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AnalysisAnalysis: Alibaba's Singles' Day is reinventing ecommerce
When the clock struck midnight on 11.11 2016, all that was left for Alibaba’s team to do was wait.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why etailers are moving from clicks to bricks
More and more pureplay retailers are betting on bricks-and-mortar to develop their business. But is traditional retail worth the trouble?
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AnalysisAnalysis: How will King help Evans take the cycling crown?
Evans Cycles faced an uphill battle last year as the UK cycling market endured a few wobbles.
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AnalysisRetail Week Awards: The nine best marketing campaigns of the year
The shortlist for the Retail Week Awards 2017 was unveiled last week. Here are the contenders for Marketing/Advertising Campaign of the Year.
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AnalysisWhat are the new innovations in ecomm fulfilment?
From one-button orders to next-gen lockers, retailers are upping their game when it comes to fast, efficient and convenient fulfilment.
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AnalysisInfographic: Steve Rowe on M&S closures and BRC numbers
The week in words and numbers, November 11 2016: Steve Rowe on making sacrifices for the health of M&S, Kingfisher’s Véronqiue Laury on sticking to the plan and Dixons Carphone on owning Black Friday.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Five things we learnt from Sainsbury's interims
Sainsbury’s posted a drop in underlying pre-tax profits at the half-year stage as like-for-like sales fell amid “challenging market conditions”.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Targeting the retail gender gap
Retail Week carried out a Gender Diversity Monitor to find out what the UK’s largest retailers are doing to plug the gender gap at the top.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Female retail chiefs on their role models
The Be Inspired campaign puts aspiring female talent in touch with retail role models, but who inspired those who have already made it to the top?
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Creating gender diversity in the boardroom
Demand is growing for better representation of women in retail’s upper echelons, so what approaches are being used in an attempt to bring about real change?
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AnalysisIn, out, shake it all about – M&S’s overseas Hokey Cokey
Marks & Spencer is closing company-owned businesses in 10 foreign markets, but boss Steve Rowe says it is not turning its back on international opportunity.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Are Rowe's fashion plans too late for M&S?
Despite Steve Rowe setting out in May plans to recover and grow Marks & Spencer’s struggling clothing division, there remains little visible improvement.
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AnalysisMeet the leadership team at Bunnings UK
As new Homebase-owner Wesfarmers fits out the UK’s first Bunnings store in St Albans, Retail Week profiles the now-complete team at the top
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AnalysisEtail Evolution: Argos’s website through the years
Argos was an early adopter of online retail, first entering the etail fray in 1995. How has it adapted its online offer since then?
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AnalysisInfographic: FA chief exec Martin Glenn's retail advice
The week in words and numbers, November 4, 2016: FA boss Glenn Martin offers retail advice from the dugout; Amazon’s zero fourth-quarter income
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AnalysisWhittard brews plan to take English tea to the world
Specialist tea retailer Whittard aims to win a bigger share of a global market worth £90bn in sales.
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AnalysisWhy retailers are investing in experiential stores
Retailers are increasingly investing in experiential stores, providing shoppers with unforgettable experiences to encourage them to keep on visiting the high street.
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AnalysisAldi revamping Australian offer to lock horns with Coles
Aldi is to overhaul all of its Australian stores by 2020 as it revamps its fresh food offer to compete with Coles and Woolworths.
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AnalysisStore gallery: New Balance opens first UK flagship in London
US sports brand New Balance opened its first UK flagship last week on London’s Oxford Street.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Lessons from Asda's card reader chaos
The art of quintessential British queuing has been tested once again, this time by Asda, after a nationwide systems fault caused its card machines to fail.