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OpinionHMV no longer top of the pops
Like the chart stars whose tunes it sells, entertainment group HMV is susceptible to wild swings of fortune and last week’s update was hardly music to investors’ ears.
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OpinionDecade essays: 10 years of progress
The first decade of the 21st century was one of enormous change for UK retail. Bricks-and-mortar retailers have had to work harder than ever to get customers through their doors and spending,while online retailing has grown from almost a standing start.
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AnalysisCan 2010 optimism spur languishing M&A activity?
Just how much impact did the global economic crisis have on merger and acquisition activity in the retail sector last year?
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OpinionPressure on Morrisons grows
Morrisons’ new chief executive Dalton Philips will have been in the hot seat for only about six weeks when the grocer delivers its first-quarter update next week.
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OpinionRetail surgery: We have refused to sacrifice margins to chase unprofitable sales. What is the best way to report our figures to show this?
We have refused to sacrifice margins to chase unprofitable sales. What is the best way to report our figures to show this?
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OpinionBalance is key for Thorntons
Thorntons may not be the biggest retailer, but some of the trading trends it reported on Tuesday will be front of mind for retailers more widely.
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AnalysisJapanese department stores’ decline continues
This month, Japanese department store operators Takashimaya and H2O Retailing Corporation scrapped plans to merge their operations by 2011.
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OpinionThe value of self-help
Self-help is the order of the day among retailers. The phrase has consistently peppered store chiefs’ City updates and analysts have compiled buy lists based on retailers’ capacity for self-help.
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OpinionCan private equity only sell to its own?
Simon Laffin Independent retail adviser and non-executive director
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OpinionBad news for grocers’ shares
Food retailers’ shares have been dull for a while, left on the shelf by investors seeking value among general retailers and in other sectors.
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OpinionBolland can refine M&S execution
There is scope for executional improvement throughout M&S so that the promise of the ads is fully reflected in what the customer finds in-store. Perhaps that will be Bolland’s biggest impact.
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OpinionUpgrade in store for Ted Baker?
SuperGroup’s £5 a share IPO is good news for founder Julian Dunkerton. It might also be good news for some of the retailer’s fashion peers - in particular Ted Baker.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Is it true that we are no longer going to be able to provide credit at the point of sale in the same way as we have?
Is it true that we are no longer going to be able to provide credit at the point of sale in the same way as we have?
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AnalysisIs Blockbuster springing into action too late?
The latest financial results from Blockbuster make for grim reading. For the year ending January 3, 2010, losses at the US-based video rental giant widened from $374m (£204m) in 2008 to $558m (£358m).
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OpinionWhy Superdry boss will need 2020 vision
An unscientific survey admittedly, but an analysis of the branded hoodies on a flight back from the French Alps last week revealed that even Abercrombie & Fitch was being left in the wake of Superdry.
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OpinionGreen shoots have many sources
Word is the recession is over - and it’s not coming from stats, but consumers, says Lord Kirkham
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Analysis
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OpinionGrocers to target smaller footprint stores for growth
With 2009 annual results flooding in, the overriding opinion of last year is that it was one when retailers cut back on expenditure and scaled back store openings. The outlook now is for conservative store growth through smaller footprint stores.
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OpinionRetailers need more friends in Westminster
Nobody doubts hard political choices will have to be made to cope with the costs of the banking crisis and recession, but VAT on food should not be among them.
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OpinionCan value endure in good times?
We should not see the development of the value sector as a recessionary or “cyclical” phenomenon.