UK Business News

Mutual retailer, the Co-operative Group has today announced that it is prepared to fight like for like with the UK’s top supermarket chains for a share of the public festive season spend, by introducing price cuts and savings that they say are worth £200 million customers.
As the silly season is practically upon us the Co-op [...]

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Baby product and children’s wear retailer Mothercare, who announced an 11% increase in profits recently, have announced expansion plans for both the UK and overseas markets.
Mothercare say that they will be taking on an extra 400 staff in the UK over the next three years and will be increasing the rate of new overseas outlets [...]

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Debenhams have announced that they will hold a four day pre-Christmas sale starting on November 18th in a move that is bound to spark a frenzied price war on the high street in the run up to the holiday period.
The department store says that it will be offering savings of £250 million to customers during [...]

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“In 10 years’ time we’ll still be on the High Street, but we’ll be big online too.” – Clinton Lewin

High street greeting card retailer Clinton Cards has announced pre tax profits for the year of £24.1million, up from £22million a year ago. Chief executive Clinton Lewin also revealed plans to launch an online card service [...]

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The Co-operative Group in the UK have reported an incredible 80% increase in sales of its ‘Simply Value‘ range of food products, while sales of Fairtrade products also rose by 35%, resulting in an overall increase of 17% in the companies first half profit.
The Co-op is Britain’s fifth biggest chain of grocery stores after purchasing [...]

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