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• Back to the future: Will the return of Rollback and Asda alumni revive the grocer’s flagging fortunes?

  30-01-2025 12:56 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Asda has begun 2025 in the way that no retailer wants to – reporting its worst Christmas since 2015, as well as a series of redundancies across the retailer.
  The grocery giant saw sales slump 5.8% during the 12 weeks to 29 December, according to Kantar.
  It also axed roles for 13 regional managers following the results, as part of a shake-up designed to cut headcount and improve performance.
  These latest redundancies come shortly after the grocer made a host of job cuts in its head office i
  
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• Back to the future: Will the return of Rollback and Asda alumni revive its fortunes?

  30-01-2025 12:56 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Asda has begun 2025 in the way that no retailer wants to – reporting its worst Christmas since 2015, as well as a series of redundancies across the business.
  The grocery giant saw sales slump 5.8% during the 12 weeks to 29 December, according to Kantar.
  It also axed roles for 13 regional managers following the results, as part of a shake-up designed to cut headcount and improve performance.
  These latest redundancies come shortly after the grocer made a host of job cuts in its head office i
  
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• My week with a man bag: am I cool enough for winter’s hottest trend?

  30-01-2025 11:00
  Timothée Chalamet, Pharrell Williams and Jacob Elordi have no qualms about using one. But can our writer carry it off?The woman at the veg shop is admiring my new ivory padded shoulder bag. Perhaps admiring is the wrong word.“So, is this, like, a thing now?” she says. Continue reading...
  
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• Evil toilets, terror food and billionaire Squishmallows: my eye-popping day at the UK’s giant toy fair

  30-01-2025 11:00
  
  With the UK toy market now worth £3.4bn, we storm the high-security world of fun – and find possessed loos, creepy-crawlies in sushi rolls and more plastic than a petrochemical conventionA chubby baby dinosaur waddles down a pink carpeted aisle, narrowly avoiding an army of Care Bears tramping in the other direction. Nearby, a sales rep shows off a collection of insect-breeding habitats, just as Pikachu scampers around the corner, bumping into her neat display. Across the hall, inven
  
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• Superdrug appoints new property director

  30-01-2025 10:57 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Superdrug and Savers owner AS Watson has named Clare Jennings as its new property director, following the retirement of Nigel Duxbury.
  Jennings will succeed Duxbury on 2 May and becomes the third female executive on the twelve-strong board of directors at the health and beauty retailer, following the promotions of Amy Davies to people director and Meg Potter to trading director back in 2022.
  Jennings, who joined AS Watson in 2018 as a senior regional estates manager, before being promoted to hea
  
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• Noatum Logistics Appoints Jane Smith as General Manager of Business Development – Contract Logistics

  30-01-2025 10:47 via theretailbulletin.com
  
  Noatum Logistics, a leading global provider of logistics and supply chain solutions, has annoucned the appointment of Jane Smith as the new General Manager of Business... View Article
  
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• H&M ‘on track’ as full-year profits and sales rise

  30-01-2025 09:57 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  H&M chief executive Daniel Ervér said he was confident that the fashion giant is “on track” as full-year profits jumped and sales rose.
  The retailer posted a 28% increase in operating profit to £1.2bn (SEK 17.3bn) in the year to 30 November, up from £1.06bn (SEK 14.5bn).
  Net sales edged up 1% to £17.1bn (SEK 234.4bn), aided by a 3% increase in fourth quarter revenue to £4.5bn (SEK 62.2bn).
  H&M said its final quarter started with strong sales in
  
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• Mulberry announces details of turnaround strategy and the appointment of new CFO

  30-01-2025 09:21 via theretailbulletin.com
  
  Mulberry has announced details of a new strategy to return the luxury brand to profitability through “simplification, brand realignment and enhanced customer connection”. The news follows... View Article
  
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• Crew Clothing plans to open at least 20 stores in 2025

  30-01-2025 09:20 via theretailbulletin.com
  
  Crew Clothing has revealed plans to open at least 20 new stores in 2025 after launching 15 in the previous year. The lifestyle fashion brand has... View Article
  
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• Mango appoints chief executive as chair of board

  30-01-2025 09:18 via theretailbulletin.com
  
  Mango has appointed its chief executive, Toni Ruiz, as chairman of the board of directors of Punto Fa S.L., the fashion retailer’s parent company. The move... View Article
  
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• THG appoints Milyae Park as non-executive director

  30-01-2025 09:17 via theretailbulletin.com
  
  THG has appointed Milyae Park as an independent non-executive director with immediate effect. Park has enjoyed a long career in digital and ecommerce transformation at FTSE... View Article
  
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• BRC: Retail crime ‘spiralling out of control’ as incidents reach record high

  30-01-2025 08:59 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  The British Retail Consortium has warned that retail crime is “spiralling out of control” despite more being spent on prevention than ever before.
  The trade body’s annual crime survey reports that violent and abusive incidents are up more than 50% last year, while retailers are reporting 55,000 thefts a day.
  Verbal and physical attacks, violent threats, and sexual and racial abuse in stores have rocketed to more than 2,000 incidents a day in the year to the end of August, up fr
  
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• Mulberry CEO unveils turnaround plan as it names new CFO

  30-01-2025 08:45 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Mulberry’s chief executive Andrea Baldo has unveiled his strategic plan to restore the luxury label to profitability “through simplification, brand realignment and enhanced customer connection”.
  It comes as the business has named ex-Selfridges Group and M&S executive Billie O’Connor as its new chief financial officer following the resignation of its finance boss at the start of the year.
  Mulberry said its recent performance has been “sub-optimal” after sal
  
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• ‘Some steal to order’: on the frontline of UK shoplifting epidemic

  30-01-2025 07:11
  
  As retailers record 55,000 thefts a day, we talk to a supermarket worker, a security guard and a shopkeeper about their jobsCrime ‘spiralling out of control’ in stores, warns British Retail ConsortiumUK retailers are warning that crime in their stores is “spiralling out of control” with 55,000 thefts a day and violent and abusive incidents rising by 50% last year to 2,000 a day.What is it like to be on the frontline? We speak to a supermarket worker, a security guard and
  
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• Crime ‘spiralling out of control’ in stores, warns British Retail Consortium

  30-01-2025 07:01
  
  UK retailers report all-time high of 55,000 thefts a day and 50% rise this year in violent and abusive incidents• ‘Some steal to order’: on the frontline of UK shoplifting epidemicUK retailers are warning that crime in their stores is “spiralling out of control” with 55,000 thefts a day and violent and abusive incidents rising by 50% last year.More than 70 incidents a day involved a weapon, according to the annual crime survey from the British Retail Consortium (BRC)
  
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• Shoplifting in the UK hit £2.2bn last year, survey shows

  30-01-2025 01:01 via ft.com
  
  British Retail Consortium said many of the incidents were linked to organised crime
  
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• Asda brings back Rollback price cuts and pocket tap

  30-01-2025 01:01 via retailgazette.co.uk
  
  Asda has brought back its Rollback price proposition and famous pocket tap as part of chair Allan Leighton’s efforts to revive the supermarket.
  The grocery chain, which was the only traditional supermarket to see sales fall in the run up to Christmas, has slashed the prices of more than 4,000 products in store and online by an average of 25%.
  The Rollback proposition includes items across all categories and is also available in its Asda Express convenience stores.
  Asda said it will continu
  
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