More on Me + Em – Page 2905
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Most Principles stores have closed
66 Principles stores closed over the weekend, after administrator Deloitte failed to find a buyer for the business as a going concern.
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Waitrose launches value range
Upmarket grocer Waitrose today launched its first value range, Essential Waitrose, as predicted in today's Retail Week.
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Majestic Wine acquires Lay & Wheeler
Majestic Wine has acquired fine wine specialist Lay & Wheeler for 4.75m in cash plus 1m in net debt.
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Drag queen jailed for WHSmith bomb hoax
A 19-year-old drag queen who made a hoax bomb threat to WHSmith’s head office has been jailed for 14 months.
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Debenhams to acquire Principles brand
Updated : The assets of Principles will be sold to department store group Debenhams imminently, Retail Week has learnt.
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Gap records 'challenging' February
US fashion giant Gap has reported that sales in February dropped 12 per cent to US$795m, a comparable store sales drop of 12 per cent.
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Baugur flogs head office designer furniture
Baugur founder Jon Asgeir Johannesson is understood to have angered former staff by trying to sell them thousands of pounds worth of designer furniture from its head office.
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UK non-food like-for-likes fall in February
UK non-food retail like-for-like sales slumped 8.1 per cent in February, according to BDO Stoy Hayward's Like 4 Like Club figures, which revealed fashion sales were down on homewares.
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Create some 'wow' in London, retailers urge mayor
Top retailers have written to London mayor Boris Johnson urging a more energetic response to the recession.
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Asos appoints new finance director
Fashion e-tailer Asos has appointed Nick Beighton as finance director.
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NewsJohn Lewis weekly sales dip as late Easter knocks comparisons
Department store chain John Lewis suffered a 10.3 per cent fall in weekly sales as the shift in timings for Easter hit its comparables.
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Bhs to review store management roles
Department store chain Bhs is understood to be carrying out a review of its senior managers across its 185 shops.
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Asda sales up in February
Sales at Asda remained strong last month, with food continuing to outperform, according to parent Wal-Mart’s February sales results.
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New directors appointed as M&S squares up for food fight
Marks & Spencer has shaken up its senior food team as it battles to revitalise the flagging division.
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Alistair Darling: no climbdown on April business rates hike
Chancellor Alistair Darling has refused to back down over the 5 per cent increase in business rates that is due to hit next month, but left the door open for future changes to make the system fairer after the 2010 revaluation.
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NewsThe Hut plots route to become ‘next Amazon’
E-tailer The Hut, which this week bought the rights to the Zavvi brand and website, wants to buy more struggling brands to turn into pure-play sites as it guns to become a serious competitor to Amazon.
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Analysis
Westminster and the high street: Worlds apart?
Politicians seem to treat retail like the forgotten stepchild of UK industry, but are things improving? George MacDonald reports on the state of retail influence in the corridors of power
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Opinion
Business rates issue can’t wait
Alistair Darling is a busy man at the moment, so perhaps it’s an achievement in itself that he has responded to Retail Week’s Rate Rage campaign and acknowledged the severe problems that retailers are facing.
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Ex-Woolworths trio gets ball rolling for family variety chain launch
Three former Woolworths directors have laid out their plans for the launch of a retail chain, borne out of the now-defunct high street variety store business.
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NewsUS luxury brand Michael Kors picks West End for UK debut
US luxury retailer Michael Kors is set to make its UK debut after signing for a store in London’s West End.