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Clothing store The Edge is to close down less than a year after the passing of its owner and founder. Zameer “Ronnie” Baksh died on May 13, 2018. A popular figure, Mr Baksh opened The Edge in 1990 at the age of 23. Now, his mother Patsy Proctor says,...

A leading retailer has called on Government to provide a fuller picture of the goods being imported into Bermuda. Paula Clarke, chief executive officer of Gibbons Company and head of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, said a decision by ...

Retail sales volume fell 5.3 per cent in December, marking a tenth successive month of decline in the biggest month of the year for many stores. For the first time, the Retail Sales Index from the Department of Statistics detailed the value of import...

Consumers paid more for goods and services in December, than they did in the same month in 2017. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.9 per cent, year-on-year. The inflation rate edged up to 0.9 per cent in December, an increase of 0.1 of a percentage poi...

Shoppers flocked to a Hamilton china store sale yesterday as the firm prepared to shut up shop after 175 years in the business. Melanie Hocking, 39, wanted to buy replacement china for Greenbank Guesthouse in Paget, which is owned by her family, befo...

During the sleepy days of winter, local businesses can struggle for much needed foot traffic. Entrepreneur Richard Spencer has a solution for that — his new online marketplace Amazuda.bm. The 29-year-old launched the website three weeks ago as a pl...

Retail sales fell for a ninth consecutive month in November, with only one of the seven retail sectors eking out a year-on-year increase. Adjusting for inflation, the volume of retail sales fell 2.3 per cent. It is now the equal longest spell of con...

Feven Binega-Northcott’s family joked that she’d get lost in the Bermuda Triangle when she moved to the island from her Ethiopian birthplace, after marrying Bermudian Jonathan Northcott. Her family’s words had a ring of prophecy, because she hasn’t b...

Bermuda’s retailers are planning a Sunday Shopping Festival the day after the MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda. The international sporting event, scheduled for April 27, attracts hundreds of amateur and professional athletes from the US, Canada, UK,...

Bluck’s of Bermuda has ceased trading after 175 years in business, and provisional liquidators have been appointed. The china, crystal and antiques shop on Front Street, which started out as a hardware store, has been operating since 1844. However, t...

Retail sales volume fell for an eighth successive month last October. After adjusting for the retail sales rate of inflation, measured at 2.3 per cent in October, the overall volume of retail sales decreased 0.4 per cent, the Department of Statistics...

October’s Retail Sales Index report will be released “within the week”, a government minister promised yesterday. Typically, both the October and November Retail Sales Index reports, produced by the Department of Statistics, would have been released ...