Browse all articles

Lululemon Athletica has promoted Meghan Frank to the position of chief financial officer. Due to take up her role on 23 November, she will be the first female to hold the position at the company. With 20 years’ experience in the retail sector, Frank joined Lululemon in 2016 as senior vice...

Waitrose is relaunching its ECOlogical eco-friendly cleaning range with new packaging that will save an estimated 4.1 tonnes of virgin plastic a year. Some of the packing used in the range includes innovative recovered and recycled ‘Ocean Bound Plastic’, which is a recycled raw material made from plastic waste that...

Superdrug has expanded its category offering to include a range of affordable jewellery. With prices varying between £3.99 and £9.99, the category has been launched with the ‘Core’, ‘Fashion’ and ‘Premium’ ranges and includes earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets and hair accessories. Superdrug commercial director Simon Comin said “We’re really pleased to...

Aldi has expanded its on-demand delivery trial with Deliveroo to almost 130 Aldi stores across the UK. The move follows an extension to 42 stores last month in new cities such as Bristol, Liverpool and Brighton. Customers living within a six kilometre radius of participating stores will be able to order...

Superdrug has launched a new campaign on Youtube called Superdrug TV is it continues to move more of its marketing to online platforms. The first episode appeared on 17 November and will be followed by two further episodes prior to Christmas before going weekly from the New Year. Each episode will...

The Very Group has appointed Matt Grest as its chief information officer. Due to join the business on 21 December, Mr Grest previously worked as director of digital platforms at the BBC where he oversaw the transformation of the corporation’s digital and broadcast products into a fully integrated tech platform. As part...

Sainsbury’s has launched a pilot ‘Fresh Food Market’ format at its store in Hempstead Valley. The format is based on a market-style presentation of fresh fruit and vegetables with new signage and a focus on seasonality and British heritage. The launch is part of a multi-million pound redevelopment of the store...

Online fashion retailer Boohoo has appointed Shaun McCabe to its board as an independent non-executive director. He will also become chair of the audit committee and sit on the remuneration and nomination committees. McCabe is currently working as chief financial officer of Trainline and is also a non-executive director of online...

Asda saw its like-for-like sales increase by 2.7% in its third quarter as the supermarket was boosted by a strong performance in its grocery and back-to-school clothing categories. Online sales also grew rapidly in the three month period to September 30th with combined net sales for Asda.com and George.com climbing...

Halfords has reported strong first half trading with revenue growing by 9.6% to £638.9 million in the six months to October 2nd. Like-for-like sales in the period increased by 6.7% following a like-for-like uplift of 8.1% in retail sales. However, like-for-like sales at Halfords’ autocentres business declined by 2%. The results...