All articles by George MacDonald – Page 271
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Opinion
The Retail Week – February 29
Recently promoted Kingfisher chief executive Ian Cheshire is wasting no time in sweeping his new broom through the business.
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News
Adams to walk from Kingfisher in shock move
Veteran Kingfisher executive George Adams is to leave at the end of next month as new group chief executive Ian Cheshire begins to reshape the retail giant.
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Opinion
Decision day looms for Moss
Baugur’s 42p-a-share offer for Moss Bros may have split the retailer’s board and shareholders, but should be welcomed.
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Poor John Lewis trading fuels City fears as Tesco is attacked
John Lewis’s revelation that last week’s trading was the “toughest in recent memory” spooked an already panicky City.
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M&S to impose 5p plastic bag charge
Marks & Spencer is to charge customers for plastic food carrier bags from the beginning of May.
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Sainsbury family reduces stake
Members of the Sainsbury family have further reduced their holding in the eponymous grocer.
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Opinion
There’s value in Woolies yet
We reveal this week that variety store group Woolworths has slimmed down central staff numbers. About 60 have gone from the London headquarters and its Castleton satellite, near Rochdale.
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Competition probe and Asda success help quoted grocers
Food retailers staged a comeback after they emerged largely unscathed from the Competition Commission’s investigation into the grocery market. Good fourth-quarter figures from Asda helped, confirming that food retailers as a group have been doing well.
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Europe’s Next
Fashion powerhouse launches web offer on the continent as international gold rush accelerates
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Elvi rescued by mystery buyers
Plus-size womenswear retailer Elvi is back in business after mystery investors bought it out of administration.
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Tesco targets £1bn of local produce sales
Grocery market leader Tesco will today unveil a sales target of 1 billion of locally produced food by 2011.
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Opinion
The Retail Week - February 15, 2008
Marks & Spencer’s decision to distribute 800,000 money-off vouchers to staff and company pensioners set tongues wagging earlier this week.
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News
Grocers’ share price turbulence
Morrisons, the grocery victor last Christmas, took analysts on a tour of its Northern redoubts on Tuesday.
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News
M&S picks ex-Evans boss to head lingerie
Marks & Spencer has snapped up former Evans brand director Frances Russell for the new role of trading director for its market-leading lingerie business.
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Signet: the city view
Signet, the world’s biggest specialist jewellery retailer, posted a 6.7 per cent group like-for-like fall in the fourth quarter, propelled by an 8.6 per cent drop in the US.
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City remains cautious over retail as shares lose regained ground
General retailers’ share price rises of recent weeks looked like a dead cat bounce as they slipped back over the week, although food groups managed an increase following their decline since the start of the year.
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US retail achieves surprise sales rise
US retail sales increased unexpectedly in January, raising hopes that a consumer recession may yet be avoided.
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Rose will spurn bonus if M&S shop staff miss out
Marks & Spencer chief executive Sir Stuart Rose will not take a bonus this year unless store staff also win a payout.
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Clare teams up with Saatchi for e-tail venture
John Clare, former chief executive of electricals group DSGi, is to launch a social networking and retail internet venture called Myfaveshop.com.
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C-stores concerned by Mosquito ban threat
C-store owners have reacted angrily to proposals to end use of the Mosquito, a high-pitched device deployed to disperse gangs of youths who hang around outside shops.