More than 200 UK shopping centres, collectively worth around £7 billion, are at risk of closure if their owners fail to secure fresh equity for refinancing and ‘much-needed redevelopment’, according to asset management company APAM. Retail sales growth slowed in the year to October, following four consecutive months of firm sales during the summer, according
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
Alan Monahan writes: I wonder how many of you really believe that politicians care about the welfare of small businesses or think that they just regard them as cash cows. A couple of weeks ago there were murmurings when I cast doubt on the statement by Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium,
Alan Monahan writes: If you run a small independent gift shop I’m sure you’ll have some customers who envy what you do. They figure that if you pass the time of day with nice people, selling them pretty things, it’s not a bad way to earn a living. They don’t know the half of it,
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Giftware Association CEO, Sarah Ward, has been given the exciting and rare opportunity to give the home and gift industry a voice in the House of Lords, discussing businesses access to finance. For the past four years Sarah has presented the thoughts and concerns of GA members and the wider gift and home industry to
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