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JD Sports closes Hip stores as brand moves online-only

JD Sports closes Hip stores as brand moves online-only

Portmeirion Group appoints former Denby executives to leadership team

Portmeirion Group appoints former Denby executives to leadership team

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Government covers the policies, regulations, and political developments impacting the UK retail industry. This section reports on government initiatives, legislative changes, taxation, employment law, and sustainability policy, analysing how they affect retailers’ operations and strategic planning. Retail Sector’s Government coverage provides retail leaders, compliance teams, and business owners with informed insight into regulatory trends and public-sector engagement shaping the commercial environment across the retail sector.

Government

Government covers the policies, regulations, and political developments impacting the UK retail industry. This section reports on government initiatives, legislative changes, taxation, employment law, and sustainability policy, analysing how they affect retailers’ operations and strategic planning. Retail Sector’s Government coverage provides retail leaders, compliance teams, and business owners with informed insight into regulatory trends and public-sector engagement shaping the commercial environment across the retail sector.

Fashion store East enters administration

Fashion retailer East has entered administrations, with 314 employees at risk of losing their jobs.

Waitrose pledges plastic-free packaging by 2018

Supermarket retailer Waitrose has announced that it aims to remove all black plastic used in…

Co-op creates modern slavery job lifeline programme

The Co-op is creating a national scheme that allows employers to help survivors of modern…

Retailers warned the Darwin £10 note is almost extinct

The Bank of England has warned that it will withdraw legal tender status of the paper £10…

Iceland pledges plastic-free products by 2023

Frozen food specialist Iceland has pledged to become the first retailer globally to…

Card payment fees no longer chargeable by small firms

Small businesses will not be able to charge customers for using credit or debit cards, after…

HMRC report names retail gender-pay-gap culprits

An HMRC report listing gender pay figures for period 2016-17 has revealed the names of 39…

Carphone Warehouse fined £400,000 for security data breach

Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO),…

Mayor greenlights £1.4bn Croydon regeneration scheme

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has approved a major development as part of long-term plans…

Plastic bag charge set to affect all retailers

The 5p plastic bag charge could be applied to all retailers as part of new government plans…