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Is worthiness still worth anything? – Habitat falls
It has been a bumper week for administrators, and a dismal week for retailers. On Tuesday, Life & Style, which emerged from the ashes of Ethel Austin, called in RSM Tenon, who immediately closed 22...
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John Lewis: the Partners stumble
There are plenty of retail results being announced this week, and this combined with the Westfield opening has made for a packed week of shop news. The standout announcement – and not in a good way –...
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Westfield Ho! Visiting Stratford City, Part Two
Welcome back to the second part of the Front of Store Westfield tour… Sticking with the Lower Ground Floor, we emerged from the phone shops into a world of children’s specialists. Build-a-Bear, Lego...
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Britain’s Top 100 Consumer Brands (Nunwood research)
Marketing strategy researchers Nunwood have published their Top 100 chart of UK consumer brands, based on feedback from 7,000 consumers. You can read more about their findings here. Filed under:...
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Christmas: far too early to call
Not a great deal of action on the Front of Store blog in the past couple of weeks, as I’ve been out on the road a lot, assessing stores, formats and catchments. Plenty of news in the retail sector,...
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Back to the FutureBook: a retailer’s view
A scintillating day yesterday at the FutureBook Conference at the QEII Conference Centre in the heart of Westminster. 2011 has been the Year of Change, with digital content and eReading becoming...
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The Top Eighty retail locations in Britain?
A consistent theme in retail analysis over the past 12 months has been that, whereas 5/10/20 years ago, a non-food chain required 200/300/500 stores to achieve national coverage, today only 50-80 might...
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Big Box Man: options for Tesco and Dixons
The festive season hangover – the publication of Christmas trading results – is almost completed. WH Smith will announce next week and, on past form, that is likely to be the end of it. Thereafter,...
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Christmas trading 2011: results table – Wednesday (and final?) update
25th January 2012 WH Smith traditionally brings the Christmas results season to a close, and here they are, down 6% in the high streets and 3% at their Travel division. Although this was accompanied...
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