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Discounter, Home Bargains, created more than 2,000 jobs as its sales surged past £3bn during its latest financial year, new documents have revealed. Newly filed accounts for TJ Morris, which trades as Home Bargains, show the Liverpool-headquartered retailer’s turnover increased from £2.7bn to £3.3bn in the 12 months to June 30,...

Supermarket giant Tesco has announced it will hike hourly wages by 5.8 per cent from £9.55 to £10.10, as Brits face a cost of living crunch. New hourly rates for store and warehouse staff will be effective from 24 July, the grocer revealed on Thursday afternoon. The supermarket also confirmed workers in...

New data has revealed that the number of visits to retail locations strengthened in March as footfall bounced back to 15.3% below pre-pandemic levels in 2019. The figures from Springboard show that this was a significant improvement on February when footfall was 20.7% below 2019. Footfall in the month also nearly reached...

Sportswear retailer Gymshark is to restructure its business in a move which could put more than 120 jobs at risk. According to the FT, the Midlands based firm is considering making a tenth of its staff redundant as part of plans to drive international growth, particularly in the US. However, the...

Waitrose is expanding its partnership with Deliveroo by adding more than 70 new Waitrose locations by the summer after its existing partnership helped it to attract new customers. The retailer said almost a third of monthly Waitrose orders on Deliveroo are now from customers who have never shopped the supermarket brand...

Skechers has appointed Yolanda Macias to its board of directors. Macias is currently working as chief content officer at Cinedigm Entertainment Group where she oversees global content acquisitions, as well as digital and physical sales and marketing. Prior to this, she held various positions at Gaiam, Vivendi Entertainment, DirecTV, Technicolor and...

The Clinkard Group has opened a new store in Wilmslow as it looks to have a presence in the north west. The 1,300 square foot space is situated in the town’s former Haslams of Wilmslow footwear store on Grove Street. Creating up to 12 full and part-time retail jobs, the shop will...

Aldi will be supporting charities, community groups and food banks throughout the UK by donating almost 250,000 meals to people in need during the Easter school holidays. The move follows a survey conducted with community giving platform Neighbourly which found that 99% of foodbanks have seen a surge in demand since...

International Leisure Group (ILG), the holding company for American Golf  has reported sales of £166m for the 12 months to January 30, 2022, up from the £115.4m it achieved in the prior year. ILG has also revealed plans for a £6m investment programme during the next 12 months which will create...

Ted Baker, has launched a formal sale process after receiving a third takeover move by US private equity suitor Sycamore Partners. Shares in the company jumped on Monday morning after the fashion brand said it had also received another “unsolicited” approach by an unnamed party. It comes a week after Ted...