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...“Retailers are eternally dissatisfied people,” said Peter Ruis, the well-respected retail executive who recently returned to the John Lewis team to help revamp its department stores, this week....
...More than 900 companies, including American department store JCPenney and luxury fashion label Prabal Gurung, last year faced legal action from individuals over claims of an alleged failure to provide equal...
...Lord Theodore Agnew, a former government minister who has worked with Marshall since both served as non-executives at the Department for Education more than a decade ago, recently joined as chair....
...At John Lewis he will work with Peter Ruis, a well-respected retail executive who recently returned to the group to revamp its department stores....
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...This will be especially true for department stores and speciality clothing retailers. Adobe reckons toys, electronics and apparel will receive the most aggressive price cuts....
...After all, why not make an immense department store half-timbered, as Liberty in London did, to evoke the glamour of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and their age of adventurers?...
...store, restaurants, offices and a gym....
...“Our homegrown designers are blending Ireland’s rich cultural heritage with global trends,” says Shelly Corkery, fashion buying director at Dublin department store Brown Thomas Arnotts....
...Rival department store Debenhams failed at the end of 2020, shortly after Philip Green’s Arcadia fashion empire fell into administration. First-half profits comfortably exceeded analysts’ forecasts....
...She cited the example of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, the chain of department stores that filed for insolvency in January for the third time in four years....
...In the previous round, interested parties included hedge fund millionaire Sir Paul Marshall and DMGT, the group that owns the Daily Mail....
...“Online is a much more expensive place to trade than it’s ever been,” says John Edgar, chief executive of department store group Fenwick....
...And while Waitrose stores have a tendency to look tired and understocked, M&S has lavishly refurbished its food halls....
...Following the recent collapse of the Wilko general store chain, discount retailer B&M will acquire some of its stores out of administration....
...Japan: Workers at one of Tokyo’s most famous department stores are going on strike for the first time since the 1950s....
...A more fundamental challenge than measuring carbon is the finite capacity of soil to store it, according to scientists and environmentalists....
...It planned a nine-storey mixed-use development with retail, leisure and offices — which it was widely agreed would benefit the end of Oxford Street largely populated by department store-turned-tourist attraction...
...In the space of five years she had gone from covering a short maternity leave to overseeing three design departments, more than 40 projects at a time and joining the management team....
...“If you walk the length of Oxford Street, it’s a national disgrace,” said Richard Pennycook, who previously chaired nearby department store Fenwick and ran the Co-op supermarket chain....
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