All articles by Nathan May – Page 2
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Data: M&S’ polarised food and fashion fortunes
Steve Rowe is pressing on with his plans to turn Marks and Spencer’s clothing division around with the recruitment of Jill McDonald. Here we look at the challenges she faces in light of falling sales since 2010/11.
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Top 30 bricks-and-mortar retailers by sales density
Premium retailers Apple and Burberry top this year’s ranking, while Aldi is the best performing food retailer.
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Cost base index: Operating costs remain high
Overall operating costs continued to rise at a punchy 3.7% for non-food retailers, as labour and rents drove up the lion’s share of costs in Q1 2017.
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Data: The Hut’s investments and international ambitions
The etailer, with sites ranging from health and beauty to entertainment, describes itself as a “nimble giant with a start-up culture”. What do its latest results reveal about its strategy?
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Etail sales tracker: Smartphone sales growth slows
The rate of growth through smartphone devices has roughly halved year-on-year.
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Market monitor: Boots grows sales by £13m
Boots continues to lead and shows to be the biggest contributor having grown their sales by £13 million, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
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Data: Retail job cuts gather pace in 2017
The number of job cuts, natural attrition and, in some cases, redeployment over the past year, has been heavily clustered in the last three months.
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Data: Asos vs Zalando – battle of the etail giants
Zalando’s 2016 results, unveiled this morning, shows how it is pulling away from rival Asos. Retail Week Prospect analyses the performance of the etailing giants.
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Data: The Co-op’s turnaround hits home among shoppers
The Co-op’s impressive turnaround in its food business has struck a chord with shoppers when it comes to price, quality and its ethical positioning.
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Infographic: Key themes from the top 50 retailers ranking
The combined turnover of the UK’s top 50 retailers by sales for the 2015/16 financial year reaches £220bn, with the top 10 accounting for £151bn of that (68.6%).
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As it happened: Super Thursday trading updates
In a busy day for Christmas trading updates, be the first to know all the latest news and analysis with our live blog.
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Top 15: The most popular articles of 2016
2016 has been a busy year for retail – and for Retail Week! Here’s a list of the 15 most popular articles from past 12 months, in case you blinked and missed any.
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Black Friday data: Lower than expected online purchasing
Yields surprise and underline how Black Friday is still evolving as a shopping day in the UK, changing from year to year.
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Data: Consumer appetite for Black Friday overestimated
Retail Week exclusive: Survey shows there is a mismatch between consumers’ and retailers’ perceptions of Black Friday as three-quarters of shoppers plan to spend less.
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Data: The top 30 retailers by store openings
Poundland tops the ranking owing to its acquisition of 99p Stores, while a large number of c-store operators make the top 30.
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Data: Top 50 retailers by online traffic in the UK
Retail Week exclusive: Department stores enjoy positive results in IMRG’s quarterly ranking of the top 50 retailers by website traffic.
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In pictures: Retailers' Halloween tricks and treats
Retailers are hoping Halloween is more treat than trick this year as they aim to capture a slice of spooky sales.
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Data: Greater London hit hardest by store closures
New data from PwC and the Local Data Company shows net store numbers in the UK plunged during the first half of this year.
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Etail Power List: Key trends from this year’s list
The Retail Week Etail Power List 2016 reveals the most influential people in etail, but what are the key themes?
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Market monitor: Ongoing struggle for health & beauty market
Although not as big a fall as last period, the toiletries market continues its ongoing struggle with a 2.1% decline YoY, according to Kantar Worldpanel.