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Central Leeds during the first UK lockdown

First COVID-19 lockdown cost UK hospitality and high street £45 billion in turnover, researchers estimate

18 Feb 2021

However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each thanks to the coronavirus lockdown that began in March last year...

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Regent Street

Location, location, location: researchers develop model to predict retail failure

09 Oct 2018

Researchers have used a combination of location and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail.

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Man on a smartphone

Newly-developed image guidelines will improve mobile shopping experience worldwide

07 Feb 2018

A new type of online product image, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with global consumer goods company...

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When is a book not a book?

10 Oct 2016

The e-book has made continued inroads into the publishing world but the printed book has defied predictions of its death. Research by Professor John...

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Kodak Color Film.

The rise and fall of Kodak's moment

14 Mar 2012

On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite...

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browsing for books at The Strand

The future of books

01 Jan 2010

The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history...

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Men Shopping for Clothing Accessories

Fashioning the value chain

01 Jan 2009

Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.

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