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Business response to the economic environment: zero hours contracts
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Co Op Bank’s USP vanishing trick
Friday, May 10, 2013
Investing in Workforce Skills and Culture - the University of John Lewis
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Ethics, supply chains and consumer responsibility
BUSS4 - Want Good Analysis? Think How & Why?
Monday, April 29, 2013
Strategy: Organic Growth Powers Whitbread’s Success
‘Feel free to browse’ … for how much longer?
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Strategy: Ikea’s Global Brand & Local Knowledge Drives Expansion into Emerging Markets
Monday, April 22, 2013
Organisational Culture: How Partnership Works at John Lewis Partnership
Monday, April 15, 2013
Can Healthy Fast Food be Turned into a Global Success?
Saturday, April 13, 2013
An Organisational Culture of Trust - Insights from John Lewis Partnership
Strategy in a time of austerity & poverty - three retailers tell their story
Are supermarket economies of scale beginning to fade?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Shopping: The new tactics to get you spending
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Chinese Suppliers Who Make Discount Retailing Possible in the UK
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Growth strategy - Tesco’s “Related-diversification” into Family Restaurants
Friday, March 15, 2013
Some great insights into how technology is transforming the high street
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
John Lewis staff celebrate bonus of nine weeks’ pay
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Big Data: Retail is Detail!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Horse Meat Scandal - A Question of Trust
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
A Different Kind of “Shareholder” - the Corporate Culture of Walmart
Monday, February 11, 2013
Findus hurdles to uncertainty
Friday, February 08, 2013
Virgin Mary crisps withdrawn by Pret.
Saturday, February 02, 2013
Planet Money
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Now Blockbuster fails ... is the High Street dying?
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Quarter miler with fries please
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
The HMV story
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Leadership & Strategy at Amazon - Be Obsessed with Customers and Think Long-term
Friday, January 11, 2013
Jessops goes into Administration Is the Niche Market a Tomb?
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Big Firm launches smaller brand – the Harris and Hoole story
Ethical business is a recession-buster!
Monday, December 31, 2012
Business and technology - warehouse automation
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Using the Edexcel A2 SuperGroup Toolkit
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Turnaround in Tesco’s overseas strategy
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
The rising profile of ‘Cyber Monday’
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Starbucks UK HRM Strategy - How Not to Win Friends and Influence People
HMV’s strategy of diversification comes to an end
CSR & Sustainability: Some Good News (Sainsbury’s) and Bad News (Zara)
Friday, November 23, 2012
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Aldi
Retail Domination - Behind the Scenes at Amazon
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Innovation - the CEO’s Role in Making it Happen at Tesco
Sunday, November 11, 2012
How Dominos Pizza Uses IT to Power Sales Around the Globe
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Big Data - Helping to Offer a Personalised Product Offer
Hotel Chocolat - British Chocolatiers on the March!
The Co-op claws back retail market share
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Workforce Planning at Dixons - Grab Staff from a Rival!
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Argos’ Transformational Plan - But Is It Too Late?
Comet becomes the latest high profile retail casualty
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Leadership at Abercrombie & Fitch - Meet the CEO (Chief Eccentric Officer?)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
“Place” in the John Lewis marketing mix
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Retailers that have collapsed in 2012
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Tesco opening more ‘dark stores’
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
ResearchBuster: Retrenchment
Poundland Investigated Channel 4 Dispatches
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Edexcel Business Studies Unit 4a - Supergroup Toolkit
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Revision Quiz - Introduction to Retail Business
The Psychology of Discounting
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
SuperGroup / SuperDry Update for Edexcel 4a
Friday, July 06, 2012
The rise of Poundland and reflections on price elasticity of demand
Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Failure, Greed and Corruption in Banking - Good News for the Co-op?
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
BUSS4 STOP PRESS: US retailer Walgreen buys 45% stake in Alliance Boots
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Starbucks chooses the takeover option to diversify into baking
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Takeovers and mergers: Wholesale Changes ahead for Booker & Makro
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Takeovers and mergers: JD Sports and the Blacks Leisure Headache
Takeovers and Mergers - the failed takeover behind Clinton Cards’ Collapse
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Same product - different prices: Greggs sausage roll costs more in Hammersmith than Hull
Marketing analysis: the UK supermarket battleground
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Flaws in Tesco’s strategy
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
What’s going wrong at Superdry?
Monday, April 23, 2012
Leadership - meet the new boss of Starbucks UK
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
More on “up-selling” (adding value) the budget airline way
Monday, April 16, 2012
Walmart targets leadership of the online shopping market in China
Friday, April 06, 2012
Retailing booms: in railway stations
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Co-operative model - a retail format that should thrive in a recession?
Garden Centre Takeover - Can Hands Get the Growth?
Monday, March 26, 2012
Starbucks acquisition provides the base for entry into the juice bar market
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Game Over?
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Starbucks chooses strategic alliance in bid to enter the Indian market
Practice your skills as a retailer: entrepreneurs experiment with ‘pop up’ shops
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Lesson video : Franchising for beginners
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Froth on the beer versus froth on the coffee?
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Which is better? Aldi or Lidl? Compare and contrast these (and others) using ‘Store Wars’
Monday, February 06, 2012
Starbucks growth - three out of four ain’t bad!
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Schultz on Leadership, Love and the Competitive Advantage of Culture
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Growth strategy - Starbucks eyes the franchise model
Saturday, January 28, 2012
More perspectives on our changing shopping habits
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Strategy Lessons from the Tesco Downfall
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Tesco’s Big Price Drop - on the Stock Market, or, Porter and Ansoff in action
Friday, January 13, 2012
Tesco takes it ‘easy’, controlling costs in its US operations
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Business winners and losers from Christmas 2011
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Revision Presentation - Business Location
Monday, January 02, 2012
Technology and Consumer Media - A Neat Research Resource
Friday, December 30, 2011
Warehouse woes - Superdry’s operations hit the finances
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Strategies to revive the High Street: Mary Portas reports
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Straight-talking answers to business questions - the examiners might hate some of this!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Behind the scenes of a Sainsbury’s warehouse at Christmas
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
CGI modelling gauze and effect
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Marketing and the supermarket ‘price war’
A peak inside Santa’s Grotto…sorry, the Amazon.co.uk Warehouse
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Woman pepper-sprays rival bargain hunters. So what is ‘Black Friday’?
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
