The CBI and EC Harris today unveiled a package of measures for the public and private sectors to work together to unlock local growth, overhaul business rates and rejuvenate the UK’s towns and cities. In a new report, developed with leading built asset consultants EC Harris, the CBI is calling for strong local leadership to
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High-street sales continued to grow strongly in the year to September, at the fastest pace since June 2012, and exceeded already solid expectations, according to the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey of 111 firms. This was the third consecutive month of growth, which was broad-based across a number of sectors. Retail sales are expected
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Independent Retailer Month is a global ‘shop local’ campaign that runs annually throughout July to highlight the important role smaller, local, independent retailers play in the communities they serve, the local economy to which they contribute, and in the retail sector as a whole. For every pound you spend in a local independent shop or
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The Enjoy an Independent Easter campaign has engaged with 56 towns, including over 1100 retailers, who are all creating “Easter Egg Hunts” to tackle the issue of declining footfall in towns and village centres. The hunt will officially begin on Saturday March 23 and run through until Sunday April 14, capturing the whole of the
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Launched in February 2013 as a response to the gloom in the media and the general malaise of the economy, Local Indie Retailers is a Peterborough-based initiative that aims to promote the positive aspects of independent retailers in the city and to create a vision for future trading. One of the more prominent members of
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A Distressed Retail Property Taskforce has been set up to help rejuvenate the UK’s struggling town centres as online shopping threatens to make high streets ‘little more than showrooms’ according the Economist Intelligence Unit*. Its first priority will be to tackle the issue of retail property debt and the spectre of empty, run-down shops in
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