All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 14
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NewsLaw firm signs up 300 M&S customers in days for class action data lawsuit
Thompsons Solicitors has made it easy for M&S customers to sign up with an online form, while another firm is gathering claims on Facebook
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NewsAldi takes on McDonald’s with free hash browns outside restaurants
Aldi will wheel up its hash brown vans outside selected McDonald’s outlets today at 11.01am – one minute after McDonald’s stops its breakfast service
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NewsHome Bargains opens ‘most sophisticated automated warehouse in the country’
The variety discounter has officially opened its new one million sq ft warehouse at Omega Business Park in St Helens, after three years of construction
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NewsInvestor appetite for supermarket real estate intensifies amid anticipated rising rents
The shift has been fuelled by a lack of new developments, as well as the potential for rental growth from the sector, according to Colliers’ annual UK Grocery report
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NewsMarks & Spencer names retail director for newly created role
Marks & Spencer has appointed ex-Coles exec Thinus Keeve to the newly created role of retail director
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NewsM&S snaps up 12 former Homebase sites to build new Food stores
The retailer is planning to open its largest ever standalone M&S Food store in Godalming in summer 2026, at 22,000 sq ft
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NewsAldi launches free online course for students interested in retail
Billed as a work experience programme, the online programme is open to students aged 13 and over
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NewsRace to be Poundland’s new owner narrows to Hilco and Gordon Brothers
Modella Capital, which recently acquired WH Smith’s high street stores, has been eliminated from the auction
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NewsLidl marks being bakery market leader by giving away 500 ‘gold bakery cards’
The cards will entitle winners to a free bakery product every day for a year
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NewsPoundland scraps exclusive discounts in loyalty scheme
The Poundland Perks app previously rewarded users with discounts on a selection of up to 100 products
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Analysis & FeaturesHow far has the cyberattack knocked M&S off course?
Turning all the retailer’s systems back on is ‘complex’, says CEO Stuart Machin
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NewsAldi working with food waste expert to share tips on freezing food
The discounter is working with Kate Hall, who shares tips and recipes to make freezing food easier with her 80,000 followers on Instagram
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NewsM&S cyberattack ‘nothing to do with underinvestment’ in tech, says chief
M&S CEO Stuart Machin has said the retailer was ‘unlucky’
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NewsLawyers eyeing M&S cyberattack slammed by campaign against ‘predatory litigation’
‘This US-style litigation risks undermining public trust, inflating costs, and harming businesses,’ said Fair Civil Justice executive director Seema Kennedy
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NewsCyberattack: M&S facing class lawsuit over customer data theft
‘I think this will be the biggest data theft case we have ever been involved in,’ says lawyer
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NewsGordon Brothers ‘in pole position’ to acquire Poundland
The former Laura Ashley owner is among private equity firms circling the variety discounter
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Analysis & FeaturesWho are the private equity firms in the race to snap up Poundland?
What are the credentials of Endless, Hilco, Modella, Gordon Brothers and Alteri?
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NewsAldi promises no softening of meat and poultry standards even if regulations ease for trade deals
Trade talks between the UK and US have caused alarm over the prospect of hormone-treated beef and chlorinated chicken imports, though fears have been addressed by Keir Starmer’s insistence food standards are non-negotiable
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NewsB&M appoints industry veteran Tjeerd Jegen as CEO
Tjeerd Jegen has worked in leadership roles at Ahold Delhaize, Metro, Tesco, Woolworths, HEMA and Takko Fashion over 25 years
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Comment & Opinion‘Ambulance-chasing’ lawyers no better than the M&S hackers
Data farm firms will be just as ruthless as the M&S cyber hackers when it comes to exploitation