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News
Agenda: Debenhams updates the market
Retail Week looks ahead to the next seven days, with a preliminary update from Debenhams on the agenda.
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Watch: Testing Tesco and Dixons Carphone’s tie-up
Retail Week visits Tesco Extra in Milton Keynes to see how the first Dixons Carphone shop-in-shops are shaping up three months into the fledgling partnership.
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Data: Fashion sales back in growth after 14-month slump
The UK fashion market returned to growth last month as full-price sales boosted the sector’s performance.
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Move of the week: Bier’s Flying Tiger Copenhagen return
There’s a received wisdom in the sporting world that you should never go back to your old team in a bid to recapture former glories – think Kevin Keegan at Newcastle or Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool.
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Today in retail: Harrods boosted by Brexit Britain
Harrods was boosted by the influx in foreign tourists over its last full-year, becoming a rare retail beneficiary of the weakened pound.
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Shop Direct’s Barclay brothers to scoop £200m in deal
Shop Direct owners the Barclay brothers will receive over £200m in a refinancing deal, following their decision to abandon a sale of the business.
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Retail sales slide in September amid price rises
Retail sales volumes declined 0.7% in September, reversing a jump in August, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Debenhams appoints former HoF executive Adams to board
Debenhams has appointed former House of Fraser deputy chief executive David Adams as a non-executive director.
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Games Workshop sales and profits 'well above' last year
Fantasy game specialist Games Workshop has said that its sales and profits are running “well above” the level they were at last year.
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Wickes like-for-likes slow in ‘difficult’ market
Wickes like-for-like growth slowed to 2.4% in its third quarter as it faced an “increasingly difficult market environment”.
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Jacques Vert chief executive Shaun Wills exits
Shaun Wills, the chief executive of Jacques Vert owner Calvetron Brands, has left the business, four months after it was bought out of administration.
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Analysis
The City should give Debenhams’ Bucher breathing space
As the department store market comes under greater pressure perhaps than ever before, the job of turning around Debenhams looks more and more demanding.
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Harrods profits soar as tourists snap up Brexit bargains
Sales and profits surged at Harrods during its last financial year as foreign shoppers capitalised on the weak pound to snap up cheaper luxury goods.
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Tesco Labs partners with Israeli start-up platform
Tesco has partnered with Israel’s leading venture capital firm JVP on its new start-up platform.
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Data
Infographic: Achieving a personalisation data utopia
Understanding consumer behaviour and attitudes to your business will be the next stage of personalisation, retailers say.
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Analysis
The Amazon way: a five-step guide for all retailers
A force to be reckoned with, Amazon has quickly set the standard for all consumer-facing businesses. So what can retailers learn from the global giant?
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Analysis
Sainsbury’s job cuts shows tech's effect on workforce
Sainsbury’s is far from the only retailer seeking to streamline its business amid turbulent times, but today’s staffing overhaul attracted plenty of attention.
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Today in retail: Sainsbury’s cuts are a necessary evil
Sainsbury’s revelation that it is axing 2,000 roles as it restructures its human resources team represents a painful but necessary move.
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Zalando profits fall as it launches beauty offer
Zalando has reported a rise in revenues and fall in profits as it unveiled plans to roll out a beauty offer and accompanying concept store next year.
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Tapi losses widen amid ‘aggressive’ store expansion
Tapi – the flooring retailer set up by Martin Harris, son of Carpetright founder Lord Harris – racked up pre-tax losses of £10.2m in 2016.