Retail Day
Retail Week, today
Funny old day
This is a funny sort of Friday. Very sad to hear of the death of Bobby Robson, who always struck me as a true gentleman, and anyone of my generation who’s into football has him to thank for some terrific memories during our childhood.
On a similarly sporting front, am chuffed that David “Bumble” Lloyd is following me on Twitter. Not sure its anything to do with him being a Retail Week fan, more because I’m following him. Anyway, his Tweets are hysterical, well worth following. And what about Graeme Onions taking two wickets with the first two balls of the day? Not sure anyone would have expected that. This England team really has the ability to surprise.
We’re sadly saying goodbye to two excellent members of the Retail Week team today. Not many readers will be familiar with our art director Michael Sullivan, but he’s the man who’s transformed the look of Retail Week over the past few years. He’s going off to set up a design consultancy with his counterpart on our sister title Screen International, and if you have any requirements he comes very well recommended - his email is michael@forty6design.com
Our well-liked property correspondent Ben Cooper is also heading off for pastures new - Ben is a real expert in that world and is going off into the world of freelancing, looking for both journalism and PR commissions. His email address is ben_cooper1@hotmail.co.uk
Another unusual thing about today - a Tim Danaher front page lead on Retail Week, on River Island’s results. River is a retailer I have a lot of time for. It knows its market, and is focussed relentlessly on the basics of good retailinf - first product, then store environment and service. Its results are no fluke, and show that even in tough times, good retailers will be fine.
on Aug 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
A gentleman of football indeed! Fabulous world cup hope
back in the day, huh?