Retail & Consumer

Welsh retail footfall numbers remain in negative terrain

Retail & High Street

The Welsh Retail Consortium have released footfall figures for November

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Clarks UK appoints South West firm to legal panel

The Somerset-headquartered retailer has appointed the support the management of its national retail portfolio

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Exclusive: New Poundstretcher CEO Tristan Phillips on taking ex-Wilko stores and getting its shops spot-on

Retail & High Street

New boss said owner Aziz Tayub ‘feels it’s the right time for someone to step up and feels I’m the right person”

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Castore valued at almost £1bn after biggest funding round in its history

Castore counts the likes of Andy Murray and the billionaire Issa brothers among its existing investors

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Mulberry sees losses of £12 million in latest results

Company Results

The Somerset-based fashion retailer announced an update for the 26 weeks ending September 30

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Dawson and Sanderson returns to profit after extensive restructuring

Company Results

The long running travel firm said it was now in a strong position

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Greggs and Fenwick join forces to launch posh Christmas pop-up restaurant in Newcastle

The North East powerhouse businesses are working together for the very first time on the inventive partnership

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Topps Tiles takes 20% market share two years ahead of schedule

Record revenues, helped by higher sales prices, though total area of tiles sold is down 5%

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Furniture firm BeModern warns of 'measures to manage cost base' after profits fall

Company Results

The Jarrow business was launched in the 1960s and now designs, makes and supplies furniture across the UK

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Ex-Wilko chair apologises for lost jobs and says disastrous Liz Truss mini-budget contributed to chain's collapse

Retail & High Street

Lisa Wilkinson, 'I am devastated that we have let each and every one of those people down with the insolvency of Wilko'

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Grants for shoplifting security measures announced for West Country

Independent stores in the West of England will be able to apply for grants of up to £2,000 to cover the costs of CCTV, screens, body cams and hand-held radios

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Somerset holiday park to comes to market for over £1 million

Leisure & Touism

Quantock Camping, a touring and camping site and farmhouse is based in Taunton, Somerset

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Loungers reports strong growth in latest results and directorate change

Company Results

The Bristol founded company said it is on-track to open 34 new sites this year and to end the year with 256 sites

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Move to new warehouse hits Pets At Home revenue and profit

The business said that pre-tax profit dipped by more than a third to £34.7m in the first six months of the year

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musicMagpie still eyeing buyer after BT and owner of Footasylum and The Body Shop end takeover talks

musicMagpie has seen shares come under pressure since the pandemic

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Almost 10,000 ex-Wilko staff have been paid £42m by Insolvency Service since retailer went under

Insolvency and Administration

Discount chain with 400 stores and 12,500 workers went into administration in August

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McCain Foods fined £700k after East Mids worker had to have fingers amputated following accident

Tom Matthews, from Grantham, had part of his left index and middle finger amputated after the accident

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East Midlands Movers and Shakers: Lamp, Matthew Montague Architects, Topps Tiles, Label Apeel, MTMS, Shakespeare Martineau, Marketing Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Changes include Megan Powell Vreeswijk becoming CEO of Marketing Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

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Boots strikes £4.8bn pension deal with Legal & General

Retail & High Street

Companies say deal affecting 53,000 members is biggest of its kind

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Restaurant reopens in Bristol after major refurbishment

Côte restaurant in Bristol’s Clifton village was closed for several weeks

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Hays Travel snaps up South Wales based Travel House and 16 shops in undisclosed deal

The deal comes two months after Hays Travel acquired Just Go’s 45 branches

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Severn Trent says rising costs have hit profits

Company has 4.6m customers across central and south-west England and mid-Wales

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Kitchenware brand ProCook opens 60th store

The retailer, which has its headquarters in Gloucestershire, said its new shop would create 10 jobs

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Bus company trentbarton rewards engineers with pay rise

Qualified engineers at trentbarton’s East Midlands depots have received at least a 20 per cent pay rise

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Boohoo Boohoo considers closing its controversial Leicester factory Group says less than 100 employees will be affected

The Gym Group to double rate of new openings in 2024

Retail & High Street

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