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  • 03/09/2010: End of Kate Moss and Topshop Partnership – Costa Rica ‘happiest’ place.
     
  • 27/08/2010: EBay boom for million-pound firms-New drive-thru Tescos store
     
  • 23/08/2010: 3D family photo album launched - Guinness readies sports-themed campaign
     
  • 16/08/2010: Watch TV on Facebook- Heathrow recorded its busiest ever month
     
  • 09/08/2010: Footfall is up- Apple's largest store opens- Boost for Bulgarian Tourism
     
  • 30/07/2010: HMV launches music download service - $22.7bn – the cost of the BP oil spill
     
  • 23/07/2010: Waitrose plans to double store count- World on course for hottest year since 1880
     
  • 16/07/2010: Campaign to get Britain online- ‘Hooray for Holidays’ says British Airways
     
  • 12/07/2010: YouTube gets upgrade-New York Gets Green
     
  • 05/07/2010: UK ad spend is up at last - Consumers go iCrazy - Budget hotel sector is booming
     
  • 25/06/2010: Centre Manager Award at St Johns, Leeds - Hijack Marketing revolution
     
  • 15/06/2010: Just how close is the relationship between footfall and football?
     
  • 10/06/2010: Strong sales in May leave retailers smiling- World Cup mania hits the shelves
     
  • 24/05/2010: Haul Videos hit hundreds of thousands of views
     
  • 13/05/2010: Expected decrease in footall- Science and Fashion collide and go Green!
     
  • 30/04/2010: Asda heralds end of grocery war - Hammerson - a greener portfolio
     
  • 23/04/2010: Iceland’s volcanic eruption rocks the UK
     
  • 16/04/2010: Early Easter brings best retail sales since 2006- Twitter opens doors to advertising
     
  • 09/04/2010: “Phenomenal” fashion sales at John Lewis
     
  • 01/04/2010: Pepsi pips Coca-cola at the post- Happy Easter; chocolate could be good for you…
     
  • 24/03/2010: Real time TV show tweeting: now happening in America, expected here soon...
     
  • 18/03/2010: £4.4m funding for 7 London projects, and the Jurassic watch that time forgot
     
  • 12/03/2010: John Lewis profits up & staff share bonus pot
     
  • 05/03/2010: M&S aims to be greenest retailer in the world by 2015
     
  • 25/02/2010: Things looking up in 2010 - especially for organics, visitor attractions, social media
     
  • 19/02/2010: Footfall is up as shoppers prove romance is not dead
     
  • 12/02/2010: Is Twitter losing its momentum?
     
  • 05/02/2010: ‘Slum Tourism’- a tourism niche?
     
  • 29/01/2010: Next Besting is the next best thing
     
  • 21/01/2010: Retail sector is generally upbeat – footfall up week on week although sales drop.
     
  • 14/01/2010: Chinese centre provides special car parking spaces for women – wide and pink!
     
  • 07/01/2010: Badoo is blocked in Iran and Kama Sutra tops illegal download list – welcome to 2010!
     
  • 18/12/2009: Footfall rises year-on-year but Christmas shoppers are spending less
     
  • 09/12/2009: Footfall rises; and Disney World is to be twinned with...Swindon.
     
  • 04/12/2009: Frenchgate website launches to tune of a million hits …
     
  • 26/11/2009: Footfall, sales and consumer confidence index are up – it must be Christmas!
     
  • 18/11/2009: Predicted rise in footfall for week 46; and can computers think for themselves?
     
  • 12/11/2009: Footfall slows but is it the last drop of the year?
     
  • 05/11/2009: Week 44: Ferrari moves into theme parks and energy drinks go equally extreme.
     
  • 29/10/2009: Footfall figures up up up by 8.3%
     
  • 22/10/2009: First 'Gay Tourist Office' opens in London
     
  • 15/10/2009: Individually named cornflakes – does Kellogg's have too much time on its hands?
     
  • 07/10/2009: Facebook members show their collective strength – again.
     
  • 30/09/2009: The iphone topples Bond car off the top spot in prestigious 2009 CoolBrand Survey
     
  • 23/09/2009: Say 'please'! Politeness works when it comes to Twitter re-tweets.
     
  • 16/09/2009: Swindon prepares for two new Shopping Centres and Cadbury’s Chairman publicly criticises Kraft
     
  • 10/09/2009: Toolbox Races ahead at Doncaster racecourse - John Lewis is launching a low-priced ‘Value’ range
     
  • 02/09/2009: Tesco monitors methane emissions - marvellous!
     
