All Value articles – Page 43
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NewsWilkinson boosts its own-brand offer by introducing food lines
Variety chain Wilkinson has launched its first range of own-brand food products.
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AnalysisQuality takes upper hand in value battle
Customers are redefining value and ‘returning to quality’. So what does the future hold for discount retailers?
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AnalysisContactless payments: Out of contact
Contactless is approaching tipping point, but concerns remain about costs and whether shoppers will embrace the system without a national consumer awareness campaign.
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NewsStores vie for Halloween bonanza but growth ‘unlikely to continue’
Retailers expect this year’s Halloween to deliver bumper sales, with the event set to be the third biggest for retail after Christmas and Easter.
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NewsValue retailers gaining sales, Nielsen finds
Grocery sales rose by 3.9% in the four weeks leading up to September 4, market data company Nielsen has reported.
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NewsB&M Bargains and Poundland homing in on out-of-town stores
Value retailers are extending their rivalry from the high street to out of town as B&M Bargains launches a home format and Poundland targets retail parks. Family Bargains, the fledgling sister chain of 99p Stores, is also looking out of town.
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NewsPoundland profits rocket as like-for-likes slow
Single price point retailer Poundland operating profit rocketed 81.5% to of £21.5m in the year to March 28.
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OpinionValue's growing value
As the new breed of value retailers reach maturity, there’s no reason they should be restricted to in-town locations.
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NewsHub stores will plug gap left by Woolworths
Poundland founder Dave Dodd is to open the first store for his latest venture in Telford.
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NewsRetail recovery remains on course despite VAT rise
Leading retailers have reacted with relief to this week’s emergency Budget and are confident that it won’t derail the retail recovery.
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News99p Stores launches new Woolworths-style fascia
99p Stores founders broaden offer with out-of-town variety chain Family Bargains
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NewsDiscounters fear rise in VAT
Discount retailers have warned that a rise in VAT would smash their margins and result in some products being pulled off the shelves.
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NewsPoundstretcher opens transactional website
Discount retailer Instore, which trades as Poundstretcher, has launched a transactional website selling items from 99p up to £150.
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AnalysisJim McCarthy: From paper boy to Poundland chief executive
From paper boy to chief executive, retail is in the Poundland boss’s blood. Nicola Harrison talks to the man who’s eye for convenience has turned in more than a pound or two
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AnalysisPark life: retail parks bouncing back
Retail parks have been on the back foot, but new names are now starting to freshen up their offers and draw footfall.
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AnalysisPrivate equity rushes back into retail
After two years on the sidelines private equity money is back in retail. George MacDonald finds out why and what investors are looking for
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NewsBoots addresses sale of its products in Poundland
Health and beauty retailer Boots has acted over the sale of some of its No7 and Botanics lines in Poundland.
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Sale of Poundland will speed up moves to expand overseas
Poundland is edging closer to an overseas debut under its new owner, US private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which bought the retailer for £200m.