Industry News

Dixons bucks electrical rivals' falling sales trend

May 11, 2012

A revamp of the bulk of its stores has paid dividends for Dixons, Europe's second-largest electrical retailer, helping spark an eight per cent quarterly rise in like-for-like sales.

Damp spring brings gloom for clothes shops

May 9, 2012

The cold, wet April saw clothes sales suffer, new figures show, but there were strong signs of progress in the homewares sector.

Debenhams to take on 6,500 extra festive workers

Oct 10, 2011

After a sunny start to October saw high street shops suffer more sales falls, department store Debenhams has partly lifted the gloom by announcing that it will take on 6,500 extra workers for the Christmas and January sales rush.

John Lewis to expand in-store collection

Aug 31, 2011

Department store John Lewis has revealed plans to more than double the size of its in-store collection scheme before the end of this year, with further development scheduled for 2012.

Scots buck UK trend by going shopping more often

Aug 22, 2011

Scottish shoppers have been visiting their local shops more this summer, making the region the only area of the UK where this figure has risen.

Shops handing out more plastic bags

Jul 29, 2011

Retailers in the UK handed out 6.4 billion single use plastic bags in 2010/11, 300 million more than the previous year.