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British retail sales fell this month as the coronavirus hit demand for products other than food, and the outlook for April is the bleakest since 2009, the Confederation of British Industry said on Wednesday.

Luxury, premium and high street brands are all accelerating their online discounts as plunging footfall followed by a lockdown means the UK's SS20 season is turning into a disastrous one, new data shows.

With thousands of shops across the UK having been forced to close, there have been warnings that some might never reopen, even after the coronavirus lockdown ends.

The sustainable shoe brand will donate 2,000 pairs of running shoes to those fighting the battle against Covid-19, with NHS staff invited to fill an online form to receive their free shoes.

The shopping centre owner, whose portfolio of leading retail destinations include Brent Cross, Grand Central and Bullring, is observing the government’s ban on all non-essential travel within the UK.

The coronavirus pandemic is dominating most consumers’ and businesses’ thinking at the moment, but companies and market analysts are still looking to a post-coronavirus world in which other subjects come to the fore.

West End landlord Shaftesbury responds to the coronavirus shutdown in London, announcing rent deferrals for commercial occupiers and a stop on all new schemes and acquisitions.

The coronavirus crisis looks like it will hit upscale department store chain Fenwick very hard as the company is now shutting its webstore.

EU antitrust regulators have set a new deadline of July 24 to decide whether to clear Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica’s 7.2-billion-euro (6.7 billion pounds) bid for Dutch opticians group GrandVision.

Intu Properties will lower its service charges for tenants by 22% in the second half of the 2020 financial year, as shops and other businesses seek to ride out the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.