All Retail Week articles in August 12 2011 – Page 3
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NewsAdministration looms for Lombok
UPDATED: Furniture chain Lombok has filed an intention to appoint an administrator and is danger of going bust in the next few days.
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GalleryIn pictures: First look at Next Home and Garden
Next has opened the first of it’s Home and Garden stores in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex.
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NewsLush breaches data protection act after security lapse
Cosmetics retailer Lush breached the data protection act after failing to protect customer data for four months, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.
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NewsAurora aims to emulate Asos with international online strategy
Fashion group Aurora is seeking to add external brands to its international local-language websites in a bid to emulate the success of rival etailer Asos.
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NewsAnn Summers takes clubwear in-store
Lingerie and sex toy specialist Ann Summers is to start selling clubwear in its stores after a 300% jump in sales in the category from its party plan and web channel.
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AnalysisAnn Summers: A rampant rebrand
After a difficult spell Ann Summers has recaptured its mojo with a rebrand. By Gemma Goldfingle
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NewsRetailers count the cost as looters attack stores
Retailers are weighing up their next steps after hundreds of stores were looted as the worst rioting in living memory swept through England.
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NewsStore stocks bear up despite wave of riots
Despite the wave of rioting, including shop-burning and widespread looting, stores were down but outperformed other stocks in a week when the global markets were undermined by renewed financial fears.
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NewsUK riots: Footing the bill
The wave of rioting around the country was estimated to have cost retailers £80m in lost sales, because of store groups closing shops early and suffering low footfall as people stayed away.
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NewsBirmingham city centre looting terror
Retailers in Birmingham faced a night of terror on Monday as organised gangs carried out an orchestrated spree of rioting that left many stores severely damaged.
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NewsBlacks chairman bows to pressure and resigns
Blacks Leisure chairman David Bernstein bowed down to pressure from major shareholder Sports Direct and resigned last week.
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NewsBroker pinpoints value in Home Retail
Broker Morgan Stanley has become a buyer of Argos-owner Home Retail for the first time since the business was founded through demerger from GUS in 2006.
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OpinionOpen for business
Watching the pockets of trouble break out across London and then England over the past few days has brought home to me the vulnerability of the retail sector in the face of mindless thuggery.
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NewsRiot clean-up: Londoners sweep the streets
Gemma Goldfingle reporting from the London riot clean-up Thousands of Londoners took to the streets brandishing brooms, dustpans and bin bags in an effort to help retailers clean up the streets trashed by the riots this week.
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OpinionCrisis of confidence continues
Although the BRC was able to report “modest” retail sales growth in July, there was little for store chiefs’ comfort in the latest data.
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GalleryGap, Via del Corso, Rome
Gap understands the notion of what makes a flagship to judge from this 14,110 sq ft, two-floor branch that has just opened on Rome’s Via del Corso, one of the Eternal City’s principal shopping streets.
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OpinionRetailers’ spirit will not be crushed by riots
This week’s riots across the UK weren’t just an attack on our cities. They were an attack on retail. Retailers have been in the front line of sickening theft and violence on an industrial scale.
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NewsTrevor Reeves: "I felt total despair"
The owner of The House of Reeves furniture store in Croydon has described the “extremely emotional” moment when the store was demolished after being razed to the ground amid the riots.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I increase our Facebook followers?
How can I increase the number of people following us on Facebook and, more importantly, use the channel to drive in-store footfall and purchases?
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NewsFashion Rocks to open at Westfield
Young fashion retailer Fashion Rocks is to open at Westfield Stratford City this September.