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NewsMonsoon Accessorize to tackle shrinkage
Monsoon Accessorize is in the early stages of a project to implement a data mining system to protect its margins.
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Zegna signs network deal with Cable & Wireless
Luxury men's fashion brand Zegna has signed a three-year contract for communications infrastructure with Cable & Wireless.
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Wyevale completes restructuring talks
Restructuring talks between garden centre operator Wyevale and Bank of Scotland have concluded with the bank increasing its stake in the retailer.
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White Stuff brings reporting to stores
Lifestyle retailer White Stuff is building a data warehouse to improve its reporting capabilities at head office level and provide reports to its stores.
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EDS snaps up Woolworths IT staff
Outsourcer EDS has taken on the entire team of SAP specialists who previously worked for Woolworths.
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Opinion
Data doesn't compute say supply chain experts
After surveying nearly 400 supply chain executives in 25 countries, IT giant IBM has come to the conclusion that the main problem they face is that they can’t make sense of all the data they have.
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Marks & Spencer staff in Ireland win up to 6.7 per cent pay rise
Marks & Spencer staff in the Republic of Ireland are to receive pay rises of up to 6.7 per cent according to the Irish Times.
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Carrefour stalks Russia's Seventh Continent
French retail giant Carrefour has made a non-binding offer to buy Russian food retailer Seventh Continent.
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NewsTop retailers lobby Government to reverse rate rise
Top retailers are to lobby Local Government Minister John Healey to reduce the rise in business rates planned for April.
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Sir Philip Green to merge Bhs and Arcadia
Tycoon Sir Philip Green is to merge his Arcadia and Bhs businesses.
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Home Depot's profits almost halve
The world’s biggest home improvement retailer, Home Depot, revealed that consolidated profit plunged by nearly 50 per cent last year as it suffered amid the US housing slump.
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N Brown announces board appointments
N Brown has appointed Ivan Fallon as its deputy chairman and brought former news reader Anna Ford on to the board as a non-executive director.
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John Lewis food halls: a new vintage at Bluewater
John Ryan visits the food hall at John Lewis's Oxford Street store to see its new wine bar and then travels to Bluewater to learn about plans for the second iteration of the format from John Lewis head of retail design Kim Morris.
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Industry bodies on marks for carbon reduction scheme
The BCSC, British Retail Consortium and British Property Federation have launched a joint campaign to raise awareness of the ways that landlords and retailers can prepare for a new carbon reduction scheme that is due to come into effect next year.
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Belfast development snaps up two tenants
Two retailers have signed for space at out-of-town retail park Holywood Exchange in Tillysburn, east Belfast.
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Westfield extension in Northern Ireland to go to inquiry
The dispute over the extension of an out-of-town scheme in Northern Ireland due to be anchored by John Lewis is to be settled by a public inquiry.
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NewsCBI: Retail sales and employment fall in February
More than half of retailers reported lower sales in the year to early February and retail job cuts rose to a record rate in the same period, according to the CBI’s latest Distributive Trades Survey.
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Opinion
Retailers are holding all the cards
Quite how tough things are for those that own property at the moment is becoming clearer with every passing week. Last week’s news that retail’s self-confessed 'Del Boy' Chris Dawson is in the process of building a make-shift portfolio of stores is proof that for landlords, any retail tenant is ...
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Online retailers lead the way in customer service
Play.com and Amazon have topped a customer satisfaction poll to find which retailers hit the mark when it comes to customer service.
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Sainsbury's offers UK's first in-store polyclinic
Sainsbury’s has created the first supermarket polyclinic by opening a dental surgery at a store that already boasts several other health services.