The toy retailer Hamleys has added its voice to the growing clamour of retailers urging chancellor Alistair Darling to delay the proposed VAT increase, currently scheduled to take place on the incredibly un-retailer-friendly date of January 1. CEO Gudjon Reynisson says the increase should be postponed until consumer confidence has returned.
The chancellor’s idea has [...]
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Hamleys calls for VAT increase to be delayed
The bane of our lives: Let’s talk car-parking
Jacqueline Reynard, who works for a Nottingham-based manufacturer, talks about the detrimental effect that car-parking fees are having on the local high street’, saying:
When the obvious thing is to keep retailers in local high streets in business, after years of free parking, many areas in Nottingham now face the grim prospect of being hit with [...]
Mayday, May day
As we approach one of the keystones of the pagan calendar and absolute highlight of the Morris-dancing world - which is in fact May day, I’m tickled to note that company directors are feeling the joys of spring and consumers feeling more confident than they have done in a year. I’ve got a few theories on [...]
Give it up Al
The CBI has thrown its weight behind a campaign led by retailers and the British Retail Consortium, which is calling on the chancellor Alistair Darling to rethink some of his more unpopular ’strategies’, which seem specifically designed to make life more difficult for businesses in general and retailers in particular. The demands of the CBI [...]
