Leadership

Mothercare records a loss and plummeting sales

Amazon blocks job applications from suspected North Korean agents

Former Waitrose boss named chief executive of Pets at Home

​Superdrug gifting helpline sees success ahead of Christmas

​HMV to open first store in Amsterdam

‘Super Saturday’ fails to deliver on festive footfall

LK Bennett seeks out a buyer

Dune trading strongly following ‘painful’ period

Lookfantastic launches same-day delivery on Uber Eats

Sales volumes fell in November, ONS finds

WHSmith admits ‘much to do to rebuild confidence’ as profits fall

2025 ‘has been a year of no progress’ for consumer confidence

Waterstones’ owner prepares for potential IPO next year

Mamas & Papas posts record-breaking Black Friday sales

Footasylum to open 40 stores in the Gulf region

Amazon in talks to invest $10bn in OpenAI

Currys grows revenue and profit despite higher UK costs

Consumer confidence edges up but outlook 'remains gloomy'

Morleys Department Stores names new chief executive

Tesco strikes partnership with AI start-up

Frasers Group sells Matches

Morrisons faces £17m tax bill on rotisserie chickens

M&S staff treated following carbon monoxide leak

DHL becomes headline sponsor for Retail Week x The Grocer LIVE

Bensons for Beds returns to Tottenham Court Road

Clarks opens first Cloudsteppers store in the US

Retailers need to ‘step up’ to tackle shoplifting, says Met chief

Retail jobs hit ‘record low’, official data reveals

Footfall: BT Active Intelligence MD on enhancing visitor stats with demographics

Exit interview: outgoing Ikea UK&I boss Peter Jelkeby

Facial recognition: Facewatch CEO on why retailers can’t just rely on the police and the government to protect workers

Q&A: Primark licensing director on staying culturally relevant

Supply chain: DHL retail and ecommerce boss on leveraging AI, data and teamwork in time for peak

Q&A: Puma UK and Ireland MD on breaking boundaries with the brand’s new Oxford Street flagship

Q&A: Trinny London MD on omnichannel, personalisation and Christmas

Chatbots: Lush global customer care manager on using AI to manage Black Friday discourse

Q&A: Halfords CEO Henry Birch on the Budget, AI and Black Friday

Stanley 1913’s general manager on turning a viral phenomenon into long-term value

Fit Collective: return rates are killing fashion retailers – and AI can fix it

Retail media: SMG MD on unlocking new opportunities for brands, retailers and customers

Disney x Selfridges: behind the partnership bringing a theme park experience to retail

Interview: Dune founder Daniel Rubin on 50 years of shoe making

Live shopping: Bambuser CEO on why the future of ecommerce looks like Netflix

Q&A: Laura Ashley VP on prints, partnerships and physical retail

‘AI is not a flashy tool’: Rithum managing director on stripping out complexity

Innovation round-up: Strategic partnerships, AI agents and gamified experiences

Retail technology: Experts predict tech trends for 2026

What’s next for WHSmith as it plans recovery from accounting controversy?

Shake-ups, showdowns and sabotage: the stories that defined retail in 2025

Why Currys boss Baldock is confident despite challenges

A tale of two Budgets: Mapping retail’s rising cost crisis

Cross-border commerce: The who, what, where of international spend

Promotional research for PayPal, By Gemma Goldfingle

Ranking: Retail’s biggest winners and losers in business rates revaluation

The hungry retailer: What has Frasers acquired this year?

Test drive: Notonthehighstreet’s AI shopping tool

Black Friday is dead, long live Black Friday: The stats behind the 2025 shopping phenomenon

Promotional research for Talon.One

Store tour: A look at one of Matalan’s revamped stores

Ranking: the 100 most popular retail websites on Black Friday

Merry Crime-mas: What are retailers doing to keep their staff safe over the festive season?

Acquisitions, softer trading and green shoots in luxury – key takeaways from Frasers’ results

How shoppers will spend in 2026 and the winning strategies driving sales

Promotional research for Vypr, By Ben Sillitoe

Partnership update: White Company’s 24-hour pyjama delivery, Waitrose’s invisible delivery tags, and more

How consumers shopped Black Friday weekend 2025

Future Leaders 2025 - Who will be the CEOs of the future?

Defiant Leighton sticks to his guns as he vows to rebuild Asda ‘to its former glories’

Black Friday: A look at how the big day is shaping up

What’s in the Budget for retail and how has the sector reacted?