Opinion – Page 313
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OpinionWhen good news is bad news
Croydon has been waiting years for the arrival of John Lewis. The fact it’s going out of town is a hammer blow to the town centre.
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Ocado, or Ocadon’t?
Had a very interesting day in Nottingham at Boots on Friday, but will save that for my next post and instead concentrate on the weekend’s big story, the news that Ocado has appointed advisers ahead of a possible float.
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OpinionHot off the press
Heals celebrated its bicentennial by turning over its windows to students from the nearby Slade school of art. And it was the most interesting thing on Tottenham Court Road for some time.
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OpinionThe challenges facing Dalton Philips and Marc Bolland
The scale of the job awaiting Bolland means that if he pulls it off people will quickly stop worrying about what he’s being paid
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OpinionValue doesn’t just mean cheap
In future, competition will centre around service and knowledge - not price, says David Wild
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OpinionRetail needs more women in top jobs
It’s hard to refute the accusation that tokenism and sexism still underpin the bedrock of many a board structure
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OpinionA lot is riding on New Look
The sour taste left by disappointing retail IPOs of the past and jitters about how retail conditions will shape up this year mean there’s a lot riding on how New Look’s much-anticipated IPO fares.
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OpinionNew Look will need consistency to float above the rest
After much speculation New Look’s intention to float has now been confirmed and after the deflation of the failed float in 2007 it looks like the fashion group will finally have its day.
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OpinionConfusion on customer-centricity
While there is a growing consensus that retailers need to be customer-centric, the debate still rages about what this actually means.
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OpinionTime for positive thinking
Our Manifesto for the High Street campaign is off to a good start, with some interesting comments coming through from our readers.
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Sofa so good
Our good friend and columnist Lord Kirkham is trying to sell DFS and yesterday’s Sunday Times reported that John Lovering had joined forces with Permira for a £500m bid for the company. I haven’t quite got to the bottom of why buying it for £500m would trigger a big windfall for Kirkham, as that’s pretty much exactly what he paid for it when he took it private in 2004, but there must be an explanation - we’ll try to find out this week.
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OpinionThe golden shopfront
At last week’s Toy Industry Awards, it was the “Golden Teddy” honour that really stood out — but which retailers might scoop a prize were there to be a ‘golden shopfront’?
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OpinionMorrisons’ outside man
Dalton Philips’ appointment at Morrisons is set to shake up the grocery market once more. Will Morrisons’ move pay off?
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OpinionPoliticians must act to save our high streets
A good high street is at the heart of its community. If it’s taken over by anti-social gangs of youths and swathes of empty shops, it can’t serve that role.
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OpinionStores for the digital age
She may be a web pioneer, but Martha Lane Fox sees a multichannel future for the high street
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OpinionThe reality of our virtual recession
Enjoy the brief honeymoon period until the election is out of the way and we will be told how much worse finances are than we all thought
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OpinionSuperdry: A Super prospect?
Walk down any high street or into a bar and you’ll almost certainly see one brand in evidence - Superdry.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Sharing brand collateral with international franchise partners
We are starting to work with international franchise partners. How much of our branding collateral should we share with them?
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OpinionRetail surgery: Making page load speeds a priority
The page load speeds for our website are poor compared with competitor websites. How can we convince management that fixing this should be a priority?
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OpinionRetailers still uncertain about what 2010 holds
The recession has come to an end - officially - but speaking to the great and the good of fashion at this week’s Retail Trust Ball they were not celebrating just yet.