14 Dec 2006
| by by Natalie Paris
retailers this year and should surpass last year's sales by up to 10%....As shops get busier in the run-up to Christmas, ACNielsen expects Christmas week supermarket sales to top £3bn because of further strong growth in grocery sales.
Mike Watkins, senior manager retailer services for ACNielsen, said Christmas week could possibly be some 10% up on last year as shoppers complete ...
14 Dec 2006
| by by Staff
Marks Spencer as Advertiser of the Year? A few years ago the idea would have seemed fanciful if not downright preposterous. The retailer was never serious about it. So ubiquitous were the stores, that they simply advertised themselves, it was reasoned. As for the punters, well, they just kept the tills ...
13 Dec 2006
| by by Ed Kemp
The fashion retailer, which has suffered poor sales this year, will use the data to better target ...
1999. It has approached a number of agencies about the work.
Earlier this year, the retailer ...
beating its forecasts, Next described the results as 'disappointing'.
The retailer's advertising has ...
06 Dec 2006
| by by Joe Lepper
LONDON - Tommy Hilfiger is to launch a retail, office and showroom complex in London following work
06 Dec 2006
| by James Quilter
After years as a retail analyst for a Japanese investment bank, Masayuki Nagatake has spent...the Japanese retail industry extensively, he knew Japan's
version of Gap would be a good bet. 'Uniqlo ...
of the brand's previous attempt to break into
the market. When he joined parent company Fast Retailing ...
established clothing retailers including
Marks & Spencer. 'London is one of the toughest markets ...
30 Nov 2006
| by by Ian Darby
LONDON - Gap, the US fashion retailer, has kicked off a review of its £30m pan-European media...to the $100m business in June. PHD was the previous incumbent.
The retailer is battling to turn around its ...
29 Nov 2006
retailer H&M, for example. By most accounts the brand is in great shape.
The problem for H&M is that it is inevitably compared to its major
rival, the Inditex group from Spain, which owns several retail brands,
including Zara, and recently overtook H&M to become Europe's biggest
clothing retailer. While H ...
29 Nov 2006
retailers such as Gap, H&M and New Look are doing is
creating the fashion equivalent of this. Gap ...
for the
retailer. However, the range has netted widespread PR coverage for Gap
and ensured that the designer has ...
, collaborations with
high-street retailers are increasingly vital. However, designers' luxury fashion kudos ...
29 Nov 2006
USC, the branded-clothing retailer, has tied with Emap and NatMags to offer free magazine
22 Nov 2006
goods retailer, Steve Barry's University Sportswear, to release a basketball shoe. Nothing unusual ...