January sales: a perfect storm of local and international pressures

By Adrian Clerici, partner and executive director of business advisory and assurance at services firm, Pitcher Partners. Australia’s retail sector is looking miserable. Retail companies reporting one of the worst January results in recent history, and Australian retail stalwarts Marcs and David Lawrence have entered administration. It’s been a pretty bad couple of months all around – December trade figures will show anaemic growth for most retail categories, especially fashion and with th

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