All Boots articles – Page 24
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News
Business rates top the agenda at BRC summit as online tax is dismissed
Tackling unfair business rates was top of the agenda at the BRC retail summit for finance directors as an online retail tax was dismissed.
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Analysis
Independence Day: Seven ways America changed UK retail
As Americans get out their flags and fire up their barbeques in celebration of their independence, Retail Week looks at how the US has helped mould UK retail.
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News
Major retailers line up to give evidence to the retail inquiry
Alliance Boots, Tesco and Marks & Spencer are among a wave of big name retailers set to criticise the business rates system when they give evidence to the retail inquiry next week.
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Opinion
Comment: Nick Bubb on 25 years of dramatic change in retail
Retailing in 25 years time will be very different, but it will change as dramatically as it has in the last 25 years?
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Opinion
Blog: The problem of business rates is here to stay
This week proved that the crucial issue of business rates is not going to go away for the retail sector nor for the Government as the extortionate costs retailers are facing once again grabbed column inches.
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Interview
Q&A: Alliance Boots launches product trial in Hong Kong, says health and beauty boss Alex Gourlay
Alliance Boots reported a 6.1% increase in trading profit to £1.27bn despite a 2.6% fall in revenue to £22.4bn in its full-year to March 31. Retail Week speaks to health and beauty chief exeutive Alex Gourlay.
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News
Alliance Boots prepares for overseas etail drive
Health and beauty retailer Alliance Boots is to kick-start online overseas expansion as part of plans to make Boots a global brand.
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News
Boots full year profits soar despite sales fall
Alliance Boots has reported a 6.1% increase in trading profit to £1.27bn despite a 2.6% fall in revenue to £22.4bn during what executive chairman Stefano Pessina dubbed a “transformational year”.
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News
Boots partners with Weetabix in pay-by-picture trial
Boots has teamed up with breakfast cereal Weetabix to enable customers to purchase a breakfast snack with a picture of it.
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News
Retailers offer up staff to support Portas Pilot schemes
Major retailers have pledged their support to the Portas Pilot schemes by offering up representatives to help the town teams involved in the projects.
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News
Alliance Boots to cut 200 jobs at Nottingham manufacturing base
Alliance Boots will cut 200 jobs over the next two years at its manufacturing site in Nottingham so it can invest in better technology.
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News
Retailers meet with Government to debate high street's future
The Government’s new Future High Streets Forum, co-chaired by Alliance Boots’ health and beauty boss Alex Gourlay, met for the first time today to attempt to plot a course for the high street’s recovery.
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Opinion
Comment: Private companies prosper at Oracle Retail Week Awards
Entries for two thirds of last week’s 18 Oracle Retail Week Awards came from the contenders themselves.
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Analysis
Oracle Retail Week Awards: Alliance Boots’ Stefano Pessina takes home leader prize
Stefano Pessina won the 2013 Clarity Search Retail Leader of the Year award. Tiffany Holland finds out why he’s ahead of the pack.
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News
Retail Week Live: Better insight needed to boost loyalty
Retailers have to work harder to get customer insight right, delegates at Retail Week Live have heard.
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Gallery
In pictures: Day one at Retail Week Live 2013
Photos from day one at Retail Week Live including Vince Cable, Chris Brook-Carter and Asda boss Andy Clarke.
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News
Boots launches ready meals through Shapers brand
Boots is today launching its first range of healthy evening meals under its lunchtime Shapers brand as the health and beauty retailer further grows its food offer.
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News
Dogs saved by watchdog
The UK isn’t called a nation of animal lovers for nothing, with both Boots and Morrisons attracting complaints for their Christmas ads this year.
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News
Retail chairmen cautiously optimistic for 2013
The chairmen of some of the UK’s largest retailers are cautiously optimistic about their companies’ growth prospects despite accepting a low growth economy as the “new normal”.
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News
Morrisons appoints new customer director Crawford Davidson
Morrisons has appointed former Tesco and Boots executive Crawford Davidson as customer director to bolster its marketing team.