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Baugur in meltdown
Baugur’s tangled web of retail investments will move closer to unravelling today as the investor begins a moratorium process likely to lead to administration.
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Baugur's interests hang in the balance
Uncertainty hung over the future of Baugur’s interests in quoted companies after the investor was placed in the Icelandic equivalent of Chapter 11.
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Baugur: Retailers' hopes high for high street future
The retail industry has reacted with a degree of optimism that the demise of Baugur could signal the end of months of uncertainty for its brands and ring in positive changes to the high street.
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Buyers eye Baugur chains as investor's fate unclear
Arcadia owner Sir Philip Green is in a “position to buy” assets that may come into play as a result of Baugur’s likely administration.
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Opinion
Baugurs house of cards collapses
A chill fell on the high street in more ways than one this week. As the big freeze bit, Icelandic investor Baugur filed for its home country’s equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Retailers abandon expansion plans as Indian market sours
International brands’ aggressive expansion into India has hit the wall as Indian retail companies encourage their foreign partners to put roll-out plans on hold.
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AnalysisPoundland: Sound as a Pound
As the downturn bites, discount retailers like Poundland are stealing a march. John Ryan talks to chief executive Jim McCarthy about its no-frills approach and evolving store design
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AnalysisConsumer behaviour: All in the mind
Research shows that women are more demanding when they shop and influence up to 80 per cent of purchases. Charlotte Hardie finds out how retailers can cash in by tapping into the female psyche.
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Analysis
Cortefiel: Global thinking
The downturn has forced Spanish fashion giant Cortefiel to review its UK expansion, but global franchise boss Alex Cara tells Amy Shields that growth is still on the agenda for the retailer
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Clinton Cards enters talks to refinance
Clinton Cards is in informal discussions with its lenders as it seeks to renew its revolving credit facilities.
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AnalysisOpticians merger: Double vision
Alliance Boots’ merger of its opticians arm with Dollond & Aitchison will create an optical behemoth, but will it be enough to knock Specsavers off the top spot? Jennifer Creevy eyes the prospects
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OpinionIt's time to regain your margin
I joked in a previous column that some of us might visit our shops in December, hear Wham’s Last Christmas and genuinely wonder whether it might be. I rather wish I hadn’t now.
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Opinion
Staff engagement is vital in recession
Arguments apportioning blame for the recession, whether on the inmates of Downing Street, the boardrooms of global banks or elsewhere, risk becoming academic and mired in partisanship. Only one thing is clear: no matter whose fault it is, it is our recession now.
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Analysis
Property Directors Forum: Few concessions
This year’s Property Directors Forum had some heated moments as retailers and landlords thrashed out their mounting concerns. Ben Cooper was there
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Opinion
Jessops needs to snap to it
Few were more surprised than the City when Jessops posted robust Christmas trading figures. For many, the sight of the specialist camera retailer edging towards the top of the festive performance league table and sitting happily near Somerfield and Waitrose was nothing short of a miracle.
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Ailing Irish retailers call on government for protection
Irish retailers have urged their government to take action to ease the mounting pressures on beleaguered companies suffering in the recession.
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Bloomingdale’s boss defends premium strategy
Department store retailers should continue to push upmarket in defiance of the downturn, according to Bloomingdale’s chairman and chief executive Michael Gould.
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Retailers rally against recession as they outperform the index
General retail stocks and food retailers outperformed the All Share index after a better than feared festive reporting season.
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Ideal Shopping direct: buyout speculation
Ideal Shopping Direct chief executive Mike Hancox has denied that its founders are plotting to take the TV shopping group private after they ousted board members.
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Zavvi management table bid for business
The management of collapsed entertainment retailer Zavvi has made a bid for the company.