The best places to look for Black Friday deals 2014: John Lewis, Amazon, Marks & Spencer, Very, Curry’s PC World and Halfords November 24, 2014 Retailers are gearing up for Black Friday to be one of – if not the – biggest online shopping day of the year, with hundreds of promotions being planned to tempt consumers to join the spending bonanza. According to the Centre for Retail Research, shoppers will spend £1.32bn over the four days between Black [...]
Halfords speeds ahead as sales given boost from Tour de France July 10, 2014 Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish might have crashed out of the Tour de France, but sales at Halfords have raced ahead. The bike-to-car parts retailer yesterday posted a 7.9 per cent jump in like-for-like retail sales in the quarter to 27 June thanks to “exceptional” sales in cycling, which surged 21.3 per cent. Chief executive [...]