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- Analysis
In numbers: The best digital retailers in the UK
Retail Week Indicator, launched last week, highlights the best digital retailers in the UK. Here we look at what it takes to get into the top 20.
- Analysis
Retail Week Indicator: The UK's best digital retailer revealed
Fashion giant Asos has been crowned leader in the inaugural Retail Week Indicator, launched today to shine a light on the top retailers for digital proficiency.
- Data
Data: How can M&S change its customer’s mindset?
Marks & Spencer has a strong womenswear design team led by style director Belinda Earl, but how can the retailer promote its fashion if customers aren’t interested?
- Analysis
M&S: Product is key to achieving online goals
As with many retailers in the UK fashion market, Marks & Spencer’s latest transformation plan looks to revamp the business into a digital-first operation, aiming to generate a third of clothing sales through its online channel in the medium term.
- Video
Watch: Teams compete in the 24-hour Tech. Sprint
Contestants have 24 hours to build the connected shopping experience of the future and pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.
- Opinion
Opinion: How Superdrug made up ground in beauty
Superdrug’s stellar full-year results were driven by strong sales in its cosmetics division as the retailer contours its business for a younger shopper.
- Opinion
Don’t forget retail’s core principles in the digital age
There is no doubt that consumer shopping habits have drastically changed over the last five years or so.
- Data
Data: M&S profits come at a high price
Another year, another unwelcome fall in retail bellwether Marks & Spencer’s annual pre-tax profits.
- Data
Data: M&S’ polarised food and fashion fortunes
Steve Rowe is pressing on with his plans to turn Marks and Spencer’s clothing division around with the recruitment of Jill McDonald. Here we look at the challenges she faces in light of falling sales since 2010/11.
- Opinion
Opinion: Debenhams must keep its identity intact
It hasn’t taken long for Debenhams’ new chief executive Sergio Bucher to put his mark on the British department store chain.
- Analysis
Blog: Topshop should be cautious as it expands in China
Topshop has reportedly signed a deal to open 80 stores in China, but the Arcadia-owned fashion retailer would be wise to tread with caution.
- Analysis
Analysis: Are Rowe's fashion plans too late for M&S?
Despite Steve Rowe setting out in May plans to recover and grow Marks & Spencer’s struggling clothing division, there remains little visible improvement.
- Opinion
Opinion: M&S is right to control costs but higher fashion sales matter more
While Steve Rowe is expected to unveil his long-term strategy in November, he is accelerating the process of bringing M&S back into style.
- Opinion
Opinion: Why fashion retailers need to stop blaming the weather
The unpredictability of the UK weather has once again hit the clothing sector, with a colder than expected March and April, followed by a wet and dreary June.