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March 2024

  • a Next shop storefront and sign

    Next cheers retail sector with bumper profits and price drop

    Shares hit record high as fashion and homeware chain says it ‘feels like it is entering a new era’

January 2024

  • Shoppers in Carnaby Street

    Observer business agenda
    ‘Remarksable’: M&S set to be bright spark of festive retail season amid discount war

  • A ship crosses the Suez canal towards Red Sea

    Next warns Red Sea attacks could hit sales in year ahead

November 2023

  • Garments on coat hangers in a Next store in London

    Next upgrades profit forecast again as cool weather helps sales

    Retailer expects to make £10m more profit than previously predicted, taking full-year target to £885m

October 2023

  • FatFace shoes in a sale

    Lifestyle brand FatFace set to be taken over by Next

    FTSE 100 fashion chain has been buying up rivals since pandemic and could reach deal by end of week

September 2023

  • General view of a Next store in London

    Next raises profit outlook again and says prices could fall in spring

  • A Reiss store front in Manchester city centre. The retailer is valued at at £376m after Next extended its stake.

    Next increases Reiss stake to 72% in £128m deal

August 2023

  • Heather Stewart

    Why, even now, do we think a woman’s work is worth less?

    Heather Stewart
  • A woman carries Next shopping bags

    Next predicts bigger profits as shoppers flock to summer sale

June 2023

  • NEXT Store Watford, UK

    Pay rises and warm weather drive surprise rise in Next sales

    Retailer, which is considered good barometer of consumer spending, upgrades annual profit forecast

May 2023

  • Next store in huge shopping mall

    Next forecasts drop in spring sales amid cost of living crisis and cold weather

    Chain’s CEO Simon Wolfson warns of ‘very challenging’ 2023 after signalling price rises of 7%

April 2023

  • Garry Lineker - Style feature

    ‘We all want to be Steve McQueen’: Gary Lineker on his MotD style, baggy jeans and who’ll win the league

    As the presenter of Match of the Day, Lineker is renowned for his footballing insight and sharp dressing. He talks about wardrobe choices, being tempted to wear white trousers – and why he’d probably send that tweet again

March 2023

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Next’s success contains hard lessons for John Lewis

    Nils Pratley
    John Lewis’s reaction to the rise in online shopping came late
  • Signage on the exterior of a Next clothing retail store is seen in London, Britain

    Next expects price rises to slow this year in sign that inflation is easing

    Retailer reports record annual profits of £870m after stronger-than-expected sales but says 2023 could be ‘very challenging’
  • People walk past a Cath Kidston store in London

    Next buys Cath Kidston brand for £8.5m with remaining UK stores to close

    About 125 jobs are at risk after British retailer falls into administration for second time in two years

January 2023

  • Last-minute Christmas shoppers in Winchester, Hampshire, on 24 December

    Five things we learned from Britons’ Christmas shopping

  • Lidl store in Slough

    Lidl, Zara’s owner, H&M and Next ‘paid Bangladesh suppliers less than production cost’

  • Bloomberg reports that First Abu Dhabi Bank explored a complex deal to create an emerging markets lender with more than $1 trillion of assets.

    Business live
    First Abu Dhabi Bank considered offer for Standard Chartered; crypto bank Silvergate cutting jobs – as it happened

  • January sale at the Next store in Southgate shopping centre, Bath, England.

    Cold snap boosts Next’s pre-Christmas sales but chain warns of price rises

December 2022

  • Shoppers outside the London branch of Selfridges on Oxford Street on Boxing Day.

    UK retailers see 50% rise in Boxing Day shoppers over last year’s figures

    Better-than-expected numbers after 2021’s Covid-hit Christmas remain well below pre-pandemic levels
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