All Retail Week articles in 16 November 2007
Browse all news stories and articles from this date or time period.
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News
Lily Cole becomes M&S girl
Red head supermodel Lily Cole has signed a deal to become the new face of high street giant M&S.
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News
Dabs gives PayPal and Google payment methods green light
Dabs.com has given Google Checkout and PayPal the thumbs up, as 25 per cent of shoppers have opted for the new payment methods a month after the computing and electronics e-tailer introduced them.
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News
Monsoon shareholders back Simon's buy-out
Monsoon shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the acquisition of the fashion retailer by chairman and founder Peter Simon.
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News
Mulberry appoints chief financial officer
Luxury accessories retailer Mulberry has appointed Roger Mather as chief financial officer.
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News
Ahold appoints chief executive
Dutch food giant Ahold has promoted John Rishton, who has been acting chief executive since July, to president and chief executive with immediate effect.
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News
Cold weather drives clothing sales at John Lewis
John Lewis posted a solid increase in sales for the week ending November 16, as colder weather lifted clothing sales.
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Opinion
Asda boss bullish about next year
Retail Week picked the brains of Asda's chief executive Andy Bond this week about his thoughts on Christmas, non-food, online groceries and enhancing its operations.
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News
New Bond Street rent is most expensive in UK
London’s New Bond Street remains the UK’s most expensive shopping street to rent space on, buoyed by a glut of new luxury retailers opening stores there.
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Analysis
Christmas is coming
…and retailers are getting their stores ready. As the windows in London’s West End light up, John Ryan picks out the crackers and the turkeys
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Analysis
Many hands make light work
Allowing other companies to market your business online can yield easy sales, but there are risks. Joanna Perry says technology can keep activity in check
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News
Traditional retailers leapfrog pure play e-tailers online
High street retailers attracted more visitors to their web sites than pure-play e-tailers for the first time in October.
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News
JCPenney's sales tumble as US retail gloom grows
JCPenney’s chief executive has blamed the gloomy mortgage market and credit crunch for disappointing sales in its third quarter ending November 3.
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Analysis
A passion for fashion
As increasingly high-tech systems help merchandisers mitigate the risks of their job, are software skills becoming more important to the role than old-fashioned intuition? Katie Kilgallen finds out
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News
New Planet sited at Walton-on-Thames
Forty-something fashion brand Planet has opened a new-format store at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey.
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News
Tesco IT chief to step down
Tesco IT director Colin Cobain will step down from his role before the end of the year.
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News
Dunelm’s no-nonsense stance is a winner
The first time I really became aware of Dunelm Mills was when, like many other parents in the UK, it was time for our children to leave home and take up their places at University.
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News
Hindmarch makes London debut
Anya Hindmarch, the designer of handbags and small leather goods, has opened the first of two London stores on Bond Street.
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News
Poor November for fashion bodes ill for festive trading
UK fashion retailers have endured awful trading in November, putting down an ominous marker for Christmas.
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News
John Lewis opens in Cambridge
A 145,000 sq ft (13,470 sq m) John Lewis store opened in Cambridge last week, replacing Robert Sayle, the department store the retailer has owned since 1940.