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Retail industry

8 October 2024

  • The influencer Charlie Kamale attends a Shein party

    Shein doubles profits in UK after sales leap 40% to £1.5bn

    Fast-fashion retailer presents ‘real challenge for Boohoo and Asos’ as it considers £50bn IPO, says analyst
  • Selfridges department store

    Saudi wealth fund buys 40% stake in Selfridges department store

    Thai conglomerate Central Group to co-own high-profile retailer with Saudi Public Investment Fund
  • A fan uses a smartphone to buy Oasis tickets online

    Oasis ticket sales push UK non-essential spending to highest level this year

    Retail sales show strongest growth in six months as shoppers buy clothes and computers for new academic year

7 October 2024

  • Nish Kankiwala

    John Lewis Partnership axes chief executive role under new chair

  • Rachel Reeves

    More than 70 retailers urge Reeves to make 20% cut to business rates

6 October 2024

  • Chloe Day, 25, lying surrounded by her collection of 235 Jellycats.

    ‘I have to have one of those’: plushie super-fans explain the appeal

    For 25 years the company, built by two publicity-shy British brothers, has turned everything from bears to burgers into ‘plushies’. Three avid fans explain their appeal

5 October 2024

  • Vegemite jars on a production line

    Aussie classics Vegemite and Tim Tams cheaper in UK supermarkets than Australia

  • Superdry co-founder Julian Dunkerton sits atop a display bench of clothes

    Superdry boss: ‘Shein should pay tax in a fair way or there will be UK bankruptcies’

4 October 2024

  • John Lewis Christmas shop

    Losing its sparkle? The Christmas glitter backlash

    John Lewis launches glitter-free range amid rising concerns over its impact on the environment

3 October 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Tesco is unbeatable when it concentrates on the day job

    Nils Pratley
    Having exited most of its overseas adventures the retailer is an advertisement for the virtues of sticking to the knitting
  • An aerial view of waves washing up tons of disarded clothing

    The alternatives
    ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland

    After seeing the consequences of fast fashion, one woman is on a mission to change the way we think about repurposing clothes
  • A staff member on an aisle at a Tesco store

    Tesco boss says new workers’ rights laws must not hurt growth

    Bill is likely to include measures such as ending ‘exploitative’ zero-hours contracts and changes to sick pay

2 October 2024

  • Tents at a Dorset campsite

    JD Sports’ UK business hit by bad weather and Red Sea disruption

  • a daytime picture of the Harrods store in Knightsbridge taken from the opposite side of the street

    Veteran Harrods executive drops plan to head Fenwick amid Al Fayed controversy

1 October 2024

  • Nike shoes displayed at a sporting goods store in New York City.

    Nike postpones investor meeting after hiring new boss amid falling sales

  • A Dobbies garden centre

    Garden centre chain Dobbies to shut 17 stores as part of restructuring plan

  • An avocado green bathroom suite

    Avocado bathrooms are back in UK as younger homeowners go green

  • A Mulberry handbag for sale in a store in New York

    Mulberry rejects £83m takeover bid from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group

  • Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK

  • Moana and other screen favourites set to top Christmas toy lists, says Hamleys

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