The winners of The Great British High Street Awards 2016 have been revealed after 900 entries, 42 finalists and over 500,000 votes. Blackburn, Lancashire, has been named Overall Champion and Winner of the Local Centre category, after winning over judges with the range of improvements put in place by the collaboration between the Business Improvement
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The great pre-Christmas discounting and price-promotion extravaganza, Black Friday on November 25, helped generate a 12% rise in online spending. High street stores were quiet, by contrast, as sofa-surfers concentrated on internet promotions. The week from Monday November 21 – Monday November 28 saw online sales rise to around £6.5bn, while black Friday itself
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New launch event Floradecora, organised by Messe Frankfurt, offers an exciting new purchasing option for fresh plants and flowers in the heart of Europe. The market for flowers and ornamental plants remained stable in 2015, although there has been a change in the locations where flowers and ornamental plants are purchased, with discount stores growing
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Retail Week has compiled a list of the UK’s top 30 retailers based on the proportion of online sales they generate. None of the major grocers were included in the list, which did feature several fashion brands and department stores. As consumers become increasingly addicted to the instant fix of buying clothes online, higher-end
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Retail bellwether John Lewis has produced an illuminating report into how we shopped and lived in 2016, which has been a remarkable year politically, culturally and economically. The buying habits of John Lewis customers tell a fascinating tale of how British people responded to the political, cultural and economic shake-ups of the last twelve
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In part one of our feature on the John Lewis 2016 retail report we saw that gin sales spiked around the time of the EU referendum, but tipple aside, “the nation did not falter in its ongoing quest to live and eat well” says the bellwether supermarket retailer. “2016 was the year of the
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