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  • The Danish retailer plotting to outsmart ‘unsentimental’ Modella Capital

    Retail

    On the modern-day British high street, a Scandinavian shop featuring maze-like aisles, quirky homeware and bags of licorice near the till is not quite a reinvention of the wheel.  But Mikkel Grene, chief executive of Danish homeware retailer Søstrene Grene, believes his business can go toe-to-toe with Ikea and Flying Tiger for pride of place [...]

    Man in suit seated in a Sostrene Grene store, surrounded by homeware and gift items.
  • Burnham accused of ‘piecemeal’ business rates reform

    Hospitality

    Andy Burnham has been accused of taking a “piecemeal” approach to business rates instead of committing to Labour’s manifesto pledge to replace the tax system.  The government has launched a review into how business rates bills are calculated for pubs and hotels, but industry bodies have urged the Prime Minister to commit to wholesale reform [...]

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  • Poundland loss doubles as discount retailer nears sale

    Retail

    Poundland nearly doubled its loss amid a drastic downturn which pushed the discount retailer to post a “challenging set of numbers” last year. The retailer slumped to an £85.2m pre-tax loss in the year to September, nearly doubling the previous year’s £45.4m, its latest filings have revealed.  This loss came in the run-up to Poundland’s [...]

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  • The decline of Harvey Nichols is a tale of London’s decline too

    August 21, 2026

    The decline and fall of Harvey Nichols is not just another business story. It is a warning about the crisis engulfing London’s high streets.

  • New planning rules ‘could blight high streets with empty pubs’

    August 18, 2026

    Angela Rayner’s attempt to stop pubs being redeveloped into offices and housing could “blight high streets” with empty venues, property experts have warned.  The housing secretary has unveiled reforms to planning rules which mean that developers can only turn a pub into housing or an office if there is no reasonable prospect that it can [...]

  • Poundland owner eyes sale one year after takeover

    August 18, 2026

    The owner of Poundland is weighing up a sale of the discount retailer only one year after snapping it up for just £1.  Gordon Brothers, a Boston-based investment firm, is in talks with advisers over launching a potential auction for the retailer – which is in the midst of a drastic restructuring. The sale would [...]

  • Activist investor accuses The Works chair of working from home – in New Zealand

    August 17, 2026

    The activist investor locked in a boardroom battle with The Works has accused its chair of switching his residence to New Zealand and dialling in to crucial meetings.  Kelso, a London-listed investment fund, is pushing to appoint a director of its choosing to the discount retailer’s board, but The Works has slapped down the move, saying it [...]

  • Back bookshops in bid to rebuild high streets, Burnham urged

    August 16, 2026

    Leading authors have called on Andy Burnham to roll out emergency support to the UK’s small bookshops as part of his pledge to save Britain’s high streets.  The bestselling writers, along with 200 booksellers, have written to the Prime Minister, urging him to set out a business rates relief package for bookshops as they contend [...]

  • Banning vape shops won’t fix scuzzy high streets

    August 13, 2026

    Andy Burnham’s plans to revamp high streets by cutting down on vape shops aren’t ambitious enough, says Joseph Dinnage Andy Burnham is taking his hand to cleaning up Britain’s high streets. Commenting on the degradation of our urban centres, Burnham said that many areas have been “hollowed out”, and that the high streets we grew [...]

  • John Lewis’ new boss faces a battle to boost online sales

    August 12, 2026

    Another cloud appeared in an already gloomy sky for John Lewis on Monday, when its managing director, Peter Ruis, announced his surprise departure. Just days before, an internal interview with the group’s chair, Jason Tarry, was leaked to the press, in which he warned of a “really tough” period for the firm.  Ruis’s decision to [...]

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