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NewsAurora hires ex-Asos man as online chief
Aurora Fashions has appointed former Asos marketing chief Hash Ladha to the newly created role of group multichannel director.
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NewsPoundstretcher opens transactional website
Discount retailer Instore, which trades as Poundstretcher, has launched a transactional website selling items from 99p up to £150.
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NewsSainsbury’s to expand stores in push for clothing market share
Sainsbury’s is aiming to lift its total share of the clothing market by volume from 10th to fifth place in four years.
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NewsMcCarthy group injects £2m into skincare business
A consortium of private investors led by House of Fraser chairman Don McCarthy has injected £2m into beauty clinic chain DestinationSkin to fund expansion.
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NewsStrong growth at newly floated SuperGroup
Fashion specialist SuperGroup has confirmed that full-year profitability is on track to come in as it promised when it floated in March.
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NewsMorrisons presses on with promotions as sales slow
Morrisons is to continue its promotional drive this year after revealing a steep slowdown in sales growth in its first quarter.
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NewsRetail drifts as City ponders the big issues
Stores, particularly food retailers, underperformed a market convulsed by uncertainty as big issues such as the future of the euro and the outcome of the general election dominated headlines.
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NewsWestfield taps East End community talent
Westfield has launched an initiative at its forthcoming Stratford shopping centre to tap into east London’s emerging talent.
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NewsBoohoo.com in marketing push to raise profile
Online fashion retailer Boohoo.com has launched a marketing campaign to raise its profile.
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NewsWaterstone’s unveils its new look and logo
Bookseller Waterstone’s has unveiled its new branding, designed to reflect the retailer’s “new direction”.
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NewsWaitrose still UK’s fastest growing supermarket
Waitrose has reported like-for-like sales up 3.4% in the quarter to the end of April, maintaining its position as the fastest-growing supermarket in the UK.
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NewsAustralian chain Coles poaches UK retailers
Australian grocer Coles has hired another clutch of UK retailers, reporting to retail and operations director Stuart Machin.
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NewsUnion Market to open first store in July
The first Union Market - the farmers’ market-cum-supermarket run by a former Tesco executive and a former Whole Foods executive - will open in July.
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NewsNew owner looks to exit Lombok after 10 months
Furniture chain Lombok’s owner, private equity firm Privet Capital, is seeking to exit the business less than 10 months after it bought it.
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NewsM&S confident of profits from mobile shoppers
Marks & Spencer expects its optimised website for mobile phones to become profitable “very quickly” as its customers take advantage of the convenience of the offer.
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NewsNew Asda boss Andy Clarke faces ambitious targets
Asda’s incoming chief executive Andy Clarke faces an “uphill battle” to achieve the retailer’s ambitious targets in food and non-food, according to City analysts.
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NewsMohamed Al Fayed: 25 crazy years in retail
Always controversial, always eccentric and not a man to be crossed, UK retail will be a less colourful industry following Mohamed Al Fayed’s £1.5bn sale of Harrods this week.
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NewsRefreshing French Connection
While market debutant SuperGroup has reported a surge in sales and likely profits, another fashion retailer in a similar mould is engaged in a battle to restore profitability.
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NewsBrokers look for continuity at M&S
Analysts took a relaxed approach to news that finance boss Ian Dyson is leaving Marks & Spencer.
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NewsDebenhams impresses with Danish acquisition
Analysts have reacted positively following a trip to see Debenhams’ Danish department store chain, Magasin du Nord, last week.