All N Brown articles – Page 4
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News
Move of the week: Tesco’s Davies to chair N Brown
Just two weeks ago I wrote that retailers would be queuing up to secure the services of Matt Davies following his departure from Tesco.
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N Brown names Tesco boss Matt Davies as chairman
N Brown has drafted in Tesco UK chief executive Matt Davies as chairman, succeeding Andy Higginson.
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N Brown poaches senior hires from AO and Missguided
N Brown has made a trio of senior hires, poaching its new chief people and information officers from Missguided and AO.
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N Brown partners with Zalando amid festive sales rise
N Brown’s sales advanced in the golden quarter, during which it penned a new deal with online platform Zalando.
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Agenda: Dixons Carphone, WHSmith, Asos and more
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with updates from Dixons Carphone, N Brown, Pets at Home, WHSmith and Asos on the agenda.
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Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: Who made Santa's nice list?
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on the Christmas winners and losers as retailers post their results.
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Data
Retail league table: Christmas trading 2017
Find out how retailers have performed during the critical Christmas 2017 trading period, with our league table comparing like-for-like sales.
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N Brown chief operating officer Haywood departs
N Brown’s chief operating officer Andy Haywood is exiting the business, Retail Week can reveal.
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Future Leaders
Be Inspired: Five ways women can get to the top
Retail Week’s biggest-ever Be Inspired conference took place yesterday, with the sold-out event featuring keynote sessions by retail leaders as well as skill-based masterclasses.
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Data
Data: The UK's top 10 retailers by staff efficiency
Increases in staff costs to sales ratio across the retail sector have been accelerating as the national living wage starts to bite.
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N Brown partners with Amazon Fashion as profits edge up
N Brown has recorded a rise in profit bolstered by strong sales across its core brands.
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Agenda: Ted Baker, WHSmith, Quiz, Booker and N Brown update
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with financial updates from Ted Baker, WHSmith, Quiz, Booker and N Brown all on the agenda.
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Analysis
Analysis: Pureplays tone down tech for debut stores
Established retailers have bent over backwards to digitise stores to attract younger consumers, yet online retailers opening physical space have stepped back from tech. Mark Faithfull asks whether retail is going back to basics.
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Analysis
Infographic: Waitrose, N Brown and Dixons Carphone
Words and numbers, July 21, 2017: Waitrose on why it has created head of food services role, BRC on footfall growth, plus N Brown, Game and Dixons Carphone.
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News
N Brown suffers £40m setback over insurance products
N Brown has warned it will incur up to £40m in exceptional costs this year after unearthing “flaws” in general insurance products it previously sold.
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Today in retail: Too many shops, too little till-ringing
Specialist fashion retailer N Brown posted rising sales today but also revealed that it would close five loss-making stores, leaving it with 16 in total.
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N Brown sales advance but store closures planned
N Brown has posted a 5.6% jump in sales during its first quarter, driven by a strong performance in its ladieswear category.
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Agenda: N Brown updates and Richard Pennycook at the BRC
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with an update from N Brown and Richard Pennycook’s address to the BRC on the agenda.
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Analysis
Scarlett & Jo: Eyeing a plus-sized opportunity
When fashion retail entrepreneur Gifi Fields launched his career at the height of the swinging Sixties, clothes were designed with Twiggy’s waifish figure in mind.
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News
N Brown chairman Andy Higginson to exit fashion group
After a five-year tenure as N Brown chairman, Andy Higginson intends to step down from his role at the fashion group.