All N Brown articles – Page 16
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NewsN Brown sales hit by election uncertainty
The new government and uncertainty surrounding the measures in the emergency budget has led to a more subdued period of trading for home shopping group N Brown.
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NewsRetail recovery remains on course despite VAT rise
Leading retailers have reacted with relief to this week’s emergency Budget and are confident that it won’t derail the retail recovery.
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N Brown: Figleaves will be profitable
Home shopping specialist N Brown has vowed to return Figleaves to profitability after buying the lingerie etailer for £11.5m on Tuesday.
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NewsCity takes Q1 grocery slowdown in its stride
Grocers lagged the market as lower food price inflation contributed to lacklustre first-quarter like-for-like growth at Sainsbury’s and Tesco - 1.1% in each case before the VAT change is taken into account.
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Opinion
Growing in glamour
N Brown is known as a highly successful but not very glamorous retailer - will its purchase of lingerie retailer Figleaves change that?
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NewsN Brown snaps up Figleaves
Home shopping specialist N Brown has bought online lingerie retailer Figleaves for £11.5m.
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NewsN Brown to launch health and beauty site
N Brown will launch its first dedicated health and beauty site this year, after reporting full-year profits for the home shopping group that exceeded expectations.
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NewsN Brown to enter the US after a record year
N Brown has confirmed plans to enter the US later this year as total sales for the home shopping group grew 4.2% to £690m in the year to February 27.
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NewsCity sticks with Tesco but share price falters
Record results from Tesco failed to help either the grocer’s or its peers’ shares, which all fell over the week.
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AnalysisOnline retail demographics: the law of averages
The average age of internet buyers in Europe is 40. Does this mean multichannel has become truly mass market, and are there still distinctions in the way different groups shop? Joanna Perry investigates
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NewsN brown eyes mature shoppers
Home shopping group N Brown has launched two brands targeting men aged 45 to 60 and women aged 50 to 64.
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NewsN Brown to launch plus-size menswear
N Brown, the internet and home shopping group, is to launch a plus-size menswear brand called Williams & Brown
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NewsRWC2010: Multichannel retailers debate future role of catalogues
N Brown chief executive Alan White has said the ultimate goal for multichannel retailers is to ditch catalogues and concentrate on digital sales.
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AnalysisCelebrity non-executives: What is the benefit of hiring a famous director?
A retail board may bask in the reflected glory of hiring a famous non-executive, but what are the real benefits and are they ever more than window dressing? Joanna Perry reports
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OpinionMultichannel retail’s pioneers
A decade after the dotcom crash, online and multichannel retail are firmly established. But as entrepreneurs quest for transformational business models, the multichannel merits of older companies should not be overlooked
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NewsConsumer fears overshadow ‘super Thursday’ updates
Retail shares slid following last week’s ‘super Thursday’ round of updates and brokers have warned store stocks might now stall.
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NewsN Brown eyes Scala Collections’ home shopping womenswear brands to lift offer
Home shopping group N Brown Group is understood to be running a slide rule over Isle of Wight-based home shopping business Scala Collections as it looks to grow its offer.
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OpinionBreaking into new markets with clicks not bricks
One of the best things that the Internet has allowed retailers to do is test new markets in a relatively low-risk, inexpensive way.
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NewsCity freezes out retail despite solid results
Despite many retailers delivering impressive Christmas performances, store stocks - other than the grocers’ - were in deep freeze in a flat market.