Analysis
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Sep- 2022 -27 September
Could Selfridges succeed where others have failed?
UK high streets have been on the decline for many years now, having lost 83% of all department stores nationwide…
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26 September
Made.com for sale: what went wrong?
Made.com has officially put itself up for sale amid fears the business will be unable to raise fresh equity due…
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21 September
Inflation, fast fashion and how to keep shoppers in a recession
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), inflation is back in the single digits in August after it rose…
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14 September
Is the rise in distressed M&As set to continue?
The number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals targeting UK retailers has increased in the last year, up from 28…
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13 September
Retailers’ demands of the new PM
Liz Truss is fresh in her new role as prime minister with enough enthusiasm to tweet, “it’s time to deliver…
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6 September
The other benefit of disposing of ‘best before’ dates on produce
There has been a race among major UK supermarkets to see which can hit their sustainability targets the quickest. Most…
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Aug- 2022 -30 August
Why the fashion industry is edging into beauty
Fashion brands have always been intertwined with the beauty industry as they historically benefitted from the same demographic of female…
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23 August
Do staff cuts really help in a recession?
The European fashion retailer, Zalando, has predicted a return to growth of up to 3% in H2 despite a 58%…
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16 August
Staff satisfaction should be top of Amazon’s agenda
Amazon has been making plenty of headlines recently, with news of its recent Q2 financial results depicting a net loss…
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10 August
JD Sports and the Footasylum merger saga – what went wrong?
Following JD Sports’ acquisition of Footasylum for £91.1m in March 2019, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a non-ministerial government…
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