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Carpetright to desert expensive retail parks
Carpetright is aiming to shift 90 per cent of its store portfolio from high-rent A1 retail parks to bulky-goods parks to better weather the economic downturn.
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Opinion
It’s bad, but it’ll get worse
No offence to Beales, but it’s come to something when it’s capitalised at three times as much as the two quoted sofa retailers.
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Carpetright to up staff communication
Carpetright will roll out a store communications system to its 550 shops and concessions in the UK and Ireland.
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Retailers slide as M&S’s share dive leads wave of falling stocks
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.
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Matalan seals deal to launch in Middle East
Matalan is to make its overseas debut in the Middle East, with 15 stores opening in the region over the next five years. The value fashion retailer, which this week revealed an 89 per cent increase in full-year pre-tax profits to 53.2 million, has signed an agreement with a ...
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NewsProCook becomes latest victim of crunch as it falls into administration
The credit crunch claimed yet another high street victim this week, as kitchen and cookware retailer ProCook plunged into administration.
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ScS sold to private equity firm
ScS has been sold to Sun European Partners for an undisclosed sum.
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Cookware retailer ProCook enters administration
Kitchen equipment and cookware retailer ProCook has gone into administration.
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Carpetright's Harris fears tough year
Carpetright has warned that trade is tough as it revealed a 7.6 per cent increase in underlying pre-tax profit to 62.1 million.
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AnalysisSharper Focus: reinventing the DIY retailer
Ailing DIY retailer Focus is being reinvented by its management team. John Ryan visits the first new-look store in Wantage, with chief executive Bill Grimsey and brand director Richard Bird
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Ikea turns to emerging markets for growth
Ikea is shifting its focus for expansion towards developing markets such as China, Russia and Eastern Europe in the wake of the consumer spending downturn.
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Focus raises curtain on new store format
Focus has opened its first new-look store since it was bought by Cerberus for 1 last June.
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Robert Dyas changes tactics on promotions
Private equity-backed hardware and home store Robert Dyas is to switch its promotional strategy to attract more regular shoppers rather than one-off visitors.
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Trading trauma forces Ilva into administration
Ilva has become the latest big-ticket retailer to hit the buffers as the downturn bites.
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Land of Leather poised for £15m rescue deal
Sofas retailer Land of Leather is to launch incentives for key staff through a programme of options and awards once its 15 million share placing has been completed.
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Robert Dyas changes tactics on promotions
Private equity-backed hardware and home store Robert Dyas is to switch its promotional strategy to attract more regular shoppers rather than one-off visitors.
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Ilva Furniture collapses
Ilva Furniture has gone into administration becoming the latest big-ticket retailer to be hit by the downturn, Retail Week can reveal.
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Wyevale appoints marketing and ecommerce boss
Wyevale, the garden centre group controlled by tycoon Sir Tom Hunter, has poached a Homebase executive for a senior role.
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B&Q and Morrisons are first retailers to be awarded Carbon Trust Standard
B&Q and Morrison’s are the two retailers among the first 12 companies to be awarded the new Carbon Trust Standard for tackling climate change.
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Shoppers to spend less in summer Sales
UK shoppers will spend an average of 305.90 each in the summer Sales this year, but just 8 per cent will spend more than they did last summer, according to research by Sainsbury’s Finance.