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Surge in online shoppers fails to prevent big drop in sales at Shoe Zone
Fashion
Its stores were shut for a total of 16 weeks during the last six months, with the majority of staff furloughed
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Topps Tiles repaying £1m furlough after record end to 2020
Company Results
Strong end to last year, but the lockdown at the start of 2021 saw sales plummet
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Tobacco giant Imperial Brands posts strong first-half results
Finance
The global cigarette manufacturer is headquartered in Bristol
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The Welsh businesswoman who created Meghan Markle's 'Raising The Future' T-shirt
Retail
In the trailer for the Apple TV series The Me You Can't See the Duchess of Sussex appears behind Prince Harry wearing a T-shirt designed by Carrie-Anne Roberts
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Cranswick's sales surge by 14 per cent to £1.89b in pandemic year
Food and Drink
Hull's FTSE-listed food giant is investing again - months after major McDonald's cured bacon facility was completed in the city
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Five new names coming to Fosse Park shopping centre extension
Retail
New tenants opening in the revamped Food Central area in the coming weeks
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Smiles all round as restrictions lift for hundreds of indoor venues across the East Midlands
Retail & High Street
Business owners in Leicestershire, Nottinghmashire and Derbyshire optimistic about getting going again
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The Newport firm helping to increase the life of clothes seeking to raise £500,000
Wales
Loopster has seen a huge surge in second hand clothes sold on its digital platform
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Independent retailer Loki Wine launches third West Midlands store
West Midlands
The company founded in 2012 is targeting the Solihull market with new venture after renovating vacant unit
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May 17 lockdown easing: The South West businesses reopening their doors
Coronavirus
We have taken a look at the different venues reopening in the region as lockdown restrictions are eased on May 17
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Amazon announces hundreds of jobs at two new Leicestershire sites – but is tight-lipped about a third
Logistics
Global online retailer creating 770 new jobs in central England county plus hundreds of driver opportunities
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Independent retailers reap rewards of store investments as Nisa name rolls out at record pace
Retail
Group is hitting new highs for store developments
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Gloucestershire business Wildlife World expecting millions in US sales after online growth in lockdown
Environment
The company specialises in creating nesting materials for animals
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Plans for hotel and new “campus” on Everards Meadows, near Leicester, formally announced
Hotels
Family-owned brewery and pubs business inviting public to comment on future plans for the 70 acre site
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Aisles opened to British entrepreneurs as supermarket giant launches brand-building programme
Food and Drink
Food, beauty and homeware innovation sought with support to scale-up pledged
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Lanchester Group unveils £1.5m investment after bottling rise in profits and sales
Retail
The wine importer, bottling and gifting company was on course for record results ahead of the pandemic
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Demand for Airospring cushions booms from people suffering bad backs working from home
Coronavirus
Airospring cushion was designed for Paralympic hand cyclist Karen Darke MBE, who used it when she won a gold at Rio
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Ex-Uttoxeter racecourse boss goes back to musical roots
Music
David MacDonald once booked The Smiths – only for the police to turn thousands of fans away
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Vehicle hire group Redde Northgate expects to post profits of £92m as post-lockdown momentum builds
Retail
CEO Martin Ward also said Redde Northgate's promotion to the FTSE250 index in April was a milestone
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The Inn Collection Group snaps up prime lakeside hotel in Ambleside
Deals
The pubs with rooms company has acquired its eighth Lake District hotel in this latest undisclosed deal
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Motor retailer Vertu hails 'outstanding' year against Covid backdrop
Retail
Despite seeing revenues fall 21% amid Government lockdowns the retailer posted a lift in profits
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Farrow & Ball sold to Danish coatings manufacturer Hempel
Deals
The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2021
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Watches of Switzerland expands into South West with new stores in Plymouth mall
Retail & High Street
The luxury watch retailer will begin selling Omega, Breitling and Tag Heuer brands in British Land-owned Drake Circus Shopping Centre
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Bournemouth Debenhams to be replaced by Bobby’s department store with ice-cream parlour and dog café
Retail
The development firm behind the restoration said it would reflect shopping pattern changes accelerated by the pandemic
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