Trademark and Rights holders Against Piracy (TRAP) has announced that it has issued over one million copyright and trademark notices of infringement against sellers accused of online piracy in less than four years. Commercial merchandise piracy costs the industry more than £375 million in lost sales each year. Online platforms are a major target, Household […]
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Alan Monahan writes: And so to Harrogate. Next week I will be happily heading to the Home & Gift Buyers’ Festival in the spa town as I have done for the past 23 years. Driving to North Yorkshire, my spirits will be lifted as I re-enter the time warp that is Harrogate in the knowledge
Alan Monahan writes: Since Marks & Spencer announced that it was closing 100 stores over the next four years, the world and his wife seem to have had their say on how the high street can be saved. Well-meaning people are coming out of the woodwork to vow their allegiance to physical stores. Lucy Mangan,
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Alan Monahan writes: It’s been a difficult couple of weeks. I didn’t make The Sunday Times Rich List and then, after vowing not to watch the royal wedding on television, I was caught by my wife doing just that in the study where I was supposed to be working. This was a bitter blow for
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UK retail sales suffered their biggest quarterly fall in a year as the ‘Beast from the East’ kept shoppers away from the high street. Sales volumes fell 1.2% in March, compared with February. Sales of clothing, petrol and food all suffered, according to the Office for National Statistics. Fifteen major UK retailers or restaurant groups
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Alan Monahan writes: Like me, I’m sure that many of you have been niggled by the constant media references – BBC Breakfast is a repeat offender – to failing retail outlets being on the high street, when they are clearly not. So I punched the air in approval when I read a letter in the
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