All Value articles – Page 44
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NewsPoundland embarrassment for Boots
Product identical to Boots No7 and Botanics lines is being sold in Poundland at a much lower price, it has emerged, potentially embarrassing the health and beauty giant.
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NewsPoundland sold in £200m deal
Value retailer Poundland has been bought by US private equity house Warburg Pincus.
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News99p Stores takes on greeting cards market
Single price-point retailer 99p Stores is expanding its greeting cards range as it seeks to take share from value players such as Card Factory.
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NewsBarclays eyes Poundland
Poundland has received an expression of interest from Barclays Private Equity to buy the retailer for around £200m, according to The Independent.
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NewsAdvent considers Poundland sale
Private equity firm Advent has hired Close Brothers to advise on a possible sale of value retailer Poundland.
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AnalysisDavid Dodd: Poundland co-founder is back
The Poundland co-founder is back to shake up the variety sector with Hub, a mid-market chain with potential for 200 stores. He tells Nicola Harrison what inspired the return
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NewsPoundland founder to launch mid-market variety chain
Dave Dodd unveils vision for 200-strong national chain Hub, with first stores to be open in three months
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AnalysisWhere did it all go right?
With the fate of many UK high streets hanging in the balance, Mark Faithfull looks at five very different towns that are striving to prove there is still a place for local shopping — Derby, Rotherham, Morpeth, Plymouth and Ludlow
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AnalysisChristmas trading: Cause for celebration
To their relief, most retailers pulled off a good Christmas after a fraught year. As the festive trading season nears its end, Lisa Berwin examines the key findings from OC&C’s Christmas Trading Index
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NewsPoundland expansion to target larger stores
Single-price retailer Poundland is to maintain its ambitious store opening programme in 2010 and plans to trade from more larger-format stores after reporting total sales up 34.8% and like-for-like sales up 4.4% for the five weeks to January 3.
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NewsPoundland festive like-for-likes up 4.4%
Poundland has reported shoppers’ continued flight to value over Christmas with like-for-like sales from the five weeks to January 3 up 4.4%.
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NewsPoundland pushes into Northern Ireland
Poundland is ramping up its store expansion programme in Northern Ireland on the back of strong sales since first opening there in October.
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Analysis
Woolworths’ property portfolio: Well worth it?
Woolworths’ collapse left a scar on hundreds of high streets as 807 stores shut. One year on, Sara McCorquodale investigates what has been re-let and who has benefited
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AnalysisThe future of value retailers
Retailers from Primark to Aldi to 99p Stores have benefited from the flight to value that the recession has created. But can they continue to capture shopper hearts and wallets once the economy begins to recover, asks Joanna Perry.
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NewsInstore to unite shops with faster broadband link
Value retail group Instore is upgrading the broadband connections to its stores in a 12-month project following the renewal of a telecoms deal with Vodat International.
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NewsInstore narrows losses and delists from stock exchange
Value retailer Instore has narrowed its pre-tax losses in its first half as it reveals it is to delist from the stock exchange.
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AnalysisWhat it’s like to work at Poundland
Inside view from head of human resources Sonia Sharples.
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OpinionFloats need proper preparation
A float is not an end in itself but a new beginning, which brings with it a variety of unaccustomed challenges, disciplines and temptations.
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OpinionSecond time lucky for New Look flotation?
New Look is heading the pack of private equity backed retailers considering a return to the market next year.