More on Me + Em – Page 533
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Cartoon
Retail cartoon: Old Paul Marchant had a farm, ee-eye ee-eye oh
Patrick Blower’s take on Primark training 160,000 farmers in sustainable cotton growing.
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News
Amazon pays £220m in UK taxes despite £11bn sales
Amazon paid just £220m in taxes in the UK last year, despite raking in £10.9bn from its sprawling British business.
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News
Quiz expects return to profit despite tough summer trading
Fashion retailer Quiz has said it expects to return to profitable growth in the medium term, despite reporting tough trading over the summer months.
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News
Halfords trims profit forecast amid summer sales slowdown
Halfords has trimmed its profit guidance for the second time this year after blaming poor weather and weak consumer confidence for a slump in sales.
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Dunelm profits jump as it celebrates 40th year of trading
Dunelm has delivered “a strong performance” as sales and profits rise during its 40th year of trading.
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Opinion
Opinion: Disrupting is about judging what the customer really wants
Ed Connolly, strategy director and director of John Lewis Partnership’s JLP Ventures, on how to create a corporate environment where innovation can thrive.
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Analysis
Analysis: How the St James centre will realign Edinburgh retail
The developers behind the new Edinburgh St James shopping centre believe that once completed, the scheme will put the city’s retail offering on the world stage. Retail Week explores how the scheme is playing a part in a wider realignment of the city’s traditional retail hubs.
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News
Debenhams exec Cristofoli exits in c-suite shake-up
Debenhams marketing, beauty and digital boss Richard Cristofoli is leaving the business as part of a shake-up of its senior leadership team, Retail Week can reveal.
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News
John Lewis Partnership sales continue to fall
John Lewis Partnership’s total weekly sales continued to decline as customers avoided the shops to enjoy the last of the warm weather.
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News
Boots jobs at risk as IT service roles moved overseas
Boots is set to cut a number of IT jobs at its head office in Nottingham after renewing a strategic partner contract that will see the roles moved overseas.
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News
BRC savages £16m Brexit training fund as ‘too little, too late’
The British Retail Consortium has said the government’s pledge of £16m to help businesses – including retailers which export to the EU – train staff to make customs declarations is “too little, too late”.
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News
Arcadia departure places further pressure on Green
A long-time lieutenant of Sir Philip Green’s has quit as a director of Arcadia, piling more pressure on the businessman as he looks to break up the group.
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News
Court hears Ashley wants to ‘eliminate’ Debenhams as rival
Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley wants to “eliminate a competitor” by backing a legal challenge to Debenhams’ CVA, the High Court heard.
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News
August sales flatline in ‘incredibly disappointing month for retail’
Retail sales dropped to a “new low” during August, according to the latest BRC-KPMG sales figures.
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Analysis
Is it time for retailers to make websites look less boring?
All retail websites look pretty much the same, don’t they? Grid format, with products displayed in clickable squares. Is this similarity a good thing for shoppers?
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Analysis
Analysis: Has time run out for Forever 21?
Forever 21 was the ‘American Primark’, the retailer all the teens flocked to. Now it faces bankruptcy. Retail Week looks at what went wrong and what lessons can be learned.
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News
Asda boosts sustainable fashion push with second-hand shop
Asda is trialling a pop-up shop-in-shop for second-hand clothes to encourage shoppers to recycle their unwanted garments.
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News
Italian furniture retailer Giorgetti opens first UK store
Giorgetti, the luxury Italian furniture and homeware brand, has opened its first store in the UK in London.