Laura Onita is a Retail Correspondent at the Financial Times. She focuses on themes related to retail and brick-and-mortar businesses, exploring topics such as corporate finance, corporations, entrepreneurship, and startups. Laura has been featured in The Irish Times, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance, The Manila Times, and Knowledia.
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Laura Onita's coverage focuses on the UK retail industry, with an emphasis on sales & marketing and product promotions. She frequently cites data and press releases in her articles, indicating a preference for fact-based and well-supported information.
If you have insights into consumer behavior trends, financial impacts of business decisions, or details related to job losses within the UK retail sector, these may be valuable angles to pitch to Laura. Additionally, if you represent a company that is engaging in significant business acquisitions or exploring sales strategies within the UK market, this could also be of interest to her.
Given Laura's national focus on the United Kingdom, pitches should align with this geographic scope and offer relevant insights specific to the UK retail industry.
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A long-term focus internally and externally is delivering results for one of Europe’s largest online fashion retailers
By: Ashley Armstrong, Laura Onita
Sports Direct founder casts doubt over department store chain’s prospects even as he vies to acquire it
By: Suzi Ring, Laura Onita
Competition watchdog proposes changes to clamp down on discounters’ use of anti-competitive property covenants
Department store’s managing director leaves less than three years after taking up position
By: Lucy Fisher, Laura Onita, Ashley Armstrong
Councils will be given extra powers to curb unwanted retailers and ‘bring town centres back to life’
By: Laura Onita, Philip Stafford
Retailer purchases department store through pre-pack administration deal
By: Laura Onita, Elizabeth Paton, Ashley Armstrong
High street billionaire claims Frasers has moved on from its discounting ways as it swoops on Harvey Nichols
By: Megan Snaith, Laura Onita
Brands including Chloé and Victoria Beckham to recover less than 15p in the pound after Frasers Group buys department store chain
Pre-tax losses widen to £89mn in six months to August at employee-owned retailer
By: Laura Onita
Low-cost fashion retailer has long been sceptical of the economics of online delivery
