All Retail Week articles in July 22 2011 – Page 2
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NewsPerfume Shop launches loyalty card scheme
The Perfume Shop is to go live with its loyalty scheme in September and hopes at least half of its 5 million existing customers will have signed up within four years.
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NewsAsos drives global sales with further overseas site launches
Asos will launch its next tranche of international websites in September as it seeks to further drive overseas sales.
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NewsWorldStores to create umbrella brand
WorldStores, operator of niche websites such as PatioHeatersWorld.co.uk and MattressesWorld.co.uk, is to develop an umbrella brand following an £8.5m venture capital cash injection.
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NewsMusgrave saves Irish grocer Superquinn
Musgrave Group will be catapulted into top spot in the Irish grocery market following its acquisition of Superquinn this week.
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NewsIT investment hits Evans bottom line
Evans Cycles pre-tax profit slumped from £4m to £941,000 in the year to October 30.
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NewsZara unveils new store design
Fast fashion chain Zara is to unveil an “exciting and experiential” new store design in Westfield Stratford City in September.
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NewsJune sales rise despite drop in food spending
Retail sales values in June rose by 4% compared with the previous year and volume sales showed a marginal increase as food sales had its largest fall on record.
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NewsSuperquinn boss exits days after Musgrave take over
The chief executive of Superquinn, the Irish grocer that was bought out of receivership by rival Musgrave on Tuesday, has left the business.
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NewsCity fears for Blacks as sales plunge further 10%
A second CVA may be looming for struggling outdoor goods retailer Blacks, according to one City analyst who values the retailer at just 1p per share after sales plummeted.
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Fast Retailing plans opening of up to 100 Uniqlo stores
Fast Retailing, Japan’s largest clothing retailer, has said that it plans to open up to 100 Uniqlo stores in Taiwan as part of its plan to become the world’s top fashion brand by 2020. This figure is double the goal set out in September 2010, which was to establish 50 ...
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Sales increase for 99¢ Only Stores’
99¢ Only Stores’ total sales increased 6.3% in its financial first quarter ended July 2, aided by like-for-like growth of 5.9%. The retailer said total sales reached $368m (£228m), a 6.3% increase from the same quarter last year. The Easter selling season provided a key boost.The retailer plans to open ...
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NewsSamuel L addicted to Hotel Chocolat
Retailers love it when celebrities become their unpaid ambassadors.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How do I get the maximum benefit from increased affiliation with voucher code sites?
I want to increase the amount of work we do with voucher code sites, but how I can ensure we get maximum benefit from increased affiliation?
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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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NewsMothercare migrates away from Amazon to revamp its website
Mothercare is to abandon the Amazon ecommerce platform it uses, leaving the online giant with no big UK retailer customers for its third-party services after 2013.
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NewsWade-Gery appoints number two to bolster online business
Former Dixons and John Lewis man David Walmsley joins M&S to spearhead multichannel sales drive
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NewsIn focus: Arcadia
Coinciding with the ending of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince’s honeymoon on Sir Philip Green’s yacht – and with Kate Moss’s Topshop collections now history – Retail Week Knowledge Bank has been undertaking the more prosaic exercise of updating its Arcadia and Bhs profiles in the wake of the financial ...
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NewsDixons audits result in supplier delistings
The number of own-brand suppliers and potential suppliers delisted or not approved on ethical grounds by electricals giant Dixons rocketed by almost 85% last year.
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NewsJohn Lewis back on store trail with smaller format
Fashion to play a significant role in new mid-sized John Lewis department store format for second-tier towns
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OpinionBack to base camp for Blacks
Almost four years after Neil Gillis took over as chief executive, the bulk of his turnaround ambition for Blacks remains just that.