  • 27/08/2009: Consumer trends shift again – is the hair shirt starting to come off?
     
  • 19/08/2009: Glasgow shopping gets re-vamped and Bluewater smiles as happy shoppers spend
     
  • 12/08/2009: Lifeline is offered to retailers who deal in US currency
     
  • 07/08/2009: A ‘bunch of junk’ from the week’s loser but a barrel of laughs from the week’s winner
     
  • 31/07/2009: Week 30: House prices rise and why we should blame men for the crunch…
     
  • 23/07/2009: Twitter stops industries from bluffing, and a blind tasting does the same for Vodka.
     
  • 17/07/2009: 2010/11 very tough years for property markets
     
  • 10/07/2009: Burger King bottles its secret of success and the thrift trend looks set to go the distance.
     
  • 01/07/2009: Consumer commitment to saving the environment stops at the breakfast table…
     
  • 24/06/2009: Adaptation is the name of the game for retailers looking to survive – though best avoid the Crypt example
     
  • 17/06/2009: The future: making water out of thin air, Twitter comedy clubs and community car-shares
     
  • 11/06/2009: Westfield parks its way into popularity, and Mr R Hazard faces the bomb disposal squad...
     
  • 02/06/2009: Swimming with sharks, 'Foreverism' and one man's £6m a year sponsorship deal - creativity and marketing go up a gear!
     
  • 27/05/2009: Withdrawals all round: 'Nazi' boxer shorts from Next and cocaine cola from Red Bull.
     
  • 20/05/2009: Smelly charity shops, pet airlines and 'staycations' - welcome to Week 20 news!
     
  • 15/05/2009: 'Tis the season for Awards! SKHLM scoops up in Stockholm
     
  • 07/05/2009: Builder's Breakfast flavour wins for Walkers (And Toolbox Marketing wins for Cushman & Wakefield!)
     
  • 30/04/2009: Lingerie sales continue to rise - life's not all bad!
     
  • 23/04/2009: Another good week for Tesco - but, at last, they're not alone!
     
  • 17/04/2009: 'It's a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information'
     
  • 06/04/2009: Shoppers find solace in centre food courts - like for like food court sales up 12%
     
  • 26/03/2009: Udder cream now on sale on Bond Street. Times have changed!
     
  • 19/03/2009: Westfield retailers up in arms - not least at the Guardian's description of the centre as being a 'peaceful haven'...
     
  • 06/03/2009: M&S introduces electronic tagging - even the middle classes are feeling the 'pinch'
     
  • 26/02/2009: Winners this week: pedal power, Primark and pooches
     
  • 16/02/2009: 'Efficiency is the new Green' says trend expert
     
  • 09/02/2009: Top of the American 'can't do without' list? The internet.
     
  • 29/01/2009: The increasing importance of workplace humour - though best avoid the 'yoghurt and chips' idea
     
  • 22/01/2009: New 'Generation G' trend for 2009 - generosity, goodwill, gratitude...
     
  • 13/01/2009: The 'Get Real' trend kicks off. And then we have squirrel-flavoured crisps. What ho January 2009!
     
  • 05/01/2009: Spending goes undercover as a new age of Consumer Discretion kicks in
     
  • 22/12/2008: Experts predict 3pm on Christmas Day will be the start of the biggest ever rush to online sales. Bad news for the Queen's Speech - good news, at last, for retailers.
     
  • 10/12/2008: Gold-plated staples, Fake Hairy Toes and Woolworths. Welcome to Week 48
     
  • 01/12/2008: Adidas parties on - despite Thursday being the 'saddest day for retail'
     
  • 17/11/2008: As one upmarket e-tailer does its bit for 'shame shoppers', are retailer worries about Christmas unfounded?
     
  • 11/11/2008: Add a GCSE to the shopping trolley - at a supermarket near you soon
     
  • 04/11/2008: Sainsburys plans to power its stores using methane gas - the future is ... green
     
  • 24/10/2008: M&S sandwich sales plummet: the UK nears an 'official' recession. It would seem that Middle England and Gordon Brown finally agree.
     
  • 14/10/2008: 'Pink Hunks' help shoppers do their bit for charity - but forecasters think it may be retailers who are needing the charity this Christmas
     
  • 07/10/2008: Goody Bags worth £34,000 – just another local shopping centre consumer event!
     
  • 30/09/2008: Monty Python, Marmite and HP Sauce – the very Best of British? (Selfridges thinks so.)
     
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