All Retail Week articles in 28 December 2007
Browse all news stories and articles from this date or time period.
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News
Game on course to double profits
Specialist retailer Game is set to smash profit estimates, the company said in a trading update this morning.
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News
Retailers recognised in New Year's Honours list
The contribution of retailers to the economy and to the country as a whole has been recognised in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.
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News
Kesa enters exclusive talks to sell BUT
Anglo-French electricals giant Kesa has confirmed that it is in exclusive talks to sell its French furniture and electricals business BUT to a private equity consortium.
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News
Shopper numbers slip back on 27th
Shopper traffic fell back on December 27 as shoppers pulled their sales spending forward to Boxing Day.
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Opinion
The Retail Week - December 28, 2007
At 8am yesterday morning, the Next store at the western end of Oxford Street looked like Baghdad.
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News
Christmas spending rises
Spending by UK shoppers in the run-up to Christmas rose 3.8 per cent on last year - the best festive performance for three years, according to one of the first estimates to be published.
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News
Record Christmas for Amazon
E-tail giant Amazon.co.uk broke all its sales records this festive season, receiving orders for 950,000 items in the run-up to Christmas.
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News
Shoppers come out in force for Boxing Day Sales
Shopper numbers were up by more than a quarter on Boxing Day compared with the same day in 2006 as more retailers launched their Sales on the day this year.
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News
Second term for West End BID
Retailers have voted in favour of a second term for the New West End Company, which operates the area's Business Improvement District.
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News
Consumers hit the shops as retailers slash prices
The post-Christmas Sales season has kicked off with huge discounts on offer, as retailers compete for shrinking disposable income and try to clear excess stock.
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News
Instore snaps up Ponden Mill stores
Value retailer Instore has bought 33 of the stores that trade as Ponden Mill, the homewares retailer that went into administration last week.
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News
Carpetright sale collapses
The proposed 850 million sale of Carpetright to its founder Lord Harris has fallen victim to the credit crunch.
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News
Shoppers let down by online deliveries
A Government consumer watchdog has said complaints about the delivery of goods ordered online are up nearly 30 per cent on last year.
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News
Last-minute rush saves retailers' Christmas
A last-minute rush of shoppers is set to have rescued the Christmas performance of many retailers after shoppers flooded stores over the weekend.