Marks & Spencer has poached Greencore’s chief financial officer Eoin Tonge as the troubled retailing giant continues to seek a change in its fortunes.

It's that time of year again - when people push aside the remnants of the selection box and walk off the Christmas Day excesses by barrelling around the St Stephen's Day sales.

Hugo Boss expects full-year sales and earnings to come in at the lower end of its forecasts due to challenges in the US market, despite strong sales growth in China.

Marks & Spencer is expected to report another fall in underlying sales in both clothing and food in its Christmas quarter, while the major grocers are forecast to show a slowdown in growth as the discounters march on.

There aren’t many women who could rock up to a red carpet weeks before their due date looking a million dollars in high street occasionwear, but as Aoibhin Garrihy has proven throughout her pregnancy, a bump is no barrier to great maternity style.

UK retailer, John Lewis Partnership, said the weak pound and higher costs will squeeze its profit this year, in the latest sign of the deepening crisis on Britain’s shopping streets.

Tralee start-up is using 3D manufacturing to make home decor for retailing giant Ikea, writes Trish Dromey

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First-half sales are expected to have increased by 11% on a yearly basis at discount clothing retailer Primark, which trades here as Penneys. 

Eimear Varian Barry has 69,000 followers on Instagram. She tells Ruth O’Connor how it has proved lucrative.

A restaurant-building investment, in the belly of Cork City’s food district, the Huguenot Quarter, is for sale, with three tenants in all, including a long-established eatery, the Strasbourg Goose.

British retail sales recorded their strongest quarter of growth since late 2014 in the three months to September.

Two big retailers have laid bare just how bad the clothing market really is.

A warning from Marks & Spencer’s new boss of a short-term profit hit from efforts to turn around its clothing business by cutting prices and improving ranges knocked its shares yesterday. 

Irish Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara is in the running to buy a massive retail park in her native Limerick.

Next has lowered its sales forecast for the year, sending its shares plunging the most since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, as slowing growth in consumers’ incomes threatens to hit spending at the UK clothing retailer.

Three significant days in the life of Apple’s Steve Jobs.

Splashing out on a maternity dress seems pricey for the sake of nine months but there are plenty of options for those with more dash than cash. 

In the first trailer for Steve Jobs, we get to see Michael Fassbender wearing the iconic turtleneck.

Google will update its search algorithm today so that it will penalise websites that do not optimise viewing on smartphones and tablets.

AUCTIONS step back into the sales fray in early 2015, with Allsops set to auction more than 220 lots later this month, while Iam-Sold is now stepping up to at least 14 auction events this coming year, moving now to Dublin after establishing in Galway and Cork/Munster in 2013/14.

A fresh decline in clothing sales piled more pressure on Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland today after a Christmas beset by online delivery problems.

Primark has shown it is not immune from the chill blowing through the retail sector after trading was hit by the unseasonably warm autumn.

Your article on the problems of Cork Airport (Irish Examiner, October 31) cuts little sympathy with my UK-based daughter. 

Nama yesterday put its first retail park portfolio on the market for a guide price of €110m.

Next Plc has raised its full-year revenue and earnings forecasts as the UK’s second-biggest clothing retailer reported first-half sales that beat analysts’ estimates, helped by its push into e-commerce.

Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland will come under more pressure tomorrow when the chain reveals another quarter of falling sales in its clothing division.

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Three companies have been left with court convictions for making unsolicited marketing phone calls and sending spam emails.

Fashion chain Next is set to see annual profits overtake those of UK high street bellwether Marks & Spencer for the first time in its history after notching up a stellar Christmas sales performance.

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We meet Niamh Sullivan, 31, and Marguerite Tierney, 30.

A PRIME, good-sized store on Cork City’s Patrick Street has come up to let via Savills, at a market-savvy rent, after being vacated during the summer by Mothercare.

A new survey paints a bright picture for the future of Ireland’s retail parks , suggesting a number of well-known multinationals are looking to expand through this avenue in the coming 12 months.

Ten high street stores have enforced a strict code to outlaw provocative and sexually-suggestive clothes being sold for children.

Shares in commodities giant Glencore fell nearly 4% today amid fears a mega-merger with Xstrata will collapse.

Marks & Spencer boss Marc Bolland slashed his sales targets for the high street retailer today as he unveiled its first fall in profits in three years.