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Marks & Spencer Leads E-commerce Expansion

Marks & Spencer (M&S) is making a lead for expansion in the international markets. The brand will adopt e-commerce route which the company estimates that it will give Britain’s biggest clothing retailer a better chance to succeed than earlier...

Number of retail employees falls despite store increase

The number of UK workers employed by retail firms fell by over 3,000 in recent months despite an increase in the number of stores, a new study says. The cut was mainly in non-food retailers, among full and part-time...

Mobile searches ‘driving’ online retail boom

Mobile retail searches are the driving force behind the current boom in online sales of goods for parcel delivery, new figures have revealed.According to the latest report from the British Retail Consortium and Google, total retail search volumes in...

Chain retailers ‘closing 20 stores a day’

The gravity of the high street downturn is spelled out in new research published on Friday which shows UK retail chains have been closing stores this year at a rate of about 20 a day.The alarming statistic comes as...

Tesco boss: internet sales and stores can work together

Clicks and bricks are the way ahead, says new Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke, as he explains vision for world's third-largest retailer.The most powerful man in British retail says the industry is entering a new era as the worlds...

UK retail jobs growth falters

The British Retail Consortium (BRC)-Bond Pearce Retail Employment Monitor Q4 2010 has reported that in the last quarter of 2010, there was the equivalent of 3,900 more full-time jobs in UK retail than the same quarter a year earlier,...

QSR’s mantra for success

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) business is growing at a fast pace in India. The organised QSR business in the country is estimated to be over Rs 20 billion and has been growing at a CAGR of around 40 per...

Interest rate held at five per cent

The Bank of England has held the interest rate at five per cent for the fifth month running despite increasing fears of an imminent recession.The British Retail Consortium said that although it agrees with today's decision, the bank should...

London outnumbers UK in overall sales

According to the figures revealed by British Retail Consortium (BRC), retail sales in London were 8.7 per cent higher than a year earlier on a like-for-like basis. This was slightly weaker than the 11 per cent rise in June...

Retail majors pledge to save enviornment

Retail giants including Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco are set to announce a new, industry wide set of climate change pledges.It is the first time the sector has come together to make such a wide range of pledges.British Retail Consortium...
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