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Woolworths

November 2022

  • Lionel Pyke

    Other lives
    Lionel Pyke obituary

    Other lives: Entrepreneur who set up a London glass company and was a keen masters swimmer

June 2022

  • The World Naked Bike Ride in London last week.

    Brief letters
    Bare reasons to believe in a bright future for the English language

    Brief letters: Learning Multicultural London English | Boris Johnson on the Irish Sea border | Woolworths v Conservatives | Journalists banned by Russia

October 2020

  • A Woolworths in Kingston upon Thames in 1995

    Sixth-form student revealed to be behind 'Woolworths reopening' fake news

  • Woolworths general store, Musselburgh High St. Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Woolworths high street 'relaunch' turns out to be fake news

March 2019

  • Guardian - Jacqui Martin who worked at Athena the poster/art store for 15 years. Exeter, February 2019

    Death of the high street: how it feels to lose your job when a big chain closes

    Woolworths closed a decade ago, and since then shop after shop has shut its doors. What is it like to be there in a store’s dying days? Eleven workers tell all

June 2018

  • Plastic bag ban: What are the alternatives? – video

    By the end of June, most of Australia’s major supermarkets will have stopped handing out single-use plastic bags. But what is and isn’t being phased out? What are the alternatives, and how effective will the policy be?

April 2017

  • Barbara Ellen

    When an M&S closes, you lose more than a store

    Barbara Ellen
    Retailers should try to keep a presence on the high street, lest we forget them

August 2016

  • A woman pulls baskets full of goods down the street after buying goods in the retailer BHS (British Home Stores) during it's last day of trading before the store closes in Bromley, south east London on August 24, 2016. The last branches of British department store BHS close their doors for the final time this week ending the chain's 88-year history on Britain's high street. After failing to find a buyer for the clothing, food and homeware retailer, administrators announced the closure of all 163 stores with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs. / AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLISJUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    After BHS closes its doors, what will take its place?

    After 88 years, the retailer is about to shut up shop, leaving thousands jobless, a £571m pension deficit and big holes on the high street that may never be filled

April 2015

  • RBS's rainy days still appear far from over.

    Nils Pratley on finance
    For lossmaking RBS, a brighter future still seems far away

  • A former Woolworths Local store.

    Former Woolworths workers lose battle for compensation

August 2014

  • A disused Woolworths in Barking

    UK taxpayers face £50m bill for incorrect layoffs

    Insolvency Service figures show Deloitte involved in more than 20 insolvencies in which workers laid off incorrectly

June 2014

  • Comet closing down sale in London

    Former Comet workers win 90 days' pay in redundancy employment case

    Employment tribunal rules that there had been no consultation at all with employees when they were made redundant

April 2014

  • The Woolworths store at Holborn London with a "bustling" scene outside, September 1982

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 18 April 1986: We're too big for Dixons, says Woolies

    Originally published in the Guardian on 18 April 1986: Woolworths chief executive attacks a takeover bid by high street competitor Dixons, and reveals plans to boost sales of toys, confectionery and chart records

March 2014

  • Barclay Brothers

    HMRC to appeal against high court award to Barclay brothers of £1.2bn

    Littlewoods owners Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay win long-running tax rebate battle against HM Revenue & Customs

January 2013

  • Jessops high street administration

    Music retailers expected to follow Jessops into administration

    One in nine high street shops now stand empty as a year of battling for survival awaits further big name brands

November 2012

  • Comet stores shut

    Comet to shut 125 more stores, with loss of up to 2,500 jobs

    Retail giant faces final shutdown by Christmas unless buyer can be found, administrator Deloitte warns

July 2012

  • Sindy doll

    Sindy to get dolled up for 50th birthday relaunch

    Pedigree Toys, which introduced 'girl next door' toy in 1963, announces brand relaunch for Barbie rival next year

June 2012

  • Tate & Lyle

    A UK index of manufacturing decline and banking's rise

    The mergers and acquisitions trend means the FT30 index of 1952 holds just two names in the FTSE 100 today

April 2012

  • Geir Haarde

    Iceland ex-PM Geir Haarde cleared of bank negligence

    Former prime minister found guilty of failing to hold emergency cabinet meetings in runup to financial crisis. But court clears him of more serious charges

March 2012

  • Karen Millen

    Designer Karen Millen aims to bounce back from Icelandic banking crash

    Entrepreneur who lost millions after collapse of Kaupthing bank in 2008 fights for legal right to trade under her own name
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