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Games Workshop sees jump in full year profit

Games Workshop has said it expects its full year profit to rise to no less than £200 million from £171 million in the prior year. In a... View Article
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Amazon to invest a further £23 million in skills training for UK employees

Amazon to invest a further £23 million in skills training for UK employees

19 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Amazon has announced that it is investing a further £23 million in skills training for employees across the UK. The news comes as a study by... View Article

Mango to join line-up at Metrocentre

Mango to join line-up at Metrocentre

19 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Mango is to open a new store at Gateshead’s Metrocentre this summer. The Spanish fashion retailer has taken a 6,233 square foot space adjacent to Jo... View Article

Uber Eats launches new Courier Pick and Pack service

Uber Eats launches new Courier Pick and Pack service

19 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Uber Eats has launched a new service where its couriers will  pick and pack their customer’s order from supermarket shelves and deliver it to their doorstep.... View Article

Furniture Village to open new Lincoln store

Furniture Village to open new Lincoln store

19 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Furniture Village is to launch a new store at Lincoln’s Valentine Retail Park later this month. Spanning 17,957 square feet across two floors, the shop will... View Article

The Perfume Shop transforms digital experience with new accessibility features

The Perfume Shop transforms digital experience with new accessibility features

18 June 2024 by Natalie Fresen

The Perfume Shop, the UK’s largest fragrance retailer, has introduced and implemented new personalised website accessibility features to make online fragrance shopping more inclusive and accessible... View Article

Q&A with Mikkel Grene, chief executive of Søstrene Grene

Q&A with Mikkel Grene, chief executive of Søstrene Grene

18 June 2024 by Glynn Davis

Here we talk to Mikkel Grene, chief executive of Søstrene Grene, about the Danish homeware retailer’s rapidly expanding presence across the UK. Can you briefly tell... View Article

Russell & Bromley appoints Daniel Beardsworth-Shaw as first creative director

Russell & Bromley appoints Daniel Beardsworth-Shaw as first creative director

18 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Premium footwear brand Russell & Bromley has appointed Daniel Beardsworth-Shaw as its creative director. The move marks the first time in the brand’s 140 year history... View Article

Waitrose must-have Lulu Guinness tote returns

Waitrose must-have Lulu Guinness tote returns

18 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Waitrose has collaborated with Lulu Guinness on a new statement tote following the success of a first bag when it launched last September. Available online and... View Article

Superdry appoints Dafydd Moore as director of global technology

Superdry appoints Dafydd Moore as director of global technology

18 June 2024 by Angela Beevers

Superdry has appointed Dafydd Moore as its director of global technology. Moore previously worked with Halfords where he was group director of IT strategy and architecture.... View Article

Tesco to introduce improvements in chicken welfare standards

18 June 2024 By Angela Beevers

Tesco has announced that all fresh chicken in its core ranges will be reared to higher welfare standards. In a statement, the supermarket said there will... View Article

Debenhams relaunch Designers At Debenhams with Graduate Fashion Week

17 June 2024 By Natalie Fresen

Debenhams has announced Eleanor McMahon from Manchester Fashion Institute as the winner of the first “Designers at Debenhams Catwalk to Commercial” Award at Graduate Fashion Week (GFW)... View Article

Decathlon UK: Navigating challenges and pioneering growth in 2023

17 June 2024 By Natalie Fresen

Despite a tumultuous landscape in the sport retail industry, Decathlon UK has demonstrated unwavering commitment to the UK market, strategically investing to weather the storm and... View Article

Dominic Hall named as President for SPAR International

17 June 2024 By Natalie Fresen

Dominic Hall, Joint Managing Director of James Hall & Co Ltd has been elected President of SPAR International, the world’s largest voluntary retail food network. The... View Article

Aldi crunches down on single use plastic in own label crisp packaging

17 June 2024 By Angela Beevers

Aldi is introducing recycled plastic to its own label crisp packaging. The supermarket has committed to incorporating a minimum of 35% recycled content across its Specially... View Article

Kingfisher announces chief financial officer succession

17 June 2024 By Angela Beevers

Kingfisher, the parent company of B&Q and Screwfix, has announced that Bhavesh Mistry is to become its new chief financial officer. He will succeed Bernard Bot... View Article