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Lakeland 'disappointed' as annual profits halve to £3m after investment
Lakeland has reported a “disappointing” set of results as its profits for the year halved after it invested heavily and cut prices.
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Topps Tiles expects annual pre-tax profit to surge 30%
Topps Tiles expects pre-tax profit to have surged 30% in the current financial year owing to its “relentless” focus on growing market share.
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Analysis
Analysis: The final pitches at John Lewis’s technology incubator JLab
The winner of John Lewis’s start-up competition will be announced on Sunday. Retail Week went to hear the final presentations from the five finalists.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Tesco
Retail news round-up on September 24, 2014: Tesco departing finance chief ‘absent’ since April; Auditors warn Tesco’s rivals of accounting fiasco.
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Dixons Carphone hits out at PwC claims of limited interest in Phones 4u stores
Dixons Carphone said it is “surprised and disappointed” that Phones 4u’s administrator PwC said there was “limited interest” in the collapsed phone retailer’s stores.
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Mothercare to reveal new store designs this autumn as it bids for recovery
Mothercare will trial two new store designs this autumn as boss Mark Newton-Jones seeks to revive the retailer on the back of a £100m rights issue.
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Analysis
Analysis: Tesco’s Robin Terrell and Jason Tarry profiled
UPDATED: Tesco multichannel director Robin Terrell and clothing boss Jason Tarry have both been handed new roles as part of the grocer’s reshuffle, unveiled on Monday.
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Opinion
Marketing campaign: Notonthehighstreet.com chooses a life less ordinary
Viewers are asked to ‘choose a life less ordinary’ in Notonthehighstreet.com’s new ad campaign.
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Peacocks owner Edinburgh Woollen Mill group buys Internacionale IP
Peacocks owner Edinburgh Woollen Mill group has acquired the intellectual property of value retailer Internacionale, it is understood.
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Analysis
Analysis: The six key elements of Mothercare's strategic plan
Mothercare hopes to raise £100m from a rights issue and has identified six key areas for investment. Retail Week looks at exactly where the money will be spent.
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Analysis
Tesco in turmoil: Will the grocery ombudsman get involved?
Tesco shocked the City yesterday by revealing it had discovered pre-tax profits for the last six months have been overstated by £250m.
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John Lewis hires Sienne Veit to new position of online product director
John Lewis has bolstered its multichannel team with the appointment of Sienne Veit to the newly created role of director, online product.
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Opinion
Comment: Mothercare's rights issue will allow focus on customers
Tight cost control is a retail basic but on its own it’s rarely enough to build a business and persuade the shopper to open her purse.
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Asda maintains share growth as Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons suffer declines
Asda remains the only one of the big four grocers to have grown its market share as Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s suffered falls.
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Tesco chairman under pressure after board rejected warnings from auditors
Tesco chairman Sir Richard Broadbent is facing further pressure after it has emerged the grocer’s board dismissed warnings from its own auditor about how it was accounting for commercial deals with suppliers.
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Mothercare to raise £100m from rights issue to invest in digital transformation
Mothercare is seeking to raise about £100m by launching a rights issue as part of an ambition to make the company a “digitally led” business.
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Phones 4u administrator closes 362 stores with loss of 1,697 jobs
Phones 4u’s administrator PwC is closing 362 of the retailer’s stores permanently with the loss of 1,697 store staff.
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Tesco persuades M&S to release CFO Alan Stewart early amid accounting crisis
Tesco’s new chief financial officer, Alan Stewart, will join the grocer today after a deal was struck with Marks & Spencer to terminate his contract early.
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Breakfast briefing: Retail news on Tesco, M&S and Dixons Carphone
Retail news round-up on September 23, 2014: Tesco strikes deal with M&S to get Alan Stewart on board early, Sir Richard Broadbent undert pressure to quit as Tesco chairman, Dixons Carphone proceeds with plan to buy 50 to 100 Phones 4u stores.
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Analysis
International analysis: Click-and-collect finally gains momentum in US grocery
The click-and-collect trend is finally gaining momentum among America’s largest grocers.