The Observer index, January-December 2001 ... - Microform

* Sales are booming, but chief executive of Argos, Terry Duddy
is not celebrating yet 29/07/01 N 10 1>6 Photographs
* Online grocer Tesco.com will extend its claim to be the largest
such business in the world by launching home deliveries in
South Korea 12/08/01 N 1 5>8
* Tesco's online venture has triumphed - for now, but will the
others catch up? 12/08/01 N 6 1>8 Photographs
* Tesco is understood to be negotiating a deal with Disney that
would see branded play areas in some of its 600 stores 26/08/01
N 2 4>5 Photograph
* Laura Ashley, the clothes-to-cushions retailer, will this month
launch its new website 02/09/01 N 1 4>7 Photograph
* John Lewis partners - the shop's staff - at the Oxford Street
flagship store have voted for Sunday trading to continue beyond
the Christmas period 09/09/01 N 2 4>7 Photograph
* French department store group Pinault-Printemps-Redoute has
confirmed its interest in buying Marks & Spencer's 18 French
shops 16/09/01 N 2 3>6
* Retail analysts says they will wait to separate the hype from
the reality when Marks & Spencer launches its long awaited Per
Una collection designed by George Davis 23/09/01 N 2 4>7
* Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket, is to be reported to the
Advertising Standards Authority over its high-profile £100m
campaign of price cuts, amid claims that many prices had in fact
gone up 30/09/01 N 1 1>4
* Arcadia, the fashion retailer, will this week sell four of its
chains to a management buyout team for more than £20m
30/09/01 N 2 3>5
* Kingfisher will announce this week that it has appointed
Compass chairman Francis Mackay as successor to Sir John
Banham 30/09/01 N 2 6>8 Photograph
* The boss of Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo sees suburbia as
the key to aggressive UK expansion 30/09/01 N 4 1>8
Photograph
* Marks & Spencer will unveil poor sales figures following a
botched launch of the Per Una clothing range 07/10/01 N 1 1>4
Photograph, graph
* Fresh evidence has emerged that Tesco raised its prices in the
weeks before it began its new £100m price cutting campaign
07/10/01 N 2 3>6
* Alarming new evidence shows that UK consumers are
tightening their belts in the wake of the attacks on the US
14/10/01 N 1 4>7
* Shoppers stay at home during the half-term school holidays -
see Consumerism 28/10/01
* An Icelandic workaholic with a taste for making money is keen
to bring the joys of Miss Selfridge to the US malls 28/10/01 N 3
1>5 Photograph
* Retail minnow Baugur's bid for Arcadia seemed sudden, but it
was all a well-planned strategy 28/10/01 N 3 1>8 Photograph,
graph
* Luc Vendevelde will step down as chief executive of Marks
and Spencer next year, but will stay on as chairman 11/11/01 N
1 3>5
* Interview with Luc Vandevelde, chief executive at Marks and
Spencer 11/11/01 N 7 1>6 Photograph
* Couples have been caught on CCTV smooching in Safeway's
new-look wines and spirits section 18/11/01 N 1 4>5
Photograph
* The High Street giant, Marks & Spencer has learnt its lesson
and is now giving its customers the classics they want 18/11/01
B 22 1>8 Photographs
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* Interview with Safeway's new chief executive Carlos Criado-
Perez - see Criado-Perez, Carlos 25/11/01
* Levi Strauss is planning to sell a wider range of jeans and
jackets at almost half their high-street prices, despite winning
last week's court battle to prevent Tesco... - see Business &
Industry 25/11/01
* Management: Interview with Ikea boss Anders Dahlvig and
Ikea's reputation - see Work 25/11/01
* Most Britons may oppose the single currency, but half of the
UK's main retailers will accept it - see Euro, The 25/11/01
* Every time Ikea tries to fix customer gridlock it gets 20 per
cent more sales 25/11/01 N 10 5>7 Photograph
* Sam Roddick, daughter of The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, is
taking her first foray into retail with a sex emporium - see
Roddick Sam 09/12/01
* Shares in retailers have outperformed the rest of the stock
market by 33 per cent so far this year 09/12/01 N 2 5>7
* A story of falling profits and exiting colleagues for the Al-
Fayed empire - see Business & Industry 16/12/01
* Six directors of Harrods have quit the firm in the last 12
months 16/12/01 N 1 1>4
* Marks and Spencer opens its first stores in India 16/12/01 N 2
4>8 Photograph
* Across the country, small businesses hit by the foot and mouth
epidemic are enjoying a sales bonanza and consumers are
fuelling a Christmas spending 23/12/01 B 11 1>3 Cartoon
* Harrods has stunned many of its suppliers of designer goods by
unilaterally deciding to pay them less for items already ordered
23/12/01 B 18 8
RETREAT
* See Book Reviews - Shapiro, Anna 30/09/01
RICH, MARC
* Profile on Marc Rich - one of the FBI's most wanted men who
won a controversial pardon 13/05/01 M 28>34 1>4 Photographs
RICHARDSON, JOLEY
* Actress Joley Richardson has finally found a way to make her
name her own 30/12/01 M 4>8 1>4 Photographs
RIDDELL, MARY
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