More on Me + Em – Page 498
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Asos will make Topshop live up to its name again
Asos this week swooped on Arcadia’s Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands in a bid to reach new heights with the iconic names under its umbrella
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AnalysisJD Sports boss Cowgill: How ‘monumental’ DTLR deal turbocharges US ambitions
JD Sports boss Peter Cowgill tells Retail Week why the retailer’s latest $495m acquisition has set it up to crack America.
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NewsWork with us on post-pandemic roadmap, businesses urge government
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called on the government to work with businesses on a roadmap out of lockdown to reopen the economy.
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NewsJD Sports bolsters US business with $495m acquisition
JD Sports is to buy US athletic footwear and apparel retailer DTLR for $495m as it extends its US operations.
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NewsAsos scoops up Topshop in £265m deal
Asos has acquired Topshop and other Arcadia brands in “a hugely exciting moment” for the online fashion specialist.
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OpinionThe Secret Retailer: ‘The government is fiddling while Rome burns’
As retail is left to wonder how the route out of the coronavirus crisis will look, it feels like there is some government fiddling while Rome is burning going on.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is this the death of cash?
The contactless limit was upped to £100 in yesterday’s Budget. With the use of cash already plummeting, is this its final nail in the coffin? Retail Week reports on the implications of a cashless society.
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GalleryStore gallery: Tesco’s first superstore in six years goes big on sustainability
Tesco has today opened its first non-Jack’s superstore in six years, which sets out the new template the UK’s largest grocer believes will help it achieve its 2035 carbon-neutral target.
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AnalysisH&M boss Helena Helmersson: Our post-pandemic recovery plan
Fashion giant H&M has been battered by coronavirus, with swathes of its global store estate shut and profits plummeting. Chief executive Helena Helmersson reveals how the group plans to rebound in 2021.
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NewsH&M profits tumble as Covid-19 batters sales
H&M has suffered a slump in full-year profits and sales as the coronavirus crisis battered its top line.
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NewsBoohoo closes in on £25m deal for trio of Arcadia brands
Boohoo is closing in on a deal for three of Arcadia’s high street brands as the fashion etailer presses ahead with its ambitious acquisition spree.
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AnalysisThe Big Question: Do fashion retailers need stores any more?
As online-only businesses such as Boohoo and Asos snap up struggling fashion players who have suffered tumbling store sales during the pandemic, Retail Week asks whether fashion still needs a bricks-and-mortar footprint in 2021.
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OpinionLisa Hooker: ‘Long live the store – but it needs to evolve’
It’s a familiar and frightful story: the once-beloved UK high street is in terminal decline. The perfect storm of a global pandemic, online shopping and crippling rents and business rates is set to usher in the end of the physical store.
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NewsJohn Lewis customer experience director Peter Cross exits
John Lewis Partnership’s customer experience director Peter Cross is to step down after almost eight years with the business.
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AnalysisShein: The rise of China’s $10bn fast-fashion disruptor
Fast-fashion etailer Shein has seemingly appeared out of nowhere to disrupt fashion retail and put itself in the mix to takeover Topshop.
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VideoFace time: Tesco’s Tony Hoggett on sustainable superstores and the post-Brexit border
Tesco’s chief operating officer Tony Hoggett discusses the grocery giant’s first new superstore in six years, protecting frontline staff as the pandemic grinds on and issues at the border following Brexit.
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OpinionMove of the Week: WBA’s Brewer hire marks a big step in the right direction
It’s hard to overstate the significance of Rosalind Brewer succeeding Stefano Pessina as the new chief executive of Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).
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Retail VoiceHow to empower consumers with frictionless self-service journeys
Retailers today face many challenges. Consumption patterns have changed – and keep on changing – and Covid has only expedited this change process.
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Digital editionRetail Week magazine: January 2021
In the first issue of the year, we examine why 2021 is the year the retail industry will fundamentally change, Boohoo boss John Lyttle explains how it will make Debenhams a force to be reckoned with online, and how B&Q chief Graham Bell plans ‘to beat the pureplays’.
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NewsBRC urges government action as store vacancies soar
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged the government to extend the business rates holiday beyond April to avoid more high street damage after vacancy rates soared at the end of 2020.