The UK’s retail industry lost 89,000 jobs in the second quarter compared to the same period a year ago, new data shows. Despite strong retail sales in recent months, the number of retail jobs fell to 3.015 million during the quarter, according to the latest ONS figures. But it was a brighter picture for the overall job market, with the number of...
14 Sep 2021
Non-essential retailers in England will reopen in April as part of the country’s “cautious” plan to exit lockdown, prime minister Boris Johnson announced Monday afternoon. Speaking to MPs at the House of Commons, Johnson set out a four-step plan to ease lockdown restrictions in the coming months. In the first stage, students will return to...
22 Feb 2021
UK sustainability non-profit Wrap has announced a new initiative launching in April 2021 called Textiles 2030. The new voluntary agreement follows the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan 2020 (SCAP) and aims to engage UK fashion and textiles organisations to take action to reduce the impact of climate change. Textiles 2030 intends to reduce...
12 Nov 2020
The UK’s shop vacancy rate rose to 13.2 percent in Q3 from 12.4 percent in Q2 amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, marking the ninth consecutive quarter of increasing rates. That increase was experienced across all locations, with shopping centres hit hardest, increasing to 16.3 percent from 14.3 percent in the previous quarter, according to the...
30 Oct 2020
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has partnered up with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to develop the ‘Cyber Resilience Toolkit for Retail’. The toolkit is a guide which calls attention to threats faced by retailers, key questions to consider when developing cyber resilience strategies, and guidance on the types of protection...
21 Oct 2020
Retailers in the UK spent 1.1 billion pounds to accept payments from customers in 2019, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which is calling on the government to take action. According to the trade body’s latest Payment Survey, card use rose steadily from 54 percent of transactions in 2016 to 61 percent in 2019. This has been...
20 Oct 2020
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has launched a new national advertising campaign urging consumers to start their Christmas shopping earlier this year to help ease the load on retailers. Since the March lockdown, businesses across the UK have been investing hundreds of millions of pounds in strengthening their supply chains and implementing...
19 Oct 2020
Garment factory workers in the UK have been “robbed” of over 27 million pounds in wages since July, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The UK trade body and MP Lisa Cameron, who is chair of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for Textiles and Fashion, have penned a letter to home secretary Priti Patel demanding action. Some...
12 Oct 2020
The Gift Card and Voucher Association (GCVA), supported by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Association of Town and City Management (ATCM), has urged the government to take action to save the high street. The campaign, #GiftCard500, calls on the government to increase the tax-free employer gifting allowance from 50 pounds to 500...
9 Oct 2020
Shop prices in the UK fell by 1.6 percent in September compared to August as retailers attempted to woo shoppers back into stores, new data reveals. That’s below the 12-month average price decrease of 1.1 percent, but above the six-month average price drop of 1.7 percent, according to the latest BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index. Non-food prices fell...
30 Sep 2020
Shop prices in the UK fell by 1.6 percent last month compared to a drop of 1.3 percent in July. Non-food prices fell by 3.4 percent compared to a decline of 2.9 percent in July, according to the latest BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index. Helen Dickinson, CEO of the British Retail Consortium, said in a statement: “Consumers will welcome another month...
2 Sep 2020
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has launched the Shopworkers’ Protection Pledge calling for support for new legislation to protect retail workers from violence, threats and abuse. Eleven cross-party MPs have already signed the pledge. The BRC Crime Survey, released earlier this year, found there were more than 400 incidents of violence and...
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