All Electricals articles – Page 161

  • News

    Best Buy closes in on first stores as UK arrival nears

    2008-07-17T11:01:18Z

    Central London flagship location also under consideration as retail park deals are negotiated.

  • News

    O2 systems back on track after iPhone rush

    2008-07-16T11:48:00Z

    O2 has revealed that its IT systems are back to normal, after demand for the 3G iPhone caused its web site to crash and store systems to slow last week.

  • News

    Food prices drive inflation in June

    2008-07-15T10:48:41Z

    Soaring food and fuel prices pushed the benchmark Consumer Prices Index up 3.8 per cent in June compared with 3.3 per cent in May – almost double the Bank of England’s inflation target.

  • News

    Jessops warns on profits

    2008-07-15T09:35:45Z

    Camera specialist Jessops has warned that losses this year will be worse than last year, as tough trading conditions continue to bite.

  • Analysis

    Mounting recession speculation sends retail stocks into tailspin

    2008-07-11T09:52:00Z

    The pall of looming recession hung black over the City all week, pitching the entire market into steep decline.

  • News

    Game’s glory garners a mixed City reaction

    2008-07-11T09:47:00Z

    The City is divided over the outlook for computer entertainment specialist Game, despite a stellar update last week.

  • News

    Shoppers queue for latest iPhone

    2008-07-11T08:36:12Z

    Shoppers are queuing across the UK this morning to get their hands on the latest must-have Apple iPhone.

  • News

    Consumer spend to slow to 0.5% next year

    2008-07-10T11:00:47Z

    Consumer spending growth in the UK will slow to just 0.5 per cent next year as households face high energy and food prices and falling property values.

  • News

    Shop price rise for June stays below inflation

    2008-07-09T11:02:00Z

    June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.

  • News

    PC World facelift to be rolled out

    2008-07-04T16:20:00Z

    DSGi will roll out its revamped PC World shop format to the entire 160-store chain as it aims to reinvigorate flagging sales at the computing brand.

  • News

    Halfords adds shopper Q&A function online

    2008-07-04T10:59:00Z

    Halfords is letting customers ask product questions and answer each other’s on its web site.

  • News

    DSGi: the City view

    2008-07-04T08:00:00Z

    There were few surprises in John Browett’s first set of full-year results as chief executive of DSG International but, although the results were well-flagged, Browett struggled to convince the City that better times lie ahead.

  • Opinion

    Is electricals leaving consumers behind?

    2008-07-04T08:00:00Z

    It was Intel co-founder Gordon Moore who pointed out that the number of transistors that could be put on integrated circuits appears to double every two years.

  • News

    Retailers slide as M&S’s share dive leads wave of falling stocks

    2008-07-03T15:12:35Z

    While Marks & Spencer’s terrible performance in food grabbed the headlines on Wednesday, it was the general retailers that got a battering, as Sir Stuart Rose warned the market was at its toughest since the early 1990s.

  • Opinion

    Reinvention will be our lifeline

    2008-06-27T14:38:00Z

    Continually striving to improve everything we do will help retailers ride out this downturn

  • News

    Richer Sounds extends video demos from web to stores

    2008-06-27T12:06:00Z

    Richer Sounds is to extend its use of video demonstrations from its web site to its stores.

  • News

    Kesa: The City View

    2008-06-27T11:12:00Z

    The Anglo-French electricals combine reported a rise in retail profit of 3.1 per cent to 141.3 million in the 12 months to April 30, when revenues rose 14 per cent to 4.51 billion.

  • Opinion

    The Retail Week - June 27, 2008

    2008-06-27T09:48:12Z

    A comment from DSGi chief executive John Browett in this morning’s Times caught my eye. Describing the new training programme for the company’s UK staff announced alongside yesterday’s terrible full-year results, he said: “This is not rocket science, it’s what anyone would do.”

  • Analysis

    Foot on the pedal

    2008-06-27T08:00:00Z

    Halfords’ bold poaching of David Wild from Wal-Mart indicates that it is serious about boosting its overseas presence. But that doesn’t mean it will take its eye off the UK. George MacDonald assesses the new chief’s likely impact

  • News

    HMV social networking gets closer to full launch

    2008-06-27T08:00:00Z

    Entertainment retailer HMV will next week move a step closer to the launch of its social networking web site, Getcloser.com.