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FTSE 100-listed Next is the largest clothing retailer by sales in the UK, As well as stores, it has a growing marketplace platform selling brands such as Calvin Klein, Reiss, Fat Face, Joules, Dorothy Perkins, Warehouse and Ralph Lauren. It also launched its Next Total Platform, offering an online, tech and logistics solution that can be licensed by smaller fashion brands to give them an online presence. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Next and the fashion sector.

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Opinion
‘Longstanding assumptions are being challenged as retailers navigate new reality’
2 April 2025By Erin Brookes
Tough trading conditions mean that many retailers now recognise the need to strike a better balance between breadth of product and services and profitability, observes Alvarez & Marsal’s managing director Erin Brookes
Data
Data: How costs will increase for retailers in the new financial year
1 April 2025By George Arnett
This week marks the start of the new financial year for many and the coming into force of the big whammy of cost rises the retail sector has been dreading for months
Analysis
Billion, schmillion? Why Next’s Lord Wolfson is looking beyond landmark profit
27 March 2025By George MacDonald
As Next joins retail’s billion pound profit club, Lord Wolfson explains why he’s not hung up about the big number, why he is opening a new space for the first time in years, and the changing shape of the business

More on Next

Data

Charts: Next becomes the latest member of UK retail’s £1bn profit club

27 March 2025By George Arnett

Only four UK retailers have exceeded £1bn in nominal profits, with Next being the latest to join the club.

News

Next upgrades profits and sales guidance after strong start to the year

27 March 2025By Hugh Radojev

Next has upgraded its full price sales and pre-tax profit guidance for the current financial year after trading in the first eight weeks of the period were ahead of expectations.

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Shop opening figures boosted by convenience store rush
20 March 2025By George Arnett
Next signs lease on new office space in central London
10 March 2025By George Arnett
Co-op, M&S, B&M among top retailers for female representation on boards
25 February 2025By George Arnett

Retailers are considering setting up US subsidiaries to counter Trump tariffs
10 February 2025By Megan Robinson
Tracking the January Sales and whether retail prices are decreasing
6 February 2025By George Arnett
Strong discounts helped drive ‘record’ £26bn online spend over golden quarter
15 January 2025By Megan Robinson and George Arnett
Majority of retail finance heads are predicting price rises this year. Here is what retailers say
10 January 2025By Megan Robinson

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