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Primark well stocked for Christmas and won’t raise prices-finance chief

Associated British Foods' Primark fashion business has good stock availability for the Christmas trading period and will not be raising prices despite supply chain disruption and inflationary pressures, its finance chief said…

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Malta registers highest increase in retail trade in EU in August

Retail trade levels have picked up in August 2021, with Malta registering the highest increase, both month-on-month as well as year-on-year, across the eurozone. Although such data provides room for…

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Malta suffers largest drop in retail trade in euro area

Malta has registered the highest drop in retail trade in June 2021 compared with the month before, at -3%. Austria and Croatia had similarly negative outputs with drops of 2.7%…

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Malta: Country registered third biggest increase in retail sales in the EU

Eurostat figures show that, on an annual basis, Malta had the third biggest increase in retail sales with an increase of 22%, compared to May last year. Bulgaria with 23.9%…

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UK shopper numbers rise on indoor hospitality reopening

Shopper numbers across Britain rose 1.1% in the week to May 22 compared with the previous week, helped by the reopening of indoor hospitality after months of COVID-19 lockdown, researcher Springboard…

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Malta: Christmas shopping to be a ghost of its former self

Retailers will have to work harder than ever to capture a reluctant consumer spend over December as COVID-19 fears and restrictions dampen the excitement of in-store shopping, a survey shows.…

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Malta: Food registers increase in prices during October 2020

During last month, October 2020, the annual rate of inflation as measured by the Retail Price Index, RPI, was 0.35%, according to the latest statistics published by NSO, the National…

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Italian retail sales drop by 2.2% in July

Italian retail sales fell 2.2% in July from the month before, data showed on Tuesday, following a 10.2% rise in June. National statistics institute ISTAT revised down June's data from…

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Euro zone retail sales return to pre-pandemic levels

The volume of retail sales in the euro zone rebounded in June to levels recorded in February before lockdowns, official estimates showed on Wednesday, completing a recovery that began in…

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Retail trade in Malta and euro area shows signs of recovery in May

In May 2020, when Member States began easing the COVID-19 containment measures, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade increased by 17.8% in the euro area and by 16.4% in…

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Malta: Retail trade in Malta witnessed largest EU decrease

Malta experienced the largest drop in retail trade across the EU when restrictive measures shut shops last April. The volume of retail trade in Malta decreased by 25.1% in April…

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Owners of Corona Beer facing worst quarter in 10 years following Coronavirus outbreak

The company that owns Corona beer is facing its worst quarter in 10 years following the coronavirus outbreak. Anheuser-Busch In Bev owns some of the world’s most famous beer brands, including Budweiser,…

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Microsoft forms global strategic partnership with customer data science experts to transform retail sector

Microsoft has formed a global strategic partnership with dunnhumby, the leader in customer data science, in a move that could transform the $5.9 trillion retail sector. As part of the…

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Midday Corporate Dispatch – Corporate and Financial News

The Baltic Container Terminal (BCT), operated by a Maltese company since the 1990s, is investing €30 million over the next three years to consolidate its position as the main recipient…

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Express Trailers Supporting Maltese Retailers To Export Globally

Maltese retailers are constantly facing competition from international online stores. The natural and more logical reaction to this foreign competition is to go globally by selling online themselves. One of…

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