All Electricals articles – Page 45
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Walmart and Darty
Retail news round-up on October 27, 2015: Walmart seeks permission to test drones for home delivery and Darty has two weeks to discuss buyout with Fnac.
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Dixons Carphone buys repair firm Infocare Workshop for £10m
Dixons Carphone has bought Nordic service and repair company Infocare Workshop for £10m as it seeks to control the end-to-end customer service journey.
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Infographic: John Lewis sales rise as cooler weather fuels fashion growth
John Lewis sales jumped 4.4% to £83.4m last week as “seasonal weather” drove up fashion performance and online gained further traction.
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Maplin appoints ex-Ben Sherman executive as finance boss
Maplin has appointed Ben Sherman’s former chief operating officer as its finance boss and poached a Homebase exec to be its first ecommerce director.
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'We are not trying to develop clones' says Ao.com chief executive John Roberts
Ao.com said its biannual assessments flag up staff who do not share the etailer’s values but it was not about developing worker clones.
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John Lewis identifies 'master shopper' as customers embrace multichannel
John Lewis has declared 2015 the year of the ‘master shopper’ – a consumer who is confident to combine multiple channels to optimise their experience.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencer
Retail news round-up on October 15, 2015: Sainsbury’s ends mobile phone service deal with Vodafone and M&S launches new loyalty scheme.
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Watch: EE retail director on new store formats and the connected consumer
EE’s latest store format has opened in London. Retail Week visited and spoke to retail director Deirdre Burns about the design of the shop.
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August bank holiday drives fastest retail sales growth since January 2014
September’s like-for-likes have risen at the fastest rate since January 2014 owing to the inclusion of the late bank holiday in the month’s figures.
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Infographic: John Lewis fashion sales rise drives weekly performance
Sales at John Lewis department stores rose 3.4% to £80.2m last week in “unseasonably mild” weather.
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Analysis: How will rivals respond to Argos's same-day delivery offensive?
Argos has launched a same-day delivery service that is taking the fight to its retail rivals in the hotly contested battleground of fulfilment.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on BRC retail sales, Tesco and Dixons Carphone
Retail news round-up on October 7, 2015: Shop prices fall, Tesco’s ‘secret talks’ with SFO and Dixons Carphone names boss of consultancy business.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Ocado, Apple and Net-a-Porter
Retail news round-up on October 6, 2015: Ocado on a hiring spree, Apple buys tech start-up Perceptio and Alison Loehnis named Net-a-Porter president.
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Analysis
Need to know: The new 5p charge on single-use plastic bags
From next Monday, large retailers in England must charge at least 5p for single-use plastic bags, under new Government rules.
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French entertainment retailer Fnac bids to acquire rival Darty
French entertainment and electricals retailer Fnac has approached the board of electricals specialist Darty about acquiring its rival.
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Retail Diary: Maplin's Drone Academy and Retail Week's caption competition
Electricals retailer Maplin launches a Drone Academy, a Morrisons shopper puts the final kale in his diet coffin and enter our caption competition.
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Infographic: John Lewis weekly sale rise on demand for cold weather clothing
Sales at department store business John Lewis rose 6% last week to £78.7m as clothing performance benefited from autumn’s arrival.
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Stansted Airport signs up Oasis, Superdry and Hema to £80m refurb
Stansted Airport has signed up retailers including Oasis, Superdry and Hema to its £80m refurbishment of the international departure lounge.
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In pictures: First look inside the new Grand Central Birmingham
Grand Central Birmingham will open its doors tomorrow and centre bosses have unveiled these images ahead of the eagerly-awaited launch.
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Ao and Boohoo investors must back the management as much as the strategy
The two high-profile etailer flotations of last year, each of which subsequently disappointed, may be showing signs of getting back on track.