Новости за 29.05.2020

The online fashion brand has launched a new e-commerce website with a faster, mobile-friendly design and new payment options.

Covent Garden landlord Capital & Counties (Capco) has confirmed it is negotiating a deal to buy a 26.3% interest in Shaftesbury, which owns a large property portfolio in London’s West End.

The funding consists of a £25m revolving credit facility from the government’s Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme and £25m of new notes that will be purchased by a group of current bondholders.

Retailers and fashion firms will find themselves under heavier pressure from August with UK chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to announce on Friday that employers will have to pay 20% of the wages of furloughed staff.

Camden Market owner LabTech said that the market will partially reopen at the earliest possible opportunity, on June 1, following the government’s latest announcement on the easing of the lockdown.

Debenhams is cutting more than 1,000 HQ and store jobs as 17 branches are set to close, with the firm hoping to emerge from administration as a more flexible entity that can meet the challenges of the new retail world.

When Sainsbury's new boss hosts a virtual focus group with supermarket shoppers on his first day in charge on Monday, the conversation will be radically different from the one he might have imagined when he got the job.