All Retail Week articles in December 16 2011 – Page 5
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News
Hammerson welcomes Portas Review
Landlord Hammerson, owner of malls including the Bull Ring, has welcomed The Portas Review into high streets.
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News
Morrisons plans 2012 expansion
Morrisons is to create 7,000 new jobs and open 25 stores in 2012 as it goes on an expansion drive.
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News
Clintons FD Paul Salador quits
Clinton Cards group finance director Paul Salador has stepped down after 15 years at the business.
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Opinion
Group buy-in
Why retailers won’t be surprised to hear Groupon is facing an OFT investigation.
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News
M Savers to hit Morrisons shelves in January
Morrisons has confirmed its new M Savers value range is to launch in January.
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News
Scottish retail sales drop worst since 1999
Scottish retail sales in November fell at their steepest rate since 1999, with total sales down 1.3% year-on-year as consumers put off their Christmas shopping.
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News
Supergroup profits dip despite like-for-like growth
Supergroup underlying profit before tax dipped £0.5m to £13m as like-for-likes grew 4% in its half year to October 30.
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News
La Senza calls in restructurers
Lingerie retailer La Senza has appointed KPMG to restructure the business.
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News
Amazon introduces e-book fund
Amazon has introduced a $6m (£3.85m) fund under the Kindle Direct Publishing Select scheme for authors who make their e-books exclusive to Amazon Kindle for at least 90 days.The etailer expects to pay authors from the pot when their books are borrowed under the Kindle Lending Library, which is part ...
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News
Lidl reprimanded by Swedish Advertising Ombudsman
Schwarz Group-owned discounter Lidl has reportedly been reprimanded by the Swedish Advertising Ombudsman for misleading advertising.An article in Esmerk said that a consumer lodged a complaint about a TV commercial in which the retailer claims to travel the world to buy produce directly from local farmers.The complainant argued that the ...
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News
Government minister to be allocated high street remit
The Government is set to allocate a minister for town centres on the back of Mary Portas’ review into the future of the high street.
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News
CPI inflation falls in November
The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation has fallen during November.
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Analysis
Word Cloud: Mary Portas: High Street Review
A word cloud of the Portas review into the state of the UK high street.
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News
Saks Fifth Avenue relaunches SaksPOV website
Upmarket department store group Saks Fifth Avenue has relaunched the SaksPOV website after five months of development.SaksPOV offers shoppers insight on fashion, culture and art and includes multimedia content, Saks brand coverage and lifestyle pieces. Saks Direct chief marketing officer and president Denise Incandela said: “We will use SaksPOV as ...
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News
Portas sets out new high street vision
Mary Portas has called for a “shift to a new, multi-functional, social high street”.
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News
Schlecker closes 400 stores
Drugstore operator Schlecker had to close about 400 stores in November and a further 200 will follow this month, according to Spiegel.Chief executive and owner Anton Schlecker is said to have already invested a double-digit million euro sum of the company’s private assets to restructure the chain, which lost its ...
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News
BRC welcomes efforts to tackle business rate rises and parking
Prioritising action on business rate rises and parking in the Portas Review is “exactly right”, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) believes.
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News
Wickes like-for-likes plummet over past eight weeks
Wickes like-for-likes have plummeted 6.8% over the past eight weeks.
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News
Landlords embrace Portas' call for them to invest in high street
Landlords have embraced Mary Portas’ recommendation to allow them to become high street investors.