WH Smith sales hit by margin drive
January 29, 2003 12:00 amLikes-for-likes down as retailer focuses on high profit sales January 29 2003 A tactical decision to focus on driving up margins hit like-for-like sales at WH... View Article
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Asda stresses low-salt credentials
January 29, 2003 12:00 amSupermarket chain supports drive to cut salt from processed food January 29 2003 Asda has taken more than 1,000 tonnes of salt out of its customers’... View Article
CityBeat: Boots’ juggling act
January 26, 2003 12:00 amGlynn Davis weighs up the challenges faced by Boots January 23 2003 Boots must have got into the habit of failing by now because whatever it... View Article
Seventh Safeway bidder in wings
January 25, 2003 12:00 amMorgan Stanley advising unidentified client January 25 2003 Yet another bidder for supermarket group Safeway appears to be about to declare their hand, after evidence that... View Article
Smaller retailers face increased pressures
January 25, 2003 12:00 amLonger hours threaten health January 25 2003 Smaller retailers face post-Christmas blues exhausted, stressed and in danger of throwing in the towel. A survey conducted by... View Article
Lower prices fuel growth at Amazon.com
January 24, 2003 12:00 amClothing offer is fastest growing sector January 24 2003 Online retailer Amazon.com saw sales increase by 28 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2002, boosted... View Article
Hunter drops House of Fraser offer
January 24, 2003 12:00 amDepartment store group sticks to strategy January 24 2003 Entrepreneur Tom Hunter has decied not to proceed with a bid for department store group House of... View Article
Morrisons warns on reduced competition
January 23, 2003 12:00 amNorthern chain to pursue Safeway offer January 22 2003 Supermarket chain Morrsions has vowed to push on with it agreed bid for Safeway in the face... View Article
Laura Ashley to close 35 stores in Europe
January 23, 2003 12:00 amAll German stores to shut January 23 2003 Laura Ashley plans to close a further 35 stores across Continental Europe including all its remaining stores in... View Article
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