All International articles – Page 35
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News
Tesco continues international retreat with sale of Polish business
Supermarket giant Tesco has agreed in principle the sale of its 300-plus strong Polish business and associated distribution centres and head office.
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Analysis
Analysis: What’s next for Boohoo, fashion’s new conglomerate?
Boohoo has wasted no time making good on its plan to snap up distressed fashion brands for a song in the post-pandemic retail landscape.
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News
Walmart partners with Shopify to expand marketplace proposition
Walmart has joined forces with ecommerce platform Shopify in a bid to broaden its marketplace proposition and capitalise on a surge in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Opinion
Dispatch: How Brazilian retail has innovated at the height of Covid-19
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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Opinion
Opinion: How social distancing can be ‘baked in’ to new store designs
One-way systems, hygiene stations, duct tape on the floor. All of this adds up to just one thing – retailers doing what they can to make their stores safer places for those choosing to frequent them.
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News
Updated: Ocado launches £1bn fund raise to capitalise on online shift
Ocado has launched an ambitious bid to raise £1bn in fresh funding to help it capitalise on the “significant acceleration” in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Opinion
Dispatch: How retailers can adopt a smart store reopening strategy
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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News
Gap losses spiral due to effects of coronavirus store closures
Clothing retailer Gap has reported losses of nearly $1bn due to store closures in the US and internationally during the coronavirus pandemic.
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News
Spanish giant snaps up Charlotte Tilbury makeup empire
Barcelona-based fashion and fragrance company Puig has snapped up Charlotte Tilbury in a deal that could have valued the company at up to £1bn.
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Gallery
In pictures: How international retailers have made stores safe post-lockdown
As the UK prepares to reopen ‘non-essential’ stores on June 15, we look at some of the innovative measures being deployed by retailers that are already back in business across the globe.
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Opinion
Opinion: Walmart is right – head offices must be an asset, not a burden
Retailers the world over have already had to make some huge strategic calls in their short-term responses to the coronavirus crisis.
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News
Walmart presses ahead with new HQ plan despite Covid-19 crisis
Walmart is pressing ahead with plans to launch its new headquarters despite the switch to remote working sparked by the coronavirus crisis.
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Opinion
Opinion: Carrefour must learn from the past to avoid another bout of travel sickness
Carrefour’s acquisition of 224 stores in Taiwan runs counter to recent strategic retreats from international markets of many once-global food retailers. International expansion remains a viable route to growth for food retailers, but only if the lessons of the past can be learned.
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News
Angling Direct swings to loss and blames winter flooding and store acquisitions
Specialist retailer Angling Direct reported a net loss before tax for the last financial year, which it blamed on new store acquisitions and a disappointing post-Christmas trading period.
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Opinion
Opinion: Via Outlets boss on how to cater for socially distant shopping
As Covid-19 spread across Europe and was declared a global pandemic, Via Outlets was ordered to close eight of its 11 premium fashion outlet centres spread across nine different European countries – specifically those in Central Europe and Iberia.
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Analysis
Analysis: Will Ted Baker’s new ‘growth formula’ put it back in fashion?
After enduring a torrid 2019 marred by numerous profit warnings and seismic change at management level, Ted Baker has unveiled a new strategy designed to take the business forward. Retail Week analyses whether it will be enough to return the fashion brand to its former glories
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News
Primark targets June 15 reopening for majority of stores
Value fashion giant Primark aims to open its English stores a fortnight today, by which time the majority of its international estate will be trading again.
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News
EWM owner Day accused of taking ‘undue advantage’ of clothing workers
Philip Day has been accused by Bangladeshi clothing manufacturers of taking “undue advantage” of coronavirus to cease payments on millions of pounds worth of stock.
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News
Clarks to shed 700 jobs as it launches new global strategy
Footwear specialist Clarks has said it will cut 700 jobs globally over the next 18 months as it launches a new strategy designed to future-proof the ailing business.
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Opinion
Dispatch: How UAE’s Majid Al Futtaim is adapting to Covid-19
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts who provide insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.