More property – Page 48
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OpinionComment: Heads roll at Morrisons as Potts aims to simplify the business
It didn’t take long for new Morrisons boss David Potts to make his presence felt - and the presence of a raft of other directors is no longer required.
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AnalysisStart-up of the week: Omnichannel customer analytics platform Walkbase
Start-ups in retail technology are growing and Retail Week is highlighting some of the best. This week Walkbase is in the spotlight.
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AnalysisInternational news analysis: What to expect from Carrefour Poland in 2015
French grocer Carrefour has had a difficult year, but looks ready to expand into Poland with a series of new hypermarkets.
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InterviewInterview: How Sainsbury’s will ride out a perfect storm
Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe speaks exclusively to Retail Week about how the grocer is weathering torrid market conditions.
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OpinionComment: Letting big stores go is the answer to surplus space
There is now so much surplus space that finding alternative retail uses, especially for big-box formats, is nigh on impossible.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Lease expiries will bring retail opportunities
Forecasts that a wave of store closures could come this year have set alarm bells ringing, but mass store exits may be unlikely.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Grand Central and Birmingham’s retail reinvention
Grand Central Birmingham is one of four shopping centres opening in 2015 and will have one of the largest John Lewis stores outside London.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is there space in the market for DFS' small-format stores?
DFS is trailing a small-format store as it turns its attention to urban centres, but is there space in the market for a small store?
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OpinionComment: Kingfisher boss Laury expected to confront overspaced estate
As new Kingfisher chief executive Véronique Laury prepares to post full-year figures in just over a month’s time, the pressure is on.
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AnalysisRetail 2015 survey: Share your views on current trading conditions
Retail Week is carrying out a quarterly sentiment analysis to gauge how retail chiefs’ views on trading are shifting throughout the year.
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AnalysisInternational news analysis: Ikea Germany aims to expand in saturated market
Ikea has taken its next steps in the battle for supremacy in the German home furnishings market with plans to launch shops in the Ruhr.
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AnalysisOutgoing Foyles boss says company is "hungry for expansion"
Sam Husain says the company is “hungry for expansion” but the opening of new shops depend on the deals it can strike with landlords.
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OpinionComment: Investors hope to count the pennies as Poundland buys 99p Stores
Poundland’s proposed takeover of 99p Stores for the equivalent of over 55 million customer transactions pleased the market, sending its share price up 15%.
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OpinionComment: Homage to Catalonia’s remarkable retail arena
At the heart of Barcelona’s vibrant retail scene department store El Corte Inglés is a monument to shopping in the modern era.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How to combat the North-South retail divide
Figures released by the Local Data Company revealed that the retail divide between the north and south of England is growing, with the number of vacant shops in the North now double the number in the South.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Do Amazon stores signal the death of the pure-play?
As Amazon reportedly prepares to buy RadioShack stores, Retail Week examines whether this is the end of pure-play etailing.
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OpinionComment: Retail destinations can’t afford to stay the same
Change is at the heart of high streets that work and the carefully sculpted Marylebone High Street is among the best at embracing it.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Trago Mills and fifty years of a Cornish firebrand
Long before pound shops were growing on the high street, a Cornish entrepreneur was pioneering a new form of discount retailing.
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AnalysisStart-up of the week: In-store analytics platform Presence Orb
Start-ups in retail technology are growing and Retail Week is highlighting some of the best. This week Presence Orb is in the spotlight.
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AnalysisIn the news: Beales buyer and property tycoon Andrew Perloff profiled
“I don’t need a press office,” says Andrew Perloff when Retail Week’s call is put straight through to him after it emerged that he’d made an offer to buy Beales.