Year: 2019

Debenhams secures £40m cash injection

Debenhams has received a £40m cash injection from lenders in order to buy it more time as it looks to…

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High street vacancies on the rise, retail data shows

The national town centre vacancy rate was 9.9% in January 2019, up from 8.9% a year earlier This is according…

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Iceland eyeing Sainsbury’s and Asda stores

Iceland is considering a bid for the Sainsbury’s and Asda stores, which were put on the market after the Competition…

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Three trends from NRF that will shape retail in 2019

Every January the retail industry flocks to New York for ‘The Big Show’, also known as NRF, a three-day event…

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18,722 retail jobs lost or at risk since Christmas day

Some 18,722 retail staff, 400 every single day, have either been made redundant or have had their jobs threatened since…

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JD Sports removes advert for Scotland shirt following ‘#everydaysexism’ complaints

Sports retailer, JD Sports, has removed an advert for the football shirt of the Scottish national team following Twitter complaints…

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DTC ‘done right’ could reignite loyalty of fickle customers

Nowadays, more and more brands are bypassing stores or retail partners through direct-to-consumer strategies – or DTC – in an…

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Former Aldi boss to head up Boots marketing team

Boots has appointed Adam Zavalis as director of brand and communications, and will join the business on 25 February 2019.…

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Foot Locker invests $100m in online marketplace Goat.com

Foot Locker has announced it will make a $100m (£77.3m) strategic minority investment in Goat – a managed marketplace for…

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61% of Brits worried high street will disappear in 10 years

Consumers are worried the high street is going to be lost completely due to the current store closures in the…

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