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Notonthehighstreet has appointed HelloFresh’s former UK boss Claire Davenport as its new chief executive as current CEO Barrie Seidenberg steps down for health reasons.

Google Home - the tech giant’s virtual assistant - launches today. Retail Week looks at how voice technology can transform how we shop.

In The Style fell into the red with its first full-year results as a listed company, as boss Sam Perkins warned that the year ahead would be “a challenging one for consumers and retailers” and lead to widening losses.

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group is reportedly considering a takeover of luxury fashion group Hugo Boss.

What burgeoning technology will really take off in 2020 and what will it enable retailers to do? We put the question to a panel of tech experts.

Amazon has appointed vice president of its European fashion division John Boumphrey to lead its UK business.

Morrisons’ rival bidders Fortress and CD&R and set to go to auction to secure a final offer for the supermarket ahead of a shareholder vote on a takeover deal in October.

The Issa brothers have pulled EG Group’s planned acquisition of Asda’s petrol forecourts business.

Luxury fashion etailer Yoox Net-a-Porter has tied up with Armani on a new initiative to innovate the designer’s distribution network.

Next has reported a stronger than expected uplift in sales in its third quarter, but expects falling demand and availability issues to impact sales for the remainder of its financial year.

Consumer confidence has risen in the two weeks since non-essential shops reopened despite ongoing disruption due to the pandemic.

AO has reported a full-year loss in its delayed results as boss John Roberts says the etailer fights “through one of the most challenging operating environments we’ve weathered as a company”.

Frasers Group has made an offer for Australian flash Sales website MySale as the retail group seeks to further bolster its roster of recent acquisitions.

Consumer confidence has hit a record low for four out of the last five months, as shoppers’ concerns about personal finances and the economy in the year ahead spike.

Ninety-five per cent of UK retail chairs forecast a drop in shopper spending over the next year, as Boots’ parent company chair Stefano Pessina said the UK would likely have a “bigger” recession than other EU countries.

Ocado has reported an uplift in third-quarter sales and customer numbers, but says inflationary pressures have reduced its average basket size as shoppers prioritise value for money.

“We are not an ecommerce business - it sounds like a soundbite, but it’s true.”

A call option agreement for a division of Japanese investment titan Softbank to acquire a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) stake in THG’s Ingenuity division has been terminated.

John Lewis is set to scrap its longstanding ‘Never Knowingly Undersold’ price pledge on August 22 but is yet to unveil the scheme that will succeed it.

Burberry has posted a modest uplift in first-quarter sales as a decline in revenues in mainland China was offset by demand from shoppers across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa.