All articles by Tim Danaher – Page 19
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Opinion
The Tech Guys
IT budgets are holding firm, but retail CIOs are being asked to do more with them, particularly around multichannel
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Opinion
Of mice and Morrisons
Blocking the development of a supermarket because of dormice shows that the planning system really isn’t working.
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OpinionThe Primark effect
Anyone who remains sniffy about the impact of Primark on a town needs their head examining.
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Opinion
Ethics men
Anyone know the reason for the extraordinary flurry of stories about factory standards? Or is it just that we’re in the quiet middle of August?
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OpinionCouncils must invest in high streets or they’ll die
The pressure on budgets means councils are going to be tempted to wring every last penny out of their town centres. But ultimately if they fail to invest in making their high streets attractive places to shop, they’ll only have themselves to blame when retailers walk away
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Opinion
A lethal combination
Arnotts’ problems are a reminder that non-food retailers and property development don’t mix
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NewsAldi co-founder Theo Albrecht dies
The co-founder of German hard discounter Aldi has died at the age of 88.
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Opinion
How the West End was won
Retailers don’t generally like anything which is going to cost them money, but the New West End Company seems to have won them over.
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OpinionAn important Act
As retailers demand more flexible terms, will landlords start questioning the principle of security of tenure?
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Opinion
Heart of the high street
Marks & Spencer pulling out of four market towns might not be big news, but try telling that to the people who live in them
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NewsFour M&S stores set to close
Marks & Spencer is set to close four of its unmodernised high street stores, three of them in Lincolnshire.
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AnalysisLeeds: The holy Trinity?
Work is recommencing at Land Securities’ Trinity Leeds development, but does this bode well for the development pipeline or is it too soon to call an upturn in retail property?
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OpinionA sobering lesson for Ocado’s founders
Well, they got it away, but there won’t have been too many champagne corks being popped in Ocado’s Hatfield headquarters on Wednesday morning.
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AnalysisLocal business rates relief
The Government plans to let local authorities subsidise business rates in certain areas. Will this help stimulate local economies and reduce vacancy rates?
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Opinion
Price and the Prince
Retailers and manufacturers need to do more to help farmers in the UK, and the Prince of Wales’s new Countryside Fund is a step in the right direction
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NewsRetailers join forces with Prince Charles to set up new Countryside Fund
Retailers including Waitrose, Asda, Morrisons and Booths have signed up to support a new fund set up by the Prince of Wales to help British farmers.
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Opinion
A humbling experience?
Ocado may have got its float away - just - but the whole process has been an embarassment to its founders.
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OpinionSilly Season
Listing the Milton Keynes shopping centre is a victory for pressure groups over the public at large.
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Opinion
Stars of the future
The judging day for Retail Week’s Rising Star Awards showed that the future of retail is in safe hands