All Electricals articles – Page 165
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News
DSGi: the City view
There were few surprises in John Browett’s first set of full-year results as chief executive of DSG International but, although the results were well-flagged, Browett struggled to convince the City that better times lie ahead.
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Opinion
Is electricals leaving consumers behind?
It was Intel co-founder Gordon Moore who pointed out that the number of transistors that could be put on integrated circuits appears to double every two years.
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Retailers slide as M&S’s share dive leads wave of falling stocks
While Marks & Spencer’s terrible performance in food grabbed the headlines on Wednesday, it was the general retailers that got a battering, as Sir Stuart Rose warned the market was at its toughest since the early 1990s.
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Opinion
Reinvention will be our lifeline
Continually striving to improve everything we do will help retailers ride out this downturn
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Richer Sounds extends video demos from web to stores
Richer Sounds is to extend its use of video demonstrations from its web site to its stores.
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Kesa: The City View
The Anglo-French electricals combine reported a rise in retail profit of 3.1 per cent to 141.3 million in the 12 months to April 30, when revenues rose 14 per cent to 4.51 billion.
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Opinion
The Retail Week - June 27, 2008
A comment from DSGi chief executive John Browett in this morning’s Times caught my eye. Describing the new training programme for the company’s UK staff announced alongside yesterday’s terrible full-year results, he said: “This is not rocket science, it’s what anyone would do.”
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Analysis
Foot on the pedal
Halfords’ bold poaching of David Wild from Wal-Mart indicates that it is serious about boosting its overseas presence. But that doesn’t mean it will take its eye off the UK. George MacDonald assesses the new chief’s likely impact
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HMV social networking gets closer to full launch
Entertainment retailer HMV will next week move a step closer to the launch of its social networking web site, Getcloser.com.
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DSGi launches broadband deal to take on Carphone
DSGi is to go head on against rival Carphone Warehouse in the mobile broadband and laptop arena by launching an initiative called Get Connected.
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Opinion
How good will Best Buy be?
How typical of a journalist to accentuate the negative and eliminate the positive, but here goes.
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News
DSGi profits plunge
DSGi has revealed a 30 per cent slump in pre-tax profits in the 53 weeks to May 3 and has said it will focus on cost-control and cashflow to counter the customer downturn.
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Shoppers to spend less in summer Sales
UK shoppers will spend an average of 305.90 each in the summer Sales this year, but just 8 per cent will spend more than they did last summer, according to research by Sainsbury’s Finance.
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Kesa warns on consumer confidence
Electricals giant Kesa has reported a 3.1 per cent increase in group retail profit to 141.3 million for its new financial year, but warned of difficult trading ahead.
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Home Retail Q1 stable but tough times ahead
Home Retail Group recorded flat first-quarter like-for-like sales at its flagship Argos chain – ahead of expectations – but warned that the outlook remains challenging.
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OFT approves Best Buy and Carphone tie-up
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has cleared the joint venture between Carphone Warehouse and US electricals giant Best Buy.
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AnalysisPurple reign
PC World’s Enfield branch is the test bed for DSGi boss John Browett’s plans to revive the group’s computing brand. John Ryan goes to the north London suburbs to investigate
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News
Amplifon starts rapid rebranding of UK portfolio
Amplifon, the Italian retailer and distributor of hearing aids and related services, is to start rebranding its 147 UK stores this week.
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News
Maplin sales rocket as rest of sector suffers
Maplin has unveiled bumper sales and profits and forecast continued growth, despite the economic downturn and seismic change in the electricals sector.
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May online sales hit £4.5 billion
Online spending in May rose to more than 4.5 billion, an increase of 1.6 per cent on April, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.