Sunday Retail News Roundup
Morrisons HQ staff customer rush, John Lewis local suppliers, Takeover fever, Quango looks into Lloyds Banking Group, Pret A Manger’s owner to buy Inspiring Learning, All bets are off, Retail pension black hole, SABMiller boss windfall may be cut, Itsu boss 50pc pay rise, Evans Cycles saddled with loan notes, Dixons Carphone boss on Brexit, BHS flagship closes doors, Scandalous changes to company pension schemes.
Latest retail news headlines
July shop vacancy rate shows marginal increase from JuneNew data has shown that the UK’s shop vacancy rate marginally increased to 12.4% in July from 12.3% in June. Compared to July last year, the overall shop vacancy rate was down 0.6%. |
Homewares specialist, Rapid Discount Outlet operates best retail website in Q3Liverpool-based Rapid Discount Outlet has taken the top spot in the table of the best performing retail websites in Q3, according to the latest quarterly testing undertaken by digital specialist Sitemorse on the websites of the UK’s top 500 ... |
Shop Direct opens state-of-the-art training, conferencing and wellbeing facilityShop Direct, the owner of Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, has opened a state-of-the-art training, conferencing and wellbeing facility as the company continues to invest in becoming a “world class” digital retailer. |
Frenchgate appoints commercialisation managerDoncaster’s Frenchgate Shopping Centre has appointed a Daniel Matters as its new commercialisation manager. |
Marie Claire launches FabledMarie Claire magazine has launched a new beauty shop called Fabled. |
Zalando reports jump in quarterly sales and profitsOnline fashion retailer Zalando has said it enjoyed an “outstanding” first half of 2016 with strong growth and profitability in its second quarter. |
DFS hails strong full year performanceUpholstered furniture retailer DFS has said it expects to achieve a record performance for its full year with results towards the upper end of market expectations. |
Card Factory sales growth impacted by softer footfallGreeting cards retailer Card Factory has reported that like-for-like sales edged up 0.2% in the first half of its financial year as trade was boosted by ongoing strong growth in online sales on its new website. |
Retail solutions news
John Lewis’s click and collect service increases with Zebra by 30%The combination of M-Netics software and Zebra handheld scanners has enabled John Lewis to expand its click and collect capacity by 30%. |
Jade recognised as leading experts in “retail space WiFi applications”Jade Solutions, the parent company of CROWD WiFi, a market leading retail customer engagement and store analytics solution has won a second award from US technology hardware giant Aerohive for it’s visionary approach to the Retail market. |
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