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Best Buy to cut 400 jobs in cost saving initiative
Electronics retailer Best Buy is cutting 400 jobs at its Richfield, Minnesota headquarters in an effort to save $150m (£99.6m).Store assistants will not be included in the restructuring and no store closures are planned.However, additional cost-reduction initiatives are likely to follow over the rest of the year.Separately, the retailer has ...
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OpinionComment: Retailers - have you hired a head of mobile yet?
Apple’s share price has taken a hammering, and the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak suggested it might be losing its “cool” status.
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AnalysisRestructuring for online growth: What retailers need to know
As sales rise faster online than in traditional bricks and mortar stores, retailers are starting to restructure to reflect this shift.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Superquinn’s Feargal Quinn - setting the right retail example
In this extract from his new book legendary retailer Feargal Quinn, founder of Superquinn, shares his thoughts on leadership.
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AnalysisPeople: Retail's main job moves in January
2013 arrived with a bang in the retail sector and has taken its toll on the High Street. The administrations put thousands of jobs at risk, and high profile names such as HMV’s Trevor Moore are among the casualties.
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OpinionComment: Online and multichannel retailing have misleading job titles
What’s in a name? Quite a lot actually, because in the world of online and multichannel retailing, job titles can be quite misleading. This confusion can have all sorts of effects.
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OpinionBlog: Retailers line up for etail's top jobs
N Brown’s hire of The Original Factory Shop boss Angela Spindler as its new chief executive was a surprise to some who were expecting the home shopping group to opt for an online veteran.
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AnalysisProfile: Angela Spindler, N Brown's new chief executive
Angela Spindler, boss of discount retailer The Original Factory Shop, was unveiled as N Brown’s new chief executive this morning. Retail Week takes a look at her credentials.
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OpinionComment: Let’s be bold and shout about what retail has to offer
“We could be the ones who step up for our heroes just as they stood for us.” I heard Walmart’s US president Bill Simon telling the National Retail Federation conference in New York.
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AnalysisProfile: John Lewis' new online director Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis, chief executive of parcel delivery service Collect+, snared one of the most sought after roles in ecommerce last week when he was unveiled as John Lewis’ new online director.
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OpinionComment: We don’t need quotas for diversity in the workplace
It’s rare a month goes by without some survey reporting that girls are better than boys, or vice versa. To save the pain of enduring any more of this nonsense, shall we call it evens?
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NewsHalf of retailers expect to shed jobs ahead of retail rates hit
Retailers are to axe staff as cost pressures including business rates eat into their profits according to the British Retail Consortium-Bond Pearce Retail Employment Monitor.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Lucy Neville-Rolfe says farewell to Tesco
As she retires from a 15-year career at Tesco coinciding with phenomenal growth, executive director Lucy Neville-Rolfe tells Alex Lawson about her career with the top retailer.
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OpinionComment: Facing up to this year’s challenges
As we move into 2013, I am confident that Usdaw is in a strong position to tackle the challenges that lie ahead for us and for our members during the current challenging economic circumstances.
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NewsAmazon creates 100 technology jobs in London
Amazon is expanding its Digital Media Development Centre in London, creating 100 new technology jobs.
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Kroger promotes Lynn Gust to president of Fred Meyer division
Grocer Kroger has promoted Lynn Gust, senior vice-president of operations, to president of Kroger’s Fred Meyer division. Gust started his career with Fred Meyer in 1970 and has served in a variety of leadership roles, including vice-president of the food group and senior vice-president of the store operations group.
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OpinionComment: Reckless gurus walk on thin ice
For those presiding over failure, delusion and reality are often poles apart.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How can HMV heal its trading wounds?
Following HMV’s warning on covenants last week, Retail Week takes a look at seven areas the retailer needs to focus on to survive.
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Analysis2012: The year in review - Retail winners and losers
From big administrations to political hot potatoes, retailers have seen it all. Caroline Parry charts the big moments in the year that was.
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Pierluigi Bernasconi resigns from Media-Saturn
Pierluigi Bernasconi, the chief executive and managing director of Metro Group-controlled Media-Saturn in Italy, has resigned for “personal reasons”.Bernasconi had headed Media-Saturn in Italy for 21 years. Media-Saturn has yet to confirm the report.