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Future LeadersRetail Week launches biggest ever Be Inspired conference
Retail Week is launching its biggest ever Be Inspired conference, upping its efforts to develop and nurture retail’s future leaders.
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NewsSports Direct hires Nike director to boost non-exec team
Sports Direct has hired a former Nike director to boost its team of non-executive directors.
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NewsPaperchase finance boss departs stationery specialist
Paperchase’s chief financial officer David Bateman is stepping down after 17 years at the retailer, Retail Week can reveal.
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NewsBurberry sales creep up as Asia Pacific rallies
Burberry’s sales have crept up during its first quarter, boosted by an improvement in its tricky Asia Pacific market.
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NewsB&M sales soar as Arora hails best Q1 in years
Value retailer B&M’s sales have rocketed during what boss Simon Arora described as its strongest first quarter in three years.
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NewsFeelunique launches unlimited next-day delivery service
Feelunique is rolling out a new service called Unlimited Delivery, which will allow shoppers to pay an annual fee for free next-day delivery.
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AnalysisRoadtrip: Margate’s revival and Marlow’s upscale appeal
Retail Week’s summer road trip takes us to the Southeast, where we see Kent’s seaside regeneration and the thriving retail scene in Marlow.
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VideoWatch: Westfield London’s new experiential expansion
Westfield London has already transformed the capital’s retail landscape since opening in 2008, but is about to turn up the heat on destination rivals.
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GalleryStore of the week: Mac retailer K-Way packs a lot in
K-Way may be a lone merchandise retailer, but it hasn’t held back on design and technology in the newly opened Covent Garden unit.
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DataData: When will M&S’ clothing strategy pay off?
M&S’ poor clothing and home sales are a well-known tale of woe, with positive quarters a rare cause for celebration.
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NewsBreakfast briefing: Jaeger and card payments
Retail news round-up: Jaeger's creditors invited to join committee, and card payment increases in the UK.
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NewsToday in retail: A tale of two discounters
The varied fortunes of value retailers were brought into stark relief today by Store Twenty One and Aldi.
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OpinionNick Bubb’s verdict: M&S – food bad, clothing good?
The City is used to M&S delivering good food sales growth and bad clothing trading, so today’s first-quarter update threw a spanner in the works.
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OpinionOpinion: Learning from the ecommerce giants
The third annual Amazon Prime Day kicked off in the UK at 6pm last night and runs for a full 30 hours – having been extended from 24 hours in 2016.
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NewsJohn Lewis sales rise despite fashion slip
John Lewis posted a rise in its weekly sales, driven by its electricals division which made up for weak performances across its fashion and homeware departments.
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NewsStore Twenty One collapses into liquidation
Store Twenty One has collapsed into compulsory liquidation, sparking the loss of 900 jobs.
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NewsOpinion: Amazon’s Prime Day is changing how people shop
This week consumers were expected to go into overdrive as smartphones were swiped, laptops desperately booted up and orders barked into Echo devices as online Goliath Amazon staged its third Prime Day.
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NewsM&S boss Rowe downplays food like-for-like drop
Marks & Spencer boss Steve Rowe has downplayed the significance of the like-for-like dip in its grocery sales during the first quarter of the year.
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AnalysisData: Screwfix fortunes contrast with B&Q
Screwfix boss Andrew Livingston has exited the business, leaving it in a position of having comfortably outperformed its Kingfisher stablemate B&Q in recent years.
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NewsAldi targets 4,000 new staff to support expansion plans
Aldi has kicked off a major recruitment drive in a bid to take on 4,000 new employees across its stores and distribution centres.