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OpinionReflections on Lakeside
It may be one of the older regional shopping centres, but the refurbished Lakeside looks good - with a few quibbles.
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AnalysisBest Buy’s UK debut
US electricals giant Best Buy makes its long-awaited debut today. Tim Danaher pays a visit to an electricals store that changes the game
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OpinionBest Buy: Just another big box?
One thing seems almost certain: The first UK Best Buy store will be another example of big box retailing at its least imaginative. Drive past the Thurrock store-to-be and the yellow and blue logo is certainly large, but it will be a real bombshell if the interior is in any measure appreciably different from its rivals’.
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OpinionThe sustainability drive
Sustainability is now firmly on everybody’s agenda - with businesses placed in the middle expected to deliver on the targets of government and the aspirations of the consumer, says Land Securities chief execurive Francis Salway.
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AnalysisShopping centre sustainablity: A force for good
While shopping centre sustainability initiatives can be constrained by negotiations, a wave of legislation could force home the potential savings
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AnalysisA cycle of recycling
Retailers are taking a two-pronged strategy of reducing their own waste while encouraging their customers to recycle more too
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DataICM Poll: The influence of ethical retail practices
In an exclusive poll for Retail Week, ICM Research interviewed a random selection of 2,045 adults aged 18 and over between April 9 and 11, 2010 about retailers’ ethical processes.
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OpinionThe land of plenty?
The supermarkets seem to think there’s unlimited opportunity to open convenience stores. But is there?
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OpinionReinventing the retail park
H&M’s move to open more retail park stores shows how the nature out of town retailing is changing.
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OpinionA pop-up own-goal
Pop-up stores are a great way to inject some fresh, new, creative blood into the retail mix of a flagging shopping centre. But if shoppers know that another one’s coming soon, pop-ups’ guerrilla-like nature is undermined.
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Analysis
Retail collaborations
As the new Boots and Waitrose tie-up shows, retailers see real potential in joining forces. But how can you make sure it works?
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AnalysisOutlets: The unsung heroes of retail
The outlet centre sector has thrived in recession but as the market reaches maturity in the UK where do growth opportunities lie.
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AnalysisHMV: Music to investors’ ears?
HMV continues to diversify its offer but will its new ventures pay off?
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Opinion
George Osborne finds some friends
Shadow chancellor George Osborne needs all the help he can get, but he’s scored a real coup today with many of retail’s top leaders coming out to support his plans to reverse the government’s planned rise in National Insurance.
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OpinionLandlords seek partnership with retail tenants
Our agenda is partnership – working with tenants and discussing how we can support them, writes British Property Federation chief executive Liz Peace
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OpinionUgly word, ugly concept?
Commercialisation of malls is a concept hated by retailers but becoming more and more important to centre owners. But if they’re going to do it, they have to think of their tenants.
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OpinionThe unsustainable growth in property costs
Rents may not be rising at the speed they were, but the growth in overall costs of occupying retail property is still out of control.
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AnalysisCapital Shopping Centres opens Eldon Square extension
Capital Shopping Centres may not be a high profile developer but it owns more of the UK’s top 30 centres than any other landlord.
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Opinion
The UK’s poshest Council House
Everyone always says how ugly Birmingham is but its easy to forget that it has some of the UK’s finest civic architecture, and we were privileged today to hold our future of the high street conference in the splendid Victorian setting of the city’s Council House.
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OpinionUnlikely bedfellows
The property debate at the Retail Week Conference revealed that landlords and retailers actually have a greater level of common interest than might first be thought.