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Mar- 2020 -10 MarchClothing & Shoes
French Connection posts £3m loss as it warns of continued tough trading
French Connection has revealed it has swung to a £2.9m loss for the full-year period ending 31 January 2020 and…
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10 MarchHigh Street
DFS sales slide amid ‘challenging’ conditions
DFS has announced that its group revenue fell by 5.7% to £488m in the half-year period ended 29 December 2019.…
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9 MarchHigh Street
Footfall slides in February
Hopes for a stronger footfall were “washed away” last month, according to the latest footfall monitor released by Springboard. The…
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6 MarchBusiness Bites
Flybe’s pensions in doubt; Poorest 20% no better off than before, 1m Virgin customers on unsecured database
Flybe’s pension pot for 1,350 current and former workers is at risk, as the fallout from one of the first…
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6 MarchHigh Street
February retail sales hit by poor weather and Coronavirus concerns
Total in-store retail sales declined by 0.9% in February, according to BDO’s monthly High Street Sales Tracker. The accountancy firm…
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6 March
CMA urges retailers to ‘behave responsibly’ amid Coronavirus panic
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has urged retailers to not “take advantage of people” and “exploit” the current Coronavirus…
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4 MarchComment
Mitigating the risk of coronavirus to UK supply chains
As manufacturers and retailers run down their ‘pre-Brexit’ stockpiles, pressure on warehouse space in the UK may appear to be tempered for…
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3 MarchBusiness Bites
Coronavirus is stepping up a gear – this could be serious
When I started this column back in December I did not anticipate a single subject would dominate it so much,…
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3 MarchSupermarkets
Grocery sales increase in February
UK supermarkets saw “positive growth” in February, as total till sales increased to +0.7% in the last four weeks according…
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3 MarchHigh Street
Greggs hails ‘exceptional’ record-breaking year
Bakery chain Greggs has reported a 13.5% increase in total sales to £1.1m for the year ended 28 December 2019.…
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