Publication: Retail Business Review

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 1 reports

UK supermarkets, food producers pledge support to new traffic light labeling scheme

UK supermarkets and food manufacturers have agreed to Department of Health's food labeling initiative to tackle the growing problems of obesity and poor diet costing in the country.The new initiative includes traffic light color-coding and nutritional ... [Published Retail Business Review - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Anna Soubry, United Kingdom, Mars UK, Obesity

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Hut Group rescues fashion retailer Coggles out of administration

The Hut Group, a British online retailer, has bought York-based premium fashion retailer Coggles out of administration.The upscale fashion chain collapsed into administration in May 2013, despite making various attempts to restructure.Under the deal, ... [Published Retail Business Review - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Hut Group, The Hut Group, Begbies Traynor Group PLC, Intellectual Property

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Jake's Wayback Burgers plans to expand into 28 countries across MENA

Jake's Wayback Burgers, a US-based fast-casual restaurant chain, has inked a new franchise deal with Topaz MENA to expand the brand into 28 countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA).This move is part of the chain's strategy to ... [Published Retail Business Review - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Dubai, Value Proposition, Morocco

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

V-Mart Retail to open 28 new stores in India

V Mart Retail, which operates a chain of family lifestyle stores in India, plans to open 28 new stores in tier-II and -III cities in a bid to strengthen its network across the country.Under the expansion plan, the retailer opened its first store in Dehradun, ... [Published Retail Business Review - 5 hours ago]

Entities: India, Haldwani (India), Haridwar (India)

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Soriana

Mexican retailer Soriana partners with Pricer

Mexican major retailer Organizacion Soriana (Soriana) has signed a new contract to deploy Pricer's scalable Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) solution in at least 120 additional stores.The deal was signed for SEK30m ($4.6m). Initially, Pricer will deploy the ... [Published Retail Business Review - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Soriana, Pricer, Organización Soriana SAB de CV, Fredrik Berglund, Traceability

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Pacific Brands Ltd

Pacific Brands outlines five-year turnaround plan

Pacific Brands, an Australian clothing and footwear brands owner, has outlined a five-year growth strategy to strengthen its business in the US, the UK and Asia amidst dropping profits and revenues.During this five-year period, the company aims to invest ... [Published Retail Business Review - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Pacific Brands Ltd, United Kingdom

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

J Sainsbury PLC

Sainsbury’s to re-introduce Tu clothing brand with new look

British supermarket chain operator Sainsbury’s has outlined plans to relaunch its clothing brand, Tu, which has been created to inspire customers to ‘Live Their Style’.Launched in 2004, the new brand will be rolled out across 395 stores nationwide by ... [Published Retail Business Review - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: J Sainsbury PLC, James Brown, Handbags

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Saban Brands to launch 100 Paul Frank stores in China

Saban Brands a US-based consumer brands company, plans to have a total of 100 Paul Frank flagship stores open in China by the end of the year.The company, which currently operates 60 outlets in the country, also intends to roll out new store concepts, ... [Published Retail Business Review - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Frank, China, Peru, Shanghai

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Redberry to acquire 32 Burger King restaurants in Canada

Redberry Investments, a Quebec-based master franchisee, plans to acquire 32 restaurants in Ontario from American Burger King franchisee Heartland Food for $20m. Redberry Investments presently represents around 300 Burger King restaurants in Canada. The ... [Published Retail Business Review - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Burger King Holdings Inc, Canada, King Worldwide

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

La-Z-Boy posts 9.8% rise in Q4 sales

La-Z-Boy, an American manufacturer and retailer of upholstery products, accessories and furniture, has reported 9.8% rise in sales to $359.5m for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 compared to same period last year.The company's upholstery segment sales ... [Published Retail Business Review - 10 hours ago]

Entities: La-Z-Boy Incorporated, Operating Income

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

UK retailer Poundworld plans 100 stores, secures funds from Barclays

Poundworld Retail, a UK-based discount store chain, is gearing up to open about 100 outlets over the next three years to strengthen its retail network in the country.The discount retailer has secured funding from British financial services company Barclays ... [Published Retail Business Review - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Barclays PLC, United Kingdom, Chris Edwards

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Whitbread sales rose 13.8% in Q1 2013

Whitbread, a UK-based global hotel, coffee shop and restaurant firm, has reported an increase in total sales by 13.8% for the 13 weeks (first quarter) to 30 May 2013.During the reporting period, the group's like for like sales increased 3.1%.Total sales ... [Published Retail Business Review - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Whitbread PLC, Andy Harrison, United Kingdom, Organic

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Andy Clay opined that the offer from the Hut Group was an extremely good deal. "Whilst it is sad to see Coggles disappearing from the high street for the time being, and the loss of employment for the remaining staff, it is positive that the business will continue as part of a large and successful specialist online retail group" Clay added. Established in 2004, The Hut owns various online-only business including Myprotein and zavvi.com

Hut Group rescues fashion retailer Coggles out of administration [Published Retail Business Review - 3 hours ago]

Pricer CEO Fredrik Berglund said, "This retailer has installed over 100 stores with ESL of another vendor before moving to Pricer and installing so far 250 stores with us." Soriana operates a chain of hypermarkets, supermarkets, club stores and convenience stores...

Mexican retailer Soriana partners with Pricer [Published Retail Business Review - 8 hours ago]

...its number of restaurants by 970% since launching in 2005, positioning the company as an important player in Canada's foodservice industry. "Future investments planned by the company in the coming years will total more than $90 million" LeBrun added...

Redberry to acquire 32 Burger King restaurants in Canada [Published Retail Business Review - 10 hours ago]

...Poundworld managing director Chris Edwards said: "We have ambitious growth plans for the future and felt that the time was right to find a new financial partner to support us in the next phase of our growth strategy." Launched in 1970, Leeds-based Poundworld currently operates 214 stores across the UK

UK retailer Poundworld plans 100 stores, secures funds from Barclays [Published Retail Business Review - 10 hours ago]

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