Wal-Mart has acquired the Brazilian retail operations of Portuguese conglomerate Sonae for $757 million Sonae’s Brazilian retail group includes 140 hypermarkets, supermarkets and wholesale units and... View Article
Deutsche Bank has upgraded French supermarket retailer Carrefour to ‘buy’ from ‘hold’ Deutsche said it believes the chain’s repositioning has worked and that the French margin... View Article
Book retailing sector sees unprecedented levels of price discounting. Ottakar’s has issued a profit warning, with like for like sales plunging 6.7 per cent in the... View Article
GUS plc has announced that Experian has acquired PriceGrabber.com, a provider of online comparison shopping services in the US PriceGrabber.com operates in fast-growing markets and complements... View Article
Marks & Spencer has won its European Union court case for the right to deduct overseas losses from its British tax bill. The European Court of... View Article
Dramatic figures from SPSL’s Congestion Zone Retail Traffic Index released today show that London’s retail slump which coincided with the terrorist attacks on 7th July as... View Article
CPI annual inflation the Government’s target measure fell to 2.1 per cent in November, figures released today by the Office for National Statistics show. The largest... View Article
Over 17 per cent of businesses in the retail sector face payment disruption in 2006 unless they take immediate action to update their electronic payment systems.... View Article
John Lewis department store sales grew 7.3 per cent in the week to December 3, against the same period last year. In large electrical, sales were... View Article
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