Grace Bowden
Grace is head of content for Retail Week.
She covers a variety of sectors including value, sports & leisure, health & beauty and lingerie, as well as wider technology developments across retail.
She is interested in new appointments, store formats and how retailers are keeping pace with the myriad of technological developments across the industry, from their boardrooms to shop floors.
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NewsExclusive: Freshly Cosmetics shutters Carnaby Street store after six months
Spanish beauty brand Freshly Cosmetics has closed its store on Carnaby Street, London, after just six months of trading.
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Ocado raises £575m to fund expansion of its tech division
Ocado has successfully raised £575m through a share placement as the company seeks to capitalise on the growth of its technology arm.
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Gymshark poaches The Very Group’s marketing chief
Gymshark has appointed The Very Group’s chief marketing officer Carly O’Brien to drive its brand marketing strategy.
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Nearly 650,000 retail jobs lost over last five years
Over half a million retail jobs have been lost and over 70,000 stores closed across the UK since 2017, according to new figures.
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Morrisons owners mulls £600m warehouse sale
The private equity owners of Morrisons are considering a sale of its food production arm as costs across the grocer bite.
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ProCook warns on profits as shoppers ‘tighten their belts’ amid cost-of-living crunch
ProCook has said sales and profits for its current financial year will be behind previous forecasts as shoppers face “exceptional pressures on discretionary spend”.
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Reliance and Apollo team up to lodge £5bn binding bid for Boots
Reliance Retail and Apollo are understood to have made a formal offer for Boots, which would allow current owner Walgreens to retain a significant minority stake.
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Poundland parent’s sales and profits rise as UK shoppers rein in ‘essential’ spending
Poundland owner Pepco Group has said UK shoppers are “scaling back even on essential purchases” amid the cost-of-living crunch.
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Boots freezes prices on 1,500 products as cost-of-living crunch intensifies
Boots has committed to locking the prices of its most regularly purchased own-brand product lines in a bid to “reassure” shoppers amid the growing cost-of-living crisis.
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Walmart unveils drone delivery scheme for 4 million US households
Walmart’s new drone delivery service, which will be rolled out to six US states, will be available to shoppers by the end of the year.
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Pets at Home profits surge as sales climb bolstered by record new customer numbers
Pets at Home reported a jump in full-year profits and sales as outgoing boss Peter Pritchard as the retailer is ’well placed to accelerate our growth in market share’.
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M&S ‘fundamentally changed’ as full-year profits climb and sales rise
Marks & Spencer has recorded a strong uplift in full-year profits bolstered by sales increases across both clothing and food, as outgoing chief executive Steve Rowe says the business has “the opportunity for substantial further growth”.
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From AR to Gen Z – the must-read stories and insight from Retail Week Live 2022
Reporting by: Grace Bowden, George MacDonald, Hugh Radojev, Rosie Shepard, Luke Tugby
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Retail sales decline as stretched shoppers rein in non-food spending
In April, retail sales registered a substantial decline in the volume of products bought year-on-year.
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Tesco axes multi-buy junk food deals despite HFSS delay
Tesco has said it will press ahead with plans to remove BOGOF deals on unhealthy items despite the government announcing that the regulations would be delayed for a year.
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Made.com acquires Trouva as it ‘accelerates’ marketplace ambitions
Made.com has acquired homewares platform Trouva for an undisclosed sum, in a move that chief executive Nicola Thompson says will “significantly accelerate our growth strategy”.
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Morrisons sweetens last-ditch McColl’s bid following EG Group swoop
Morrisons has upped its initial offer for convenience chain McColl’s in an eleventh-hour attempt to win the chain ahead of rival bidders EG Group.
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Deep dive: Room for one more – are co-CEOs the future of retail leadership?
When it comes to leadership, are two heads really better than one? Marks & Spencer seems to think so. Retail Week explores the trend for co-chief executives in retail.
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Revolution Beauty sales soar as boss hails ‘flight to value’ for cosmetics shoppers
Revolution Beauty has posted a strong uplift in full-year sales and profits, which boss Adam Minto believes will continue as value-conscious shoppers “accelerate” the D2C brand’s growth.
