Last week saw the launch of the Local Data Company’s third ‘Openings and Closures’ report at an event hosted by Hogan Lovells. Matthew Hopkinson of LDC gave a presentation on the report’s findings which was followed by a panel discussion chaired by Samantha Fenwick, a reporter with You and Yours – BBC Radio 4’s consumer programme. The panel included our own Mathew Ditchburn, Michael Weedon of the British Independent Retailers Association, Professor Paul Longley of UCL, Simon Danczuk MP for Rochdale and Hussein Lalani the founder of 99p Stores.
