The Independent - London, April 16th, 1997
N Brown may have decided against buying the Freemans home shopping business from Sears but chairman Sir David Alliance still sees plenty of room for growth for his family-controlled mail order group. One reason is the small share of the retail market controlled by home shopping. Currently it accounts for just 5 per cent of non-food retail sales in the UK, so N Brown still has the other 95 per cent to go at.
Another issue facing the company is the increased competition in the direct mail order market, though Sir David views even this positively. He believes the expansion of Marks & Spencer int...
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