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Boohoo secures £200m through share placing

Boohoo confirmed it has successfully raised almost £200m in funding following the placing of 58 million shares.  The online retailer…

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Sainsbury’s expands Chop Chop delivery service to outside of London

Sainsbury’s has announced the expansion of its Chop Chop bicycle delivery service to 20 cities in the UK, as it…

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Zalando anticipates FY sales growth of 10% to 20%

Online fashion retailer Zalando has revealed it is expecting an increase in its full year gross merchandise (GMV) volume by…

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Waitrose to open new distribution centre to double deliveries in London

Waitrose this week will open a new six-acre Customer Fulfilment Centre in Enfield, North London, to double its online grocery…

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Supermarket Peep: a glimpse at UK shopping behaviours in the now

As we sit in our make-shift offices, attempting to keep a work-life balance and ponder where we will go on…

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J.Crew files for bankruptcy protection

J.Crew has become the first major US retailer to officially file for bankruptcy protection amid the global lockdown.  As per…

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Quarter of retail SMEs will need up to two years to recover

Nearly a quarter (22%) of SMEs in the retail sector believe it will take up to two years to recoup…

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Retail landlords reined in, France gets touch on tax havens, and insurers face biggest ever payouts

The government has banned landlords from using winding-up orders against their retail tenants, after aggressive rent collection tactics which threaten…

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Oil prices plunge, Virgin Australia could crash land, Nasa robots controlled from the kitchen table

Oil producers in the United States will pay you to take their barrels as global demand has plummeted amid government…

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Customer contracts in a crisis

We lawyers have been asked a lot of questions about contracts in the past couple of weeks. At this point,…

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