More on Me + Em – Page 240
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Gallery
Store gallery: French fashion retailer IKKS opens first UK store
French fashion and lifestyle brand IKKS has opened its first UK store on London’s Carnaby Street.
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Analysis
Analysis: As DFS and ProCook warn on profits, has the homewares sector lost its spring?
The homewares sector has enjoyed a boom over the past two years but, with DFS and ProCook issuing the latest in a string of profit warnings, has the pandemic bubble burst?
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News
ProCook warns on profits as shoppers ‘tighten their belts’ amid cost-of-living crunch
ProCook has said sales and profits for its current financial year will be behind previous forecasts as shoppers face “exceptional pressures on discretionary spend”.
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News
Reliance and Apollo team up to lodge £5bn binding bid for Boots
Reliance Retail and Apollo are understood to have made a formal offer for Boots, which would allow current owner Walgreens to retain a significant minority stake.
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Analysis
Analysis: Five things you need to know about Beauty Pie
Arriving on the scene in 2016, Beauty Pie was founded on the premise that beauty should be affordable without compromising on quality. With recent investment off the back of a year when sales grew 140%, can it change the landscape of beauty retail?
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News
Poundland parent’s sales and profits rise as UK shoppers rein in ‘essential’ spending
Poundland owner Pepco Group has said UK shoppers are “scaling back even on essential purchases” amid the cost-of-living crunch.
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News
CD&R clears final hurdle for £7bn Morrisons acquisition
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has been given the all-clear to complete its £7bn acquisition of Morrisons after the competition watchdog agreed to its offer to sell some petrol forecourts.
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Interview
The Amazon of washing machines: How Marks Electrical is taking on the titans
In a volatile and inflationary electricals market, Marks Electrical has bucked sector trends by growing both sales and market share. Retail Week speaks to chief executive Mark Smithson about how his business is outcompeting its more established rivals
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News
AO scraps German business following strategic review
Electrical goods etailer AO.com has taken the decision to close its German business after eight years of trading, following a strategic review into its performance.
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Analysis
Retail Horizon 2022: Navigating cost of living, sustainability and ‘blended retail’
From Brexit to Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to supply chain issues and soaring inflation, the power of external influences to challenge the retail industry has been relentless in recent months.
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Analysis
Retail Horizon 2022: Navigating cost of living, sustainability and ‘blended retail’
From Brexit to Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to supply chain issues and soaring inflation, the power of external influences to challenge the retail industry has been relentless in recent months.
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Opinion
‘CMA will act to protect shoppers from price fixing’
The Competition and Markets Authority receives more complaints about price fixing than any other infringement of competition law, says its senior director of antitrust Ann Pope – and it will not hesitate to clamp down on offenders
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Data
Data: New ranking reveals top 30 UK retailers by store growth
Retail Week’s latest report features new analysis of the retailers that expanded their store footprint the most from January 2019 to March 2022. It also features data from Local Data Company to show the sectors that are driving store growth and where the opportunities lie.
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Retail Voice
Four questions to help you discover if BNPL is right for your business
There is a lot to consider when adding a new payment method. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is no exception. So what questions should retailers ask before adopting BNPL, asks Checkout.com’s Renee Howard.
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News
John Lewis names first three locations for house-building scheme
John Lewis has confirmed the first three locations for its build-to-rent scheme as it aims to build 10,000 homes by 2030.
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News
Quarter of UK households turn to second-hand market to beat cost-of-living crunch
New data shows that nearly a quarter of UK households are looking to the second-hand or resale markets as they look to deal with steepling costs driven by rampant inflation.
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News
Boots freezes prices on 1,500 products as cost-of-living crunch intensifies
Boots has committed to locking the prices of its most regularly purchased own-brand product lines in a bid to “reassure” shoppers amid the growing cost-of-living crisis.
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News
Zara owner Inditex posts sales and profit rise despite Ukraine war impact
Fashion giant Inditex, owner of Zara, has reported a suresulrge in sales and profits but booked a substantial provision for the costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Retail Voice
Three reasons why retailers should switch from reactive to predictive monitoring
With flexibility now one of the linchpins of a successful business, Diebold Nixdorf’s Leyla Feghhi sets out the case for retailers using managed services to ensure they are as proactive as possible.