Fall of an Empire: Empire Stores to Close Littlewoods has agreed to buy the assets of "big book" cataloguer Empire Stores, but the brand will be folded and its employees made redundant later this year. This article looks at the reasons behind Empire's demise and why it couldn't turn around the business as some of its rivals have done
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