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Latest News [2006] archive from May 2006
| Sign up to play the ERT Weekly World Cup Fantasy Football competition
WITH just over two weeks to go until the start of the World Cup, ERT Weekly has launched a fantasy football competition, in association with Domestic & General. | |
| Call to cut rent burden
LANDLORDS must stop demanding shop rents three months in advance, retail chiefs have warned. | |
| Freeview hopes Playback will help drive PVR sales
DIGITAL terrestrial TV service Freeview has launched a new ‘branding’, Freeview Playback, to boost sales of set-top boxes with built-in hard disks. | |
| Box delays hit Sky HD launch
AS Sky launches its HDTV service it faces a shortage of HD set-top boxes. | |
| Whirlpool set to reveal latest in Maytag merger
AN announcement is imminent in Europe on the implications of the March merger between Whirpool and Maytag. | |
| BSH sales rise for fourth year
APPLIANCE maker BSH claims that it is on course for further growth, on the back of healthy financial results for 2005. | |
| DeDietrich bucks sales trends
BIG sales rises in the first four months of this year have been reported by De Dietrich, part of the FagorBrandt group. | |
| China targets indies
CHINESE AV manufacturers will have established high street brands within the next “18 months to two years”, claims an Anglo-Chinese distributor. | |
| Supermarkets: call for control
EIGHTY-three per cent of Asda’s customers want to see laws that curb supermarket expansion, says a new poll. | |
| A million HDTV sales for 2006
UP TO a million people could buy high-definition TV sets over the next year, a new report has revealed. | |
| Report backs 24hr opening
A GOVERNMENT-backed report has paved the way for shopping around the clock in a move likely to enrage small businesses. | |
| 10,000 visits from Samsung
MORE than 10,000 visits to 1,000 stores are promised by Samsung in a major point-of-sale boost for the brand. | |
| Easter distorts sales figures
WHILE retail sales in the UK were surprisingly strong during April, figures may have been distorted because of the late arrival of Easter. | |
| Supermarket swoop
IT HAS finally happened. | |
| BBC up and running with HD broadcasts
THE BBC starts its fledgling high definition TV service on Thursday. | |
| Dabs.com is a Net gain for BT
TELECOMS giant BT claims its purchase of top internet retailer Dabs.com will boost online sales and service. | |
| Digital radio sales exceed three million
MORE than three million DAB digital radio sets have now been sold in the UK. | |
| Sky profits so far up £660m
IT has been a good nine months for Sky which reported record operating profits of £660 million, up 15 per cent for the year so far. | |
