All Entertainment articles – Page 65
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NewsWinehouse death prompts album sales spike at HMV
Music retailer HMV expects the late British soul singer Amy Winehouse’s best-selling album Back to Black to top the charts this weekend as saddened fans snap up her CDs.
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NewsRetail employment falls as non-food stores cut staff
Retail employment fell 0.4% in the second quarter of this year, equivalent to 3,100 fewer full-time jobs.
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Fnac outlines new strategy for growth
PPR-owned book and music retailer Fnac has outlined a new strategy for growth, encompassing store openings, an overhaul of its product offer and a redesign of its ecommerce site.By 2015 the company expects to open 80 new stores in France, including 50 in a smaller format. It will reorganise stores ...
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NewsGame rolls out digital games across global store estate
Game has begun selling its digital games range in all stores across the group as the retailer continues its transformation into a fully multichannel business.
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Borders Group to liquidate the chain
Borders Group is to liquidate the chain after failing to receive any offers to save it. The book chain said liquidation of its remaining 399 shops could start as soon as this week, and it is expected to go out of business for good by the end of September.Borders filed ...
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AnalysisDunstone’s dream comes of age
21 years after its first store opened, Carphone Warehouse founder Charles Dunstone last week returned to where it began. Tim Danaher meets him
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NewsUS book chain Borders to be liquidated
Embattled US book chain Borders is set to be liquidated after it failed to attract any buyers for the business.
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Waterstone's new boss plans "complete overhaul" of infrastructure
Waterstone’s new boss James Daunt is planning a “complete overhaul” of the bookseller’s infrastructure under new owner, Alexander Mamut.
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GalleryM&M’s World: Sugar rush
Europe’s first M&M’s World has opened in Leicester Square, but is this about retailing or brand building? John Ryan reports
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AnalysisTalking about their generation
What do young people think about retail? How do they decide where and how they shop? Charlotte Hardie talks to them and reveals what you need to know about the next generation
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News20 stores a day shut by multiples, report says
Multiple retailers closed 20 stores a day on average between January and May as they slashed costs amid punishing trading conditions.
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NewsWaterstone’s borrows its latest idea
Waterstone’s sales performance has been none too spectacular, but will marketing like this be helping?
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NewsRetail climbs but fails to match the market
Food and general retailers alike climbed over the week but failed to match the rise clocked up by the market overall.
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NewsTechnology products key as HMV sets sights on recovery
Analysts remained bearish on HMV after the entertainment group revealed full-year profits had slumped and set out recovery plans
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OpinionYouth of today will still want stores tomorrow
Understanding how customers behave today is vital for retailers
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NewsAmazon to acquire online rival The Book Depository
Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire fast-growing online bookseller The Book Depository.
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AnalysisLining up an Olympic opportunity
With less than three months before opening, Rebecca Thomson visits Westfield Stratford as it prepares for the 2012 games to commence
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OpinionGeneral retailers defy market and bad news
Retailers may have gone down like dominoes over the week but despite the slew of bad news publicly quoted general retailers were up versus the market generally.
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OpinionRetail’s week of woe could be just the start
In bad times, weak retailers fail. None of the names that have hit difficulty in the past week will have come as a surprise to anyone who follows the sector.
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