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It has been reported that sports retailer JD Sports has purchased Go Outdoors for £112.3 million. JD Sports acquired the retailers’ 58 stores in the UK from private equity owners 3i Group and YFM Equity Partners. Founders of the company John Graham and Paul Caplan will leave the business. Figures show that...

Womenswear retailer & Other Stories is to open its sixth store in the UK on Oxford Street, marking its third store in the capital. The store launch will feature a five-day exclusive Wool & the Gang collection, which will be rolled out nationwide after the five day period. The brand, owned by...

Supermarket Sainsbury’s is to expand its formal menswear range following excellent sales results despite a declining market. In the last sixth months alone, menswear sales grew by 13%, in comparison to the rest of the market which declined by 3%. Sainsbury’s Argos commercial director, James Brown, said: “The menswear clothing market is...

Lidl has become the first UK supermarket to pay its employees the “real living wage” of £8.45 per hour. The move will mean a pay rise for 5,500 of its staff, with the minimum rate increasing to £9.75 per hour from early next year. Despite the announcement in the chancellor’s Autumn...

Warehouse staff at Arcadia have threatened to strike on so-called ‘Cyber Monday’, in a move which could disrupt one of the retailer’s most significant sales days. Members of the GMB union say that they want to be paid the real living wage” of £8.45, the figure recommended by the Living Wage...

Online fashion brand Missguided has opened its first physical store, with three others to follow early next year. The company, based in Manchester, opened the 20,000 sq ft flagship in Westfield Stratford yesterday at a launch party featuring Baddie Winkle. It adds to the brand’s concessions in Birmingham and Manchester branches...

Austin Reed is to make a return to the high street less than a year after it went into administration. Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, which bought the brand in May, has said that it will open a new flagship store in London to anchor a new chain of 50 stores...

HSS Hire, one of the UK’s leading providers of tools, equipment and related services, has won the coveted “Best Employer Brand” award at this year’s Recruitment Business Awards ceremony which took place in Manchester on 22nd September 2016. HSS Hire was awarded first place in this prestigious category for the company’s...

Bookseller Blackwell’s has reshuffled its senior management team, with the appointment of Dean Drew as sales and marketing director and Scott Hamilton in the newly-created head of retail role.   Meanwhile, Gareth Hardy has been appointed as head of publisher liaison, retaining responsibility for buying, terms and publisher relations. Mr Hardy,...

Morrison has announced that it will revive the Safeway brand as a range wholesale to independent retailers. The range will include hundreds of convenience products for wholesale to independent retailers, branded Safeway and will be available from early next year. The announcement came as the supermarket also revealed that four new...