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		<title>Retail margins hit as non-food deflation bites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE price of clothes, shoes and electrical goods plunged at its steepest rate for 28 months in March, new figures show, piling further pressure on the embattled high street. Non-food deflation increased to 0.9 per cent in March versus a &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=206">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Littlewoods brings customer magazine to life with augmented reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online retailer Littlewoods.com is enhancing its printed customer magazine with the inclusion of augmented reality content. Working with augmented reality specialists Aurasma, the retailer has developed its first interactive editorial for the April edition of New Things, the brand’s bi-monthly &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=203">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Retail in the midst of a painful revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fall into administration of the likes of Peacocks, La Senza and Blacks&#8217; may be part of an ongoing clear-out of retail stores that ultimately helps the remaining players on the high street to prosper. This was the view of &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=199">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s experimenting with raft of technologies in UK trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burger chain McDonald&#8217;s is using the UK as the base for a trial of four cutting-edge stores involving a raft of innovative technologies that it intends to roll out around the world. Speaking at the Wincor Nixdorf Executive Briefing in &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=196">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>WH Smith hits targets despite drop in sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WH Smith has described its performance as resilient during the Christmas shopping season and said that profit was in line with expectations. In a trading update covering the 21 weeks to 21 January 2012, the book, newspaper and stationery  retailer &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=193">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>South Yorkshire Business Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=190</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very first South Yorkshire Business Conference is due to take place in Barnsley on 24th February 2012.  This ground breaking event is being organised jointly by all the Chambers of Commerce in the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership. &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=190">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics can prove beneficial to us &#8216;Up North&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=187</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst most of the major contracts for the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been awarded there are still many others for &#8216;peripheral&#8217; services which can be obtained. There are already 13 International Teams and 6 GB teams who are basing &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=187">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Barnsley to host Chinese tourists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Hudson Taylor was a Christian who left Barnsley in the 19th Century and sailed to China.  Whilst there he opened 125 schools and converted 18,000 people to Christianity.  Since then it has been estimated that 70 million Chinese are &#8230; <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=184">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fears growing that Olympics legacy will be damp squib for small firms in north</title>
		<link>http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=175</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New figures show that six in 10 small firms believe the London 2012 Games will not have a positive impact on their business in the long term despite David Cameron saying that the UK is “on track” for a lasting legacy. As the UK marks 200 days until the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the FSB's „Voice of Small Business‟ Survey Panel shows
that 62 per cent of small firms believe that the Games will have no long term positive impact on their business, despite promises that the legacy of the London 2012 Games will have impact in all corners of the UK and will continue for years. Only seven per cent of small businesses believe the Games will benefit their business overall, and a quarter (25%) expect a negative impact on their business. <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=175">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Newham Barnsley Partnership &#124; London 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=172</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local businesses have been given an insight on the impact that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on businesses in the region and across the UK.

Business people joined MPs John Healey, Dan Jarvis and Angela Smith at the Holiday Inn Barnsley for the event, hosted by Barnsley &#038; Rotherham Chamber of Commerce and the Newham-Barnsley Partnership, a unique link established by Barnsley Council with London Borough of Newham - the principal host borough for the Games. <a href="http://www.merlinsoft.co.uk:/blog/?p=172">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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