Daily Teessider

Tweet The company that makes the popular tabletop fantasy game Warhammer 40,000 issued a profit warning this morning after a decline in sales. Games Workshop, which also makes the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, said that sales fell by 4 per cent in the six months to the end of November. The company [...]

Tweet Next said today that the outlook for 2011 was “uncertain” following the increase in VAT and the rising cost of making its goods, as it reported a fall in sales because of the snowy weather in the run-up to Christmas. The high street retailer will go ahead with plans to raise its prices by [...]

Tweet HMV warned today that it was in danger of breaching a bank covenant as it set out plans to sell 60 of its UK stores after sales plunged over the key Christmas trading period, sending its shares down to a record low. The retailer warned last month that it had made a poor start [...]

Tweet The decision, by a Middlesbrough Council licensing panel, could be appealed. But if the decision stands it would mean the store, at 288-290 Acklam Road, would be one of only a handful run by the retail giant without an off-licence. Cleveland Police and local councillors objected to the granting of a licence. They pointed [...]

Tweet At least eight new stores operated by the ‘big four’ supermarkets have been given the go-ahead on Teesside in the past two years, research has found, with more in the pipeline… Planning authorities were contacted to discover how many shops Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco had approved in the two years to November. Of [...]

Tweet The e-mail account details of government officials, civil servants and defence company staff have been leaked online after computer hackers attacked a prominent group of gossip and news websites, a Times investigation shows. The work e-mail addresses and passwords of senior staff at the Crown Prosecution Service, officials at the Charity Commission and employees [...]

Tweet Asda Living Teesside has received a £1m makeover which has seen it become the first new look Asda Living store in the UK.The store on Teesside Shopping Park has been chosen as the first in the country to pioneer the new department store look and feel.The improvements, based on customer feedback, include a completely [...]

Tweet This weekend Royal Mail became the latest business to have its tough negotiations with suppliers aired in public after details of a presentation outlining its “radical cost-cutting programme” were leaked to the media. Delivering a presentation to an audience of 150 suppliers two days before the Serco news broke, Kath Harmeston, Royal Mail’s procurement [...]

Tweet the hidden cost to cheap clothes and it’s a human one… East Midlands factories producing clothes for High Street retailers such as New Look, BHS, Peacocks, Jane Norman and C&A are little more than illegal sweatshops where workers are treated like slaves, a Dispatches; Fashion’s Dirty Secret programme  for Channel 4 investigation will claim tonight [...]

Tweet The retail billionaire Sir Philip Green is to close 300 of it’s smaller stores (15%) of its 2400 units within the next three years. Details of Green’s plan emerged at a retail property conference in Manchester last week. Some 500 leases, mainly on the group’s smaller shops in provincial towns, are due for renewal [...]