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Fashion sales boosted by January clearance

While consumers took more to online shopping than the high street over Christmas, they didn't forsake it during the January sales as the high street bounced back after a lacklustre holiday season. Overall sales last month grew an impressive 1.4 percent, driven mainly by a strong first fortnight when consumers shopped bit time in new year...

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UK retail sales lacklustre in 2012

UK retail sales values were up only 0.3 percent on a like-for-like basis from December 2011, when they were up 2.2 per cent, reported the British Retail Consortium. Total sales were up just 1.5 percent against a 4.1 percent rise in December 2011. Helen Dickinson, Director General, British Retail Consortium, said: "Against the relentlessly tough...

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October sees boost to retail sector

It hasn't been all doom and gloom for retailers since the Olympics. In the CBI’s latest monthly Distributive Trades Survey, covering the first two and a half weeks of October, 47 per cent of retailers reported that sales volumes were up on a year ago and 17 per cent stated that sales had fallen. The resulting balance well exceeded expectations,...

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High Street sales at 6 year low

Retailers are braced for more bad news this week as industry figures have showed already that high street sales had fallen to a six year low. The BRC's monthly snapshot of the high street is expected to show that spending fell about 1.5% against the same period a year ago. July is typically a strong month because of summer discounting and the...