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Ingka Centres acquires Aura Retail Podium and puts IKEA at its heart

Ingka Centres and IKEA Canada (both part of Ingka Group) have announced plans to make IKEA more accessible to Torontonians with the retailer’s first downtown store in Toronto. On March 25 Ingka Centres (the shopping centres business of Ingka Group) acquired the Aura Retail Podium at 382 Yonge Street, where IKEA Canada will open a

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Retail news round-up: Sales boost surprise; business rates warning; concern over card costs

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that retail sales in August rose by 3.3% compared with the same month a year earlier and by 0.3% on a month-to-month basis. This has surprised economists who had expected shoppers to rein in their spending. The unexpected results were driven by a rise of 4.5% in the

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Retail Reflections: Online UK retailers see bigger picture; jobs for robots or people?

Alan Monahan writes: Not for the first time we’re being told that savvy retailers understand that success ultimately lies in their ability to gather, analyse and act on data about their customers’ preferences. But while those online in the UK are keenly interested in data, there is a looming barrier: nearly half have reported that

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