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UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced it plans to open a chain of larger, supermarket-style shops that will focus on food in an attempt to appeal to families for their weekly shop, according to a Mail on Sunday report.

Ireland-headquartered fast fashion retailer Primark has today opened its largest store in the world in Birmingham, UK.

UK-based JD Sports has announced that its offer to buy fashion retailer Footasylum has become wholly unconditional in all respects.

UK-based global fashion retailer French Connection has extended the completion of its strategic review and formal sale process to September this year.

UK retailer Sports Direct has today announced it made a possible cash offer on 5 September 2019 for football pitch operator Goals Soccer Centres at 5p per share.

Cadbury has announced the launch of its latest innovation: Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoff, combining the best of smooth, creamy, Cadbury Dairy Milk with the much-loved crunch and unique taste of Lotus Biscoff's biscuits. The partnership between two iconic brands looks to unite their respective classic tastes and textures into one product- proving that both is best. The launch looks to tap into consumer interest in new flavours and textures and drive cross-brand excitement to help drive incremental growth. To support retailers in this launch, the campaign will be boosted by a range of eye-catching co-branded POS materials, showcasing the coming together of Cadbury and Biscoff's branding with the iconic purple synonymous with the Cadbury brand, alongside the bold red Biscoff branding. "We are delighted to be partnering Cadbury Dairy Milk with the much-loved flavours and textures of Lotus Biscoff," said Connor Gould, Brand Manager, Cadbury Dairy Milk. "Combining two delicious favourites is a great way to give consumers the best of both, creating the perfect pairing for them to enjoy the smooth, creaminess of Cadbury Dairy Milk mixed with the classic crunch and unique flavour of Biscoff that consumers love. As a result, the new Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoff is sure to utilise consumer demand for unique flavours to help drive category growth."

Innovations in beacon technology are making the UK retail sector more intelligent. Beacons are low-energy Bluetooth devices that push location messages to smartphones. While the technology is still quite new today, it's set to become one of the key enablers to connect the Internet of Things (IoT).

Eid ul-Fitr lasts for one day, and is expected to take place on Sunday 30 or Monday 31 March 2025, following the sighting of the moon. In the Islamic calendar, according to Islamic Relief, Eid ul-Fitr takes place on the first day of Shawwal. This is the day in which Eid prayers take place when, in contrast to the preceding month of Ramadan, it is forbidden to fast. Eid ul-Fitr is one of the two main, equally important, Eid celebrations of Muslims (the other being Eid ul-Adha, which begins following the annual Hajj pilgrimage). Commencing at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting, Eid ul-Fitr is a festival that celebrates the breaking of the fast. It is celebrated by family and other social gatherings, with traditional sweet dishes, feasting, wearing new clothes, shopping and gift-giving. Globally, Muslims celebrate Eid ul-Fitr traditionally over the first three days of Shawwal, the tenth month of the Islamic calendar.

UK supermarket chain Tesco has announced plans to cut 4,500 jobs at 153 Tesco Metro supermarkets in the UK. The company also plans to support affected employees by helping them find alternative roles within Tesco.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has announced the Party's radical plan to revive the struggling UK high street by enabling councils to reopen abandoned shops by giving them to start-ups, community projects and co-operative businesses.

Delice de France, the UK experts in bread, bakery and food to go, is launching Café Delice, a new coffee-to-go concept where outlets selling 35 cups a day can earn margins of 40 per cent. The move will enable bakery customers of Delice de France to extend their food-to-go offering with quality hot drinks at competitive prices. Café Delice is a monthly rental hot drinks concept, which includes a fully automatic bean-to-cup machine, linked milk cooler, branded housing unit and menu, as well as product and waste storage areas. Full servicing and cleaning packs for the agreement period are provided. It is a modular set up, with floor-standing and counter solutions available to cater for different sized outlets and needs. Café Delice's menu includes coffee, tea and hot chocolate.

Wholesaler JW Filshill, having achieved its 2020 pledge to cut its carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 five years early, is prioritising sustainability in its 150th anniversary year. In terms of Filshill's sustainability goals, the company revealed that it has reached this target five years early, boosted by its relocation to the new Renfrew site, significant investment in electric HGV vehicles, solar panels and full LED lighting, and transitioning to HVO fuel for all diesel-powered operations at Westway Business Park. Filshil has also committed to investing in a software platform that will assist greatly in tracking Scope 3 emissions. The wholesaler relocated to its purpose-built 120,400 sq ft distribution centre at Westway, near Glasgow Airport in March 2023

UK department store chain Debenhams has secured £200m ($261m) in funds from its existing lenders.

UK supermarket chain Morrisons and US technology company Amazon have agreed to expand the same-day, online grocery home delivery service Morrisons at Amazon, to more cities across the country.

Some of the UK's major supermarkets and food sector companies have signed a pledge to help halve food waste by 2030 and raise public awareness.

Cocktail lovers can rejoice this St. Patrick's Day with the release of Kahlúa's "Schneaky" Espresso Martini glass. Disguised to look like a pint of stout, the specially designed, hand-blown glass sneakily conceals an Espresso Martini inside a pint glass. The crafty solution was created following research revealing that cocktail lovers feel "St. Patrick's Day pressure" to drink stout - even if they don't savour its flavour. According to the study, around two in three drinkers (64 per cent) have felt the need to order a "certain stout drink" to fit in and nearly half (42 per cent) fear they might be judged poorly for choosing a cocktail over a pint on St. Patrick's Day. Enter the Schneaky Espresso Martini glass by Kahlúa - a saviour for many cocktail lovers on 16 and 17 March. Kahlúa has enlisted former England rugby star and devout stout drinker James Haskell to raise awareness of the Schneaky Espresso Martini glass - showing that even the most loyal fans of stout can sip undercover.

Industries such as retail, call centres, offices and media contribute greatly to the local economy and as a result conference venues in Leeds are plentiful, there are over 130,000 jobs based within the city centre making Leeds business conference venues a must for the many of the national companies based there. As the city also hosts the only subsidiary office of the Bank of England, business meeting venues in Leeds for the financial service sector are vitally important.

It's a first for Croatia: the Addiko digital bank branch is open for business. The virtual bank branch provides customers of all banks with the first ever full digital end to end loan process. And so customers can complete the transaction from request to approval without the need to visit a branch.

"The proposed changes are expected to reduce overlap of brick and mortar operations, while keeping the organisation well-positioned to support existing customers and future growth," the bank said in a statement.