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National retailer takes over former HMV store
01 March 2022A national furniture chain will be opening its latest branch in a former HMV store in Kent.
H&M to close after 14 years in town
28 February 2022Swedish retailer H&M has announced it will be closing its store in a town's shopping centre in just two weeks time.
SAS: Who Dares Wins' Billy opens village store
22 February 2022A bodyguard for the likes of Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise had some work to do at a village store.
Popular toy shop set for new home
14 February 2022A toy store which has been in a shopping centre for almost 50 years is moving.
Fruit sales hit record highs
11 February 2022Fruit varieties developed at a horticultural research centre in the county are closing in on 100million annual sales.
'This could be a game-changer'
08 February 2022An innovative app to help slash the amount of food going to waste is up and running ahead of a 12-month trial in the county.
'Our famous industry will weather the storm of sewage scandal'
05 February 2022Bosses of an oyster company believe a town's world-famous shellfish industry can weather the storm of the Southern Water sewage scandal.
Lidl build begins after store wars
01 February 2022Work has started on a new supermarket which was almost scuppered by objections from Asda and Tesco.
'Cash in on free support' urges council chief
31 January 2022SMEs are being urged to check their eligibility to access funding to boost their business by embracing new technologies.
Summit secures key sponsor deal
31 January 2022Another sponsor has signed up to support a major business event taking place in the county in April.
Has Kent town lost 150 years of heritage 'in one hit'?
29 January 2022Traders are struggling to sell a town's world-famous oysters as customers have been turned off by the ongoing sewage scandal on the Kent coast.
Major B2B event returns for 2022
26 January 2022After being postponed for the last two years, thousands are set to flock for the return of the region's biggest business-to-business event.
Mum finds £5k prize in chocolate bar from Aldi
25 January 2022A mum who bought her son a chocolate bar to congratulate him on passing his driving test was over the moon to find she had won £5,000 too.
We visited Kent town centre hardest hit by pandemic
25 January 2022The outlook might be grim but you can still find smiling faces in one of the hardest hit town centres in the south east.
Blueprint for high street revival to be unveiled
24 January 2022A report into how our high streets could be revived will be unveiled next week with the creative and cultural sectors at its heart.
Business confidence 'grinding to a halt'
21 January 2022A leading business organisation is calling on the government to scrap plans to increase national insurance as a report reveals plunging confidence.
'I went to HMV ahead of closing day to see how times have changed'
20 January 2022As HMV prepared this week to leave a Kent shop after more than 20 years, our reporter popped in to see how the firm can survive into the future...
Major HMV store to shut and downsize
19 January 2022Music and film store HMV has decided to downsize one of its major branches.
Argos to close high street branch
18 January 2022Signs have gone up outside an Argos store to tell customers it will be closing next week.
Aldi store to close for renovation work
18 January 2022A store that has only been open for five years is shutting so a new layout can be created.
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