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...But Richard Hyman, an independent retail consultant, said Mr Ashley was right. “November has been an absolute disaster. The portents are really worrying,” he said. Others were less gloomy....
...“These results build on the pessimistic outlook for UK retail,” said Richard Lim of Retail Economics....
...But one chief executive with more work to do is Sergio Bucher of department store Debenhams....
...Mr Bucher is adding restaurants and prosecco bars to some of Debenhams’s 177 British and Irish stores....
...The leases limit Mr Bucher’s room for manoeuvre because he has few options to close stores....
...When he was 20, Richard Branson ran an illegal record exporting scam, avoiding purchase tax....
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