All Fashion articles – Page 390
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Marks & Spencer benefits from focus on full-price fashion sales
Reduced promotions and a customer shift towards ‘better’ and ‘best’ product helped Marks & Spencer make progress in the key clothing category in the first quarter.
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Marks & Spencer boss Bolland: 'There’s no problem with our new website'
Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland has denied there are problems with its new online platform and pledged web growth in time for peak trading.
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Marks & Spencer like-for-likes edge up but website hits sales
Marks & Spencer UK like-for-likes edged up 0.3% but sales from the retailer’s relaunched website fell 8.1% over its first quarter.
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Analysis
Infographic: Which retailers are leading the way in the cycling sector?
As the Tour de France speeds though the UK, Retail Week compares the figures of four leading retailers in the cycling sector.
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Opinion
Comment: La Senza’s Oxford Street flagship tells a story
Can the cost of creating flagships in high-profile locations really be justified or are they large nails in retail coffins?
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Phase Eight's owner explores sale of fashion retailer
Phase Eight’s private equity owner Towerbrook is considering putting the fashion retailer up for sale.
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Burberry could face investor revolt over boss Christopher Bailey's pay
Burberry has attempted to clarify why it has awarded a £440,000 allowance to newly appointed boss, Christopher Bailey.
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Analysis
Fashion price tracker: Weekly womenswear data
Keep track of womenswear retailers’ average online price per item and percentage of products on markdown.
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Opinion
Blog: 'Cool Britannia' rules in fashion so use it to your advantage
There’s something of a ‘Cool Britannia’ vibe going on in fashion at the moment and shoppers around the world are desperate to snap up goods from Blighty.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Mothercare, Burberry, The Body Shop and more
Retail news round-up on July 7, 2014: Mothercare faces increased takeover bid, Burberry attempts to clarify boss Christopher Bailey’s payout and The Body Shop full-year sales and profits jump
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Analysis
The Spanish retail market: What do retailers need to know?
As Poundland launches its first Spanish store in the Costa del Sol, Retail Week looks at the country’s retail market.
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Opinion
Comment: Retailers should embrace the new world of digital sharing
Smart retailers have begun to realise that they need to change their strategy for engaging with customers.
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London’s Regent Street to be transformed for Summer Streets festival
The Summer Streets festival starts this Sunday at Regent Street and will celebrate Magnum’s 25th birthday with food, fashion and ice cream.
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Infographic: John Lewis sales rise 8.1% as shoppers snap up Sale bargains
John Lewis sales rose 8.1% to £87.27m in the week to June 28 as customers snapped up bargains in its clearance Sale.
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Sports Direct shareholders plan AGM protest over Mike Ashley's bonus
Sports Direct shareholders are expected to vote against the re-election of the chairman Keith Hellawell and other board members at September’s AGM in protest at Mike Ashley’s bonus.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Amazon, Sports Direct and John Lewis
Retail news round-up on July 4, 2014: Brussels looks into Amazon’s tax, Sports Direct shareholders to vote against board members, John Lewis promotes communications head
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Opinion
Comment: We must take steps to diversify the retail industry
In March Vince Cable gave an interview to The Guardian in which he accused the UK’s top companies of neglecting racial diversity in their boardrooms and urged business to use a wider talent pool when making appointments.
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Fashion etailer Zalando is ready to weather the British summer
Fashion etailer Zalando has recruited a weatherman to keep its seasonal offerings weather appropriate in the changeable British climate.
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Cath Kidston international sales poised to outstrip UK
The British retailer predicts its overseas sales will overtake the UK this year as it prepares to open more stores in Asia and the Middle East.
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Opinion
Comment: M&S’s reshuffle raises questions on succession
Marks & Spencer perhaps flagged the shape of things to come for retail more widely when it rejigged top management responsibilities this week.