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More than 50 big retailers have come together to demand the Government takes action on the business rates system. In a letter to the new Chancellor Sajid Javid, the retailers have called on the government to put business rates at heart of the promised new economic package. The letter, co-ordinated …

New figures have revealed that retail footfall was down 1.9% last month, which represents the worst July decline since 2012. According to data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard covering the four weeks from June 30 to July 27 July, high street footfall dropped by 2.7%, following an …

UK retail sales increased by 0.1% on a like-for-like basis from July 2018, when they had increased 0.5% from the preceding year, according to the latest figures from BRC (British Retail Consortium) and KPMG. Covering the four weeks from June 30 to July 27, the BRC-KPMG monthly sales monitor reported …

According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the second quarter (Q2) represented the fourteenth consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline in the retail workforce. Year-on-year, the total number of employees fell by 2.3% in Q2, with full-time employment seeing a higher reduction (3.0%) compared with a decrease in part-time employees (2.0%). …

Total footfall in the UK declined by 2.9% in June compared with the year-ago period when it declined by 0.9%, according to the latest data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC)–Springboard. Covering the five weeks from May 26 to June 29, the BRC-Springboard footfall monitor reports that on a three-month …

UK retail sales suffered the ‘worst June on record’ according to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC)-KPMG monthly sales monitor. Covering the five weeks from May 26 to June 29, total sales decreased by 1.3% in June, against an increase of 2.3% in June 2018. This decline drags the 3-month …

A group of businesses and trade bodies representing the retail sector have written to the Home Secretary and other government ministers, calling for more to be done to tackle widespread violence and abuse against shopworkers. The letter, signed by retailers and groups including the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), British …

The Co-op today (Thursday June 20) called for stronger protection for shop workers in the face of rising attacks. The latest quarterly figures from the supermarket chain show 2,500 incidents of verbal abuse and anti-social behaviour across the UK, with 600 violent incidents over the same period. One in four …

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has acquired OSS Retail, formally known as the Oxford Summer School, from the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira). The move is part of BRC’s Better Jobs campaign and its ongoing commitment to repositioning retail as a career of choice. BRC said: ‘With the changing nature …

Footfall declined by 3.5% in May, compared with the same month last year when it fell by 0.4%, according to the latest statistics from the British Retail Consortium (BRC)-Springboard. Covering the four weeks from 28 April 28 to May 25, the BRC-Springboard Footfall and Vacancies report reveals that on a …