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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 | History Defined

10 brands that really need to rebrand in 2025

These iconic brands could all do with a refresh in the year to come.

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Poundland takes £640 million hit on Budget costs and sales woes

The discount chain’s owner, Pepco, swung to a full-year pre-tax loss of 554 million euros (£457 million) after booking the write-down on Poundland.

Evening Standard

Poundland is now selling apartments on Rightmove which will set you back £85,000 - here's everything we know

The brand has branched out to property this year

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Cadbury discontinues festive chocolate as fans cry 'Christmas is ruined'

Cadbury has confirmed it has discontinued its Dairy Milk Mousse Snowman chocolate from its Christmas range.

The National (Scotland)

The awful Bridgerton ‘ball’ that charged fans $1,000 to watch a pole dancer and eat KitKats

Poundland-level decor, staff in sports jerseys, people having to sit on the floor … might this disastrous Detroit event be the new Willy Wonka Experience?

The Guardian - UK

Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson review – portrait of a wayward would-be pop star

His bands Felt and Denim never quite made it. So will this sympathetic biography help give indie’s most enigmatic figure the status his stoicism deserves?

The Guardian - UK

What shops are closing this month? From B&M to the The Works, the full list of stores shutting this July

A range of retailers are shutting up certain stores across the country for good this month

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Poundland launches 'Britain's cheapest meal deal'

Poundland has more than 800 locations where you can get the Grab A Bite bargain meal

Evening Standard

We just found the ultimate summer home decor bargain at Poundland – grab the on-trend glassware while you still can

Poundland’s released a new designer-look home collection for summer

Ideal Home

Poundland has no plans to revert all prices to £1, Pepco boss says

The high street chain started selling products between 50p and £5 five years ago

Evening Standard

Poundstretcher sold to Majestic Wine owner Fortress

US investment firm snaps up UK discount retail chain ‘with huge potential’ for undisclosed sum

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Poundland boss 'shoots himself dead while facing arrest for fraud’

Markus Jooste died a day after he had been ordered to pay a huge fine of more than £20 million

Evening Standard

Poundland's £2.50 wireless mushroom lamp is the ultimate on-trend budget lamp

The budget retailer is selling the perfect lookalike for an already affordable Amazon wireless lamp – for just £2.50!

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Former John Lewis store in Watford to be partially turned into giant Poundland

The John Lewis shop closed in 2020 after 130 years in business as a department store

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Former Wilko boss apologises for more than 12k job losses after retailer went bust

Former Wilko chairwoman Lisa Wilkinson has apologised for the loss of more than 12,000 jobs after the retailer entered administration in August…

The Independent UK

Shopkeepers take the law into their own hands in war against shoplifting epidemic

Traders in Birmingham say they are seeing their highest-ever levels of shop thefts

The Guardian - UK

‘Customers are coming to us crying’: staff mourn as Wilko exits high street

With the hardware and homeware retailer’s last stores closing, devoted regulars say they will miss it dearly

Evening Standard

Wilko: Final 41 shops to close as 93-year-old chain shuts its doors

It will bring to a close one of the largest high street failures in recent years, with almost all of Wilko’s 12,500 workers being made redundant

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The Independent UK

Mapped: Final 41 Wilko stores set to close doors this weekend

Almost all of the chain’s 12,500 workers are being made redundant

Evening Standard

Wilko to shut final shops on Sunday after dramatic collapse

It will bring to a close one of the largest high street failures in recent years, with almost all of Wilko’s 12,500 workers being made redundant

The Independent UK

Wilko: What went wrong and will we ever see it on high streets again?

The PA news agency looks at what led to Wilko’s collapse and what the future could still hold for the company.

The Independent UK

Wilko to shut final shops for good after dramatic collapse

It will bring to a close one of the largest high street failures in recent years, with almost all of Wilko’s 12,500 workers being made redundant.

Evening Standard

Poundland owner Pepco to ‘refocus’ on Central and Eastern Europe after back-to-back profit warnings

Pepco will work to get its Central and Eastern European arm back on track, after a September heatwave hit sales

The Independent UK

These former Wilko stores will reopen as Poundland shops this weekend

Poundland owner Pepco agreed earlier this month to buy up to 71 Wilko stores from administrator PwC following the collapse of the high street chain

The Guardian - UK

The Range buys Wilko brand in multimillion-pound deal

The homeware retail brand has also bought the intellectual property rights of Wilko, but none of its stores

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