More on Me + Em – Page 700
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News
Next raises full-year profit guidance as sales jump
Next has upped its full-year profit forecast after online sales spiked in its first quarter.
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News
Morrisons like-for-likes rise in 'strong' first quarter
Morrisons unveiled its 10th consecutive quarter of like-for-like growth as new ranges and store openings bore fruit.
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Analysis
Analysis: The apps that could save the high street
With footfall in decline, high streets and shopping centres are under pressure. But technologies to help mitigate this are advancing at a rate of knots.
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Retail Voice
Three ways retailers are evolving their offers
Rupert Naylor, head of EMEA at APT, a Mastercard company, shares his insights on how retailers can improve their offerings and innovate across channels.
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Opinion
Breaking down blockchain: The supply chain ledger
Blockchain is set to transform how retailers do business and bring transparency to all stages of the supply chain.
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News
Embattled tycoon Wiese steps down from New Look board
Christo Wiese has relinquished his role on the board of fashion retailer New Look.
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News
Walmart edges out Amazon with $16bn Flipkart deal
Walmart has snapped up India’s largest ecommerce retailer Flipkart for around $16bn (£11.8bn) after seeing off competition from Amazon.
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Interview
FeelUnique boss on growth ambitions and fresh investment
FeelUnique boss Joel Palix spoke to Retail Week about seeking fresh investment, international expansion and why bricks and mortar is “a headache”.
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News
Retail sales suffer steepest drop on record in April
Retail sales tumbled in April as more clement weather failed to offset ongoing non-food sales declines and the early arrival of Easter.
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Analysis
Analysis: Five international retailers making space pay
As the shockwaves of the latest retail CVA – House of Fraser – echo across the industry, the pressure mounts on traditional retailers to eke out profit from their store estate or risk suffering the same fate.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Three women who changed retail
Retail Week speaks to three female entrepreneurs whose pioneering business ideas have changed the retail landscape over the past three decades.
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Analysis
Watch: Why Amazon is 'terrible' at personalisation
Retail Week’s panel debate on data collaboration heard senior retail figures criticise Amazon for lack of personalisation despite its supposedly enviable customer data.
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Retail Voice
Why luxury brands need to take control online
Sales of luxury goods online may have challenged critics but it is time brands wrestled back control from third parties and delivered the experience customers expect.
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Opinion
How Argos’ supply chain turned it from junk into jewel
This time 10 years ago, many retail watchers were ringing the death knell for Argos. How times have changed, writes Gemma Goldfingle.
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Opinion
Opinion: CEOs are only human – and that's a good thing
Business leaders need to act human for the sake of ‘brand business’ – though it obviously depends on the human in question
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Video
Watch: Smiggle pledges ‘unwavering commitment’ to shops
At the opening of Smiggle’s biggest-ever store on Oxford Street, boss John Cheston speaks about the retailer’s “unwavering” commitment to bricks and mortar in the UK and why it’s “a bit like Beatlemania”.
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News
Co-op completes £137.5m swoop for c-store rival Nisa
The Co-op has formally completed its £137.5m acquisition of symbol group Nisa.
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Retail Voice
Five steps to unlocking value from your loyal customers
Some brands are masters of the loyalty game, with programmes that delight customers and investors alike. Oliver Gryg at Avios offers five routes to success.
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Opinion
Opinion: Are you an emotionally engaging retailer?
Those of a certain vintage may know of a Jimi Hendrix album entitled Are You Experienced, and for the past five or more years this might have been the theme for any retail conference anywhere.
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News
John Lewis scotches rumours of Amazon Waitrose approach
John Lewis Partnership has poured cold water on suggestions that it received a takeover bid from online giant Amazon for its Waitrose chain last year.