Closures were down 38.8% compared with 2022 while redundancies fell 21.3%, the Centre for Retail Research said. But CRR boss Joshua Bamfield highlighted shops’ increasing costs, staff shortages and falling demand. He said: “This ‘improvement’ is probably best viewed as a trend
The Danish toy giant announced in 2021 it was researching whether PET plastic, or polyethylene terephthalate – which does not degrade in quality when recycled – could be used to make its building bricks. It was part of a plan to shift