High Street

- 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...

- New figures released today show that consumer confidence remained at the same level during April as it had in March, as UK shoppers continued to worry about the economy and their personal finances.Research firm GfK found in its latest monthly Cons...

- Five times as many households in the UK saw deterioration in their finances than experienced an improvement this month, a new report published today has shown.The latest monthly Household Finance Index from financial information services firm Mark...

- The number of online searches for UK retail services saw a sizable spike in the first quarter of 2012, according research out today, with activity on mobile devices spurring this trend.From January to the end of March total retail search volumes g...

- Now that the dust has settled on the government’s response to the Portas report, Sarah Easton casts her legal eye over how the high street revival plans might actually be actioned.In December last year Mary Portas published her recommendations for...

- The volume of consumers hitting the high street last weekend was severely dented by the poor weather seen across much of the country, a report released today reveals.With much of the country currently in drought meteorologist will have welcomed th...

- Strong trading in homewares and a modest increase in fashion goods sales helped overall high street sales grow year-on-year in March, according to new figures published today.The latest High Street Sales Tracker from accountancy firm BDO, which an...

- The recent pattern of high retail administrations & liquidations during the first quarter of each year will continue until at least 2015, a new report published today predicts.Joint research from accountancy firm BDO and the Centre for Economics a...

- The government announced today its official response to the high street recommendations made by Mary Portas last year, and though its aim to support high streets is widely welcomed some have questioned its methods.Below are some of the reactions o...