General retail

- Administrators for the beleaguered high street greeting cards specialist Clinton Cards have announced that nearly half of the retailer’s stores are to be closed to help pay off its debts.Corporate Advisory & Restructuring firm Zolfo Cooper said in...

- Bicycle & car parts retailer Halfords has launched a new advertising campaign based on the feelings elicited by memories of British summertime.Launching this week, the retailer drafted in DLKW Lowe, a creative agency behind adverts for other well ...

- Store expansion helped total sales at bakery retailer Greggs rise 4.3 per cent over the last quarter, results released today reveal, but its underlying sales have declined over the period.On a like-for-like basis sales fell 1.8 per cent in the 19 ...

- Discount retail chain Poundstretcher has appointed Richard Kirk as its new CEO, the retailer has revealed.The former chief of value fashion retailer Peacocks has over 40 years of retail experience and is highly respected within the sector.Kirk lef...

- Total UK retail sales declined one per cent year-on-year during April as heavy rain disrupted trading across the country, new figures reveal.The latest Retail Sales Monitor from lobby group the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and audit, tax & advi...

- Troubled high street greeting cards retailer Clinton Cards has formally entered administration this afternoon.The fall of the business was prompted by its largest supplier American Greetings purchasing £35 million worth of loans owed by Clintons f...

- Cold & wet weather dampened high street fashion sales during April, according to new research, but other non-food sectors performed strongly during the month.Accountancy & business services firm BDO’s latest High Street Sales Tracker shows that ov...

- Price inflation for shopping items fell back last month as retailers continued to sacrifice margins to boost sales, new research released today shows.Lobby group the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and research firm Nielsen found that overall shop...

- Total sales at chocolate retailer Thorntons declined by 2.7 per cent year-on-year during its third quarter period, according to results released today.The closure of 11 of its shops over the 16 weeks ending April 28th 2012 negatively affected its ...