All Primark articles – Page 39
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News‘Morally indefensible’ Portas show slammed
One of the best-known names in the furniture industry has hit out at retailer-turned-TV personality Mary Portas, accusing her new series Secret Shopper of being “morally indefensible”.
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AnalysisMary Portas: Queen of shops or enemy of retailers?
Mary Portas’ new series, Secret Shopper, has incurred the wrath of retailers. But the ‘queen of shops’ remains defiant.
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NewsEgypt riots close stores and ground shipments
The anti-government rioting and unrest in Egypt has led to some retail and supply problems for British retailers.
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News£1m raised for Retail Trust
Over £1m was raised for the Retail Trust charity last night at The Retail Trust London Ball.
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NewsPrimark records a 12% Christmas sales increase
Value fashion giant Primark shrugged off the effect of the snow before Christmas to record a 12% increase in sales, but warned that EBITDA margins will fall during the second half.
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NewsPrimark Christmas sales leap but rising cotton prices pose threat
Primark has reported first quarter sales up 12% year on year despite the snowy pre-Christmas weather, but warned that higher cotton prices are expected to affect margins.
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NewsPrimark sales director lands senior Target role
Primark sales director Allan Molloy is leaving the value fashion giant to join Australian retailer Target.
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AnalysisPassing on the VAT increase
With VAT set to rise retailers will struggle to absorb the increase, especially as other costs are rising. Some are already putting prices up to make January’s change less noticeable, Nicola Harrison discovers
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AnalysisBoxing Day trading
With Boxing Day falling on a Sunday this year, trading hours will be shorter. What impact will this have on retailers in-store and online?
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NewsRetailers face inquiry into 'sexualised' kids clothing
Retailers and brands selling what are deemed to be sexualised products to young children may face restrictions under a government review.
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NewsPrimark's Oxford Street store sets sales record
Primark notched up record sales of £820,000 at its flagship store on London’s Oxford Street on Saturday, according to newspaper reports.
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AnalysisMultichannel Now
Based on exhaustive interviews with many of the biggest names in UK retailing, Retail Week’s groundbreaking report Multichannel Now is the definitive guide to multichannel in the UK. Here, in an extract from the introduction to the report, its author Joanna Perry sums up the challenges the multichannel world is ...
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AnalysisWeathering the fashion costs storm
With cost increases across materials, shipping and labour, are rising prices the only way for retailers to protect profit?
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OpinionRising costs puts focus firmly back on product
UK consumers have never had it so good. In fact, thanks in large part to sourcing from the Far East, we have been in such a long period of deflation that shoppers have got used to a world in which prices fall consistently.
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NewsLand Securities raises rental charges as retailers look to grow
Landlord Land Securities’ rental values increased 1.1% across its portfolio as it benefited from an improving property market.
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NewsRising cotton prices threaten Primark’s hard-won margins
Value fashion giant Primark improved operating margins from 10.9% to 12.5% last year but has warned that they may shrink again as cotton prices soar.
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NewsPrimark profits up 35%
Primark has reported an 18% increase in sales and like-for-likes up 6% for the year ending September 18.
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OpinionEtail is redefining the retail property market
The names of the retailers taking stands at this year’s British Council of Shopping Centres said everything about today’s retail property market. Five of the top six supermarkets were there competing for sites, as were value retailers Wilkinson, Poundland and Store Twenty One, vying for space in an increasingly crowded ...
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NewsPrimark gears up for UK growth
Primark, the value fashion giant, is poised to open six new UK stores before Christmas.
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AnalysisThe shop of the new
Technology-astute, value conscious shoppers are redefining what they are looking for from a trip to a shopping centre. Mark Faithfull reports on the impact of a new consumer mindset