All Electricals articles – Page 153
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News
John Lewis Partnership sales pick up
Sales at department store John Lewis in the week to March 14 dropped 4.1 per cent to 45.1m.
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Website of the week: remix.bestbuy.com
Best Buy may be delaying its UK debut, but it got a lot of attention this week when it formally launched Best Buy Remix, a long-promised service that lets third-party web developers create new ways of displaying the retailer’s product catalogue online.
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Morrisons wins Retailer of the Year for second year running
Morrisons was again named Retailer of the Year last night at the Oracle Retail Week Awards .
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NewsBest Buy aims to ‘take a significant share’ in UK
Best Buy wants to take “significant” UK market share when it debuts with its big box format in the UK in spring 2010.
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Restructuring officer installed at Jessops
HSBC is understood to have placed a chief restructuring officer at Jessops as the downturn continues to take its toll on the camera specialist.
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Brad Anderson: Accelerating international expansion to capitalise on global growth opportunities
Accelerating international expansion to capitalise on global growth opportunities Taking advantage of the economic situation to grow your business across borders Identifying the best partners to work with along the way Beating the home-grown competition Brad Anderson, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive, Best Buy
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Best Buy confirms no UK debut until 2010
Best Buy chief executive Bob Willett has confirmed the retailer will not make its UK debut until spring 2010 at the earliest.
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NewsCarphone Warehouse to roll out system for loss prevention
Carphone Warehouse is poised to introduce a system to minimise shrinkage and business risk in the UK following its adoption in the eight other European countries it operates in.
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Home retailers most distressed, new data shows
Retailers selling homewears and non-discretionary food are feeling most pressure from the economic downturn, according to new data from KPMG.
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Debenhams buoyed by own-bought ranges
Debenhams like-for-like sales for its first half to February 28 were 3.6 per cent lower than last year on total sales up 0.3 per cent.
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Shopworkers seek help as redundancy fears grow
Shopworkers are becoming increasingly depressed and turning to alcohol as the threat of redundancy rises across the retail sector, the Retail Trust has found.
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John Lewis reports 2.1 per cent weekly sales dip
John Lewis reported a dip of 2.1 per cent in its weekly sales as further uncertainty in the financial markets hit its business.
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Farewell to Dixons luminary Robert Shrager
Former Dixons finance director Robert Shrager has died from cancer at the age of 60.
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Retail like-for-likes fall 1.8 per cent in February
Retail sales slid 1.8 per cent on a like-for-like basis in February, according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.
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BRC urges the Government to delay VAT increase
The British Retail Consortium has urged the Government to delay plans to increase VAT to 17.5 per cent on December 31.
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UK non-food like-for-likes fall in February
UK non-food retail like-for-like sales slumped 8.1 per cent in February, according to BDO Stoy Hayward's Like 4 Like Club figures, which revealed fashion sales were down on homewares.
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Opinion
Business rates issue can’t wait
Alistair Darling is a busy man at the moment, so perhaps it’s an achievement in itself that he has responded to Retail Week’s Rate Rage campaign and acknowledged the severe problems that retailers are facing.
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DSGi calms fears as trial formats take off
DSGi is to revamp 100 stores this year after a successful trial and has played down speculation it is in danger of breaching banking covenants.
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NewsBest Buy postpones UK launch
US electricals giant Best Buy has postponed the launch of UK operations.
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Carphone Warehouse sells South African call centre subsidiary
Carphone Warehouse has completed the sale of its South African call centre subsidiary The Phone House.