All Electricals articles – Page 160

  • Analysis

    Olympic hopefuls

    2008-08-14T09:20:49Z

    As the London 2012 Olympics nears, British retailers need to prepare themselves for a once in a lifetime opportunity. Lisa Berwin reports.

  • News

    Comet deputy managers face redundancy

    2008-08-13T09:43:58Z

    Electricals retailer Comet is to make the post of store deputy manager redundant, in a move that is likely to mean more than 100 staff lose their jobs.

  • News

    Inflation hits 4.4 per cent

    2008-08-12T10:00:35Z

    Inflation has hit 4.4 per cent, more than twice the Government’s 2 per cent target and up by the highest amount since the Consumer Prices Index began in 1997.

  • News

    UK retail sales slip further

    2008-08-12T08:28:18Z

    UK like-for-like retail sales fell 0.9 per cent in July compared with the same month last year.

  • News

    DSGi to review Italian and Spanish stores

    2008-08-11T08:47:56Z

    DSG International is understood to have instructed Citigroup to carry out a strategic review of its Italian and Spanish chains with a view to possibly selling the businesses.

  • News

    Carphone axes commission

    2008-08-07T11:47:53Z

    Focus on service drives mobile phone retailer to radical pay restructure.

  • News

    DSGi to move Irish Dixons purely online as it steps up multichannel

    2008-08-07T11:41:45Z

    DSGi is to rebrand its Dixons stores in Ireland under the Currys brand and focus the Dixons brand solely online.

  • Analysis

    Tuned in

    2008-08-07T09:29:29Z

    If you think music in stores is merely background pleasantry, think again. It affects the way shoppers move, think and spend, as Charlotte Hardie discovers.

  • News

    Carphone to invest in staff scheduling tool

    2008-08-06T11:18:00Z

    Carphone Warehouse is to roll out an employee scheduling system to stores across seven European countries.

  • News

    Consumer confidence plummets again

    2008-08-06T08:38:17Z

    Consumers are becoming increasingly nervous, with consumer spending growth expected to slow to just 0.5 per cent next year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

  • News

    Best Buy reveals aggressive expansion plans

    2008-08-05T08:43:24Z

    US electricals giant Best Buy plans to launch as many as 200 stores in the UK over the long term, according to the Financial Times .

  • News

    Consumer confidence nosedives

    2008-07-31T09:47:10Z

    Consumer confidence has plummeted to an all-time low as concerns over the economy and finances take hold.

  • News

    Retailers rethink business travel

    2008-07-31T09:29:10Z

    More than half of retailers say they have changed the way they consider business travel out of concern for the environment, a survey has revealed.

  • News

    Carphone seals Best Buy deal

    2008-07-31T09:06:04Z

    Carphone Warehouse has completed its deal with US electricals giant Best Buy to launch a European retail business.

  • News

    Argos distribution workers to strike

    2008-07-30T12:57:00Z

    Argos distribution staff are to go on strike over pay, after they rejected a renewed offer from the retailer.

  • News

    July sales volumes plummet

    2008-07-29T11:31:34Z

    The Summer Sales have bought no respite for beleaguered retailers as they reported plummeting sales volumes in July.

  • News

    Rent revolt

    2008-07-24T16:23:10Z

    Campaign to abolish quarterly rent gathers pace as raft of retailers join forces.

  • News

    BrightHouse pushes South as sales surge

    2008-07-24T15:53:11Z

    Sales at rent-to-buy specialist BrightHouse jumped 18 per cent in the first quarter and like-for-like growth was in double digits.

  • News

    Halfords: the city view

    2008-07-24T15:21:28Z

    Car accessories and bikes retailer Halfords has bolstered its pole market position, revealing a total sales rise of 1.7 per cent, writes Nicola Harrison.

  • News

    Share bounce does little to ease pressure as City remains bullish

    2008-07-24T15:18:38Z

    Retailers rallied after the misery of the past few weeks, but the mood among many sector analysts remained resolutely downbeat.