DFS-owned contemporary furniture retailer dwell continues the second phase of its nationwide expansion with the opening of a new concept store in Oxford over the Boxing Day weekend. Creating nine new jobs in the area, the 5500 sqft space ...
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American Express can spot “unusual” activity on Australian cardholders’ cards because their spending patterns are predictable. Its survey this month has found that only 10% of Australians are impulse shoppers. 85% shop the ...
Billabong will be a supporting partner to SurfAid's flagship program in Nias Indonesia. Running for three years, SurfAid's program in Nias has successfully increased the quality of health services for countless mothers and children, while ...
The babycare's third quarter results show an increase of 1.1 per cent in like-for-like sales as the team continues its plans to turn the business around. Mothercare is continuing its plans to turn the business around as the retailer ...
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UK retail sales declined by 0.4%, on a like-for-like basis from December 2013, when they had increased 0.4% on the preceding year, finds the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. On a total basis, sales were up 1%, against a 1.8% rise in ...
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Most of the traditional January or Boxing Day sales now start online before Christmas, even before you've had a chance to pull a cracker. Retailers are not obliged to give you a refund or an exchange if you simply decide you don??t want ...
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Oak Furniture Land, the UK’s fastest-growing furniture company, is launching a major new sofa brand with 57 showrooms across its retail network. SofaStore is the latest development from the clicks-to-bricks retail success story that ...
Longstanding Myer CEO and managing director Bernie Brookes has put pen to paper on a new, open-ended contract worth $2 million per annum, plus performance based cash and equity bonuses. At the same time, the experienced retail head as ...
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Myer performed strongly in retail during the holiday season despite a week-long website outage and heavy competition, including competitive online-only offers from David Jones, new research from Pocketbook shows. An analysis of anonymous ...
Furniture Village welcomed 29,433 people across its 40 UK stores – up nearly 5% from the same time in 2012. In-store transactions on the day saw an increase of 19% compared to 2012, and online transactions almost doubled, with 71,007 ...
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Measles, traced to a man at a hip-hop dance competition in Sydney, spread across Australia and overseas, leaving tens of thousands exposed, officials say. Public health officials in Australia and New Zealand Health Authorities told the ...
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Barker and Stonehouse, the UK's largest family-owned independent furniture retailer, recorded an increase for year-on-year Boxing Day sales last week. Total sales across eight of the company's nine UK stores (Barker and Stonehouse's ninth ...
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Bandai supports the range with retail promotion, TV advertising and consumer press coverage Bandai's latest version of the Tamagotchi has hatched onto the shelves of retailers across the country. The revamped model, the Tamagotchi ...
Tags: Toys, Electrical Toys
Global Blue, the international retail tourism experts, report that total international tax free spend has surged up 21% to date this year with globe shoppers from South East Asian driving the growth. Thai spend in particular is up a massive ...
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UK bedding brand, The Fine Bedding Company, has launched a new website to boost online sales and help it achieve ambitious growth in 2014. The website, which has been designed and built by Manchester-based digital agency, Studio North, ...
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