UK Business News

There is some interesting reading this week regarding the UK alcoholic drinks industry, with reports that sales of both wine and real ale are booming despite or maybe because of the current economic situation.
The specialist drinks industry magazine Drink Business carried out a study into the hitherto little researched market of virtual wine sales in [...]

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One of the UK’s leading retail experts, Mary Portas, has launched her ‘guide to successful retailing‘ – a series of master classes to help give thousands of independent retailers the edge in their battle to stay on the high street.
Delivered exclusively through the National Skills Academy for Retail’s network of retail skills shops, located on [...]

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The host nation has been under close scrutiny in the first week or so of the South African World Cup, but the international community is not only watching the action on the pitch; they are also witnessing a South Africa that continues to emerge as a competitive 21st century economy.
As outlined in Deloitte’s paper “2010 [...]

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“Boycott corporate and anti-working class Tesco’s” says Free Market Civil Liberties Think Tank.
That is the message from the Libertarian Alliance concerning measures by the new government to stop shops in England & Wales from selling alcohol at below cost price. I would like to think that it is a tongue in cheek response to the [...]

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The UK’s second largest clothing retailer, Next has warned that consumer spending is likely to slow after the General Election as the new government takes stricter measures to tackle the budget deficit.
Next does expect sales and profits to improve during 2010, but they remain ‘very cautious in our outlook for the year ahead.’
Next reports that [...]

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