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Future Leaders
Be Inspired: entries open for 2019 mentoring programme
Retail Week’s diversity initiative offers a year of mentoring with 20 senior leaders from brands including Coty, Jack Wills and Nisa.
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News
Agenda: Sainsbury's, Next and N Brown update the market
Retail Week looks ahead to the next six days with updates on the agenda from Sainsbury’s, Next and N Brown.
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News
Debenhams launches CVA as torrid trading continues
Debenhams has launched its CVA proposal and revealed trading has continued to suffer, with like for likes spiralling in the six months to March.
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News
Cotswold Outdoor owner launches CVA in bid to slash rents
Cotswold Outdoor’s parent company Outdoor & Cycle Concepts has launched a CVA proposal in a bid to stem falling profits, Retail Week has learned.
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News
Amazon posts record profits as first-quarter income doubles
Amazon has posted its fourth successive quarter of record profits as its first-quarter income more than doubled.
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Analysis
In pictures: What Debs and HoF can learn from Galeries Lafayette
The opening of a new Galeries Lafayette department store on Paris’ Champs-Élysées is a lesson in what is possible in creating a point of difference.
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Opinion
Opinion: Will CVA rent reductions cut retailers' business rates?
2018 was dubbed the year of the CVA, allowing firms battling the structural changes taking place across Britain’s embattled high streets to not only close unprofitable stores hit by increasing cost pressures but to also seek rent reductions, often between 20% and 75%.
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Retail Voice
Two easy ways to make product returns profitable
Traditionally an area of loss for retailers, product returns can instead become an opportunity to increase revenue and customer satisfaction.
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News
Laura Ashley issues second profit warning this year
Laura Ashley has issued its second profit warning this year after cautioning full-year profits would come in “significantly below market expectations.”
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Video
Watch: Are consumers losers from Sainsbury's-Asda verdict?
After the competition watchdog vetoed the Sainsbury’s-Asda merger, TCC Global insights director Bryan Roberts joins the team to discuss whether the decision will do more harm than good for consumers.
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Analysis
Analysis: Has the CMA killed grocery M&A?
The CMA has blocked the proposed merger between big-four titans Sainsbury’s and Asda, saying the union would cause a ’substantial lessening of competition’ in UK grocery. What does its verdict mean for the future of the sector?
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News
Superquinn chain founder Feargal Quinn dies
Retailer and former Irish senator Feargal Quinn has died at home following a short illness.
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Opinion
Opinion: CMA is wrong to kibosh Sainsbury's-Asda deal
It is not the job of the CMA to throw a protective arm around moribund businesses unable to adapt to changing competitive conditions.
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Analysis
Analysis: What next for Sainsbury's and Asda?
Almost a year to the day since unveiling plans for a landmark £13bn merger, Sainsbury’s and Asda have been told they must each go solo.
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News
Shop Direct transfers returns centre to logistics provider
Shop Direct will be transferring its Greater Manchester returns and fulfilment centre to Clipper Logistics, ahead of plans to shut three of its sites by 2020.
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News
Carpetright 'will be profitable next year'
Carpertright is on track to be profitable next year after reporting a “significant improvement” in like for likes during its fourth quarter.
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Opinion
Opinion: Sainsbury's results could be final act for Coupe and Co
It seems bizarre to even consider describing the full-year results of one of Britain’s largest retailers as a sideshow.
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News
75,000 retail jobs lost in first three months of 2019
75,000 retail jobs were lost in the first quarter of the year, as bricks-and-mortar retailers continue to be affected by increasing online sales.