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The Works' Westfield store. Image courtesy of The Works

The Works partners with Barnardo’s for pre-loved toys offering

Sustainability
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13 Jan 2025
by Katie Searles
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The Works online sales decline despite resilient performance amid ‘challenging backdrop’

Industry
18 May 2023
by Jasdip Sensi
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The Works is promoting titles that are trending on TikTok through the Book Tok hashtag. Image: screenshot from theworks.co.uk

The Works flags up slowing consumer spending – but says it’s benefiting from Book Tok social trend

Strategy and Innovation
20 May 2022
by Chloe Rigby
The Works says it believes slowing consumer spending has affected its sales amid the challenging conditions of recent months, following a strong start to its...
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Funky Pigeon pauses orders while a cyber attack is investigated

Industry
19 Apr 2022
by Chloe Rigby
We look at what government figures say about the scale of cyber attacks as Funky Pigeon pauses orders while a cyber attack is investigated - weeks...
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Cyber security incident closes some of The Works’ stores and delays online and store deliveries

Industry
5 Apr 2022
by Chloe Rigby
A cyber security incident has forced The Works to close some of its stores and caused delays to store and online deliveries. The discount retailer...
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EDITORIAL How Superdry, The Works and Primark are engaging customers; ONS shows December retail and online sales decline

Editorial
21 Jan 2022
by Chloe Rigby
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The Works says ecommerce sales still double pre-pandemic levels, as it looks to digital rather than new shops for expansion

Strategy and Innovation
12 Nov 2021
by Chloe Rigby
Looking ahead, the retailer says it is also seeing “positive” levels of early Christmas sales, for which it planned ahead in order to ensure it...
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The Works’ online sales more than double in latest full year – but cannot compensate for store closures

Strategy and Innovation
20 Jul 2021
by Chloe Rigby
The Works today reports that online sales grew by 120.9% in its latest financial year, as it saw a period of ’unprecedented demand’ when...
Covid-19 Resilience RXUK Top500 The Works
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The Works’ online sales more than doubled over the last year – although store closures push overall sales 19% down

Strategy and Innovation
14 May 2021
by Chloe Rigby
The discount books, craft and children’s activities retailer today says in a pre-close trading update that online sales grew by 120.9% in...
Covid-19 RXUK Top500 The Works
John Lewis Edinburgh showed a reimagining of the department store when it reopened this spring. Image courtesy of the John Lewis Partnership

EDITORIAL How Top500 retailers John Lewis, Burberry, The Works, Dixons Carphone, Farfetch and more are developing their strategies post-Covid-19 lockdowns

Editorial
14 May 2021
by Chloe Rigby
In today’s InternetRetailing newsletter, we report as multichannel retailers and brands are continuing to show the effect that Covid-19 and associated lockdowns has...
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