All The Range articles – Page 2
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Analysis
Analysis: How The Range went from market stall origins to cracking UK’s top 30 retailers
In Retail Week’s recent ranking of who the top 30 retailers in the UK will be by 2026, The Range and Adidas were the two new entries that are set to take the 28th and 30th spot respectively.
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News
Exclusive: Two new players to enter top 30 biggest retailers by 2026
A ranking of the biggest retailers in the UK and a five-year forecast of the top 30 has revealed two new retailers will be joining the list.
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Data
Ranking: Who will be the biggest retailers in the UK in 2026?
Offering a glimpse of what lies ahead, Retail Week analysts reveal which retailers will sit at the top of the food chain in 2026, which will be overtaken by their closest rivals and which will lose their spot in the ranking altogether
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Retail Navigator Analysis
The Range (SWOT)
The Range’s staunch value stance should chime well with cash-strapped consumers during the current cost-of-living crisis, positioning the retailer for further growth. However, the UK value sector is becoming increasingly competitive and saturated following the expansion of several players including Home Bargains, B&M and Poundland. In addition, discount retailers Aldi and Lidl also continue to open new stores and have diversified their product ranges beyond groceries. The intense competition in the sector has been highlighted by the collapse of Wilko in 2023, although this does provide scope for other value retailers to gain share as a result of its demise and created opportunity for The Range, which acquired the Wilko brand, website and intellectual property and has since relaunched Wilko.com and started ‘reintroducing’ Wilko stores.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
The Range (Overview)
CDS Superstores owns The Range, a rapidly expanding mixed goods superstore operation spanning 16 departments including DIY, kitchen, dining, furniture, lighting, arts and crafts and textiles and stocking over 65,000 products.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Wilko (Overview)
The Range completed a £5m deal in late 2023 with the acquisition of the Wilko website and IP from administrators. The Wilko site was relaunched under The Range’s ownership in October, with a handful of Wilko stores reappearing on the high street in the run up to Christmas and an “aggressive rollout” on the cards for 2024.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
The Range (Financials)
The 2022 financial year to 29 January 2023 (FY2022) was impacted by high stock levels and constrained consumer spend amid the cost-of-living crisis. Sales fell 10.6% to £1.26bn at The Range in FY2022 as trading returned to more “normalised” post-pandemic levels. The retailer said this still represented a 17.3% like-for-like increase on pre-pandemic levels.
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Opinion
Move of the Week: A New Look for former House of Fraser boss
One thing you could never accuse Nigel Oddy of is seeking an easy life.
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News
The Range’s new HQ to create 450 jobs
Value home retailer The Range has announced its new headquarters will open in the summer and will create 450 new jobs in its home town of Plymouth.
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News
The Range boss Nigel Oddy to exit after IPO put on ice
The Range chief executive Nigel Oddy is to leave the value retailer little more than a year after joining, Retail Week can reveal.
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News
The Range posts profit fall after taking sterling hit
Profits at value general merchant giant The Range fell last year after the weakness of sterling hit performance.
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News
Iceland to sell food through The Range stores
Iceland and The Range have formed an alliance to sell the grocer’s food in the general merchandise giant’s stores.
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Opinion
Opinion: Improving is not winning in retail
The roll call of failed or struggling retailers is growing: Toys R Us, Maplin, Poundworld, Carpetright, Mothercare, House of Fraser.
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Analysis
Infographic: Ikea's founder dies and valuing The Range
Words and numbers, February 2, 2018: Ikea’s Ingvar Kamprad remembered, valuing The Range amid a mooted listing, and Asos’ boss on its market-beating success
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News
The Range founder eyes £2bn listing for discount chain
The Range’s founder Chris Dawson is in talks with investment banks about a £2bn London flotation of the value retailer he founded 30 years ago.
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News
Steinhoff UK poaches new digital boss from The Range
Steinhoff UK has poached Alexander Bartholomew from The Range to head up its ecommerce and digital functions at Harveys and Bensons for Beds.
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News
The Range profits advance amid aggressive expansion
The Range delivered a jump in pre-tax profits in its last full year as the value retailer continued on its successful streak of sales growth.
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News
BHS: A year after closure, most stores still lie empty
The majority of former BHS stores are still unoccupied a year after the department store group finally closed its doors.
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Gallery
In pictures: The Range at former BHS site, London
The Range has snapped up a number of former BHS sites as it moves to diversify its store portfolio. Retail Week visits its new Surrey Quays branch.
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News
Today in retail: Is B&M set for a Brexit bonanza?
After unveiling rocketing first-quarter sales, B&M boss Simon Arora reaffirmed his belief that the impact of Brexit on the economy would attract new customers.
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