All People articles – Page 368

  • Opinion

    Marks & Spooks

    2008-09-10T10:25:12Z

    It has been a very gloomy start to the week.

  • News

    Best Buy unveils new international team

    2008-09-10T09:24:37Z

    US electricals giant Best Buy has revealed its new management team for its international operations.

  • News

    Blackwell boss steps down

    2008-09-09T15:26:42Z

    Blackwell UK chief executive Vince Gunn has left the retailer with immediate effect.

  • News

    M&S mole speaks out

    2008-09-08T09:00:06Z

    The man at the centre of the Marks & Spencer whistleblower case has claimed that the retailer carries out intense surveillance of staff, causing a “culture of fear”.

  • News

    M&S hits back in sacking row

    2008-09-05T15:27:00Z

    Marks & Spencer has hit back with a scathing attack on the GMB union in the row over the sacking of its “whistle-blower” employee.

  • Opinion

    Act tough now and win later

    2008-09-04T12:45:51Z

    As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.

  • News

    Christmas in the balance

    2008-09-04T12:32:00Z

    Sector braced for toughest season since the 1980s, with December like-for-like drop expected.

  • News

    Shop Direct avoids strike with pay deal

    2008-09-04T12:30:48Z

    Home shopping business Shop Direct has averted strike action, after staff members voted in favour of a revised pay offer.

  • Opinion

    How labelling can give retailers the edge

    2008-09-04T12:23:31Z

    For any football fan, the Holy Grail is going to Wembley. As you can imagine after the emotional highs and lows of watching my team, Cardiff City, get to the Cup Final for the first time since 1927 (even I wasn’t around then), I was not thrilled by the prospect ...

  • Opinion

    An opportunity for shoppers

    2008-09-04T12:18:41Z

    Retailers need to counter the despondency that the media is instilling in their customers.

  • Analysis

    Voices of experience

    2008-09-04T11:14:47Z

    This will be the first downturn many retailers have worked through, but there are those who have been here before. Some of retail’s most distinguished names tell Charlotte Hardie in their own words how to deal with a slowdown.

  • Malcolm Walker
    Analysis

    Malcolm Walker’s magic touch

    2008-09-04T11:06:00Z

    Malcolm Walker has defied critics with his turnaround of Iceland, but could he do the same with Woolworths? Jennifer Creevy meets him to discover what can be learnt from the chain’s recovery.

  • News

    M&S faces strike after mole's dismissal

    2008-09-04T09:02:22Z

    Trade unionists are mobilising against Marks & Spencer following the retailer’s dismissal of a staff member who leaked details of plans to change redundancy terms.

  • News

    M&S fires redundancy mole

    2008-09-03T15:57:20Z

    Marks & Spencer has sacked the staff member who leaked details of proposed changes to the retailer’s redundancy payments to the media.

  • News

    Hunter takes charge at Wyevale as Hodkinson quits

    2008-09-02T09:37:08Z

    Jim Hodkinson has stepped down as executive chairman of garden centre group Wyevale, Retail Week can reveal.

  • News

    Asos chief nets £352,000 in pay and bonuses

    2008-09-02T08:57:04Z

    Asos chief executive Nick Robertson took 352,000 in pay and bonuses last year after bucking the downturn and more than doubling pre-tax profits at the business to 7.3 million.

  • News

    Borders UK restructures buying team

    2008-08-29T11:00:18Z

    Eight buyers at Borders UK are to leave the retailer following a review of the buying team structure.

  • News

    Walker awaits Woolies talks as doubts emerge

    2008-08-28T17:04:15Z

    Retail entrepreneur Malcolm Walker’s consortium is keen to start discussions with the Woolworths board about the possible acquisition of its retail arm, but doubts that a deal can be struck started to creep in.

  • News

    Tesco supplier in US reported to employment tribunal

    2008-08-28T09:40:23Z

    One of Tesco’s suppliers in the US has been reported by America’s biggest food workers’ union in the latest spat between the two organisations.

  • News

    Moss Bros rejigs board

    2008-08-27T09:20:25Z

    Moss Bros has reshuffled its board and appointed new corporate advisers.