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...“It’s not just a problem with this first quarter, but for a while now we’ve been concerned about the reliability of the [ONS] numbers,” said Geoff Cooper, chief executive of Travis Perkins, the UK’s largest...
...But Travis Perkins, the builders’ merchants, said anxiety about those cuts was making consumers put off home improvements....
...Our retail correspondent, Beth Rigby, has established the memo is accurate but she and Norma Cohen are pinning down additional details. Needless to say, the unions are already fuming....
...Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics, said his overall index of comparable store sales rose by 4.4 per cent, more than 50 basis points above expectations....
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