{"id":75072,"date":"2019-01-09T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/09\/ted-baker-reports-strong-sales-growth-over-christmas-period\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T14:49:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:49:01","slug":"ted-baker-reports-strong-sales-growth-over-christmas-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75072","title":{"rendered":"Ted Baker reports strong sales growth over Christmas period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion brand\u2019s sales rise 12.2% amid \u2018forced hug\u2019 allegations against founderTed Baker has shrugged off concerns about a culture of \u201cforced hugs\u201d under its founder, Ray Kelvin, delivering strong sales growth over Christmas despite the revelations.Retail sales increased 12.2% in the five weeks to 5 January, after a 5% increase in retail space, as the fashion brand clocked up strong growth online. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jan\/09\/ted-baker-strong-sales-growth-over-christmas-forced-hug-allegations-founder\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Baker reports strong sales growth over Christmas period<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion brand\u2019s sales rise 12.2% amid \u2018forced hug\u2019 allegations against founderTed Baker has shrugged off concerns about a culture of \u201cforced hugs\u201d under its founder, Ray Kelvin, delivering strong sales growth over Christmas despite the revelations.Retail sales increased 12.2% in the five weeks to 5 January, after a 5% increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}