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Could The General Election Derail The Feel Good Factor?
Politics. Generally one of those subjects that can bore everyone to sleep. Yet, over the past 5 years, and certainly since the Scottish referendum, politics has been rather engaging, with discussions about the parties, and [...]
A Good Time To Be A Consumer
With the latest news out about inflation in the UK, it's a very good time to be a consumer right now. With oil falling, fuel is coming down with it. Inflation is at a record [...]
How Long Left For Our High Streets?
It really is becoming a dire situation for our nations beloved high streets. 2012 was a bad year, but 2013 has started off in probably the worst way possible. Jessops has closed it's doors for [...]
HMV Goes Into Administration
It's finally happened. Mid-evening on Monday 14th January the UK's last remaining record store HMV announced that it's shares would stop trading on the stock exchange and that it would appoint administrators Deloitte to take [...]
Jessops Closes Its Doors For Good
Well, that was a very quick and swift end to the administration of Jessops. It has been confirmed tonight (Friday 11th January) that Jessops is to close it's doors for good with the closure of [...]
Jessops The Next High Street Casualty
Yesterday it was confirmed that Jessops, the photography company that has been on our high streets and retail parks for 80 years, is to go into administration. Administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have said that all 2000 [...]
Last Day For Comet
Today is a sad day for many thousands of people and for the high streets and retail parks of this country. The on going process of trying to sell electrical retailer Comet failed finally today, [...]
The Autumn Statement
Well, it's that time of year guys and gals! It's time for the Chancellor George Osbourne to let us all know how good...sorry, bad we're doing as an economy and what he's going to try [...]
New Price Code
The OFT (Office of Fair Trading) recently announced it's findings from an investigation into supermarket pricing. It revealed some points that strike a rather similar chord to our own industry: Product is sold at an [...]
Christmas Woes For Comet. But You Have To Embrace The Internet!
The news just doesn't get better for one of the UK's largest electrical retail giants, Comet. Last week, administrators Deloitte announced that they would have to close a further 125 stores if a buyer could [...]
Where’s The Tax?!
On Monday, a parliamentary committee gave the UK heads of some of the world's biggest companies a massive grilling over the way they pay tax in this country. Well, when I say pay tax, I [...]
What Should It Cost?
The price of our goods and services has been a hot topic over the last month or so. Companies going bust like Uniglaze has brought into question the cost of raw materials and that prices [...]
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