Select enters administration
February 27, 2008 7:01 amValue fashion chain Select has gone into administration following poor trading in the first quarter. Select Retail blamed the move into administration on a ‘deteriorating trading... View Article
General Merchandise News
Baugur moves on Moss Bros
February 26, 2008 8:40 amMoss Bros has confirmed that it has received an indicative offer in cash at 42p per share from a new company to be formed by Baugur... View Article
ASDA launches store apprenticeship scheme
February 25, 2008 10:05 amASDA is to roll out of its management apprenticeship programme, following a successful four-store-pilot in the London region. The trial, which began in September, last year,... View Article
Petrol prices help inflation rise to 2.2 per cent
February 12, 2008 10:15 amFigures from the Office for National Statistics today show that consumer prices index (CPI) annual inflation was 2.2 per cent in January, up from 2.1 per... View Article
10% fewer repossessions than expected in 2007
February 11, 2008 8:10 amFewer than 1 in 400 mortgages led to repossession in 2007, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders. At 0.23%, the repossession rate was less than... View Article
US slide takes sparkle off Signet
February 7, 2008 4:32 pmSignet confirms problems in the US remain with no uplift in sales since Christmas. Sales in the period fell 6.7 per cent on a like-for-like basis... View Article
Morrisons market share grows
February 6, 2008 9:12 amMorrisons continues to grow its supermarket share according to figures from TNS The 11.5 per cent figure is up from 11 per cent a year ago,... View Article
Carpetright sees sales ‘harder to come by’
February 5, 2008 8:27 amCarpetright says it expects full year results to meet forecasts but sales growth will be harder to come by. Group sales increased by 4.8 per cent.... View Article
Debt- laden customers banned from using their Egg credit card
February 2, 2008 5:50 pmEgg is banning 160,000 debt-ridden customers from using their credit cards. Other credit card companies are expected to follow Eggs lead as the global credit crunch... View Article
