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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Investments
    Stockpickers: Greggs’ snacks provide sustenance for investors too

    Plus: Next and Marks and Spencer — companies analysis from Investors’ Chronicle, our sister publication

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    UK retail results
    Memories of rosy Christmas fade as UK retailers brace for tough 2025

    Groups including Sainsbury’s, Next and M&S warn of higher prices and weaker demand as costs and inflation rise

    Shoppers outside a M&S store
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    LexTesco PLC
    The 1990s are back in fashion — happily for Tesco Premium content

    UK grocer has successfully fought back against discount rivals, putting it in the ascendant once again

    Clubcard branding inside a Tesco branch in London
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Greggs PLC
    Greggs shares drop on sales slowdown

    UK bakery chain blames ‘subdued high street footfall’ for weaker earnings

    Exterior of a Greggs store in London, England
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Tesco PLC
    Tesco and M&S warn of rising costs but pledge to minimise price increases

    Shares in retailers fall despite positive Christmas trading

    A shopper walks through an aisle filled with various canned goods and packaged products in a Tesco supermarket in London
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Lex
    Britain’s retail ‘boomer’ chains are making a comeback Premium content

    Youth is wasted on the young with 160-year-old Next showing a steady cash flow despite rising costs

    A sign above the entrance to a Next store on Oxford Street in London
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Next PLC
    Next warns of ‘anaemic’ growth after UK Budget tax increases

    Retailer says measures will cost it £67mn in current financial year and warns of potentially chilling effect on economy

    Next clothes on a hanger
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    UK retail sales
    UK retail sales growth ‘minimal’ in final quarter of 2024, data shows

    BRC survey suggests consumers stayed cautious during what is usually busiest time of year

    Shoppers on Oxford Street, London, England on December 26 2024
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Daunt plots next chapter for Barnes & Noble and Waterstones

    Booksellers’ boss is eyeing expansion and a possible IPO in London or New York

    James Daunt
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Jo Malone
    Jo Malone plans to open a dozen new stores outside London

    Fragrance brand’s bullish stance defies gloom about high streets hit by higher costs and online competition

    A woman walks into a Jo Malone store in London
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Boohoo shareholders reject Mike Ashley’s attempt to join board

    Billionaire sportswear tycoon had called for overhaul at fast-fashion retailer

  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    UK retail sales
    British retail sales rebound falls short of expectations

    Supermarkets performed well in November but clothing stores had tough month

    A woman browses through clothing racks under colourful Christmas decorations inside Selfridges
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Shoe Zone Ltd
    UK footwear chain Shoe Zone blames Budget for shop closures

    Shares plunge 40 per cent after retailer halves profit forecast and suspends dividend

    A general view of a Shoe Zone shop in Croydon
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    News in-depthBoohoo.Com PLC
    Mike Ashley nears final showdown in Boohoo bust-up

    Retail tycoon will learn next week whether his bid to be appointed to board of fast-fashion group has been successful

    Boohoo co-founder Mahmud Kamani, left, and Mike Ashley
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    Retro sofas were in and Christmas cards out in 2024, says John Lewis

    British shoppers are returning to bricks-and-mortar stores, chain finds in report on shopping trends

    John Lewis retro interiors
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Two shareholder advisers side with Boohoo in Mike Ashley row

    Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services advise against giving retail tycoon board role

    Mike Ashley
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK employment
    Demand for staff sinks to four-year low in UK

    Tax rises spread gloom over pre-Xmas jobs market, recruiters report in November

    Workers cross London Bridge
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Mike Ashley urges Boohoo to avoid ‘fire sale’ of assets

    UK retail tycoon and shareholder continues to press for board role at struggling company

    Mike Ashley
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Marks & Spencer Group PLC
    M&S wins approval to demolish and redevelop flagship Oxford Street store

    Permission from housing secretary to knock down art deco building in central London caps lengthy battle by retailer

    Marks and Spencer’s store in Oxford Stree, London
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Frasers Group
    Mike Ashley’s Frasers blames ‘damaging’ Budget for profit warning

    Shares in UK retailer drop as it says consumer confidence has weakened and posts falling profits

    A shopper passes a Sports Direct store on Oxford Street in central London
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Boohoo.Com PLC
    Police investigate Boohoo claims of stalking

    ICO aware of claims of surveillance equipment outside offices of fast-fashion retailer

    A woman poses with a smartphone showing the Boohoo app in front of the Boohoo logo on display
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Kingfisher PLC
    Kingfisher shares tumble as retailer warns on sales drop and Budget hit

    Owner of DIY chain B&Q reports decline in quarterly sales and extra costs from Budget

    A customer with a shopping cart examines a display of Bosch power tools inside a B&Q retail store. The aisle is filled with various tools and accessories, with prominent signage displaying promotional offers.
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Asda Group
    Asda replaces chair Stuart Rose with former chief Allan Leighton

    Retail veteran will take over supermarket that has lost market share and struggled to overcome IT problems

    The entrance to an Asda supermarhet
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    UK economy
    UK business activity shrinks for first time in a year as confidence in Labour falls

    Many companies report worsening conditions following rise in employers’ national insurance contributions

    People walk past a clothing store window display in London
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    UK crime
    Sainsbury’s shoppers warned to watch out for Nectar points scam

    Fraudsters target customers who have built up a high points balance ahead of Christmas

    A Sainsbury’s customer uses a self checkout till
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