Board
This coverage highlights board-level developments shaping the UK retail industry, from executive appointments and leadership reshuffles to governance strategy and corporate direction. Retail Sector reports on boardroom changes across major retail brands, supermarkets, and e-commerce operators, analysing how leadership decisions influence company performance, culture, and market positioning. Coverage includes director appointments, succession planning, governance best practices, and strategic decision-making at the highest levels. For retail professionals, these insights illuminate how leadership dynamics drive operational change, investor confidence, and long-term growth across the sector.
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Feb- 2020 -7 FebruaryHigh Street
Retail jobs and applications plummet in January
The retail job market took a blow in the first month of 2020, with job numbers and applications both falling year-on-year, according to independent job board, CV-Library. It comes despite national growth among other industries in both areas, and CV Library said retail businesses โappear to have lost confidence in…
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7 FebruaryHigh Street
Waterstones revenues soar in full-year results
Book retailer Waterstones has reported a 33% rise in profit before tax for the year ended April 2019, despite โa period absent of significant bestselling titlesโ. According to accounts filed with Companies House, the retailer also saw an 18% increase in operating profit amid rise in stationary, food, gifts and…
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7 FebruaryNews
Pets at Home appoints new chairman
Pets at Home has appointed Ian Burke as its new chairman following an โextensiveโ internal and external search process. The group initially said it was looking to appoint a successor to outgoing chair Tony DeNunzio in its interim results last November.ย Since 2017, Burke was chair of Studio Retail Group,…
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6 FebruaryPeople Moves
M&S appoints new chief strategy and transformation director
Marks and Spencer has appointed Katie Bickerstaffe as its new chief strategy and transformation director. Bickerstaffe is currently a non-executive director of Marks and Spencer, and will take up her role on 27 April. She will serve on the board and operating committee as an executive director. She previously held…
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5 FebruaryPeople Moves
Wilko appoints Jerome Saint-Marc as its first CEO
Home and garden needs retailer Wilko appointed Jerome Saint-Marc as its first ever CEO to help โlead the business forwardโ. Wilko said Saint-Marc will deliver the โday to day leadership, energy and alignmentโ around Wilkoโs strategic repositioning to reinvent the companyโs customer proposition to take on a stronger product-focussed orientation…
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4 FebruaryEconomy
Retail chief executive turnover reaches seven-year high in 2019
Retail chief executive turnover has reached a seven-year- high, a new study has found. The Korn Ferryโs eighth annual UK Retail CEO tracker reported a 25% increase since 2018, the report also stated that the industry replaced 55 of its CEOs in 2019, up from 44% a year earlier. The…
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3 FebruarySport & Leisure
Angling Direct appoints new board director
Angling Direct has announced that Dilys Maltby will join the board of the company as a non-executive director with immediate effect. The fishing tackle retailer said that Maltby has a โstrong track recordโ in advising international consumer brands on their โpurpose, brand strategy and propositionโ. She will now be working…
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Jan- 2020 -31 JanuaryClothing & Shoes
Laura Ashley CEO steps down
Laura Ashley has announced that Kwan Cheong Ng will retire as the executive director and chief executive officer of the company on 30 April 2020.ย Ng, who joined as CEO in January 2012, will remain on the board as a non-executive director after his retirement.ย Katharine Poulter, who is currently…
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29 JanuaryClothing & Shoes
Ted Baker appoints chief customer officer
Ted Baker has announced that Jennifer Roebuck will take up the newly created leadership role of chief customer officer (CCO) following a โthorough search processโ conducted by the fashion retailer. Roebuck will move from her current position as chief marketing officer at online beauty market Feel Unique. Prior to this,…
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