All Footwear articles – Page 20
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Gallery
Store gallery: JD’s new store heads for the great outdoors
Ultimate Outdoors is the latest store offering from JD Sports, caters for everyone heading for hill, fell and lake. Retail Week takes a look.
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News
Marketing campaign: Foot Locker hires forgetful basketball players
All you need is a short memory to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time claims the new Foot Locker advert.
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Interview
Q&A: Hotter Shoes chairman and former N Brown chief executive Alan White
Alan White, Hotter Shoes chairman and former N Brown chief executive speaks to Retail Week about his proudest achievement in retail.
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Opinion
Comment: Sales knowledge is vital to ecommerce success
Retailers must leverage knowledge of their customers’ needs to optimise their ecommerce offers if they want to succeed in online retail.
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Opinion
Comment: How mass-market retailers can tap into the ‘Ramadan rush’
The UK’s mass-market retailers have sometimes been unsure of how best to attract greater numbers of international shoppers to their stores.
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News
Phone and footwear retailers compete for La Senza stores
Vodafone, EE and O2 are among the retailers battling it out for collapsed retailer La Senza’s store estate, it is understood.
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News
Retail sales volumes rebound in July driven by the warm weather
Retail sales volumes returned to growth in the year to July, rebounding “solidly” due to the hot summer weather.
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Interview
Q&A: Coast's global digital and strategy director Jess Shepherd
Jess Shepherd, global digital and strategy director of Coast talks to Retail Week her proudest achievement and the England rugby team.
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Analysis
Analysis: Retailers and shopping centres join forces for new apprenticeship
The BCSC Educational Trust and the National Skills Academy for Retail have teamed up with Primark and Hammerson to launch a new apprenticeship. Retail Week takes a look at the project.
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Analysis
Analysis: Why did M&S’s new website fail to click into place?
Marks & Spencer’s relaunched website suffered a sales decline – could the retailer have succeeded with greater attention to customer needs?
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News
Inflation records sharp increase to 1.9% in June
Inflation has jumped sharply to 1.9% in the year to June from 1.5% in May, driven by clothing price rises.
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Analysis
Analysis: BRC-KPMG June Retail Sales Monitor, sector by sector
UK retail like-for-like sales fell 0.8% in June, the lowest growth for three years, according to the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.
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Gallery
Store gallery: Scotland’s retail offer under the spotlight
As Scotland prepares itself to vote on whether to go it alone, how distinct is the retail offering in Edinburgh and Glasgow?
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Gallery
Store gallery: NikeLab 1948 takes sportswear off the beaten track
Nike’s Shoreditch store combines style with substance to create a retail environment that is as much about marketing as it is about sportswear.
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Interview
Q&A: Molly Freshwater, founder, Secret Linen Store
Molly Freshwater, founder of Secret Linen Store talks to Retail Week about her first retail job and what keeps her up at night.
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Analysis
Analysis: Fashion retail report explores how to take fashion forward
Fashion is set to be the retail success of 2014 but experts at Retail Week and Land Securities fashion report launch warn of remaining challenges.
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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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News
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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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Sports Direct, Greggs and the IoD
Retail news round-up on July 2, 2014: Sports Direct boss on Adidas, Greggs expects profit and IoD concerned about bonus proposal.
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News
Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Burberry, Sports Direct, Carphone and Net-a-Porter
Retail news round-up on July 1, 2014: Burberry appoints digital vice president, Sports Direct quashes rumours it is to buy Office and more.