All articles by Richard Fletcher
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InsightSelling Ocado stake has delivered John Lewis partners a pretty pension
For one disgruntled John Lewis partner it was time for the retailer to cut its losses and walk away from Ocado, the then fledgling online food retailer.
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InsightArcadia’s top man is about to turn the screws on landlords
Sir Philip Green prides himself not only on his relationship with the press, but also his understanding of it.
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InsightClarke will need trademark charm to steer Tesco supertanker back on course
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Philip Clarke’s appointment as chief executive of Tesco in June 2010 was widely seen as underpinning the supermarket’s international ambitions
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InsightTime for retailers to wheel out tricks of like-for-like Christmas sales trade
For retailers, judgement day is just weeks away: the moment they have to reveal to shareholders just how good — or bad — the crucial Christmas trading period was.
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InsightInterest-hungry ‘Pac-Man’ notes stalk high street retailers
In the dying months of the credit bubble billions of pounds worth of deals were put together with the help of a new form of financing — payment-in-kind (PIK) notes.
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InsightIt's make or break for Superdry on Regent Street
The founder of SuperGroup has made little secret of his belief that his Superdry fashion label has the potential to be a global fashion brand.
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InsightLife is about to get tough for ‘big four’ supermarkets
Few have a better insight into consumer behaviour than the supermarket chief executive — after all, (almost) all of us buy food
