All Kingfisher articles – Page 12
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AnalysisBrexit: Survival lessons from the last recession
The reduced consumer spending that is expected in the run-up to Brexit is spurring many retailers to expand overseas. What can we learn from retailers’ expansion during the credit crunch?
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AnalysisProfile: Kingfisher’s sporting new chairman Cosslett
Kingfisher revealed last week that Rugby Football Union chairman Andy Cosslett was entering the scrum as a substitute for long-standing chairman Daniel Bernard.
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AnalysisWhat’s next for Kingfisher in its five-year rebuild?
B&Q and Screwfix owner Kingfisher has completed the first leg of its five-year mission to become a unified company.
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NewsKingfisher profits rise, RFU chairman replaces Bernard
Kingfisher has revealed rising profits and like-for-likes and named Rugby Football Union chairman Andy Cosslett as its chairman, succeeding Daniel Bernard.
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NewsToday in retail: Food price hikes drive inflation
Rising food prices helped drive up inflation to 2.3% last month – its highest level for three-and-a-half years
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AnalysisAgenda: Next, Kingfisher and ScS financial updates
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with financial updates from Next, Kingfisher and ScS all on the agenda.
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InterviewWatch: Kingfisher's Woreczek talks bold leadership
Kingfisher chief customer officer Pierre Woreczek explains how strong leadership is the key to avoiding becoming lost in a busy marketplace.
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OpinionOpinion: Waitrose’s tough decisions are in its interests
Who’d have thought that just a year into his tenure, Waitrose managing director Rob Collins would be closing stores?
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DataData: Top 50 retailers by sales during 2015/16 financial year
Retail Week’s ranking of the UK’s top 50 retailers by sales for the 2015/16 financial year sees The Range, Inditex and Asos enter the table for the first time.
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NewsRetail productivity rises ahead of Government meeting
Retail productivity has climbed sharply and its rate of growth is outpacing the wider economy.
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NewsAnalysis: Return policies of the UK’s top 20 retailers
As John Lewis slashes its returns policy from 90 days to 35, we take a look at the models of the top 20 UK retailers.
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AnalysisAnalysis: When I grow up, I want to be…
Boohoo boss Carol Kane stated its ambitions to become the Inditex of etail. We explore who other retailers are looking to emulate, and what their chances of success are.
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DataData: Top 15 UK retailers by international sales
Tesco remains the UK retailer with highest level of international sales, despite some overseas retrenchment.
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NewsKingfisher third-quarter sales buoyed by UK business
B&Q owner Kingfisher has posted a 1.8% increase in like-for-like sales during its third quarter, driven by the performance of its UK division.
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NewsToday in retail: Bonmarché hit by the BHS blues
BHS’s collapse wasn’t just painful for the thousands of workers affected, it also hit troubled fashion retailer Bonmarché.
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NewsAgenda: Kingfisher, Bonmarché and Black Friday
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days with updates from Bonmarché, Kingfisher, AO.com and Mothercare preceding Black Friday.
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AnalysisInfographic: Steve Rowe on M&S closures and BRC numbers
The week in words and numbers, November 11 2016: Steve Rowe on making sacrifices for the health of M&S, Kingfisher’s Véronqiue Laury on sticking to the plan and Dixons Carphone on owning Black Friday.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Targeting the retail gender gap
Retail Week carried out a Gender Diversity Monitor to find out what the UK’s largest retailers are doing to plug the gender gap at the top.
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AnalysisBe Inspired: Creating gender diversity in the boardroom
Demand is growing for better representation of women in retail’s upper echelons, so what approaches are being used in an attempt to bring about real change?
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NewsToday in retail: Sainsbury's 'brain gain' gathers pace
It’s been a year of acquisitions for Sainsbury’s, most notably the additions of Argos and Habitat to its growing business.