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High Street
Inditex to sell all its brands online worldwide by 2020
Inditex, the Spanish parent company behind brands such as Zara and Pull&Bear, has announced that it will sell products from…
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High Street
Retail sales growth slows during August
UK retail sales growth continued to slow during August as the summer boost comes to an end, according to figures…
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Comment
Can VAT help save the High Street?
There are growing calls for an ‘online sales tax’ (OST) to redress the balance between physical and digital retailing but…
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High Street
Coca-Cola to acquire Costa Coffee from Whitbread for £3.9bn
Coca-Cola is to buy the coffee chain Costa from Whitbread in a £3.9bn deal. Whitbread, which acquired the brand in…
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Shopping Centres
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield posts 14.5% profit rise after Westfield acquisition
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has reported a 14.5% jump in H1 profits boosted by its recently acquired Westfield shopping centres. Europe’s largest property…
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Comment
What is nudging, and how can it boost sales?
It’s been a decade since the book Nudge was published and the term ‘nudging’ became a useful verb in the…
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Clothing & Shoes
YNAP to launch first own-brand footwear collection
Yoox-Net-A-Porter Group (YNAP) has announced that its own-brand label for mens fashion, Mr P., which will launch this September alongside…
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Supermarkets
CMA begins Sainsbury’s Asda merger probe
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched its formal investigation into the proposed merger between J Sainsbury PLC and…
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Clothing & Shoes
Crew Clothing acquires Saltrock Surfwear
Saltrock Surfwear, a leisurewear and accessories retail brand based in Devon, has been sold to Crew Clothing Group via a…
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Advice
Taking the uncertainty out of the customer experience
In an age of GDPR and with the increasing threat of fraud, customers don’t just need to trust retailers to…
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