All General merchandise articles – Page 254
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Ideal Shopping Direct pre-tax profits drop
Ideal Shopping Direct has reported a 6.2 per cent fall in full-year pre-tax profit to 5.8 million, but pointed to an encouraging start to 2008.
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Borders unveils interactive store format in US
Borders has unveiled a ground-breaking new concept store in the US that combines traditional bricks-and-mortar retailing with the latest in digital technology.
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Luxury players fuel department store sector growth
Luxury operators are fuelling growth in the 14.7 billion UK department store sector as customers become more selective about where they spend.
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John Lewis sales back in positive territory
John Lewis sales crept back into positive territory for the week to February 23, while stablemate supermarket chain Waitrose delivered a powerful set of figures.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – February 29
Recently promoted Kingfisher chief executive Ian Cheshire is wasting no time in sweeping his new broom through the business.
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Analysis
Frill seekers
As high street retailers join the “push for posh”, blurring the line between themselves and high-end players, can luxury stores maintain their point of difference? John Ryan reports.
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Analysis
A bubble about to burst?
Luxury retail has held firm as the rest of the UK market has faltered. But can it continue to be immune to the economic slowdown? Charlotte Dennis-Jones investigates
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Jobs threatened as Argos shuts Castleford DC
Catalogue store group Argos intends to close its Castleford distribution centre in Yorkshire following a strategic review.
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Brown Thomas Dublin flagship revamp enters its final phase
Brown Thomas has begun remodelling the basement of its Dublin flagship, marking the final stage of its refurbishment.
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Fortnum’s mulls overseas moves after sales high
Fortnum & Mason is exploring further overseas opportunities after a record year of sales and the completed refurbishment of its flagship Piccadilly store.
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Liberty to raise game with more exclusives
Iconic department store Liberty is to treble its exclusive luxury brands as its customers increasingly seek a unique shopping experience in a challenging retail environment.
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Dunelm: the city view
Homewares retailer Dunelm has reported interim pre-tax profit up 24.4 per cent to 27.2 million, but warned that second-half trading will prove tougher, writes Jennifer Creevy .
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Poor John Lewis trading fuels City fears as Tesco is attacked
John Lewis’s revelation that last week’s trading was the “toughest in recent memory” spooked an already panicky City.
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Six suitors vie to buy The Works
Five private equity firms and a trade buyer are thought to be bidding to acquire The Works, which went into administration last month.
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Consumer spending slows sharply in Q4
Consumer spending in the fourth quarter of 2007 almost ground to a halt, confirming retailers’ worst fears, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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Retailers report falling sales in February
More UK retailers are reporting that sales are falling rather than growing, for the first time since November 2006, according to the CBI.
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Mother’s Day to generate £1.6bn for UK retailers
This week’s Mothering Sunday is expected to generate 1.6 billion for UK retailers, an increase of 6 per cent on 2007.
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Debenhams launches Fairtrade menswear
Debenhams has launched its Fairtrade menswear range with Sir Steve Redgrave.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – February 22, 2008
Just before Christmas, I received an e-mail from a very angry reader.
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John Lewis weekly sales 'toughest in recent memory'
Department store John Lewis suffered awful sales for the week ending February 16, as the retail slowdown finally caught up with one of the sector's best-performing chains.