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General Retailers Best Buy Europe insisted it was in the UK electricals market for the long haul, as it prepared to throw down the gauntlet to rivals by opening its [...]

general retailers DSG International is to accelerate the development of its biggest stores as it seeks to take on Best Buy, the US electricals group that is due to arrive [...]

News analysis Carrefour keeps a low profile as its Tehran partner takes off, writes Najmeh Bozorgmehr There have been no advertisements to announce the opening of Hyperstar, Iran's first international-style [...]

RETAILING Kester Eddy on the inexorable rise of superstores and shopping malls Zoltan Molnar spends much time at the door of his mini-shop, greeting passers-by. It is a somewhat novel [...]

For many of us, wheeling a trolley up and down supermarket aisles is a routine affair. But for Dina Howell, the minutiae of shoppers' wanderings on their weekly shop is [...]

Neighbourhood shops to be called Marketside Move direct challenge to Tesco's Fresh & Easy Wal-Mart says it will be pursuing a 'passion for fresh and delicious food' and 'the highest [...]

GENERAL RETAILERS Wal-Mart says it will be pursuing a 'passion for fresh and delicious food' and 'the highest level of customer service' in small neighbourhood grocery stores - its first [...]

Sir Ken may have ended his career as a billionaire with 370 shops, but he started with just three market stalls that his father - William Morrison - bequeathed to [...]

JAKARTA -- Suratini, a maid working in Jakarta, went to a hypermarket for the first time last month after noticing that the chicken she was buying in her local market [...]

HMV, the music and books group, has held talks with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group about acquiring part of its Megastores chain. The most recent contact came in the past [...]

FAYETTEVILLE -- Wal-Mart, the largest US retailer, said yesterday it was cutting about a third of the new 'Supercenter' stores it had planned to open this year, in response to [...]

What is Bernard Arnault doing in a hypermarket? He has become the undisputed king of luxury, the happy owner of a constellation of exclusive brands from Louis Vuitton to Christian [...]

SHANGHAI and HONG KONG -- Wal-Mart has agreed to buy35 per cent of the company that operates the Trust-Mart chain of hypermarkets in China and could eventually pay about Dollars [...]

Proposals by the UK's biggest supermarket chain to demolish a town hall to make way for a superstore have been vetoed by overwhelming public opposition. Tesco had proposed to Darlington [...]

When Joe Hatfield arrived at the Shenkou Supercenter 3404 on a sticky afternoon in September, 40 of his Wal-Mart 'associates' broke into a round of applause, before launching into a [...]

BANGKOK and LONDON -- Thailand is considering fresh restrictions on the expansion of large foreign retailers such as Tesco, Carrefour, the Casino Group's Big C and others, following complaints from [...]

BANGKOK and LONDON -- Thailand is considering fresh restrictions on the expansion of large foreign retailers such as Tesco, Carrefour, the Casino Group's Big C and others, following complaints from [...]

PARIS and LONDON -- Casino, the operator of the Geant hypermarket and Casino supermarket chains, is to sell its main Polish assets in a series of deals involving Metro, Tesco [...]

Apart from its charm, the north Norfolk fishing port of Wells-next-the-Sea has arguably two small claims to fame. One is the Wells Lifeboat Disaster of 1880, in which most of [...]

PARIS -- Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer by sales, yesterday said it planned to open 100 hypermarkets a year between 2006 and 2008 - double the number it is accustomed [...]

If the managers of one of Carrefour's hypermarkets in France should ever doubt Jose Luis Duran's commitment to competitive pricing, they need only look at their bonus payment for confirmation. [...]

Hypermarkets are difficult creatures to love. Even their most loyal customers can feel guilty for shopping at a giant shed on the edge of town instead of patronising their small [...]

MUMBAI -- Reliance Industries, India's largest petroleum and refining group, yesterday unveiled plans to invest up to Dollars 5bn in creatinga chain of hypermarkets and back-up retail services to transform [...]

WARSAW -- When Malgorzata Stepien's grocery shop opened in suburban Warsaw 18 years ago it was an immediate hit, surrounded as it was by the empty stores and surly staff [...]

Supercenter number 1,794 is everything that Wal-Mart wants it to be. The retailer's better-quality George brand women's clothing is showcased at the front of the store, with ample space to [...]

