Last of the Big Four enters the fray The supermarket sector has become deeply embroiled in a price war, with Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s all having revealed intentions to drop prices in the past month in a bid to win back consumers from budget competitors.... Read More
In what has been described as “a red letter day for Edinburgh“ the city’s ageing St James Centre is to be flattened to make way for a futuristic £850m office and retail complex aimed at stripping Glasgow of its title as Scotland’s shopping... Read More
With Sainsbury’s full year results to be released next week, the question on analyst’s lips is whether the brand will have been negatively affected by its first quarterly sales decline in nine years. Although analysts at Deutsche Bank believe the retailer... Read More
The issue of business rates has been one of the most controversial topics within the commercial property market for the past several years with retailers, in particular, arguing that the rising cost of non-domestic rates has been one of the key reasons for... Read More
Retailers are becoming increasingly eager to take up prime units in the nation’s most popular shopping centres as a rise in household disposable income allows consumers to spend in earnest once more. This has proven extremely useful for the St Enoch... Read More
A Tyneside laboratory site — opened in 1970 by technology minister Tony Benn — is being evaluated for sale by the engineering and electronics giant Siemens. The 25.3-acre plot, off Victoria Road West, Hebburn, was once occupied by a huge grey cube... Read More
