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Analysis
Sir Terry Leahy: Retailers' vital role in regeneration
Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy believes retailers have a vital role to play in regenerating areas – even in the downturn. He shows Jennifer Creevy how his native Liverpool has benefited.
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Analysis
Rate rage: £300m in 2009, £1bn from 2010: Why soaring business rates matter to retail
Retailers already pay £6 billion a year in business rates. As things stand, that will increase by about £300 million in 2009 and by as much as £1 billion in 2010.
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UK property debuts: Safe trip
Making the first bold steps into the UK can be daunting for overseas retailers but getting in on the excitement of a new shopping centre can ensure a soft landing. Ben Cooper reports.
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Opinion
Conference season is not quite the party it was
Conference season is the perfect litmus test for the state of the property industry. So if last week’s British Council of Shopping Centres Conference is anything to go by, the next year will be one of the utmost caution.
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Analysis
Rent holidays: Survival of the weakest
For retailers staring into the abyss a break from paying rent can be a last-gasp solution but, asks Ben Cooper, is it really always going to be the lifeline they are hoping for?
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Opinion
Some retailers can still expand in a recession
The news that Decathlon is one of the names lining up to pick up some MFI stores from administration is likely to be the start of a long line of stories of retailers circling opportunities among weaker players on the market.
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Analysis
Westfield London: Centre of London
London’s retail landscape has been altered in one fell swoop with the opening of Westfield London. Ben Cooper examines the mall’s opening while John Ryan assesses its stores.
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Opinion
Will the Westfield way work?
Westfield London's opening marked not only a new era for shopping in London but also for how retailers do business with developers.
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Opinion
Westfield London’s luxury – a missed opportunity
Travel westbound on the Central Line in the morning and things normally quieten down once you clear Marble Arch.
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Analysis
Leeds: Retail space 'over capacity' but still expanding
Leeds is already one of the country’s top retail cities, but with two centres opening in the next four years, Ben Cooper asks if it really needs the 1.5 million sq ft of space that’s on the way.
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Opinion
Westfield will lift London retail
Writing on Wednesday about a shopping centre that was due to open on Thursday for a magazine that comes out on Friday is a hazardous business, particularly when a colleague who visited Westfield London on Tuesday was far from convinced it would open on time.
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Analysis
Westfield London: Exclusive store image gallery
The opening of the eagerly awaited Westfield London is now less than a day away from opening and many retailers are putting their best foot forward. In an exclusive preview, John Ryan checks out some of its stores.
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Opinion
Property comment: Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner
More than a decade of talking comes to an end on Thursday with the opening of Westfield London, and I for one am excited.
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Analysis
Planning process holding up retail development
An underfunded and overcomplicated planning process is holding up the development of shopping centres and supermarkets, costing retailers valuable trading time. Ben Cooper asks how it could be made more efficient.
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Opinion
Property comment: Recession? What recession?
You could be forgiven for thinking that there’s not much to be optimistic about in UK retail at the moment. But maybe the foreign retailers still flooding into the UK have seen something we haven’t?
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Analysis
Retailers snap up former pub and petrol station spaces
As many petrol stations and pubs fold in the unforgiving climate, canny retailers are snapping up their space for its convenience.
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Opinion
Monthly rents cease fire?
Last week’s coming together of retailers and landlords over the vexed question of rental payment periods was more of a détente than a clash of the titans.
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Analysis
Westfield: Down and out in Derby?
Westfield’s UK centre debut in Derby has been a success, but its arrival has unsettled the rest of the city centre. A year on from its opening, Ben Cooper examines the extent of the fallout.
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Opinion
A tense time for landlords and retailers
There have been some pretty serious conversations between landlords and retailers in the past week as the arrival of the September quarterly rent day last week brought two issues to a head.
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Analysis
It's not all doom and gloom
Everyone in the retail warehouse market will be glad to see the back of 2008. Retailers and landlords alike have endured a miserable year, all stemming from the collapse in the market for furniture and home improvement.Weaker players like ScS, Floors To Go and New Heights have gone into administration, ...