practice
Moss Bros has invested in EasyVista software to manage its IT hardware across 170 sites.
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CBI survey reveals slow high street sales
Sales for the first half of December were the slowest on the high street for over a year.
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Mastercard ordered to axe cross-border charges
Mastercard charges imposed on retailers for consumers’ cross-border card transactions are likely to be abolished following a European Commission ruling this week.
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Jagtiani mulls partnership in bid for Debenhams
Landmark boss Micky Jagtiani has said he would consider a joint bid for Debenhams in a move first revealed by Retail Week (December 14).
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Prada to float in 2008
Italian luxury goods house Prada has appointed advisers to work on an initial public offering next year.
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Ponden Mill becomes first Christmas casualty
Ponden Mill has fallen into administration just a month after it was bought for 6 million.
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NewsRetail pays tribute to Pier creator Richards
Tributes have been pouring in for The Pier founder Alison Richards, who died at the weekend after a long battle with cancer.
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Everything to play for
Retailers to scrape through Christmas with heavy discounting, but the new year bodes ill
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Everything to play for
Retailers to scrape through Christmas with heavy discounting, but the new year bodes ill
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Somerfield to carve a niche with focus on smaller stores
High street grocer Somerfield is to open more smaller stores as it seeks to distance itself further from big supermarkets.
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Retailers’ wage rates surge past minimum
Two thirds of retailers are setting starting salaries significantly above the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
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Julian Graves shakes up board
Julian Graves has reshuffled its board, as parent Baugur strives to reallocate the workload of senior executives and accelerate growth at the health food chain.
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Opinion
Ashley farce is great viewing
Following Sports Direct is like watching one of those 1970s air disaster movies that always form part of the Christmas TV schedules.