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NewsHair and beauty chain Sally ramps up retail
Hair and beauty specialist Sally is to test a new format in five stores as it seeks to push its retail offer.
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NewsGo Outdoors to bolster store count in Scotland
Outdoor retailer Go Outdoors is investing £8m to open five shops in Scotland.
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Future stars
Apples & Pears, a retail idea developed by students from London’s Fashion Retail Academy, will represent the UK in this year’s Retail Futures Challenge.
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NewsPets at Home gears up for growth after sale to KKR
Pets at Home chief executive Matt Davies is gearing up to make “a good business into a really great business” following its purchase by private equity house Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in a £995m deal.
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NewsShannon could buy Adams after third collapse
Former Adams chairman John Shannon could buy back the kidswear giant for a third time, sources say, after parent company JS Childrenswear hit the buffers last week for the third time in three years.
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NewsB&Q to muscle in on outdoor market
B&Q is to take on leisure and outdoor retailers with the launch of a camping range in March.
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NewsGame enters social networking arena
Entertainment retailer Game is trialling a social networking site.
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NewsAlliance Boots closer to opening stores in Sweden
Alliance Boots has moved a step closer to opening Boots-branded pharmacies in Sweden by striking a tie-up with a company owned by the Swedish Association of Pharmacists.
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NewsGeorge at Asda insiders tipped as favourites to succeed Thompson
Three internal candidates are among the front-runners to take over from Anthony Thompson as managing director of George at Asda.
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NewsWHSmith festive sales slide but book market share grows
WHSmith has gained share in a dismal books market in which rival Borders collapsed and the boss of Waterstone’s stepped down following a terrible Christmas.
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NewsBeales prospects improve as it slashes losses
Department store chain Beales reported a resilient full-year performance and reduced pre-tax losses by more than a third.
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NewsJessops Plc delists as it moves to wind down
Jessops Plc officially delisted from the London Stock Exchange last week as shareholders voted to wind up the company after the core store business was sold to new company Snap Equity in September.
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NewsJoin our high street fight
Retail Week’s Manifesto for the High Street is a campaign to bring retailers and politicians together to turn around the decline of Britain’s struggling high streets.
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NewsDFS targets £1bn sales after record full-year results
DFS has laid out plans to top £1bn in sales after reporting record full-year profits despite the challenging furniture market.
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NewsMorrisons’ new chief Dalton Philips is highly regarded
Loblaw chief operating officer Dalton Philips was appointed chief executive of Morrisons this week.
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Walgreens to acquire pharmacies in Puerto Rico
US pharmacy retailer Walgreens is to acquire three pharmacies in Puerto Rico from local player El Amal, which filed for bankruptcy last year.As part of the deal, Walgreens has also agreed to buy prescription stock from a further 11 El Amal pharmacies. The sale is expected to be completed in ...
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Leclerc's sales rose
Hypermarket chain E.Leclerc reported full-year group sales rose 5% to E29.4 bn (£25.7bn), excluding petrol, and 5.6% to E27.2bn (£23.8bn) in France.The retailer said the strong performance was due to its permanent price cuts, which were reinforcedin 2009. E.Leclerc also revealed that sales for its umbrella private label Marque Repère ...
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More details on Priba
More details have been revealed about Auchan’s new discount format Priba, which is to launch at Mulhouse in eastern France.The logo for the banner will be coloured half apple green and half raspberry pink. Auchan intends to introduce new shopfittings and gondolas to the store, which is to be converted ...
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Your Personal Store to expand in the Philippines
AS Watson-owned chain Watsons Your Personal Store is to expand in the Philippines as it eyes sales growth of 11% this year and targets more than 5% market share of the country’s PHP90bn (£1.21bn) beauty business.Watsons Philippines chief executive Robert U Sun said the company would convert up to 10 ...
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Australian law modification
Australian Competition Minister Craig Emerson has unveiled planned changes to the Trade Practices Act to increase the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s powers to stop small-scale acquisitions.The changes are part of a long-standing election promise that appears aimed at Woolworths, which in recent years has been aggressively acquiring small stores, ...