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NewsIn focus: JD Sports
Astute diversification has ensured the steady growth of the sportswear retailer’s empire
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NewsFood retailers slide as sentiment worsens
As the Christmas trading statements started to come thick and fast, general retailers just about held their own against the market.
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NewsAsda outstrips rivals over festive period
A mix of advertising, promotions and vouchers brought success for Asda.
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NewsGame boss insists it has a future despite anxiety over convenant
Game chief executive Ian Shepherd has insisted the entertainment retailer does not face structural challenges that endanger its future, as he revealed a slump in Christmas sales.
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NewsOriginal Factory Shop reports festive growth
Value department store group The Original Factory Shop has revealed like-for-like growth of 4.2% in the five weeks to January 8 after womenswear and toys drove festive sales.
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News‘Mobile is the future’, says Shop Direct boss
Home shopping giant Shop Direct – which owns the Littlewoods and Very brands – expects half of all sales to come via mobile phones in the next four years following a mobile sales surge over Christmas.
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NewsPaphitis blasts private equity opportunism
Former La Senza owner Theo Paphitis has slammed private equity firms for their inability to get to grips with retail.
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AnalysisUS discounters turn up the heat in grocery sector
Last week, US-based discount retailer Family Dollar posted a 7.6% increase in net sales to $2.1bn (£1.36bn) on the back of strong growth in the consumables category.
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AnalysisBeating a UK retreat
As Best Buy officially pulls out of the UK this weekend, Charlotte Hardie considers why it and many other international big shots have failed in their bid to conquer the UK.
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AnalysisMichael MacMillan
The new head of European operations at TJX and stalwart of the business is ideally placed to execute its store expansion plans. Tiffany Holland reports.
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AnalysisCo-op Big Deals within Easy Reach
January is always a time for the grocers to focus on deals, and the Co-op has become one of the most vocal this year in a bid to grab spend.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can I stop employees misusing social media?
What steps should retailers take to tackle the misuse of social media by their employees?
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OpinionRetail surgery: 'Considered consumption' - What is it?
What is ‘considered consumption’, and how can retailers capitalise on it?
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OpinionHard work begins as retail fortunes diverge
One “dazzling” week’s trade in December gave the impression that retailers’ Christmases had all come at once.
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OpinionNot so entertaining
You wouldn’t want to be selling anything entertainment-related right now, going by the updates from HMV and Game this week.
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News30,000 vote on Ann Summers model
Ann Summers’ campaign to find a real woman to be the face of is brand received 30,000 votes from the public in three weeks.
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NewsAlshaya to revamp La Senza stores and product as it hires CBRE
La Senza’s new owner Alshaya will introduce new product lines and revamp stores as part of its plan to turn around the ailing lingerie brand.
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InterviewQ&A: Philip Clarke, Tesco
Tesco group finance director Laurie McIlwee and group chief executive Philip Clarke faced a grilling from the press after the grocer reported its worst Christmas trading for decades today. Clarke talks the Big Price Drop, a move away from large superstores and why the retailer is not crisis. Alex Lawson reports
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NewsAsda abandons plan to buy whole of rival Iceland
Asda has abandoned plans to bid for the whole of rival Iceland but instead plans to join forces with a private equity firm and handpick which stores to take on.