January saw businesses improve their payment performance for the fifth time in the last six months.
Read More »Homewares enjoy biggest sales boost of the year
Figures from the BDO High Street Sales Tracker show overall sales up 5.6% in the week to February 21, when compared with the same week last year.
Read More »Discretionary income remains static
The average British family has no more discretionary income now than it did a year ago.
Read More »Spring Fair attendance best for two years
The number of visitors to this year’s Spring Fair International was 71,239 - outstripping the previous two years’ attendance figures.
Read More »Au Naturale/Ethel Austin loss-making stores will close
MCR, the administrators of homewares chain Au Naturale and its sister company, value clothing retailer Ethel Austin, today confirmed the imminent closure of 114 stores.
Read More »Power and performance turn men on to kitchenware
Celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay have brought a new machismo to cooking – and kitchenware is having to respond to it.
Read More »New names sign up for Exclusively
Exclusively Housewares has released the names of a host of new signings for its 2010 show.
Read More »Retailers absorb VAT increase on non-food
Retailers have protected customers from much of the effect of the recent VAT rise by keeping prices down.
Read More »Historic Liverpool department store to close down
One of the oldest surviving independent department stores in the country, Lewis’s of Liverpool, is to cease trading.
Read More »New trio for BHF-BSSA marketing
BHF-BSSA Group has made three new appointments within its marketing department.
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