All Stead & Simpson articles
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DataData: The top 30 declining retailers by store closures in 2015
Londis was the retailer that recorded the biggest drop in store numbers in the year to mid-October, according to the Local Data Company.
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OpinionNick Bubb's verdict: Shoe Zone – a surprise entry in the retail IPO list
With all eyes on the ikes of Fat Face and B&M, Shoe Zone has come in from left-field to enter the retailing IPO arena.
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OpinionComment: Does Shoe Zone make a good fit for an IPO?
Shoe Zone is not the sort of retailer to which City types rush to spend their bonuses, or their regular salaries for that matter.
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NewsCompany profile: Footwear retailer Shoe Zone
Footwear retailer Shoe Zone has called an abrupt halt to years of expansion plans by revealing it is to close 90 of its Stead & Simpson stores because of poor trading in December.
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NewsStead & Simpson to close 90 stores
Shoe retailer Stead & Simpson is to close 90 stores following a “thorough review” of the loss-making business.
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NewsShoe Zone staff slam management over store closures
Staff at Shoe Zone-owned footwear chain Stead & Simpson have lambasted management for shutting shops “by stealth”.
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Stylo to cut jobs after losses widen
Stylo posted first-half losses after tax of 9.3 million, up from 7.5 million in the red during the same period last year, and revealed it will slash jobs at the business.
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Suppliers unite over £11m debts from Stead & Simpson collapse
A group of footwear suppliers have joined forces to demand a creditors’ meeting with Price-waterhouseCoopers over the sale of Stead & Simpson to rival Shoe Zone.
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Suppliers mull legal action over Stead
A group of footwear suppliers are considering legal action to recover full payment for stock delivered to Stead & Simpson before it was sold in a pre-pack administration deal to rival Shoe Zone last month.
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Shoe Zone completes purchase of Stead & Simpson
Stead & Simpson has today confirmed that a newly formed company backed by Shoe Zone has bought the footwear business. Stead & Simpson went into administration late last night and Shoe Zone bought the majority of the business, saving some 2,700 jobs. Stead & Simpson had been experiencing a difficult ...
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Shoe Zone poised to swoop on Stead & Simpson
Footwear chain Shoe Zone is understood to have bought Stead & Simpson in a deal that is likely to be finalised today.
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AnalysisOn the back foot
2007 was another tough year for specialist shoe retailers and more recent news of floundering footwear players has done little to assuage fears for the new year. But, as Jennifer Creevy discovers, there is still a place for those with the right offer
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Stead & Simpson to update stores despite sell-off plans
Up-for-sale shoe retail group Stead & Simpson is to create a new format for its eponymous stores using design consultancy Caulder Moore.