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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    London
    London’s mayor announces plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street

    Sadiq Khan’s proposal argues that famous shopping thoroughfare requires ‘major regeneration’

    A computer-generated image of a pedestrianised Oxford Street
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis hails turnaround effect as Waitrose sales help narrow losses

    Retailer expects ‘significant uplift’ in full-year profits

    People entering and exiting a Waitrose store in Lewes, East Sussex
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Lex
    UK fast fashion cannot match Shein’s style

    Rise of Chinese company has hurt Asos and Boohoo but many problems are of their own making

    Montage featuring three models wearing fashion clothing and the logos of Boohoo and Asos
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Aldi
    Aldi’s UK operation posts jump in profits despite recent market share fall

    Chain plans to open 23 new UK sites before end of the year

    Customers with shopping trolleys leave an Aldi supermarket in Ipswich, UK
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    UK tax
    Small businesses dodge £4.4bn of UK tax each year

    Spending watchdog says HMRC lacks a strategy to combat problem

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  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    ASOS PLC
    Asos sells majority stake in Topshop and Topman to Danish retail billionaire

    Online fast-fashion retailer agrees £135mn deal with Anders Holch Povlsen

    Asos’s UK website on a laptop screen
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis reinstates ‘never knowingly undersold’ price promise

    Pledge had been ditched two years ago under outgoing chair Sharon White

    John Lewis store in Kingston
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    UK retail sales
    UK retail sales boosted by warm weather in August

    Figures from British Retail Consortium and Barclays point to more purchases of summer clothing and barbecues

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  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    UK tiles floored by consumers opting for travel over home improvements

    Retailers including Topps Tiles flag sinking demand as pandemic-era enthusiasm for home projects fizzles out

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  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    News in-depthMarks & Spencer Group PLC
    ‘Not fit for purpose’: M&S pins hopes on Oxford Street store revamp

    Retailer awaits decision from new Labour government on multimillion-pound plans to refurbish Art Deco flagship

    Exterior of Marble Arch Marks and Spencer
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    JD Sports Fashion PLC
    JD Sports sales jump after strong growth in US

    UK sportswear retailer’s quarterly results boosted by the opening of 85 stores this year

    A shop assistant arranges shoes on a display inside a JD Sports store on Oxford Street in central London
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Waitrose Ltd
    Waitrose to open first new stores since 2018

    Upmarket supermarket chain will create up to 100 new convenience stores as part of £1bn investment

    People walk past a Little Waitrose supermarket in London
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    UK retail sales
    British retail sales rebound in July

    ONS reports 0.5% rise in quantity of goods bought helped by Euros tournament and shop discounts

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  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    UK economy
    Spending in UK pubs tripled on day of Euro 2024 final, data shows

    Surge in payments as England fans drowned their sorrows fails to offset decline in overall consumer transactions

    England football fans watching the Euro 2024 final against Spain on July 14
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    Why investors fell out of love with Ocado

    During the pandemic it was seen as a British tech success story. But its progress since has been less convincing

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  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Greggs PLC
    Greggs targets dinner market with more late openings

    Food-to-go retailer says purchases made after 4pm growing faster than overall average as it continues expansion

    A customer carrying products from a Greggs shop
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado chief plans to retain group’s stake in M&S joint venture

    Future of online retail tie-up has come under the spotlight ahead of deal’s five-year anniversary

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis wins first planning permission to build housing

    Retailer will create 320 rental flats and 30 affordable homes in initial project

  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Carpetright PLC
    Most Carpetright shops to close with loss of almost 1,600 jobs

    Only 54 of 273 stores being bought by rival Tapi, say administrators at PwC

    A general view of a Carpetright store in London
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Hammerson PLC
    LVMH-backed fund buys £1.5bn stake in Bicester Village owner

    UK shopping centre landlord Hammerson says deal with L Catterton is ‘game changer’

    Shoppers walk near the Bullring shopping centre at night
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Burberry Group PLC
    Joshua Schulman, fashion obsessive tasked with turning around Burberry

    New American CEO must revive the British heritage brand without jettisoning its luxury ambitions

    Joshua Schulman
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Frasers Group
    Frasers chief says appetite for luxury goods will ‘come back strong’

    Pre-tax profits down a fifth at group that owns upmarket chain Flannels and Sports Direct

    A Sports Direct store in central London
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado shares surge after profit forecast upgrade

    UK online grocer says technology business will achieve margin in mid-teens, up from previous guidance of more than 10%

    An Ocado delivery van is seen driving in Hatfield
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Burberry Group PLC
    Burberry replaces chief executive and warns on profits

    Shares hit as British luxury fashion group suspends dividend and announces departure of Jonathan Akeroyd

    A model presents a creation during a catwalk presentation for British fashion house Burberry’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    News in-depthTesco PLC
    Tesco takes on Waitrose and M&S in premium range fight

    UK’s biggest supermarket aiming for extra £1bn in sales as spending on upmarket own-brand labels rises

    Tesco CEO Ken Murphy at the group’s food development centre in Welwyn Garden City
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