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    <description>New bosses were hired at Marks &amp; Spencer and ITV today in moves expected to bring huge changes to the high street and television</description>
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    <description>It's not quite Primark &amp; Spencer yet but the message from Sir Stuart Rose could not be more clear</description>
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    <description>Marks &amp; Spencer is expected to give broad hints of a big push overseas and an expansion of its internet operations tomorrow, in an investor presentation being billed by some as a beauty parade of potential new chief executives</description>
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    <description>Arthur Ryan, the retail legend who founded Primark sparking the development of so-called throwaway fashion, is stepping down as chief executive after 40 years</description>
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    <description>“We got the weather we really wanted when we wanted it,” said John Bason, finance director of Primark owner Associated British Food</description>
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    <description>Cheap fashion chain Primark's success on the high street has shown no signs of ending after the retail chain reported a 20% jump in sales for the current financial year</description>
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    <description>Charities say it exploits the third world and its own staff have taken to the internet to besmirch its customers but clothes juggernaut Primark rolls on through the recession</description>
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    <description>Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford and the other credit-crunch rogues have given wealth management a bad name but the industry itself is  hardly on its knees. The Scorpio Partnership's newly released annual survey of the global wealth business found that assets under management slumped by an average of 15.7% in 2008 while profits at private banks crashed by 32.9%</description>
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    <description>Cut-price clothing chain Primark expects to create another 2300 jobs in the 13 more stores it is opening on the back of a boom in sales from cost-concious consumers</description>
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    <description>Ever since that Panorama investigation, I have avoided Primark. However dire my bank balance, it is still not so dire that I need clothe myself in cheap dresses wrung from a small Indian girl's tears</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Retail: &lt;/strong&gt; Fast fashion house Primark is still on the up, despite investigations into its use of cheap labour and claims that some of its suppliers are little better than sweatshops</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Retail: &lt;/strong&gt; Allegations of slave labour at a Manchester factory have not dented Primark’s sales</description>
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    <description>The other night I had a respectably raucous evening at the Rivington Bar and Grill near Old Street with three old university friends</description>
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    <description>The three High Street banks taking refuge in the Government's lifeboat were the biggest fallers among blue-chip stocks today as City investors became increasingly disillusioned with the terms of their proposed fund-raisers.</description>
    <dc:date>2008-11-17T10:38:53Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Fashion chain Next adds to the gloom on the High Street as it reports tumbling sales and warns the key Christmas shopping season may be no better</description>
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    <description>Associated British Foods reports a 3% rise in profits, thanks to bumper sales at clothing retailer Primark and price increases in its grocery division</description>
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    <description>Cut-price high street store Primark is thriving in the harsh economic  climate but its rival Marks &amp; Spencer's profits have been devastated</description>
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    <description>The credit crunch has clearly hit the royal family hard. Well, sort of. Princess Eugenie, 18, enjoyed an expensive night out but wearing a cut-price dress from Primark.</description>
    <dc:date>2008-10-24T09:00:48Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Bargains for shoppers, dire outlook for shops</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23572551-bargains-for-shoppers-dire-outlook-for-shops.do</link>
    <description>Almost half of the stores on London's main shopping street are offering discounts of up to 70 per cent to keep customers spending</description>
    <dc:date>2008-10-14T08:41:02Z</dc:date>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Analysis: &lt;/strong&gt;As the capital gears up for London Fashion Week, the bosses of the biggest clothing chains are more likely to be found drowning their sorrows than cracking open the champagne</description>
    <dc:date>2008-09-12T10:29:37Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Squeeze on spending is good news for Primark</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Consumer: &lt;/strong&gt;Primark is still bucking the consumer downturn on the High Street as shoppers become ever more cost conscious</description>
    <dc:date>2008-09-08T09:02:08Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Market report: Rolls-Royce suffers as aircraft orders dry up</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Rolls-Royce&lt;/strong&gt; shares lost out today as broker sentiment soured against the aircraft engines maker.</description>
    <dc:date>2008-08-21T08:33:27Z</dc:date>
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    <description>High street woes and criticism of suppliers' labour sources are putting the brakes on Primark's expansion.</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-10T08:09:13Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Two sides to sweatshops story</title>
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    <description>Someone in the music business told me the other day that to be successful, a pop song has only 10 seconds to capture the imagination</description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-04T14:55:19Z</dc:date>
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    <title>A cheap but not cheerful Primark moment</title>
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    <description>Last night BBC's Panorama showed children making clothes for Primark, reminding us that those prices are too good to be true  -  Indian children being even more cost-effective than their beloved "economies of scale"  -  and also of the power of investigative journalism.</description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-24T15:24:45Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Primark sizes up Europe tilt</title>
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    <description>Primark is preparing to take on Europe following the success of its "value chic" offer on the British High Street</description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-03T10:20:04Z</dc:date>
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    <title>AB Foods beats gloom to shine at £296 million</title>
    <link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-business/article-23479773-ab-foods-beats-gloom-to-shine-at-296-million.do</link>
    <description>Silver Spoon sugar-to-Primark clothes retailer AB Foods is shrugging off rampant food inflation and one of the toughest retail environments in decades</description>
    <dc:date>2008-04-22T14:59:55Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Bargain hunt: Alex Curran gives the designer shops a miss for budget chic in Primark</title>
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    <description>With a football player husband who takes home £90,000 a week, it's the last place one might expect to see Wag Alex Curran. But it appears even the wife of Steven Gerrard has caught the cheap chic bug, as she was seen carrying a bag from budget store Primark while shopping in Liverpool yesterday</description>
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    <description>Football has returned but come Saturday night, which bars should you head to if you want to see more of your favourite players?</description>
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