All articles by Tim Danaher – Page 40
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News
BRC ups the ante as rent battle hots up
The British Retail Consortium has thrown down the gauntlet to landlords by demanding that retailers should be able to switch to monthly rent payments on existing leases, not just new ones.
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News
City confidence in retail grows as stores index surges 7% in a day
Retail shares bounced back this week with general retailers outperforming the market.
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Opinion
Bonkers Boris
Landlords and retailers may be at loggerheads over the issue of monthly rent payments, but a bizarre proposal from London Mayor Boris Johnson last week should unite both groups.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – August 1, 2008
Ian Cheshire has wasted no time in getting to grips with the mammoth task ahead of him at Kingfisher.
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News
Woolies seeks outsider to turn fortunes around
Woolworths is almost certain to appoint a chief executive from outside the business as it eyes a radical reshaping of its store portfolio to halt declining sales.
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Opinion
Landlords should do more
Last week’s front page story on the quarterly rents debate provoked a fuller inbox than pretty much any issue we’ve highlighted in my three years on Retail Week.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – July 25, 2008
The retail market may be volatile at the moment, but this doesn’t explain the extraordinary ups and downs in the official retail sales figures produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Opinion
Landlords live in the dark ages
Imagine if your bank asked you to pay your November mortgage payment next week. Or if you weren’t allowed on the train to work on Monday because your ticket wasn’t valid for the last week of October.
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Opinion
A united voice
The sleepy world of retail property doesn’t often take centre stage on the front of The Sunday Times business section.
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Opinion
A marriage of convenience
On the face of it, Co-op and Somerfield is the most unlikely pairing since Lembit Opik shacked up with a Cheeky Girl.
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News
River Island targets Russia as overseas growth gathers pace
Young-fashion powerhouse River Island intends to break into the Russian market in the next stage of its overseas push.
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Opinion
In need of a bit of relief
This morning’s BRC sales figures showed yet again how badly the retail sector is suffering, yet the Government persists with a piece of legislation that penalises both retailers and landlords at what is a very difficult time already.
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Opinion
Rose is still M&S’s best bet
Sir Stuart Rose may have been under pressure this week, but you’d never have known it.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – July 11, 2008
A domineering leader with no regard for corporate governance, a business recording a terrible performance, confusion about plans for the chairmanship… no, not M&S, but Sports Direct.
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Opinion
A tenants' market
Speaking to a leading expert on the retail market at today’s Fashion Retail Academy graduation ceremony, we got onto the subject of new shopping centres and why, if the market is so bad, they all seem to be opening almost fully let.
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News
M&S shareholders back Rose
Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM.
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Opinion
Competitiveness is key for M&S
No apologies for returning to the biggest story of the week, the trials of Marks & Spencer. After all, food is at the root of its problems.
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News
Retailers slide as M&S’s share dive leads wave of falling stocks
While Marks & Spencer’s terrible performance in food grabbed the headlines on Wednesday, it was the general retailers that got a battering, as Sir Stuart Rose warned the market was at its toughest since the early 1990s.
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Analysis
Inside Westfield London
20 years in the making, the UK’s most eagerly awaited shopping centre is finally taking shape. Tim Danaher gets a preview of Westfield London as it gears up for its opening in October
