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...By striking deals with famous people young Brits can identify with, it has eclipsed well established British brands like Marks and Spencer and rival online retailer Asos....
...In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite was up 0.4 per cent and the Shenzhen Composite was up 0.3 per cent....
...This all happened by 10am local time… At lunchtime Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was down 2.4 per cent, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 2.2 per cent and Japan’s Nikkei 225 was down 1.7 per cent....
...It has seen its share price outperform the FTSE 100 over the past year, climbing more than 4 per cent compared with a 6 per cent fall for the UK large-cap index....
...It is fighting to win back market share and increased it by 4 percentage points last year....
...Marks and Spencer added 2.2 per cent to 480.6p, Sports Direct gained 1.9 per cent to 698p and Next rose 1.4 per cent to £63.20. The BRC said Furniture and Flooring was the best performing category....
...Shares in Carrefour closed up more than 4 per cent at €17.40....
...The shares were up 4.2 per cent in morning trading at 32.03p as investors applauded the removal of a chief executive many saw as sowing the seeds of Premier’s demise when he over-paid for RHM, owner of Hovis...
...Fresh snowfalls across Britain weighed on the retailers, with Marks and Spencer down 1.7 per cent to 375½p, Next off 1.8 per cent to £19.85 and Dixons Retail 4.5 per cent weaker at 24¼p....
...Marks and Spencer was down 0.7 per cent to 399p, while Debenhams fell 2.8 per cent at 81¾p....
...The relaunch of the Hovis bread brand had lifted its market share by 2.4 percentage points to 24.7 per cent....
...BP was up 4.5 per cent to 515p and BHP Billiton rose 4.8 per cent to £26.18....
...Marks and Spencer lost 2.3 per cent to 387¼p in the wake of Friday’s warnings from New Look and Arcadia. of weak sales growth....
...Marks and Spencer dipped 2.7 per cent to 352¼p even though Capital Research & Management declared a raised stake of 5.5 per cent....
...Shares worth $2.4bn at Freedom’s Friday close of $10.45 – up 8.4 per cent on unusually high volume – will also be issued to GLG’s owners, who will control the group....
...Group sales rose 4.1 per cent to £7.8bn....
...Next and Marks and Spencer continued their good runs, up 2 per cent to £15.30 and 1.4 per cent to 479p respectively on indications of strong Christmas trading....
...Ahead of its eagerly-anticipated second quarter trading update today, Marks and Spencer was another top gainer, up 2.3 per cent to 384p....
...Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at Sanford Bernstein, has predicted that sales will drop from double-digits to 9 per cent this year, and 4 per cent in 2006....
...The biggest mid-cap riser was Business Post, up 4.4 per cent to 414p as consolidation talk was again the air....
...The FTSE 100 slid 13.3 points, 0.2 per cent, to 5,416.4. The FTSE 250 finished all but flat, down just 0.4 points at 7,929.8. Volume was a solid 3.3bn shares....
...Marks and Spencer, the retailer, gained 1.8 per cent to 368½p on vague, but wild rumour, that a venture capitalist group, led by ex-WestLB banker Robin Saunders could be preparing a bid....
...Stuart Rose, chief executive of Marks and Spencer, on Tuesday insisted that he was still on track to turn round the clothing retailer in spite of its sixth consecutive quarter of falling like-for-like sales...
...Lex live on Rio Tinto Rio gained 4.4 per cent to £18.38, BHP Billiton added 3.9 per cent to 772p, Xstrata rose 2.9 per cent to £11.48 and Antofagasta added 3.4 per cent to £12.74....
...But bid speculation boosted Egg, up 4.4 per cent to 102p....
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