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OpinionComment: The best retailers have thrived in 2012
Pictures of the shutters coming down on Comet stores for the final time this week are a fitting, but unfortunate, image with which to close out 2012.
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Analysis2012: The year in review - Retail winners and losers
From big administrations to political hot potatoes, retailers have seen it all. Caroline Parry charts the big moments in the year that was.
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AnalysisTimeline: The highs and lows of Comet
As the shutters come down on Comet’s remaining stores, Retail Week charts the collapsed electricals retailer’s history
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AnalysisStore gallery: Esentai Mall opens in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital
A glass of fermented mare’s milk and some horse stew anybody? The former is about 7% ABV and the latter chewy but, hey, who cares, this is Almaty, the shining commercial light of central Asia.
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OpinionComment: Fewer and better – shops in 2013
This is the last Stores column of 2012 and the normal modus operandi at this stage is to look back at what’s been and to anticipate what’s to come.
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OpinionComment: Retail predictions for 2013
As the new year approaches, here are my retail predictions for 2013.
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OpinionComment: Look beyond your immediate sector for success
A brief visit to Solihull last week was enough to convince that shed retailing and experience are not mutually exclusive.
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AnalysisInternational analysis: Auchan agrees Real deal for central Europe growth
Last week, Metro Group revealed it had sold its Real hypermarket business in Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine – including real estate assets – to French grocer Auchan for e1.1bn (£893.4m).
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OpinionComment: Look after the retailers of the future
It is not uncommon for British prime ministers to call on the Blitz spirit when they want to appear statesmanlike, and David Cameron certainly evoked some Churchillian rhetoric last week.
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OpinionComment: Pop-ups mean trouble
The life has gone out of many pop-ups and they’re there because they have to be.
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AnalysisComet: The state of play
Almost a month after Comet’s collapse into administration, Retail Week takes a look at the state of play at the beleaguered retailer.
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OpinionComment: Are you Experience? Retail property doesn't get digital...yet
New build under threat, but is property waking up to the digital reality?
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AnalysisAnalysis: Retailers race to grab Comet's market share
Electricals rivals are squaring up to grab share of Comet’s sales in the wake of its demise, but can they avoid a similar fate?
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OpinionComment: Government backtracks on rationale for rate revaluation delay
The Government has had to backtrack on its claimed justification for the rate revaluation delay as we at Gerald Eve had predicted.
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OpinionComment: Seismic change lies ahead for retail property
A lot can happen in a year. In terms of retail property, 2012 has seen some shifts in the market, as many retailers reassess their store portfolios in the face of a growing number of challenges.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The retail property location challenge
Many think that there is a North-South divide in the UK when it comes to the retail property market. However, the reality is more complex.
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AnalysisAnalysis: What attracts international retailers to the UK?
International retailers seeking property in the UK must vie for the perfect spaces to showcase their brands. So what attracts overseas newcomers looking to British shores, and which areas can tempt them beyond the high-end draw of the West End?
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AnalysisAnalysis: The future of retail property
As retailers face property challenges including steep increases in business rates, Gina Lovett spoke to three retail property directors for our virtual round table to discover the priorities, now and in the future.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Exploring the leisure-retail property mix
Leisure has become a staple of shopping destinations as developers and retailers realise its effect on footfall. Matthew Valentine explores the evolving leisure-retail mix in shopping centres and on the high street
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AnalysisAnalysis: The search for warehousing property
High street vacancy rates tend to grab the headlines, but retailers face another property challenge – finding the right distribution and warehousing property. Ben Cooper takes the measure of the market.