JD Sports has reported that its pre-tax profit in the first half of its financial year rose by 19% to £121.9 million. In the six months to 4 August EBITDA climbed by 26% to £171.8 million while revenue increased by 35%. Total like-for-like sales grew by more than 3%. Peter Cowgill, JD...
Marks & Spencer has signed up Holly Willoughby as a brand ambassador for its women’s fashion collections. From the end of this month, Holly Willoughby will be highlighting her “must-have’ pieces” from the retailer’s autumn range. Commenting on the partnership, Willoughby said: “I have grown up with and have always loved...
Asos has revealed that a new gender-fluid brand will launch on the site in October. The range has been designed for generation z customers. ‘Collusion’ is being designed by six unnamed young people, who have spent the past year working together with Asos to create the range. Asos said that they will...
House of Fraser could be about to take a crucial step forward under its new owners with news that its website could reopen as early as next week and with new deliveries beginning to appear in its stores. The department stores’ shelves have been very empty in recent weeks due to...
Neil Feakins will join Wilko on the 4th October as their new customer insight and data director. Feakins will report directly to Lisa Wilkinson, who is the family director of parent company, Wilkinson Hardware Stores. Wilkinson said: “This is a great appointment for Wilko and further demonstrates our commitment to becoming...
Held at The Pullman hotel in London’s King’s Cross, the influential Retail Appointment Live event is already set to be the company’s biggest ever. <p style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align: start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing: 0px">So far, exhibitors include: Aldi, Benefit Cosmetics, Booker, Cancer Research, Claudie Pierlot, Costa, Debenhams, Desigual, Fullers, Greene King, Hotel Chocolat, Lidl, L'Occitane, Maje, New Look, Paddy...
Marks & Spencer has appointed Loblaw’s Jeremy Pee to the role of chief digital and data officer. Currently senior vice president at the Canadian retail company, Mr Pee will join M&S on 3rd December and will be responsible for M&S’s strategy to transform its digital capabilities and drive the digital...
Zara owner Inditex has said it will be selling all of its brands online anywhere in the world by 2020. Pablo Isla, the group’s chairman and chief executive, made the announcement at an event to mark the reopening of Zara’s flagship store on Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Milan. Mr Isla said: "We...
Burberry is to end its practice of burning unsold clothes, bags and perfume and will also stop using real fur after criticism from environmental campaigners. The British fashion house destroyed unsold products worth £28.6m last year to protect its brand, taking the value of items destroyed over the past five years...
John Lewis have seen their total sales increase by 4.5% year-on-year last week after the retailer performed well over the bank holiday. Fashion sales rose by 11.4% in the period with both womenswear and accessories achieving strong sales uplifts. Womenswear sales were up 21.7% as customers shopped for new clothing for the autumn,...
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