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Best of 2023: Is private equity ownership slowly killing retail?

Retail Gazette

The funding structure works by leveraging finance which, more often than not, results in firms borrowing money against the retailer’s balance sheet – in turn generating debt – to use for investment. This begs the question of whether the financing structure still lends itself well to the retail sector?

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

Archie Norman Archie Norman has spent the last six years overseeing food and fashion group M&S’s turnaround plan as it looks to re-establish its brand, win back consumers and return to profit. She has built up considerable expertise across a number of consumer-facing companies as well as during her time in the UK banking industry.

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Top 10 Businesses for Sale in May

Small Biz Trends

If you decide to buy an existing business, you will get an established brand, a customer base, cash flow, an established supply chain, a working process and trained staff, and better financing options. The business has been profitable all years since 2001 and was voted, “Best of Cincinnati” by Cincinnati Magazine.

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Bunnings MD Mike Schneider: “I have the best retail job in the country”

Inside Retail

I joined the bank and had a fantastic five-year run working in retail banking, consumer banking strategy, and finance and HR, and travelled from Sydney to Perth to Adelaide to Melbourne. It was funny, you know, it was Christmas. What year would it have been?

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FMI honors seven food industry executives

Mass Relators

In similar fashion to the “Great Humanitarian” Herbert Hoover, Obray led Associated Food Stores with the dual aim of maximizing consumer satisfaction and uplifting communities in need. Esther Peterson Award for Consumer Service Elizabeth Chace-Marino, Manager of Government Affairs at Ahold Delhaize USA, Inc.,

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Why Online Marketplaces are Outpacing Ecommerce in a Post-COVID World

Retail TouchPoints

Consumer shopping habits have shifted irreversibly towards ecommerce in the past two years. In the face of this product scarcity, the retailers that could fulfill consumer needs quickly were immediately rewarded. For many, every day has become a holiday as new packages arrive from their favorite online retailers.