Ray Gaul, SVP European Retail, Insights Division Watch the webinar on demand here. 7 April: How to communicate right now COVID-19 is causing disruption beyond anything that most of us have experienced. We have witnessed border closures, panic buying, mass business closures and forced social ...
Business group the CBI said supply issues could hamper the country's economic recovery from COVID-19. But on Thursday at a meeting with supermarket leaders, Mr Eustice and newly-appointed Health Secretary Sajid Javid outlined plans for daily conta...
Apple will shutter all of its retail locations in the United Kingdom amid a new national lockdown implemented in response to a surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. On Monday, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson reimposed a lockdown with tighter restrictions that is set to ...
000 UK retailers were in “significant financial distress” prior to the government introducing tougher COVID-19 restrictions at the weekend, making widespread administrations and insolvencies likely. At the weekend, new restrictions Tier 4 meant that all non-essential shops had to sh...
If someone tests positive for COVID-19, everyone in their household must isolate for 10 days - regardless of vaccination status and even if they test negative themselves. Northern Ireland In Northern Ireland, there is a 30-person limit on people from different households mixing in home...
The GAP store on Oxford Street, London, UK, June 10, 2021. /CFP U.S. apparel company Gap will close its 81 stores in Britain and Ireland by September but remain online there, the retailer said Thursday. The retailer is also in talks with its partners to sell its...
LONDON, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Britain's service sector saw an unprecedented slump in April amid the COVID-19 crisis as activity, new work and employment declined to a record low, said a report published Tuesday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the service sector dropped to 13.4 in...
According to the Department of Health and Social Care, 148,377 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Britain as of Saturday morning. "As the deaths caused by this terrible virus pass another tragic and terrible milestone, the entire nation is grieving," British Home Secretary Priti Patel ...
“COVID-19 has caused significant interference to our business and the COVID-19 intelligence from GlobalData has helped us reach better decisions around strategy. These two highlights have helped enormously to understand the projections into the future concerning our business units, we also utilise th...
The downward spiral has been accelerated by Covid-19, with the total number of retail jobs lost in 2020 up by almost a quarter compared with the year before, according to the research group. High streets have been particularly badly hitwith restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses tha...