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High street gift card retailer Card Factory saw like-for-like sales in the six months to July 31 increased by 3.1% with roughly 30% growth coming from the company's website. Whilst the company did see profits before tax fall from £27m to £23.2m, down by 14.1%, but the margins were impacted...

Luxury retailer, The Shop at Bluebird, announced that it is to open a new 15,000 sq ft concept store in early 2018. Located in London’s Covent Garden, the store will house two dedicated retails floors, and a large restaurant on the second floor. The announcement comes as the latest in...

Retail sales rose by 1% on the month, significantly improving upon the 0.2% increase expected. Much of the increase was driven by improvements in spending in non-food shops like department stores and DIY outlets. Some analysts suggested that this could be a good indicator for the UK economy as it...

Hermes Investment Management, the £30.8 billion manager, and AustralianSuper, joint owners of centre:mk, have announced international fashion retailer, Primark, is to open a 75,000 sq ft sales area at centre:mk, in the heart of Milton Keynes. The new store is the largest single letting at centre:mk in the last 25 years...

The company stated that it will be partnering with Doddle to allow its customers to collect their items from Doddle locations nationwide. The service will be piloted in London and Brighton stores, including Kings Cross, Canary Wharf and Liverpool Street. Head of shipping development at eBay, Jon Ford, said “We...

The discount retailer said that the store, which is set to open in 2019, will be located in the Greenhithe shopping centre. It's reported that the store will be in place of Early Learning Centre on Upper Thames Walk, with the children's shop moving inside Mothercare in the Lower Thames...

John Lewis announced that “Christmas” had been the most popular search term on its website since August, which coupled with the fact that customers have already been buying festive gift-wrapping, artificial Christmas trees and baubles, suggests Christmas shopping is beginning earlier this year. The department store chain saw sales of...

Chief executive of the retailer, Ben Lewis said that the company was planning to double the size of its digital office in Shoreditch whilst also trebling the size of its technology team. The family owners of River Island have also decided not to take a dividend for the second year...

In a bid to boost ongoing online engagement whilst launching a mobile wallet pass to support its campaign aims to end cosmetic animal testing worldwide, the Body Shop has announced its working with agency Urban Airship. Harriet Williams, Chief Digital Officer at The Body Shop said “Mobile wallet passes offer...

The Co-Operative Group has announced that it has sold the remaining stake in the Co-Operative Bank, as earlier in the month the bank completed £700m restructuring and recapitalisation that the saw the group’s shareholding being reduced from 20% to 1%. The Co-Operative Group have also announced that food like-for-like sales...