The number of shoppers entering non-food stores in the UK fell six per cent year-on-year in January. Footfall fell 31.9 per cent month-on-month, compared to December 2012, compared to a seasonal norm of -26.3 per cent. Retailing in the ...
Tags: footfall, Retailing, Footfall levels
Belgian discount supermarket group Colruyt booked an increase in sales for the first nine months of the year, with growth reported at both its retail and wholesale units. The company said that overall sales rose by 6.1% to EUR6.26bn ...
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PepsiCo will begin using a number of British-sourced ingredients for its line of Walkers crisps. The move aims to emphasise Walkers' "taste and quality" and will include a brand refresh and marketing campaign, PepsiCo said. Across its ...
Disappointing retail figures – including a slowdown in food sales – and the impact of the recent bad weather could plunge Britain into a triple-dip recession, experts are warning. Snow way to run a business: Each day of ...
Tags: Big Freeze, triple-dip recession, food sales
According to the British Retail Consortium footfall in December was 1.2 per cent lower than in 2011, despite seeing a 0.4 per cent rise last November. The UK’s worst-hit locations this December were the North & Yorkshire, down ...
Tags: British Retail Consortium, UK, footfall
UK - Mood Media, a leading in-store media specialist, has helped Primark create an engaging and dynamic shopping environment in its Oxford Street flagship store, which opened in September. "Mood Media has been working with Primark to ...
Tags: LED wall, LED, LED screens
Retail opinion was divided over what the most important or stand out moment was for the toy industry last year. Hasbro’s new Furby was named by just under ten per cent of the retailers we questioned, while seven per cent said the ...
Tags: toy, toy industry, toy retail
Mark Kingston, VP, Nickelodeon Consumer Products UK & Australia “BLE 2012 was great for us. Physically, Nickelodeon had a much stronger presence than ever before with a booth that served as both a display and information centre, as ...
Tags: Brand Licensing Europe 2012, toy industry, exhibition, toys
Having reviewed the retail footfall figures,sales reports and estimates for Q4 2012,Steve Reece reckons 2012 will go down as another tough year. Tough for retail,for the global economy and to a degree the toy and games industry. "For ...
Tags: Toy Industry, games industry, toy, retail
Owned and developed by Land Securities: the lighting scheme designed by BDP Lighting. The design concept came from a desire to create a change of mood from day to night that will inspire and excite visitors to the 1m sqft Trinity Leeds ...
Tags: Land Securities, Lighting Installation, Lighting Industry
It’s usually Dream Toys which signals the start of 'top toy' price-cutting, but we're in November and so far the inevitable heavy toy discounting has yet to materialise. Last year Asda, Toys R Us and Argos engaged in a price war in ...
Tags: retail, toynews blog, Toys, Price
It seems that not a day goes without an email popping in to my inbox from a supermarket or national chain advertising a toy sale. Of course, toys aren’t a grocer’s core market, and driving footfall via any temporary deal or ...
Tags: asda, disney, dominic sacco, grocers, retail, supermarkets, toynews blog
UK cash-and-carry retailer Booker has reported a 27% rise in annual profits, boosted by higher sales, improved margins and an extra week of trading. The company said today that post-tax profit increased to GBP74.9m (US$117.4m) in the 53 ...
Stitch Menswear Trade Show has announced its dates as 12th–13th February 2013,picking a mid week Tuesday Wednesday format instead of its usual Sunday and Monday dateline.After extensive research they found that Sunday is now part ...
Mansfield is trying to raise GBP 38,000 to provide free public Wi-Fi across the town centre. The funding is being led by Mansfield's Business Improvement District (BID) organisation, which is a partnership between the local council and ...
Tags: Wi-Fi, enterprise, local council