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The future of retail this Christmas
By Alison Rapsey – Course Director Fashion Retail Management I can smell the pine and gluwein from the German market so it must nearly be Christmas… but with the recent flooding and a struggling retail...
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Immediacy Threat to High Street Retail
By Professor Chris Edger, Birmingham City Business School The troubles of retailers HMV and Blockbuster presage the most serious threat to the High Street over the next few years – that of immediacy....
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Valentines – The Rise of Key Calendar Events
Professor Chris Edger, Birmingham City Business School For High Street retailers Valentine’s Day represents the first key calendar trading event after Christmas. Retailers will be seeking to optimise...
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Giraffe and Tesco – solving the ‘dead space’ issue in ‘big box’ supermarket...
Professor Chris Edger, the author of ‘Effective Multi-Unit Leadership – Local Leadership in Multi-Situations’ and ‘International Multi-Unit Leadership’, is Professor of Multi-Unit Leadership at...
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Supermarket ‘retail destinations’: a further threat to the High Street?
Professor Chris Edger, the author of ‘Effective Multi-Unit Leadership – Local Leadership in Multi-Situations’ and ‘International Multi-Unit Leadership’, is Professor of Multi-Unit Leadership at...
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Ten years of iTunes retail
Andrew Dubber Andrew Dubber, Professor of Music Industries Innovation at Birmingham City University The metaphors we adopt and discard are important when it comes to understanding how we make sense of...
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The real cost of fashion
Dawn Eyre Dawn Eyre, Lecturer in Fashion at Birmingham City University As a fashion designer who has worked in the industry for fifteen years, it always saddens me to hear of the awful and tragic...
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Who can do what to save the High Street?
Professor Chris Edger, the author of ‘Effective Multi-Unit Leadership – Local Leadership in Multi-Situations’ and ‘International Multi-Unit Leadership’, is Professor of Multi-Unit Leadership at...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of Phones 4u
Dr Steve McCabe – Birmingham City Business School Fascinatingly the person who founded the company Phones 4u John Caudwell, who sold it for £1.5 billion in 2006, became involved by a mixture of...
View ArticleBlack Friday – A Giant Vampire Squid for Retailers?
Birmingham City University retail expert, Professor Chris Edger, comments ahead of this week’s Black Friday. In 2010 when Amazon transported its Black Friday promotional mechanism from the US (a huge...
View ArticleAnother ‘old friend’ disappears
By Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School Today’s announcement that the local bakery company Firkins has closed down with the loss of 100 jobs is, as always, a tragedy for the families...
View ArticleAs McDonald’s turns 75 – do you know how it all began?
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School The car manufacturer Henry Ford is the name most associated with having allowed the vision of scientific management come to life through his adoption of...
View ArticleCouncils should think carefully before rejecting all-day Sunday trading
Chris Edger, Professor of Multi-Unit Leadership at Birmingham City University’s Business School Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Summer Budget this week that councils will be given the power...
View ArticleSocial psychologist applauds John Lewis Christmas ad
(Image courtesy of John Lewis) Dr Elle Boag, senior lecturer in Social Psychology at Birmingham City University. So, this morning saw the release of the John Lewis Christmas advert and once again...
View ArticleBlack Friday – who will be this year’s winners and losers?
Professor Chris Edger, retail expert, Birmingham City University Black Friday – the annual event which saw sheer pandemonium brought to some of our retail stores last year, as frenzied shoppers fought...
View ArticleDo we care what we buy on Black Friday or do we just want to beat other...
Dr Elle Boag, senior lecturer in Social Psychology at Birmingham City University November 27th sees the return of yet another US phenomenon which has been adopted by the UK – ‘Black Friday’. The day...
View ArticlePrepare for 25 December like it’s a work day
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City Business School Christmas Day is one day when we are expected to let our hair down and enjoy the fact that for most people, it is a day off work. For children up to a...
View ArticleThe harsh reality of getting back to normal
By Dr Steve McCabe Some seven years on from the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis) it seems that memories are fading as to what caused a crash that, as well as being compared to the infamous 1929 Wall...
View ArticleShould women have to pay a ‘sexist surcharge’ on the high street?
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City University’s Business School On first view this might seem like a peculiar story that harks back to a different age. The idea that you pay higher prices for something...
View ArticleWhat’s behind the potential merger of Sainsbury’s and Argos?
Dr Steve McCabe, Birmingham City University’s Business School In many ways the £1.3 billion merger between Sainsbury’s and Argos seems strange. The traditional supermarket retailer which has its...
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