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Hotel and restaurant group Whitbread has seen its Costa coffee and Premier Inn hotel brands boost its half-year pre-tax profits to 254.9m, an increase of 5.4% on the same period last year.Alison Brittain joined Whitbread as chief executive designate on September 28th and is scheduled to succeed Andy Harrison as...
Fragrance, body care and fine foods brand, Crabtree & Evelyn plans to open a pop-up shop on London's Kings Road in the run-up to Christmas.The store will offer their first 50 customers a free 25g Hand Therapy Cream if they spend £15 or more on launch day, due to open...
Supermarket giant Tesco has made a welcome return to TV advertising with an important new ad campaign focusing on helping customers and re-establishing its ‘Every Little Helps’ tagline.Over the weekend, the first two adverts were shown which follow a new Tesco family going about its regular shop.Group brand director at...
The British Retail Consortium and Springboard has released figures to show that despite high street sales falling 1.4% and shopping centre sales falling 1.3%, this has been the best performance recorded for seven months.Other figures recorded have seen footfall in retail park’s rise 4% year-on-year, which is the highest since...
It has been reported today (October 19) that stationery retailer Smiggle are opening at Woking shopping within Peacocks.Smiggle, an Australian-based brand, now has 32 stores in the UK and plan to open eight more stores before Christmas. The new store at Woking shopping is due to open in November.John Cheston,...
Two of Britain’s biggest footwear chains, Jones Bootmaker, which has approximately 170 stores and Brantano, which trades from about 120 shops, were put up for sale earlier this year.Alteri Investors, the investment firm which was created to buy struggling retailers, is in advanced talks with the retailers’ Dutch parent company...
Club Monaco, the fashion and lifestyle brand has celebrated the opening of its new London store in Monmouth Street by bringing together the best of Seven Dials’ flowers, food and coffee.The women’s fashion shop will be opening the farmers market to the public on 16th and 17th October from 12pm...
Online auction site eBay & Argos have extended their partnership to offer eBay buyers and sellers a nationwide fulfilment service.The idea of the service is that sellers can take their items to Argos stores nationwide, where this service will start in around 150 stores before the year is out, and...
Department store Marks & Spencer are launching a new customer membership scheme on October 22nd called Sparks.The scheme offers customers the chance to collect points in three ways, ranging across its home, beauty, fashion and food departments. Ten sparks will be rewarded with every purchase, 10 for every £1 spent,...
WH Smith, the stationery and book retailer has seen pre-tax profit increase 8% to £121 million, largely due to its travel business.Figures show that that stores located at airports and rail stations rose 9%, although high street sales dropped 4%, however, total group sales were up 1% to £1,178 million.WH...
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