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Design

High street shops closing at record rate

Self-help measures taken by desperate shop owners on the High Street need to be be urgently bolstered by Government, a report due this week will urge. Figures to be published by the British Independent Retailers Association will show that although the rapid rate of decline over the past two years has begun to slow, the estimated 330,000 stores...

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Fashion

Sales monitor reinforces tough Christmas

The BSSA sales monitor for the last quarter of 2008 has reinforced the fact independent retailers continued to experience extremely tough trading conditions over the Christmas period. Sales performance was down by 5.2% overall compared with the same quarter in 2007, the worst quarterly fall since the start of the monitor. 'Perhaps the most...

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