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OpinionEnsure your offer’s built to last
Only longer-lasting products offering real value will move shoppers to spend as recession bites.
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Opinion
City insider Jennifer Creevy: Debenhams is in safe hands
Just a week after leading a preview tour of its new store at Westfield London, Debenhams revealed managing director Angela Spindler is to leave the business.
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Adversity presents opportunities for retail
The popular translation for the Chinese word for crisis – weiji, “danger plus opportunity” – was quoted by PricewaterhouseCoopers global head of retail and consumer Carrie Yu at our Business School in Paris this month.
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Analysis
Recession beaters: Some retailers are prospering in spite of the downturn
Despite what the mass media might suggest, some retailers are prospering in spite of the downturn. Charlotte Hardie looks at some of those that are flying and asks what we can learn from them.
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AnalysisTechnology spending: A time to make do and mend?
The credit crunch is forcing consumers to keep their wallets in their pockets, but does it mean that the purse strings are also tightening for IT departments? Joanna Perry finds out.
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Opinion
Sainsbury’s will ride this storm
Feed your Family for a Fiver seems not just to be a Sainsbury’s promotional campaign but a whole new way of grocery shopping.
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Ethical retailing: in celebration of Left-field London
In a far-flung corner of west London, the 43 acre Mecca to mass consumerism that is Westfield London opened today, with thousands of eager shoppers expected to descend upon it. But earlier this week an event with a very different flavour took place closer to what has been the capital’s ...
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Opinion
Store design: frugality today, excess tomorrow
The decision by DIY retailer Focus to launch a value-based range last week is symptomatic of a wider trend in retailing at the moment: it’s good to be frugal.
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Opinion
Forget the recession and get retailing
As Gordon Brown and Mervyn King finally uttered the R-word this week, it looked like they had unavoidably twisted the knife for retailers.
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Opinion
George MacDonald: Playing the equity card
The old maxim that cash is king has never been more true as debt fears and covenant concerns drag down sentiment and valuations.
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Tim Danaher: Resilient retailers are fighting hard
It was a big week for non-food retail, with lower profits from Arcadia, Debenhams and Home Retail bringing out the prophets of doom.
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Opinion
The real economy is what matters
Now that the problems of the financial system have begun to be addressed, the focus is on the outlook for the real economy. And out there on the high street, in offices and on factory floors – workplaces where changes to confidence, employment and earnings directly affect retail performance – ...
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OpinionNow is the time to plan for tomorrow
When this crisis is over, retail will continue to be a lower growth, lower margin industry
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Lord Kirkham: There’s an art to good business
As Damien Hirst’s recent auction showed, thinking outside the box is key to making money
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George MacDonald: Marks & Spencer is not finished yet
It’s a measure of how hellish conditions have become that a 6.1 per cent like-for-like sales fall at Marks & Spencer was regarded as not too bad.
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Opinion
Tim Danaher: A week that will transform retail
“May you live in interesting times,” the old Chinese saying goes, but most people in retail would quite happily settle for decidedly less interesting ones right now.
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Opinion
Bad times bring out the best
Retail staff are most likely to suffer in the downturn and yet many continue to be an inspiration
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Analysis
Financial services: A market retail can bank on?
As a string of financial players collapse and consumers’ trust in high street banks falters, should retailers step up their own offerings? Jennifer Creevy investigates
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Opinion
Sir Stuart Rose and Sir Terry Leahy are survivors
The results caravan moves on next week through two of its biggest stops on the trip. On Tuesday, Tesco unveils first-half figures and on Thursday, Marks & Spencer issues second-quarter numbers.