1:22pm

Walmart’s lower tax offsets slower sales

US consumers constrained by payroll levy, retailer warns

12:10am

Michael Kors eyes secondary public offer

Announcement comes just 14 months after IPO

11:42pm

Travis Perkins sees construction improving

16% rise in pre-tax profit for owner of Wickes DIY chain

An employee loads bobbins of wool on to a creel machine at Axminster Carpets Ltd's factory in Axminster, U.K., on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The price of wool has surged 35 percent this year, extending gains for a third year and joining rallies in other agricultural commodities from cotton to grains ©Bloomberg 10:50pm

Axminster looks to administrators

More than 400 jobs in East Devon are in jeopardy

7:00pm

Argos to close TV shopping channel

UK retailer to focus on digital drive

Vanessa Friedman Feb 20, 2013

Tod’s names Alessandra Facchinetti creative director

Feb 20, 2013

Office Depot and OfficeMax to merge

Deal marred by confusion after premature announcement

Feb 20, 2013

Pet owner points to Kroger’s dilemma

Customer’s question lets retailer’s problem out of the bag

Feb 20, 2013

HMV closes another 37 stores

464 employees to lose their jobs

From LEX Feb 19, 2013

OfficeMax / Office Depot

A case study in the methods of two investors

Feb 19, 2013

US office retailers in merger talks

Office Depot and OfficeMax share prices soar on news

From FOOD & BEVERAGE Feb 19, 2013

Horsemeat scandal draws in Nestlé

Swiss group and JBS among world’s biggest food producers

From WORLD Feb 19, 2013

Thousands more shops set to close

Town centre high streets face vacancy rate of one in six

From COMMENT Feb 18, 2013

Otto Beisheim, retail pioneer

Co-founder of Metro chain who revolutionised the sector in Germany

From WORLD Feb 18, 2013

US business hits out at ‘Obamacare’ costs

Employers may cut hours or pay fines to avoid insurance

From MANAGEMENT Feb 18, 2013

Global brands are now born everywhere

A new breed of emerging-market company is taking on more developed rivals, writes Dominique Turpin

From LEX Feb 18, 2013

360 Buy: bet on Chinese netizens

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal still backing shoot-for-the-stars propositions

Feb 18, 2013

High street numbers drop but sales rise

Footfall for all retail locations down 4.6%

Feb 17, 2013

Retailers push for freeze on business rates

Customer footfall declines 4.6% over past year

Feb 17, 2013

Morrisons moves in on Blockbuster sites

Supermarket aims to boost its presence on the high street

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