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The luxury department store Harrods has promoted two member of its team to take on the roles of fashion directors after former chief merchant Marigay McKee announced her departure from Harrods in September.Helen David has become fashion director of womenswear, accessories, fine jewellery and childrenswear due to her experience working...

Value retailer Poundland’s new transactional website has moved up into the top 10 of the UK's best performing retail websites. This is according to the latest results from the quarterly testing of the Retail 500 of top UK online stores by Sitemorse. The British variety store chain move up seven places...

H&M's Conscious Collection may be just an annual event but according to the brand's head of sustainability, Catarina Midby, it's part of a much bigger picture and a drive towards a more sustainable future.The Swedish retail clothing company launched the Conscious Collection two years ago. Since then, the range made...

Bill Adderley, the billionaire founder of homeware retailer Dunelm has been unmasked as the biggest private investor in Marks & Spencer.Mr Adderley has secretly built a near-£250m stake in M&S since the spring of 2012. In that time M&S shares have risen about 40%.It is understood that he started buying...

The world’s biggest coffee chain, Starbucks, has said that profits next year will fall below analyst expectations, sparking a fall of 2.4% in share prices.The news comes despite the fact that profits rose 34% in the fourth quarter as customer spend increased.We are more optimistic about our future than ever...

John Lewis predicts that this year will be the UK's first 'mobile Christmas' with traffic from mobile phones and tablets overtaking that from desktops for the first time on Christmas Day itself. Mobile made up almost 50% of all traffic to johnlewis.com on 25 December 2012 and the retailer expects...

Japanese electronics firm Sony has cut its profit expectations by 40% for the year to March 31st 2014, as its movie and TV production unit saw a 17.8 billion yen loss during the period, compared to an operating profit of 7.9 billion a year earlier."The current quarter reflects the theatrical...

The owner of DVD and games rental firm Blockbuster has put the company back into administration for the second time this year.Gordon Brothers Europe has said that the move came despite efforts to turn around the “historically loss-making company” by restructuring the business, investing significantly in strategic marketing activities and...

Mollie King from pop group The Saturday’s has launched her debut handpicked “loved by Mollie” collection for high street fashion chain Oasis.The range will be the retailer’s first celebrity collaboration and includes oversized coats, on-trend pastels, tapestry prints and leather separates."I’ve always been an Oasis girl, it’s one of the...

Sainsbury’s is requesting a judicial review of an Advertising Standards Authority ruling which rejected its complaint over Tesco’s price promise campaign.Sainsbury’s claims that the campaign misleads customers by failing to take into account crucial differences between the rivals’ own-brand products when making comparisons. Examples include Tesco comparing its own Everyday...