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But the retailer’s council did not support last year’s performance
UK retailer needs rapid change, Nish Kankiwala tells staff, ahead of employee vote of confidence in turnround plan
The mutual’s unusual partnership structure is celebrated but it limits room for financial manoeuvre
Struggling UK retailer launches probe into leaks relating to partial demutualisation
Retailer’s unusual structure not under threat, despite reports of plan to sell a minority stake, says chair Sharon White
Any external investor would have to be comfortable with big staff bonuses in good years and a form of worker democracy
Sale of minority stake after 73 years as partnership would enable struggling retailer to invest
UK retail group struggles with inflation and falling sales
Former Hovis boss Nish Kankiwala takes on newly created role as partnership struggles with rising costs and losses
Renting out UK dwellings is an entirely different business to selling saucepans
Some shops and other properties would be turned into houses as part of joint venture
Talk of the ‘moments economy’ is marketing guff but may serve the retailer well anyway
Partnership group plans 10,000 flats on Waitrose sites and will manage lettings itself
UK retail partnership owned by its 78,000 employees says it has no plans to close more stores or cut more jobs
Department store partnership to ditch price promise this year after almost a century
Millennials aren’t feeling it. Middle England is shopping around. Can the retailer shake itself up?
Employees angered by payouts while chain closes stores and sheds jobs
Group axed the payout last year for the first time since 1953 after the pandemic ravaged profits
Victoria Glendinning’s account of the miserly founder of middle England’s department store — and the son who gave it away
UK government list is part of wider push to clamp down on abuses of workers’ rights
Department store chain will be largest retailer in UK offering six-month benefit to new parents
Pandemic move to online buying leaves retailers wrestling with their store estates
Almost 1,500 jobs at risk as ‘financially challenged’ outlets will remain closed
Department store is leading a reappraisal of assumptions that have justified sector’s expansion in past decade
Heavy investment in shops that remain open will mean another year of weak profits
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