More on Me + Em – Page 3175

  • News

    Floors-2-Go plans 30 stores

    2007-12-18T12:46:20Z

    Floors-2-Go has revealed it intends to open 30 stores in the UK next year, taking it a step further towards its vision of a 300-strong portfolio.

  • News

    Supermarkets brace for record Christmas week

    2007-12-18T10:43:50Z

    Supermarkets without adequate stock to cope with unprecedented consumer demand at Christmas will lose sales to competitors.

  • News

    Multi unveils Wolverhampton's Summer Row designs

    2007-12-18T10:26:28Z

    Multi Development UK today unveiled an artist’s impression of the iconic building that will form the focal point of Wolverhampton’s 300 million Summer Row development.

  • News

    Alison Richards dies

    2007-12-18T10:18:05Z

    Alison Richards, the founder of homewares retailer The Pier, has died following a long battle against cancer.

  • Opinion

    Will the property market be flooded in January?

    2007-12-18T10:13:19Z

    While most of the UK tuck into their turkey on Christmas Day, retailers will be all too aware of another significance to the day – December 25 is the fourth and final rent day of the year.

  • News

    T-Mobile and 3 to pool networks

    2007-12-18T10:00:55Z

    Mobile phone retailers T-Mobile and 3 will pool their networks, in an initiative that has sparked speculation that the two rivals might merge.

  • News

    Festive shopping rush to come late

    2007-12-18T09:24:00Z

    UK shoppers are forecast to spend nearly 30 per cent more in the week before Christmas than last year, but the spending may be too late for many retailers.

  • News

    Argos Ireland strike called off

    2007-12-18T09:16:10Z

    Strike action at catalogue store group Argos’ Irish shops has been called off. Staff at the retailer’s stores in The Republic of Ireland had been due to walk out today in a dispute over pay.

  • News

    Sports Direct deputy chairman candidate 'pulls out'

    2007-12-18T08:35:05Z

    Sports Direct is understood to have been dealt a further blow as the candidate expected to take over as deputy chairman of the sports retailer is believed to have rejected the job.

  • News

    JJB Sports buys Original Shoe Company

    2007-12-18T08:20:41Z

    Sports giant JJB has bought Original Shoe Company from Sports Direct for 5 million.

  • News

    Landmark acquires 7% stake in Debenhams

    2007-12-17T17:42:24Z

    Middle Eastern retail giant Landmark has taken a 7 per cent stake in UK department store chain Debenhams through investment vehicle Milestone, raising speculation that a bid for the UK store group may be in the offing.

  • News

    View from The Mall – December 17, 2007

    2007-12-17T17:11:49Z

    The Mall Norwich

  • News

    Tesco's menswear sales boom

    2007-12-17T16:39:31Z

    Tesco has vaulted into the number three position in the menswear market, according to TNS worldpanel.

  • Opinion

    IT and the economic downturn

    2007-12-17T15:16:03Z

    When looking back over the past 12 months’ news to try to decide a common theme for the year, what has become apparent is how varied the technology deployed by retailers has been.

  • Opinion

    Deck the shops with boughs of holly

    2007-12-17T11:41:17Z

    There is one Saturday to go before Christmas and, for those of a dilatory nature, it’s time to deck the halls with holly or at least to trim the artificial tree (it’s greener that way).

  • News

    Laura Ashley like-for-likes slide

    2007-12-17T09:34:34Z

    Laura Ashley reported total UK retail sales up 3.1 per cent in the first 19 weeks of the second half, but difficult trading conditions hit like-for-like sales, which fell 10.8 per cent.

  • News

    Grocers set for second bout of food price inflation

    2007-12-17T09:30:38Z

    Higher benchmark prices for cereals will come into effect today, leading almost certainly lead to a second wave of food price inflation globally.

  • News

    Mason: I will not succeed Leahy

    2007-12-17T09:08:02Z

    Tim Mason has said he will not succeed Sir Terry Leahy as chief executive of Tesco.

  • News

    Kingfisher exits Taiwan

    2007-12-17T08:54:41Z

    Kingfisher has sold its 50 per cent joint venture stake in B&Q Taiwan for US$106.5 million ( 52.7 million) to its joint venture partner Test Rite International.

  • News

    John Lewis smashes the £100 million sales mark

    2007-12-17T08:38:11Z

    Weekly sales at John Lewis have broken the 100 million mark for the first time.