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AnalysisHow to turn online sales into a profit
Selling online is one thing, making money from it is quite another. Charlotte Hardie reveals how to convert clicks into profit
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GalleryShopping in the City
The stunning building that is shopping centre One New Change has brought retail therapy to the City’s masses. John Ryan pays a visit
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AnalysisAndrew Harrison
As Carphone Warehouse reveals its interim results, George MacDonald finds out what drives Best Buy Europe’s chief operating officer to greater heights
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GalleryHeimat Berlin, Berlin
Walk around the streets of Berlin and you won’t see many people wearing hats and yet there must be some, as this store in the city’s modish eastern Prenzlauer Berg district shows.
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AnalysisChristmas shopping events
It may be too soon to put up the Christmas lights, but it’s not too soon for retailers to plan how they can capitalise on the festive events geared to get shoppers spending
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OpinionThe customer will be king in 2011
Customer habits are changing and retailers need to stay ahead of the game, says Richard Baker
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OpinionA meeting of retail migrants
Some 1,000 participants migrated to Berlin last week for the World Retail Congress. And as migration, in a sense, was a congress leitmotif, Berlin was the perfect location. Ring-walled from access for millions of its nearest neighbours over decades, this city is now the cosmopolitan meeting point über alles.
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OpinionEtail is redefining the retail property market
The names of the retailers taking stands at this year’s British Council of Shopping Centres said everything about today’s retail property market. Five of the top six supermarkets were there competing for sites, as were value retailers Wilkinson, Poundland and Store Twenty One, vying for space in an increasingly crowded ...
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OpinionM&S’s overseas conundrum
Marks & Spencer may have made a mistake when it sold its shops in France and Spain almost a decade ago, but buying them back sounds downright odd.
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News
Bath & Body Works launches in Dubai and Kuwait
Limited Brands’ Bath & Body Works is launching in the Middle East with the opening of six stores in Dubai and Kuwait. It already has La Senza lingerie stores located in the countries, but the new stores will mark Bath & Body Works’ first entry into markets outside of the ...
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Lidl launches in Cyprus
Schwarz Group’s discounter Lidl launched in the Cypriot market this week, opening its first seven stores simultaneously. Following the opening, the discount retailer’s goal is to “eventually fully cover the geographical area of Cyprus in order to be able to serve even more residents”, the company said. The first stores ...
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A&P launches international foods private-label range
Tengelmann-controlled A&P is launching a new private-label range of international foods. Named The Food Emporium Trading Company - after one of A&P’s store banners - the range will be sold at the eponymous stores in addition to the A&P, SuperFresh and Waldbaum’s banners.
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OfficeMax Q3 sales drop 1% to £1.2bn
OfficeMax reported total company sales for the third quarter ended September 25 decreased 1% to $1.81bn (£1.2bn). However, pre-tax profit was $33m (£21m), compared with $17m (£11m) in the third quarter of 2009. For the full year, OfficeMax said it expected total company sales to be slightly lower than fiscal ...
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Sephora Americas to enter Mexico through JV with Grupo Axo
LVMH-owned perfumery Sephora Americas has signed a joint venture agreement with Grupo Axo to establish a retail presence in Mexico. The two partners will begin operations with two store openings in the second half of 2011 and significant additional store openings targeted each year thereafter.This joint venture further signifies Sephora’s ...
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Shoppers Stop Q2 turnover increases 23%
Shoppers Stop reported a 23% jump in turnover for its second quarter ended September 30. Turnover reached INR509 crore (£7.1m) compared with INR412 crore (£5.7m) for the prior-year period. Net profit soared 44% to INR17.4 crore (£243,855) against INR12.1 crore (£169,550) the previous year. “The surge in consumer confidence has ...
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Opinion
Back in business
It may have been the usual suspects who were most prominent, but this year’s BCSC was a much more positive affair
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NewsRace for space puts grocers' returns at risk
Fears have been raised that the rate of expansion by the big grocers will hit their financial returns and like-for-likes.
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NewsMorrisons posts 1.3% like-for-like growth in third quarter
UPDATED 11AM Supermarket group Morrisons notched up sales growth of 2.8%, excluding petrol, in the third quarter.
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Lotte Shopping Q3 sales up 23.1% to £1.9bn
Lotte Shopping has reported a strong set of results for its third quarter with gross sales up 23.1% to KRW3.5trn (£1.9bn). Operating profit was up by 44.7% to KRW241bn (£133m), while net profit increased 25.7% to KRW183bn (£86m). It had a good performance in all divisions, with like-for-like sales growth ...