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Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland is backing its new advertising style to help turn around its fashion proposition, as the retailer revealed another drop in clothing sales.
Debenhams promised to offer its customers a more joined-up approach to marketing and revealed plans to open a number of new shops, as it reported a 8.6% rise in pre-tax profits to £160.3m in the 53 weeks ending 3 September.
Marks & Spencer has reported an 11% lift in pre-tax profits for its full trading year after a concerted marketing drive helped lift sales in food and clothing.
Staff at Sainsbury's will be cheering its decision to put £60m aside to pay bonuses, as pre-tax profits leapt by 12.8% to £827m in the first quarter of 2011, with like-for-like sales increasing 2.3%.
Asos.com has reported that international sales have overtaken UK sales for the first time, as it prepares to launch in Australia and Spain.
Marks & Spencer has grown its market share in food and clothing, and delivered a 0.1% rise in like-for-like UK sales for the first quarter.
Business group CBI has reported brisk trading in the run-up to Christmas, while online retailers are braced for a "mega Monday" of frenzied buying on 6 December.
Mothercare has declared the clothing range it launched in Boots last year a success, playing a part in driving total revenues for the six months to 9 October up 7.5% year on year to £590.2m.
Fashion house Burberry has reported a 18% year-on-year jump in revenue to £673m for the first six months of the year on the back of ambitious digital campaigns focusing on the brand and simplifying buying.
Sainsbury's showed strong growth in sales of 7% to £11.9bn over the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year, with pre-tax profit up 36.3% to £466m.
