All articles by Tim Danaher – Page 41
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Opinion
This is not just the market…
He may have been the coldest fish to have occupied a senior role in retail in recent memory, but it’s hard not to feel a degree of sympathy for Steven Esom over his spectacular fall from grace.
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News
Westfield signs Stratford deal
Developer Westfield has secured agreements with various public sector bodies that pave the way for its Stratford City scheme in East London.
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Opinion
Westfield is coming
Westfield London is taking shape fast. I visited the giant west London shopping centre last Friday, as the Australian developer gears up to start the marketing campaign to make consumers aware of what the new centre is all about.
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Opinion
Don’t discount the discounters
Michael and Vicky are a couple in their early 30s. They have one child, both have secure, professional jobs, are comfortably off and own their own home in a nice south London suburb. They live five minutes from one of Sainsbury’s flagship stores. But they choose to drive past it ...
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Opinion
The Retail Week - June 27, 2008
A comment from DSGi chief executive John Browett in this morning’s Times caught my eye. Describing the new training programme for the company’s UK staff announced alongside yesterday’s terrible full-year results, he said: “This is not rocket science, it’s what anyone would do.”
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Opinion
Where the value lies
Land Securities’ £100 million planning application to redevelop Liverpool’s St John’s Centre, featured in last week’s Retail Week, isn’t the type of development story you see too often these days.
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Analysis
Plenty of bottle
Company veteran Steve Lewis is moving into the top job at Majestic Wine. Tim Danaher finds out how he plans to keep the pressure up against the supermarkets in tough times
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Opinion
The big question for Woolworths
“Good management, bad business.” If Trevor Bish-Jones had a pound for every time someone said that about his time at Woolworths, his pay-off would pale into insignificance.
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Opinion
Out of town, out of fashion
Out-of-town retailing, whether through mega malls or retail parks, has been the focus of retailers’ expansion for the past two decades. But the balance is starting to shift.
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News
Pessina vows to stay the distance
Stefano Pessina this week promised to invest in Alliance Boots for the long term as he revealed a sparkling year for the health and beauty business which he took private in June last year.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – June 13, 2008
If this week’s stream of negative news from retailers proved one thing, it’s that the ties that bind the retail sector and the housing market run deep.
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Opinion
The hidden shops of St Pancras
The past few years have been a golden age for travel retailing. The growth of low-cost travel and the increasingly commercial outlook of airport, station and roadside landlords have created huge opportunities for retailers to take advantage of captive shoppers with time to kill.
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News
Boots profits soar
Alliance Boots has unveiled a strong performance in its first year as a private company.
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Analysis
Retailers to suffer as shoppers feel the pinch of rising fuel costs
Will growing concern over the cost of fuel begin to change shopping habits? That was the question being posed this week as images of protesting truck drivers dominated the news.
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News
Morrisons to exploit surplus space for non-food retailers
Morrisons has become the latest of the big supermarkets to exploit its property portfolio with plans for non-food retail developments on parts of its sites.
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NewsKnickerbox rebrands to drive sales
Ann Summers is to relaunch Knickerbox in July, in an effort to double its sales in two years.
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Opinion
Do us a favour Darling
Politicians are opportunist creatures. So when the rising cost of food started emerging as an issue for voters, it was the natural thing for Alistair Darling to haul supermarket chiefs into the Treasury for a grilling over food prices last week.
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Opinion
The Retail Week – May 30, 2008
While the American economy might be heading towards recession, New York still remains the epicentre of the retail world.
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News
Discounters thrive as Tesco and Sainsbury's lose share
Hard discounters Aldi and Lidl are prospering as the economic squeeze begins to hit shoppers, according to the latest TNS grocery market share data.
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Opinion
John Lewis goes green
News that John Lewis is planning to enter the Irish market by opening a department store in Dublin will send shockwaves through the city’s close-knit retail scene.