All Halfords articles – Page 6
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Opinion
Opinion: Halfords needs to rev up its auto division
While foreign exchange pressure caused Halfords’ margins to back-pedal, bolstering its Autocentres is needed to ensure the group remains resilient to future headwinds.
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News
Today in retail: Thursday’s throng of financial updates
Today brought a flurry of results as B&M, Pets at Home, Halfords, Card Factory and Conviviality updated the market.
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News
Marks & Spencer appoints strategy director
Marks & Spencer has drafted in Melanie Smith to the new role of director of strategy.
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News
Halfords profits fall despite full-year sales rise
Halfords has reported rising full-year sales but falling profits in its last year under chief executive Jill McDonald.
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Analysis
Agenda: B&M, Dixons, Halfords, Kingfisher and M&S update
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, including updates from B&M, Dixons, Halfords, Kingfisher and M&S.
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News
Opinion: Norman and Rowe could be the M&S dream team
Marks & Spencer’s appointment of Archie Norman as chairman, starting in September, was great news.
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News
Today in retail: M&S ends week with heavyweight hire
M&S dominated the headlines for the third day running today by unveiling its new chairman – ex-Asda boss Archie Norman.
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Opinion
Nick Bubb’s verdict on Jill McDonald’s move to M&S
Halfords chief executives never seem to last very long, but then M&S clothing managing directors never seem to either.
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Analysis
Analysis: M&S gains McDonald’s customer focus
The appointment of Halfords chief executive Jill McDonald to one of the most pivotal roles at Marks & Spencer came as a bolt from the blue.
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News
M&S poaches Halfords boss McDonald to lead clothing
Halfords chief executive Jill McDonald has resigned from the cycling retailer to join Marks & Spencer as managing director of clothing, home and beauty.
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Analysis
Halfords’ ex-offenders scheme is CSR at its best
The Audit Partnership CSR Initiative of the Year prize was handed to Halfords for its category-busting initiative to give released prisoners a second chance.
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News
Halfords boss McDonald on the retailer’s ‘secret sauce’
Halfords boss Jill McDonald believes the retailer’s customer service proposition will prove to be the “secret sauce” in her strategy.
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Video
Watch: Halfords boss McDonald on the value of services
Halfords boss Jill McDonald visits the Retail Week studio after her speech to explain the importance of services for the retailer’s plans.
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News
Update: Conviviality poaches Halfords people director
Halfords is losing another member of its executive team with people director Jonathan Crookall poised to depart, Retail Week can reveal.
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Data
Data: Top 50 retailers by sales during 2015/16 financial year
Retail Week’s ranking of the UK’s top 50 retailers by sales for the 2015/16 financial year sees The Range, Inditex and Asos enter the table for the first time.
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News
Today in retail: Aldi topples the Co-op to hit high five
Aldi greeted this morning’s news that it has toppled the Co-op to become the fifth largest grocer in the UK with little fanfare.
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News
Halfords' commercial boss Emma Fox exits
Halfords’ highly regarded commercial director Emma Fox has left by “mutual consent” following a strategic review of the business, Retail Week can reveal.
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Analysis
Infographic: Paperchase on growth and H&M profits fall
The week in words and numbers, February 3, 2017: New Paperchase chairman says there is an opportunity for growth, and H&M posts a fall in profits.
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Gallery
Store gallery: Derby, home to Halfords of the future
A retail park on the edge of Derby is home to a newly-opened Halfords store of the future.
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Analysis
Infographic: A Burberry boost and Chocolate thiefs
The week in words and numbers, January 27, 2017: Angus Thirwell says there’s nothing new about Hotel Chocolat’s copycats, and Burberry post a boost.