WARSAW and LONDON -- * Finance minister decries low-skill retail jobs * Calls for manufacturing investment * UK chain has Pounds 1bn invested in the country Poland's new finance minister [...]

* Leahy quits Taiwan to build in central Europe Carrefour and Tesco, the world's second- and fifth-largest retailers, are close to announcing an asset swap that will see the French [...]

Virgin has promised to break even at its Virgin Megastores by 2006, following a radical restructuring of the lossmaking business. Hit by competition from UK supermarket groups, Virgin racked up [...]

Carrefour, the world's number two retailer, said last night that sales at its under-pressure French hypermarket business continued to strengthen in the first quarter of 2005. After the stock market [...]

Like at KarstadtQuelle, news at Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, was a little less bad than before. The under-pressure French group even managed to show a 1.6 per cent like-for-like [...]

The empty shelves of 15 years ago are a distant memory. For visitors to Russia today, the surprise is not how little there is in the shops but how much. [...]

PARIS and TOKYO -- Carrefour, the world's second-biggest retailer, yesterday announced its withdrawal from Japan and Mexico as it battles to revive its hypermarket business in France. The retreat was [...]

A crackdown on retailers that put in extra floors to enlarge their superstores moved a step closer yesterday when the government launched a consultation on the issue. Ministers are keen [...]

Tony DeNunzio, chief executive of Asda, yesterday admitted that it would be 'extremely difficult' to catch up with Tesco, the UK's largest retailer. However, Britain's second biggest retailer will today [...]

PARIS -- A battle for management control of Carrefour came to an end yesterday as Luc Vandevelde, former head of Marks and Spencer and the voice of the hypermarket group's [...]

As Wal-Mart preparedto roll out an advertisingcampaign to polish its image this month, the retail giant committed a public relations blunder in a market it desperately wants to crack - [...]

PARIS -- Carrefour yesterday said it saw encouraging signs of recovery at its core French hypermarkets, as it reported a better than expected performance in the division during the fourth [...]

PARIS -- The moment of reckoning approaches for Daniel Bernard, chief executive of Carrefour, the world's second-largest food retailer, which is struggling to restore consumer faith in its French hypermarkets. [...]

Some 40 years after their introduction in France, hypermarkets are in trouble. A combination of restrictive laws and fierce price competition has left many struggling. At Carrefour's hypermarket in Saint-Denis, [...]

PARIS -- Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, announced measures yesterday to boost investor confidence as its domestic hypermarket business comes under renewed pressure. The French group said it intends to [...]

Babies R Us, the fastest-growing division of Toys R Us, has a winning formula - provide everything expectant parents need under one roof. When Toys R Us announced last week [...]

HONG KONG , LONDON and SHANGHAI -- Tesco is to enter China's fast-growing but increasingly competitive retail market with the Pounds 140m purchase of a 50 per cent stake in [...]

PARIS -- The position of Daniel Bernard at the head of Carrefour weakened further last night after the French supermarket group warned after the markets closed that it would not [...]

Ministers plan to question the big four supermarket groups over allegations they are giving their suppliers an unfair deal. Gerry Sutcliffe, competition minister, has called in Asda, Tesco, J Sainsbury [...]

PARIS -- Casino, the French super-market group, yesterday increased its majority holdings in the Franprix and Leader Price chains, underlining the importance of the discount stores that last year overtook [...]

Ben Gordon, managing director of the Disney Store in Europe and Asia Pacific, has been chosen over retailer Terry Green as the new chief executive of Mothercare. The maternity and [...]

AMSTERDAM -- Vendex KBB, the Dutch stores group, has become the latest underperforming European company to face an intervention by Guy Wyser-Pratte, the tough-minded US investor. He is demanding that [...]

A man was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to charges of deception against Matalan, the discount retail chain. Jonathon Zetner, a former supplier to Matalan, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon, the leading online retailer, jumped 8 per cent in after-hours trading yesterday after a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss and a forecast of higher revenues in its current [...]

Ebay yesterday underlined its dominance of online auctions in the UK by publishing figures for the first time that show it dwarfs rival QXL Ricardo. The US-based group sold goods [...]