All Retail Week articles in November 11 2016 – Page 4
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News
Sainsbury’s profits fall as like-for-like sales dip
Sainsbury’s first-half profits dropped while like-for-like sales edged down as the grocer drives its initiative for everyday low prices despite “challenging market conditions”.
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Poundland trials Pep & Co product in stores
Poundland is trialling Pep & Co products in stores as it steps up a drive to enhance its fashion offer.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Targeting the retail gender gap
Retail Week carried out a Gender Diversity Monitor to find out what the UK’s largest retailers are doing to plug the gender gap at the top.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Female retail chiefs on their role models
The Be Inspired campaign puts aspiring female talent in touch with retail role models, but who inspired those who have already made it to the top?
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Creating gender diversity in the boardroom
Demand is growing for better representation of women in retail’s upper echelons, so what approaches are being used in an attempt to bring about real change?
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Breakfast briefing: M&S and Associated British Foods
Retail news round-up: M&S committed to stores in Ireland and Associated British Foods face cost pressure.
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Video
Watch: M&S's half-year results discussed
We reflect on Steve Rowe’s comments about how he intends to turn around Marks & Spencer’s fashion fortunes.
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Today in retail: Rowe upbeat despite fashion sales fall
M&S boss Steve Rowe was on fighting form when I saw him earlier today at the interim results meeting.
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Tesco slashes sugar levels in own-brand soft drinks
Tesco has slashed the amount of sugar in its own-label soft drinks to escape the government’s sugar tax.
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M&S’s Rowe vows to keep prices down despite sterling fall
Marks & Spencer chief executive Steve Rowe has pledged to keep prices down for customers despite sterling’s plunge.
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Analysis
Analysis: Are Rowe's fashion plans too late for M&S?
Despite Steve Rowe setting out in May plans to recover and grow Marks & Spencer’s struggling clothing division, there remains little visible improvement.
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John Lewis fashion sales boosted by colder weather
John Lewis’s sales spiked last week as the influx of colder weather boosted the performance of its clothing ranges.
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Watch: Boots celebrates working women in Christmas ad
Boots has unveiled its festive TV advert, which centres around pampering female customers who work on Christmas Day.
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Watch: Asda kicks off ad series showcasing festive range
Asda has launched the first in a series of 26 Christmas adverts as the grocer bids to showcase its full range of festive products.
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American Apparel appoints administrators for UK business
Administrators have been appointed to oversee the likely winding down of American Apparel’s UK operations.
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Alibaba Singles' Day to extend beyond mainland China
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day – now dubbed 11.11.Global Shopping Festival – is set to expand into international territories for the first time this year.
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Opinion
Opinion: B&M is well placed to capitalise on economic downturn
Like its publicly listed counterparts, B&M has endured a difficult time on the stock market since Britain’s vote to quit the EU.
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Sports Direct denies ‘spying’ on MPs during visit
Sports Direct has said it did not authorise or have “any knowledge of” the recording device found by MPs during a meeting at the retailer’s headquarters.
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Opinion
Opinion: Rowe’s roadmap for M&S puts focus on better stores
Having trodden the time-honoured path from shopfloor to boardroom, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe won’t have taken the decision to close stores lightly.
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New Look narrows pre-tax losses but sales tumble
New Look has narrowed its pre-tax losses but suffered a sales slump amid an “extremely challenging” first half.