The Retail Appointment Live, the ground-breaking retail career event, is set to return on the 15th & 16th February 2017. Held at the London Marriott Hotel in London, the event will be featuring a host of retail and hospitality names - all recruiting over the two days - as well...
To mark the end of the nationwide four-day discount extravaganza, Cyber Monday is expected to make £1.1 billion, with around 15 million shoppers assembling online in the UK to grab themselves the latest bargains. The Black Friday weekend has seen a substantial movement online this year, as retailers spread the discounts...
Dunelm has agreed to buy Worldstores, Achica and Kiddicare for £8.5 million. The acquisition is subject to each of the companies in the WS Group being placed into administration. Dunelm expects to acquire the WS Group businesses later today from the intended administrators, KPMG. The WS Group management, including the...
It has been reported that sports retailer JD Sports has purchased Go Outdoors for £112.3 million. JD Sports acquired the retailers’ 58 stores in the UK from private equity owners 3i Group and YFM Equity Partners. Founders of the company John Graham and Paul Caplan will leave the business. Figures show that...
Womenswear retailer & Other Stories is to open its sixth store in the UK on Oxford Street, marking its third store in the capital. The store launch will feature a five-day exclusive Wool & the Gang collection, which will be rolled out nationwide after the five day period. The brand, owned by...
Supermarket Sainsbury’s is to expand its formal menswear range following excellent sales results despite a declining market. In the last sixth months alone, menswear sales grew by 13%, in comparison to the rest of the market which declined by 3%. Sainsbury’s Argos commercial director, James Brown, said: “The menswear clothing market is...
Lidl has become the first UK supermarket to pay its employees the “real living wage” of £8.45 per hour. The move will mean a pay rise for 5,500 of its staff, with the minimum rate increasing to £9.75 per hour from early next year. Despite the announcement in the chancellor’s Autumn...
Warehouse staff at Arcadia have threatened to strike on so-called ‘Cyber Monday’, in a move which could disrupt one of the retailer’s most significant sales days. Members of the GMB union say that they want to be paid the real living wage” of £8.45, the figure recommended by the Living Wage...
Online fashion brand Missguided has opened its first physical store, with three others to follow early next year. The company, based in Manchester, opened the 20,000 sq ft flagship in Westfield Stratford yesterday at a launch party featuring Baddie Winkle. It adds to the brand’s concessions in Birmingham and Manchester branches...
Austin Reed is to make a return to the high street less than a year after it went into administration. Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, which bought the brand in May, has said that it will open a new flagship store in London to anchor a new chain of 50 stores...
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