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Debenhams Group returns to growth amid PLT recovery

Debenhams Group returns to growth amid PLT recovery

Currys appoints Fredrik Tønnesen as Group CEO

Currys appoints Fredrik Tønnesen as Group CEO

Inditex sales rise 5.8% after strong start to summer trading

Inditex sales rise 5.8% after strong start to summer trading

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Maplin

This coverage examines Maplin’s activities, strategy, and role in the UK retail sector, with a focus on its transformation from high-street electronics chain to an online-led business. Reporting covers its operational changes, ownership developments, brand positioning, and efforts to adapt to shifting consumer and market demands. Retail executives and managers can gain insight into the challenges and opportunities faced in reviving and repositioning a specialist retail brand.

Maplin

This coverage examines Maplin’s activities, strategy, and role in the UK retail sector, with a focus on its transformation from high-street electronics chain to an online-led business. Reporting covers its operational changes, ownership developments, brand positioning, and efforts to adapt to shifting consumer and market demands. Retail executives and managers can gain insight into the challenges and opportunities faced in reviving and repositioning a specialist retail brand.

Northern Ireland suffers most from UK retail struggles

Northern Ireland is suffering the worst of retail’s bad weather, showing a 7.3% drop in…

The death of the UK high street

The high street as we know it is dead. Boring stores are dead. Or if they are not dead yet,…

43,000 retailers in ‘financial distress’

Nearly 43,000 retailers ended the first quarter of the year in a state of ‘significant’…

Shoppers seek overseas ecommerce to combat Brexit prices

A third of UK online shoppers have chosen to buy from abroad according to a survey by online…

650 retail stores have closed in 2018 so far

Nearly 650 retail stores and restaurants have shut or are at risk of closure since the start…

Furniture shop closing down after rent increases by £100,000

Phillip Logan, owner of furniture store Uno in South Belfast has decided to close his shop…

High street collapse down to higher business rates, says Colliers

Fifteen major retailers or restaurant groups have gone into CVA or administration in the…

Embracing advanced, real-time analytics

The last few months have presented a challenge for traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers…

21,000 retail jobs lost or threatened so far this year

Over 21,000 jobs have been axed or put at risk in the first three months of the year as…

Study finds independent retail and leisure outlet growth is soaring

As multiple stores like New Look, Maplin and Toys ‘R’ Us close, a study by OnBuy.com has…