• 'Wobbly' Woolworths faces debt fears
    Mon, 10/12/2007 - 07:21

    Struggling high street retailer Woolworths is under pressure to renegotiate its debt mountain as it goes into make-or-break Christmas trading, reports the Telegraph. Woolworths' banks are understood to be concerned that they do not have enough security over hundreds of millions of pounds they have lent the retailer. Its shares plummeted to...

    Christmas | Financial | Philip Jones | Retail | woolworths

  • Neil and Rand step up at Bertrams
    Wed, 14/11/2007 - 14:01

    Michael Neil has been appointed m.d. of the Bertram Group, while Graham Rand has been promoted to commercial director. Neil had been acting m.d. of the company since Terry Reilly left the business in July. He will report to Lloyd Wigglesworth, chairman of the Bertram Group and managing director of parent company Entertainment UK.

    Rand...

    Bertrams | EUK | Graeme Neill | Graham Rand | Lloyd Wigglesworth | Michael Neil | woolworths

  • Wholesale outpaces retail at Woolworths
    Wed, 31/10/2007 - 08:34

    Third party sales at Woolworth's wholesale division, including EUK, Bertrams and THE, increased by 61.9% for the 38 weeks to 27th October 2007, according to a trading update put out this morning. The growth helped the Woolworths group record a sales rise of 16.6% for the period, despite a 0.4% drop in like-for-like sales at its retail...

    Bertrams | EUK | Philip Jones | THE | Woolie | woolworths

  • Woolworths 'encouraged' after difficult period
    Wed, 19/09/2007 - 08:51

    Woolworths chief executive Trevor Bish-Jones has called its half-year performance "encouraging", following an £8.9m drop in the group's first half losses, led by an improved retail performance. However, its wholesale business, including EUK, THE and Bertrams, had a more "difficult half year" caused by the "...

    Bertrams | EUK | Philip Jones | woolworths

  • Sales jump at EUK
    Tue, 31/07/2007 - 08:50

    Woolworths subsidiary EUK saw third party sales for the 25 weeks to 28th July increase by 36.2%, the company said today, in what it described as "a period of considerable operational change and challenge for the business".

    Woolworths said that the books market "continues to perform solidly" for EUK, but the...

    Alison Flood | EUK | financial results | woolworths

  • Reilly to leave Bertrams
    Wed, 11/07/2007 - 10:38

    Bertrams c.e.o. Terry Reilly is stepping down from the wholesaler at the end of July. He will be replaced by Michael Neil as acting managing director. Reilly said that he had committed to remain with Bertrams for six months following its acquisition by Woolworth's subsidiary EUK in February. The takeover is being examined by the Competition...

    Bertrams | EUK | Graeme Neill | Terry Reilly | woolworths

  • Woolies boss turns on publishers
    Mon, 30/04/2007 - 09:04

    The boss of Woolworths has accused the publishing industry of waging a campaign to block its planned acquisition of the book wholesaler Bertram, reports the Guardian.

    Trevor Bish-Jones, Woolworths chief executive, said publishers had "whipped independent bookshops into a frenzy" and encouraged them to complain against the...

    Bertrams | EUK | THE | Wholesaler | woolworths
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