Pinning down the after-effects of the Brexit vote in the UK is turning out to be quite hard. Despite pre-referendum warnings of disaster or promises of a new, golden age for Britain, we sometimes forget that we’re still in the EU and will be for a good few years yet. So if the sky is…
Next is one of those companies whose trading updates just can’t be ignored given that it’s a) so huge, b) such a strong performer most of the time and c) a real bellwether for the health of the UK high street and online sector. So what did we learn this morning? It’s not doing too…
Consumers may be nervous at the moment but they’re not holding back from spending online. How so? Well, UK e-sales continued their upwards trajectory in the run-up to and after the Brexit vote to give a17% monthly rise, according to the IMRG Capgemini eRetail Sales Index.
It’s weird in the UK at the moment. You can almost reach out and touch the overall feeling of doom and gloom with the only people who seem to be cheerful being a few Brexiteers (like Andrea Leadsom with that painted-on perma-grin of hers). But businesses and consumers aren’t convinced. Pessimists are being criticised by…
Britain’s a weirder place this week after the Brexit vote and consumer spending has already started to fall, according to one report.
So here we are, a few days after the most momentous vote in modern UK history with lots of people saying “let’s see how it plays out”. How has it played out so far? Chaos. The UK was the world’s fifth largest economy last Wednesday. Today it’s the sixth largest. That’s how much he pound’s…
Yesterday was a pretty crappy day for me on a number of fronts but while we all hope to wake up to a new, sunnier day, sometimes it just doesn’t happen. And it hasn’t happened today. I’ve woken up in a country where slightly more people voted for xenophobia and a cloud-cuckoo-land version of Britain…
There was one particularly interesting bit about New Look’s results announcement yesterday (ok two, given that it’s expanding even further with menswear-only stores and had some stuff to say about Brexit). The thing that really made me sit up was what it said about global trends and social media.
Jigsaw is nervous about the prospects for retail if the UK votes to leave the EU this year and thinks Switzerland as a launchpad for European expansion is one solution.
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