All Retail Week articles in November 5 2010 – Page 3
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NewsHMV launches Christmas campaign
Entertainment retailer HMV is launching its Christmas marketing campaign today, featuring icons of the worlds of music, film and games. The campaign will stretch across press, TV, online and in stores, and feature the ‘Get Merry’ tagline.
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AnalysisChristmas shopping events
It may be too soon to put up the Christmas lights, but it’s not too soon for retailers to plan how they can capitalise on the festive events geared to get shoppers spending
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GalleryShopping in the City
The stunning building that is shopping centre One New Change has brought retail therapy to the City’s masses. John Ryan pays a visit
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NewsCo-founder steps down from My-wardrobe.com
My-wardrobe.com co-founder Andrew Curran is stepping down from the fashion etail business to take up an advisory role at luxury homewares etailer Amara.
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NewsTesco mulls exclusive computer games
Tesco will consider creating exclusive computer games with partners as part of its burgeoning entertainment division.
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NewsRiver Island opens new concept store in Reading
River Island has opened a new concept store in Reading (pictured), with a loft-style interior featuring exposed brick and concrete floors.
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OpinionM&S’s overseas conundrum
Marks & Spencer may have made a mistake when it sold its shops in France and Spain almost a decade ago, but buying them back sounds downright odd.
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OpinionEtail is redefining the retail property market
The names of the retailers taking stands at this year’s British Council of Shopping Centres said everything about today’s retail property market. Five of the top six supermarkets were there competing for sites, as were value retailers Wilkinson, Poundland and Store Twenty One, vying for space in an increasingly crowded ...
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NewsFSA fine won’t hit JJB’s forecasts
JJB Sports is to be fined £455,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for a breach of disclosure and transparency rules that occurred before its interim results in September 2008.
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AnalysisThe influence of online on global retail
The digital revolution was the hot topic at the World Retail Congress last week and is changing every aspect of the industry.
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AnalysisHow to turn online sales into a profit
Selling online is one thing, making money from it is quite another. Charlotte Hardie reveals how to convert clicks into profit
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OpinionA meeting of retail migrants
Some 1,000 participants migrated to Berlin last week for the World Retail Congress. And as migration, in a sense, was a congress leitmotif, Berlin was the perfect location. Ring-walled from access for millions of its nearest neighbours over decades, this city is now the cosmopolitan meeting point über alles.
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AnalysisSocial network
Investing in a leisure programme for staff may sound lavish but it can pay off
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NewsHalf term and Halloween help John Lewis and Waitrose
John Lewis and Waitrose both secured double digit sales growth last week, with half-term and Halloween helping the partnership’s chains.
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NewsStrong year for DFS as it grows market share
An increase in market share helped DFS grow sales 13% and EBITDA over 10% in the year to July 31, despite the difficult furniture market.
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NewsConsumer confidence falls over job fears
An increase in the number of people fearing for their jobs has driven a fall in consumer confidence, according to the latest Consumer Confidence Survey from Nielsen and the British Retail Consortium.
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NewsBest Buy UK posts £29m loss
Losses are rising at the fledgling Best Buy UK business but shoppers like the new arrival in the electricals sector, Carphone Warehouse revealed.
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NewsApple director joins Kingfisher board
Kingfisher has appointed a boss of trendy technology firm Apple to its board in a non-executive capacity.
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NewsFake Next page removed from Facebook on child safety fears
Fashion group Next has had a fake page removed from Facebook because of concerns about child safety.