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AnalysisAnalysis: How attractive are Tesco's international businesses to suitors?
Tesco is thought to be considering a spin-off of its Asian business to raise funds. Retail Week looks at the performance of its global operations.
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InterviewQ&A: Richer Sounds managing director David Robinson on a record year
David Robinson, managing director at Richer Sounds, on how the company has driven record profits and its new ‘360 degree installation service’.
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OpinionComment: How WHSmith and Game are entertaining the high street
With Amazon offering same-day pick-up service for books and games, do high street entertainment retailers WH Smith and Game have a future?
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CartoonBlower’s retail cartoon: Amazon to trial physical store in NYC this Christmas
Retail Week’s cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Amazon trialling its first bricks-and-mortar store in New York over Christmas.
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OpinionAnalysis: Never mind the carpets, WHSmith's results show it is doing well
WHSmith may be the butt of sarky humour but there is little doubting the retailer’s prowess after it reported a 9% surge in profits.
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OpinionComment: How will Amazon’s Christmas store enhance its retail offer?
Amazon trial with a physical store this Christmas raises questions about how a store will enhance the etailer’s current offer.
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OpinionComment: American Eagle must do things differently in the UK
Is there sufficient difference between the multitude of US casualwear retailers to persuade shoppers to keep shopping?
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AnalysisAnalysis: The industrial warehousing industry snapshot
Insight into the recent UK industrial warehousing news making headlines, as well as the latest shed deals and vital big-box figures.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Primark, Aldi and others shake hands on new shed deals
Lack of quality warehousing space has slowed multichannel and supply chain progress, but many retailers have huge warehouse deals underway.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is supply chain speed a worthy retail investment?
Amazon, Google and eBay believe ultra-fast fulfilment is the Holy Grail of retail, while others doubt it is worth the investment.
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AnalysisAmazon is launching its first store: What do retailers need to know?
Amazon is reportedly opening its first store in New York down the road from Macy’s, raising questions about what this means for the wider retail market.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Westfield shopping centre’s second chance in Bradford
Plans for Westfield’s Bradford branch were abandoned in 2008, angering local residents. But as Retail Week discovers, things are back on track.
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AnalysisTed Baker interim results: what the analysts say
Ted Baker posted a strong first-half performance. Here analysts highlight the most important points from the fashion group’s update.
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OpinionComment: Maximising modern retailing opportunities
Online retail has raised fears for the high street, but research on shifting consumer shopping habits offers hope to traditional retailers.
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AnalysisInternational analysis: Russia, Qatar and China - which countries own the UK high street?
As Chinese conglomerate Sanpower takes control of House of Fraser, Retail Week reports on the international ownership of British retailers.
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AnalysisStore review: Paul Smith Vs Office
Andy Barwood, creative director of Indicia compares the respective Convent Garden store offers of Paul Smith and Office.
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OpinionComment: UK proving to be a challenging market for Zara
Zara UK’s operating profit fell by over a third in the year to the end of January 2014 because of increased costs, while its sales increased by just £15m.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What does Phone 4u’s collapse mean for the mobile retail market?
After Phones 4u’s sudden collapse, what does the future hold for the highly competitive and rapidly changing mobile phone retail landscape?
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OpinionNick Bubb’s verdict: Tesco - it’s the hypermarkets, stupid
It is often said that “it’s the economy, stupid”, but the root of Tesco’s current predicament is its over-exposure to hypermarkets.
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OpinionComment: Mothercare's rights issue will allow focus on customers
Tight cost control is a retail basic but on its own it’s rarely enough to build a business and persuade the shopper to open her purse.