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Category Archives: International Retailing
Talking Tesco (Again)
It has been quite a few weeks for Tesco, currently ending in the positive column. The recent interim results showed quite a lot of commercial progress and the intended restoration of the dividend cheered the City considerably. The trials of … Continue reading
Posted in Accounting, Booker, CMA, Competition, Competition and Markets Authority, Convenience stores, Finest, Food Retailing, International Retailing, Local Retailers, Market Shares, NTUC FairPrice, Profits, Retail Change, Retailers, Singapore, Suppliers, Tesco, Wholesaling
Tagged Accounting, Booker, CMA, Convenience stores, Court Case, Finest, Fraud, NTUC, Singapore, Suppliers, Takeover, Tesco, Wholesalers
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Taxing Times: Tesco and Poland
The financial results for Tesco last week brought forward a lot of comment and some interesting thoughts, not least the looming pension deficit and the exceptional items booked into the accounts. Oh, and the underlying performance, which was quite good. … Continue reading
Posted in European Union, International Retailing, Large Store Levy, Poland, Profits, Public Health lev, Regulation, Retail Levy, Retail Policy, Tax, Tesco
Tagged European Commission, Govenment, International retailing, Internationalisation, Large Store Levy, Large Stores, Legislation, Poland, public health levy, Regulation, Tax, Tesco
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“The Ridiculous is no longer Unimaginable”
The other day I received an email saying that the 2016-2017 Annual Review of the Retail Think Tank was available. It can be accessed and downloaded from here. The Retail Think Tank is just over 10 years old, being conceived … Continue reading
Posted in Black Friday, Brands, Competition, Consumer Change, European Union, International Retailing, Retail Change, Retail Health Index, Retail leadership, Retail Think Tank, Retailers, Store Closures
Tagged Retail Change, Retail Crisis, Retail Health Index, Retail Think Tank, Retailers
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Navigating The New Retail Landscape
Readers of this blog will be aware of the occasional use of guest bloggers and of book reviews. A couple of weeks ago my colleague Steve Burt showed me a new retail book he had bought, authored by two contemporaries … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Books, Consumer Change, Consumers, Customer engagement, International Retailing, Internet, Multichannel, Retail Change, Retail leadership, Retailers, Strategy, Technology
Tagged Books, Customer engagement, Internet, Omni-Channel, Retail, Retail Change, Retail leadership, Strategy, technology
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Albert Gubay 1928-2016
Early in January, Albert Gubay died, aged 87. His is not a name that will necessarily be familiar to many people, but he was a true original in the field of retailing and more generally. Not many people amass a … Continue reading
Posted in Albert Gubay, Discounters, Food Retailing, Historic Shops, History, Innovation, International Retailing, Kwik Save, Pricing, Retail History, Shoprite, Tesco, Three Guys, Uncategorized
Tagged Albert Gubay, Charlotte, Discounters, Ireland, Kwik Save, New Zealand, retail internationalisation, Shoprite, Tesco, Three Guys, USA
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If I had a hammer …
I am useless at DIY as anyone who knows me can testify. I can wield a hammer but other tools are beyond me, and whilst in my long ago youth I spent a golden summer as a brickie’s labourer, no … Continue reading
Posted in B&Q, Catalogues, Closure, DIY, International Retailing, Internet shopping, Online Retailing, Screwfix, Space
Tagged B&Q, DIY, internet retailing, Online, retail internationalisation, Screwfix, Space, Store Closure
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Singapore Times
As regular readers of this blog already know, the Institute for Retail Studies at the University of Stirling has had programmes and partners in Singapore for a long time, targeted both at Singaporean students and retailers and those in the … Continue reading
Summer Retail Reading with an Asian flavour?
It’s not that I have more time in the summer, but rather I try to clean up my office (and it really does need it, as colleagues will attest). The problem is that I end up discovering things I had … Continue reading
Righting the Tesco Supertanker?
Well a few days have now passed since the Tesco figures and the dust has settled some what. Much of the attention of course has fallen on the withdrawal from the USA and the attempts to be made to sell … Continue reading
Posted in Banks, International Retailing, Internet shopping, Market Shares, Online Retailing, Property, Tesco
Tagged Market share, Online retailing, Property, Tesco, USA
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