- Philip Clarke, CEO of the UK’s leading retailer Tesco, has informed around 5,000 of the company’s store managers & executives that their annual bonuses will be slashed this year.According to The Daily Mail a letter was sent to the managers explain...

- On 15 April 2009 Robert McCulloch, a British National Party (BNP) member who openly held extreme and racist views about eastern Europeans coming to the UK, fatally stabbed Mr Romasov from Lithuania at their common place of work – a Sainsbury’s bra...

- British fashion retailer French Connection has announced to investors today that it is now unlikely to meet its full-year profit targets due to continuing declines in sales.In the 15 weeks to May 7th 2012 French Connection’s group revenues decline...

- Jo Lee has today been confirmed as the new Brand Communications Director of British fashion label and retailer Ben Sherman.Having spent the last eight years leading the marketing team at luxury brand Paul Smith, Lee comes to the business with sign...

- The management team of electricals retail group Dixons retail will feel satisfied with the success of its renewal & transformation programme this morning, after publishing vastly improving sales results.Full-year sales for the 52 weeks ending Apri...

- The benefits of new Smart TVs are not being communicated well enough to consumers leading to lost sales, new research published today reveals.Smart TVs represent the next generation of television sets and allow users to connect directly to the int...

- The parent company of UK-based health & beauty retailer Boots has today reported a full-year 12.4 per cent rise in headline trading profit after a decent performance in its domestic market.Alliance Boots revealed that in the year ending March 31st...

- Online health & beauty retailer Feelunique.com has today revealed that it has more than doubled its profitability and increased its turnover by 63 per cent over the last year.In the year to March 12th 2012 Feelunique recorded a record turnover of ...

- Sales since the start of the year at DIY specialist Wickes have been dampened by recent cold and wet weather, a trading update published today reveals.Parent company Travis Perkins has seen its total revenues boosted by the full incorporation of T...

- Long-serving retail boss Lord Harris is to step down from his role as CEO of carpet & flooring specialist Carpetright, it has been announced today.Harris, who founded the business in 1988, will be replaced in the CEO role by former Sainsbury’s dir...

- A set of false teeth, half a sofa uncovered in Edinburgh and a cabinet in Liverpool were all part of the debris cleaned up over the weekend in the latest venture by retailer Marks & Spencer.The Big Beach Clean, part of the company’s ongoing Foreve...

- High street retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) is set to scale back its ambitions plans for sales growth next week due to the depressed state of UK consumer spending, reports have suggested.Just 18 months ago CEO of M&S Marc Bolland claimed that the b...

- Entertainment retailer HMV has today predicted that its full-year losses will be greater than previously anticipated due to a lack of big music & film releases in its fourth quarter.Reporting its pre-close update the beleaguered business said that...

- The battle between online-only (pure-play) retailers and their multichannel (online and high-street) competitors is very much on. There seems to be a general consensus that having both an online and high-street presence is the most effective way t...

- Catalogue & online retailer Shop Direct Group has announced today that two of its four customer service centres could close as part of a new deal with professional services firm Serco.Serco has been awarded a contract to manage the retailer’s cont...

- 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 ...