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Dec 11, 2024 · The macroeconomic environment isn’t exactly encouraging consumers to spend right now and the situation doesn’t look likely to improve drastically at the start of 2025.

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Total sales at Primark rose 4.9% to £9,448m in the year to 14 September 2024 (FY2024). Revenue climbed 6% in constant currency, which the retailer said reflected “a strong performance” across its key growth markets, including the US, France, Spain, Italy and Central and Eastern Europe (‘CEE’), as well as ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Asda announced it would be cutting prices across 2,500 products by an average of 26% from today as part of its Big Jan Price Drop initiative, while Morrisons revealed it would be price-matching 500 products to discounters Aldi and Lidl.

Jul 23, 2024 · Tapi said the move was in a bid to avoid interference from the competitions regulator, as well as offloading stores that were unviable.. Tapi managing director Jeevan Karir said that initially it had wanted to save all of Carpetright but it “quickly established saving the entire business was unviable” and it was “mindful of how the Competition and Markets Authority may view a larger deal”.

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Nov 29, 2024 · The boss of Uniqlo’s parent company Fast Retailing has said that the fashion retailer does not use cotton from China’s conflict-ridden Xinjiang region in its products.

Feb 28, 2024 · In its results for the year to January 2023, the home improvement retailer reported an £84.2m loss from a profit of £30m the year before. Revenue dropped from £788m to £701m during the period, which the retailer described as a “challenging year for Homebase and retail”.. The retailer confirmed to The Times that it had been …