Ted Baker
This coverage examines Ted Baker’s strategy and performance within the UK retail market, focusing on store operations, product design and launches, marketing campaigns, financial results, and leadership changes. Reporting highlights how Ted Baker balances brand identity, commercial growth, and consumer trends — offering insight for retail executives, managers, and professionals in fashion, lifestyle, and brand-led retail.
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Dec- 2019 -5 DecemberClothing & Shoes
Ted Baker drafts in AlixPartners to review operations
Ted Baker has reportedly drafted in consultancy firm AlixPartners to conduct a review of its operations. According to the Financial Times, the firm will review Ted Baker’s operations while coming up with a turnaround strategy. It is thought the appointment is separate to the investigation launched after the company’s board…
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2 DecemberClothing & Shoes
Ted Baker reveals £25m stock inventory error
Ted Baker has revealed its profits have been overstated by £25m. The company’s board estimated the value of inventory on its balance sheet was overstated by £20m to £25m, according to a “preliminary analysis”. It added that any adjustment to inventory value would have “no cash impact”, and would instead…
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Nov- 2019 -19 NovemberPeople Moves
Moss Bros poaches Ted Baker’s interim CFO
Moss Bros has announced the appointment of Bill Adams, Ted Baker’s current interim CFO, as its new CFO. Adams will take over the role from Tony Bennett, who has decided to step down from the board for “personal reasons” and will leave the business in February 2020. Adams will join…
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Oct- 2019 -16 OctoberNews
Ted Baker appoints Ari Hoffman as North American CEO
Global lifestyle brand, Ted Baker, has announced the appointment of Ari Hoffman as CEO of its business in North America. Hoffman has over 30 years experience working for a range of retail and luxury fashion brands in North America where he has held senior leadership positions. Most recently he was…
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3 OctoberHigh Street
Ted Baker profits nosedive 194% in half-year results
Shares at men’s fashion retailer Ted Baker plunged by as much as 35% in early trading today (3 October) after it reported a 193.9% fall in half-year profits, marking a loss of £23m. The decrease in profits for the 28 week period ending 10 August 2019 was largely due to…
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Aug- 2019 -22 AugustPeople Moves
Ted Baker CFO departs for Mulberry after 17 years
Mulberry, the British luxury brand, has announced the appointment of Charles Anderson to the Company’s board of directors as group finance director, with effect from early October 2019. Anderson replaces Neil Ritchie who, as previously announced, stepped down from the board on 30 June 2019. Anderson has over 20 years’…
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16 AugustClothing & Shoes
Next to replace Debenhams as Ted Baker childrenswear partner
Ted Baker has entered into a product licence agreement with Next to produce and sell its childrenswear collections. Under the agreement, which will run for an initial five-year period starting from 2020, Next will create and sell Ted Baker childrenswear products spanning baby, boys’ and girls’ clothing, shoes and accessories…
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15 AugustAdvice
Responding to sexual harassment in the retail workplace
A recent survey from regional law firm Foot Anstey found just over 1 in 10 (11%) retail workers have experienced “inappropriate touching of a sexual nature” in their current role – with over a third (36%) of those workers believing their employer “could have done more” to prevent it happening. …
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5 AugustComment
Spotlight: Retailers defying the high street doom and gloom
Joules British clothing retailer Joules has continued to defy the high street gloom over the past two years, and so far has not buckled under the pressures of ‘brexit uncertainty’ and the shift in consumer tastes and trends. Originally established as Joule & Sons in 1977 by Ian Joule, the…
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Jul- 2019 -22 JulyHigh Street
Former Ted Baker boss considering private equity buy-out
Ray Kelvin, founder and former CEO of Ted Baker, is rumoured to be considering a private equity buy-out of the company, according to the Mail on Sunday. The move would take the retailer private under its current management, and comes after Kelvin resigned from his position as CEO and director…
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