Thorntons' sales of chocolates to the big supermarkets overtook those in its own stores for the first time during the last quarter.

The chief executive of N Brown has signed off his last results at the catalogue and online retailer with a rise in profits and confidence about growth prospects.

Sports Direct is to hand its staff a payout worth more than £50,000 this summer after the sportswear giant met its profit targets under a lucrative share scheme.

The chief executive of Walmart enjoyed a double-digit increase in his total pay last year – pocketing $21m (£14m).

Carpetright thanked the prolonged wintry weather and self-help measures such as refurbished stores as the retailer reported a strong end to its financial year.

Fashion chain reveals plans to open stores in France on back of soaring first-half sales

The owner of Currys and PC World has agreed to sell one of its Scandinavian businesses for £14.1m as part of plans to rationalise its portfolio of brands. Dixons Retail is to offload Webhallen, a Swedish retailer of games and media products, to Komplett, the Norwegian online firm. The move is part of Dixons' plans to revitalise its struggling internet business Pixmania, which counts Webhallen as a subsidiary.

Retail rivals Sports Direct and JD Sports Fashion are limbering up to submit bids to acquire the group behind the Bench clothing brand for up to £100m.

The supermarket chain's relentless hunger for giant new stores is over, it has signalled. So what's the strategy?

Tesco today called time on its disastrous venture in the US as it reported a 50 per cent slump in annual profits, its first decline in nearly two decades.