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Opinion
Survival of the biggest
The best shopping centres are attracting visitors, but the challenge is converting visits to sales
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OpinionRetail surgery: Can my landlord let adjoining units to competitors?
Am I able to restrict my landlord from letting adjoining units to competitors?
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OpinionRetailers need flexible friends
Greater flexibility in retail costs would help retailers weather tough times, says Neil Gillis
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AnalysisHow do you solve a problem like Ireland?
Everyone knows that Ireland’s retail scene is a disaster. But how should you tackle it? As some UK retailers scale back their Irish portfolios, Charlotte Hardie assesses the various options
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Opinion
Focus shows why CVAs are wrong
The collapse of Focus into administration shows why landlords were wrong to back its CVA.
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AnalysisDeveloping your best staff
Training can lift a business no end. Rebecca Thomson learns how it’s helping Liverpool retailers.
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AnalysisThe Sainsbury's plan for growth
Sainsbury’s has defied the odds by having a good recession, now it’s on the expansion trail, Tim Danaher finds out more about its plans.
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AnalysisCan you crack America?
It is the world’s largest retail market, but UK store chains struggle in the US. With international expansion a boardroom priority, Charlotte Hardie considers the traps retailers should avoid to succeed in America.
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AnalysisHow to drive growth in a tough market
They say tough times breed innovation and opportunity, and a look at the UK high street and online offer shows how retailers are driving growth in a difficult market.
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AnalysisA return to park life
Retail parks were early victims of the recession with vacancy rates rising to nearly 12% in 2009, but the market is making a comeback. Mark Faithfull finds out why and takes a look at which retailers are driving the renewed the activity in the out-of-town world
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Opinion
Rising in the East
A Retail Week tour of Westfield Stratford revealed some interesting names earmarked for the centre.
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OpinionRetail surgery: I want to assign my shop lease to another group company and refit it, can I just proceed?
I want to assign my shop lease to another group company and refit it. The lease says I can assign within the group and carry out alterations without the landlord’s consent. Can I just proceed?
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Opinion
Time for a crackdown
There’s a joke doing the rounds at the moment, which the chatterers on Andrew Marr’s sofa on BBC1 yesterday morning seemed to find particularly funny.
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AnalysisLakeside – a retail coming of age
Since 1990 Lakeside has set new benchmarks and innovated to drive shopper footfall, but how is it keeping up with changing shopper behaviour?
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AnalysisHow Leahy made Tesco a global giant
With its razor-sharp focus on the customer wherever they might be, Tesco now operates in 14 countries. Tim Danaher and Jennifer Creevy trace how a UK grocer now bestrides the globe
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AnalysisFacilities Management: At your service?
Improving both performance and cost effectiveness of facilities management strategies is the goal for many retailers, but honing the right solution remains mired in challenges. Mark Faithfull reports
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AnalysisCome buy with me at airports and rail concourses
Airports and rail concourses are being reinvented as retail destinations across the UK. Mark Faithfull looks at the retail opportunities as operators map out their new strategies
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AnalysisAah! Bicester
Bicester Village has sales figures to die for, Prada and Gucci as tenants, and attracts some of the highest spending customers in Europe. Rebecca Thomson pays a visit to unearth its secret