All articles by George MacDonald – Page 88
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NewsJohn Lewis demands service charge cuts from landlords
John Lewis & Partners has become the latest retailer to demand better terms from landlords.
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VideoInsights on tomorrow’s retail from Tech. 2019
The team picks their highlights from this year’s Tech. 2019 festival, including a debate on whether the mobile phone is ‘dead’.
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NewsWaitrose boss Collins: New JLP structure was a head versus heart decision
Waitrose managing director Rob Collins said his head beat his heart as he emphatically backed the new management structure at John Lewis Partnership, which will result in his departure.
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NewsJD.com chief: Retailer and brand collaboration will create new sources of value
The value of product will become less important to retailers in future but product will instead open the door to new sources of value, the bosses of Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com believe.
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OpinionLeader: Mayfield’s John Lewis Partnership gamble brings massive risk
For good or ill, today was a landmark moment in the 155-year history of the John Lewis Partnership.
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NewsWaitrose boss exits as John Lewis Partnership unveils radical restructure
John Lewis Partnership has unveiled radical changes, including running its department store and grocery arms as one business, which will no longer have separate managing directors.
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NewsM&S chair Norman snaps up more shares
Marks & Spencer chair Archie Norman has bulked up his shareholding in the retailer.
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NewsLandlord drops Monsoon Accessorize CVA challenge
British Land has dropped a legal challenge to fashion retailer Monsoon Accessorize’s CVA.
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OpinionM&S capital markets briefing – action, not words, will matter
Hot on the heels of Sainsbury’s, next week Marks & Spencer will put itself in the City spotlight when it throws its doors open for a capital markets briefing.
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VideoIs Coupe’s strategy enough to get Sainsbury’s back on track?
As Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe unveils his strategic “tweaks”, the Retail Week team ask whether evolution rather than revolution will get the grocer firing on all cylinders again.
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NewsMarks & Spencer raids Morrisons for stores chief
Marks & Spencer has poached Morrisons’ operations director David Lepley to take up the role of stores director.
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NewsM&Co profits fall as ‘unprecedented trading challenges’ bite
M&Co has posted a fall in annual earnings after confronting “unprecedented trading challenges”.
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NewsMarks & Spencer and Richer Sounds to pilot concession tie-up
Marks & Spencer is to introduce Richer Sounds as a concession partner as part of the ongoing overhaul of its store proposition.
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AnalysisThomas Cook collapse – what it means for high streets
The liquidation of Thomas Cook is a disaster for 150,000 holidaymakers and the travel agent’s 22,000 staff, including 9,000 in the UK.
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NewsMarks & Spencer clothing supply chain boss to exit
Marks & Spencer’s director of supply chain and logistics for clothing and home, Gordon Mowat, is to leave the retailer after two years in the role, Retail Week can reveal.
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NewsMarks & Spencer finance boss Singer in shock exit
Marks & Spencer group chief financial officer Humphrey Singer is to leave the retailer less than two years into the role.
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NewsDixons Carphone pumps £4m into training in customer service push
Dixons Carphone has launched a “state of the art” customer service training centre as it seeks to deliver its mission to “help everyone enjoy amazing technology”.
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OpinionLeader: Being a disruptor won’t make you a success
“What online-only company is really profitable? Basically none of them. That’s the dirty secret”
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NewsAmazon pledges to become carbon neutral as climate protest starts
Amazon has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040, meeting the UN’s Paris Agreement climate-change objectives a decade early.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Can Next become an ‘Asos for the middle-aged’?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson may have been empty-chaired on his latest visit to Europe, but there’s one UK representative that is being welcomed in the EU and elsewhere overseas: fashion giant Next