The annual 2014 Specsavers everywoman in Retail ambassadors were announced last night at a ceremony in central London attended by Dame Mary Perkins and several hundred leading business figures representing over 50 retail names.Twelve female trailblazers working across a breadth of disciplines and companies from online enterprises to high street...
Imperial Tobacco, one of the UK’s largest cigarette companies, has said that Labour plans for a new tobacco tax are “unjust and just a bad idea".Ed Miliband has said that the tax on profits would raise £150 million a year for the NHS and comes at a time when tobacco...
Retail Appointment Live, the debut live careers event from retailappointment.co.uk launches this Thursday, featuring a line-up of retail and hospitality brands who are all recruiting face-to-face for all positions from head office to management to salesfloor.The event will feature a fantastic line-up of companies as well as a seminar programme...
Almost 1,700 Phones 4U staff are to be made redundant after administrators confirmed that 362 stores out of the original estate of 700 outlets will close."It is with much regret that we have today made the difficult decision to close a large number of stores," said Rob Hunt, from the...
Designer shoe brand Jimmy Choo has announced that it will list on the London Stock Exchange. The company said that the move will raise funds to support its expansion plans for Asia and other new markets."Our future as a public company can only extend our reputation," said Jimmy Choo chief...
Tesco has said that its new chief financial officer Alan Stewart will be joining the company more than two months earlier than had originally been planned. The move follows the news on Monday that the supermarket giant had overstated its six-month profit expectations by £250 million.Marks & Spencer, where Mr...
An 18-year-old has launched a bid to become the chief executive of convenience store group Nisa Retail.Harris Aslam, from Fife, Scotland, left school at 13 which no qualifications, but has previously worked as a youth board director at B&Q and is now studying for a law degree at Abertay University,...
The future of the Air France airline in “at stake” according to France’s transport minister, as a dispute with its pilots continues.Speaking on French radio, Alain Vidalies said the company must expand its low cost business in order to survive."The low cost [sector] is not a choice, it's an obligatory...
Chinese internet giant Alibaba saw its shares soar on its highly anticipated debut to the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.More than 100 million shares were traded in the minutes after the company was floated, valuing the company at $231.4bn - significantly more than Amazon and Facebook. Existing shareholders include...
Mobile phone network EE has agreed to buy 58 stores from Phones 4U, saving 359 jobs.Dixons Carphone has said that it will hire the 800 people who work in Phones 4U concessions at its Currys and PC World stores and on Friday, Vodafone agreed to take over 140 of Phones...
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