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Bumper Christmas for Chester's Forum Shopping Centre | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Feb 2, 2012
Bumper Christmas for Chester's Forum Shopping Centre. Popular Retail Centre Bucks The Trend And Records Increased Shopper Numbers Despite Economic Gloom - PR11788505

Hornby warns on profits after its expensive toys fail to sell at Christmas | Business |
www.guardian.co.uk | Jan 27, 2012
Big ticket items like Hornby and Scalextric hit by squeeze on consumer spending

Christmas takings up on high street - but only by slashing prices - mirror.co.uk
www.mirror.co.uk | Jan 21, 2012
Stores enjoyed a £42billion Christmas boost – but only by slashing their prices, figures revealed yesterday.

Pumpkin Patch becomes latest retailer to collapse - Other UK business news - Business News -
www.birminghampost.net | Jan 19, 2012
A children’s clothing chain with three stores in the West Midlands has become the latest retailer to fall into administration, putting 400 jobs at risk.

BT Press Releases
www.btplc.com | Jan 19, 2012
Wednesday November 30, the day many workers across the UK took industrial action, was the most popular online shopping day in 2011

UK retailers set to reveal post-Christmas results - Business News - News - nebusiness.co.uk
www.nebusiness.co.uk | Jan 16, 2012
A NUMBER of big name retailers and pub chains will this week reveal how they held up over the UK's austerity Christmas, while easing inflation figures are to underline declining pressure on for cash-strapped families.

Christmas sales lift Ocado - FT.com
www.ft.com | Jan 12, 2012
Ocado sought to reassure investors after a substantial profit warning a month ago, with a 23.8 per cent jump in sales in the week running up to Christmas, sending its shares up as much as 18 per cent. Ocado said that in the seven trading days to

Tesco disappointed by Christmas sales (From The Northern Echo)
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk | Jan 12, 2012
TESCO, the UK's biggest supermarket, has revealed a worse-than-expected drop in sales in the run-up to Christmas as it admitted its Big Price Drop had failed to pull in enough customers.

Newsvine - Tesco shares slump as Christmas sales disappoint
www.newsvine.com | Jan 12, 2012
Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer by sales, saw its share price tumble Thursday after warning that it will see minimal profit growth this year following one of its worst Christmas performances in years.

Oil spill on Christmas Island threatens red crabs
www.newscientist.com | Jan 11, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of juvenile land crabs are being threatened by a fuel spill from a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean