All articles by Robert Clark – Page 2
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NewsIn focus: Monsoon Accessorize
Monsoon Accessorize faces more issues than most retailers, many assessed in Retail Week Knowledge Bank’s update of Peter Simon’s international womenswear and accessories chain.
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NewsIn focus: Game
Despite enjoying an enviable position as the UK and Europe’s leading video games specialist, Game Group, subject of a Retail Week Knowledge Bank profile update, is suffering from falling sales and profits after both peaked in 2008/09.
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NewsIn focus: Maplin Electronics
In its updated profile of Maplin Electronics, Retail Week Knowledge Bank details Maplin’s stellar long-term performance, growing sales from below £50m at the end of the 1990s to more than £200m 10 years later.
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NewsIn focus: Morrisons
So Morrisons is mulling over a bid for Iceland. Retail Week Knowledge Bank has just updated its profile of the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain, analysing its performance in the first year under new chief executive Dalton Philips.
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NewsIn Focus: Waitrose and Ocado
Mark Price has made his mark on various fronts since taking the helm at Waitrose. In addition to introducing the successful Essential range the store network has continued to grow, while the new convenience and market town stores challenge Marks & Spencer’s Simply Food.
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NewsIn Focus: Frozen food retailers
The frozen food specialists seem to be benefiting from current market conditions. Retail Week Knowledge Bank has recently updated its Farmfoods profile and added a new profile for Frozen Value.
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NewsIn Focus: Evans Cycles
It is refreshing to welcome a dynamic new specialist sector leader to Retail Week Knowledge Bank’s coverage: Evans Cycles.
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NewsIn Focus: Blue Inc
The news that menswear fashion chain Blue Inc has taken on 46 Officers Club stores following the latter’s administration reminds me of when I first tried to find out about Blue Inc’s predecessor, Mr Byrite, a regional chain shrouded in secrecy.
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NewsIn Focus: FOCUS
Recently I highlighted the exceptional £4,900 per sq ft sales densities achieved by Richer Sounds. This time it is the opposite end of the density spectrum.
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NewsIn Focus: Peacocks
Primark may epitomise the rapid development of UK value retailing, but entering the new millennium, Matalan and George at Asda sales exceeded Primark’s, while Peacocks was not far behind, passing £200m a year and a close fourth in what was a burgeoning segment.
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NewsIn Focus: The White Company
The White Company has cut its distinctive, bleached swath across the upmarket homewares field in recent years, at least until 2009 when recession finally cut annual sales growth.
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NewsIn Focus: Edinburgh Woollen Mill
Edinburgh Woollen Mill, whose Retail Week Knowledge Bank profile has been updated, is an example of a maturing retailer that has been evolving against a background of market vagaries. Despite its diversification being questioned, it seems to be paying off.
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NewsIn Focus: Poundstretcher
Poundstretcher has become one of the forgotten names of UK retailing, despite being a significant player in the evolution of the variety store into value retailing.
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NewsIn Focus: Halfords
Updating Retail Week Knowledge Bank’s Halfords profile brought the opportunity to reflect on Halfords’ move earlier this year back into car servicing, acquiring Nationwide Autocentres with 224 servicing and repair centres.
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NewsIn Focus: Amazon
Updating Retail Week Knowledge Bank’s profile of Amazon UK presents more problems than most. Why? Because Amazon does not have a UK corporate entity reporting its financials.
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NewsIn Focus: Blacks Leisure
The saga of Blacks Leisure’s problems seems to have been playing for years, despite the favourable longer-term conditions of healthier lifestyles and outdoor pursuits, boosted by rising disposable incomes being spent on active short breaks.
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NewsIn Focus: Alliance Boots
Alliance Boots now boasts more than 500 stores outside the UK, as detailed in Retail Week Knowledge Bank’s profile update of a UK retail icon that just a few years ago was being tagged as one of Britain’s legacy retailers.
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NewsIn Focus: Asos
Recent figures from Asos have sharpened the focus on the internet as a key to retailing’s globalising future.
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NewsIn Focus: Holland & Barrett
Name a leading food retailer with healthy double digit margins? There’s a clue in the question.
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