All Next articles – Page 53
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Next to ramp up sales with customer magazine launch
Next is to launch a customer magazine that it hopes will drive sales at its Directory business.
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Debenhams continues to gain market share
Debenhams has continued to increase its clothing market share, while Marks & Spencer has made gains and Next’s market share losses have slowed.
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The Rock set to be star of Bury town centre
Construction is underway on a 350 million regeneration scheme in Bury town centre.
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Next: The City View
The trading climate’s harshness was highlighted by the sigh of relief and share-price rise that greeted Next’s 8.9 per-cent like-for-like first-quarter sales fall.
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The sun is out at last
The long-awaited sun may be starting to shine on fashion retailers if Next’s interim management statement is anything to go by.
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Next sales plummet
Fashion giant Next has revealed a slump in first-quarter sales this morning and blamed bad weather and the economic downturn.
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Next set for poor first quarter
The City fears fashion group Next may report a like-for-like sales slump of as much as 10 per cent tomorrow, when the retailer updates on first-quarter trading.
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Next takes Home Retail to court over copycat furniture claims
Fashion-to-homewares retailer Next has begun legal action against Argos over alleged design infringement of its children’s bedroom furniture range Storm.
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OpinionThe customer is always right…
Another week, another tale of fashion sector woe. More retailers took a battering in the headlines this week.
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NewsOn the critical list
Retail in the emergency room as it faces the harshest trading conditions since the 1990s, with the worst still to come
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Next plans new bonus scheme to revive share price
The bonus scheme introduced by Next in 2004 could be re-instigated by the retailer for its directors and executives, in an effort to drive its share price up, according to the Financial Times .
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When bling is not the thing
It’s always interesting to witness the progress of a store format from first iteration to fully evolved interior and a good example of the process at work is the manner in which Next has approached its Home format.
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Next takes on M&S in the technology arena
Fashion giant Next has added technology and fitted kitchen areas to its Next Home format in an attempt to keep pace with rival Marks & Spencer.
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Do centres have it covered?
While those who booked Easter weekends by the sea were cursing the British weather, UK shopping centres – with their covered roofs – hit the jackpot.
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Wolfson confident in Next as tough year looms
Fashion group Next sees little prospect of an improvement in consumer spending in the next year.
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Next chiefs to miss out on £13m win as share price gamble fails
As Next chief executive Simon Wolfson prepares to post results ahead of expectations he and senior managers face losing out on a 13 million windfall.
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Moss Bros shares spike as offer from Baugur fuels investor fight
Menswear retailer Moss Bros was the week’s biggest riser as a bad-tempered battle for control raged. Members of the founding families, the board and associates of potential buyer Baugur all laid into each other, which can hardly be helping store performance.
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Next launches Brand Directory
Next has launched its branded young fashion web site Brand Directory, following a soft launch on its own web site at the end of last year.
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Next tipped as bid target for M&S
Credit Suisse has suggested that Next could be a bid target for Marks & Spencer, arguing that investors do not appreciate the extent of the structural problems facing Next.
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Poor John Lewis trading fuels City fears as Tesco is attacked
John Lewis’s revelation that last week’s trading was the “toughest in recent memory” spooked an already panicky City.