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UK retail footfall sees ‘modest uplift’ as face masks become mandatory in England

Footfall across all retail throughout the UK rose by 2.8 percent last week from the previous week, according to new data. However, in England where face coverings have now been mandatory for a full week in retail stores, there was only a 2.5 percent increase in footfall across all destinations. This is compared to a 4 percent increase in the...

4 hours ago

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Rochas suspends menswear line

Rochas is saying au revoir to menswear. The French label has taken a major hit from coronavirus, and will now be suspending their menswear line after three seasons under the menswear direction of designer Federico Curradi. Rochas, which is owned by Interparfums, relaunched menswear in 2019 on the Paris Fashion Week fall/winter calendar. In a...

21 hours ago

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Pink Shirtmaker closes flagship London store on Jermyn Street

Pink Shirtmaker has reportedly closed its flagship store on Jermyn Street in London. The LVMH-owned brand reopened its store when the UK’s lockdown was lifted on 15 June but has now closed it permanently, according to This Is Money. The future of its two stores at Heathrow are also reportedly uncertain. The shirtmaker, previously called Thomas...

3 Aug 2020

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Timberland’s Carnaby Street wins accolades for purpose-led concept

Timberland has won ‘Store of the Year’ by Shop! and earned a coveted spot on Retail Design Institute’s Class of 2019 roster, representing the “best of the best” for stores opened in 2019, for its purpose-led flagship store on Carnaby Street in London. The 2,600 square-foot Carnaby Street flagship store received a Gold Design Award and was named...

3 Aug 2020

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Swarovski opens first Crystal Studio in the UK

Swarovski has opened its Crystal Studio concept in London, marking the first in the UK, following successful openings in Milan, Paris, Tokyo, LA and Shanghai. The Crystal Studio concept aims to redefine retail in the jewellery space, offering consumers the opportunities to “style their own sparkle” through an elevated in-store experience that...

3 Aug 2020

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VIA Outlets achieves ‘Safer Shopping’ certification

VIA Outlets, Europe’s fastest-growing owner-operator of premium fashion outlet destinations, has partnered with testing and certification expert Bureau Veritas to create a ‘Safer Shopping’ certificate, to showcase that its shopping centres are Covid-19 safe. The ‘Safer Shopping’ certificate, created especially for VIA Outlets, has now been...

3 Aug 2020

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Number of empty shops rises in lockdown

The number of empty shops increased modestly in the past quarter during the government-enforced lockdown which saw the closing of all non-essential stores. The quarterly BRC-LDC retail vacancy monitor revealed that 12.4 per cent of all shop units were vacant in the three months to the end of June, a slight increase from 12.2 percent in the first...

31 Jul 2020

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Furloughed workers to receive full redundancy pay under new law

The UK government introduced a new law Thursday to ensure furloughed workers who lose their jobs will receive statutory redundancy pay based on their regular wages, rather than a reduced furlough rate. The changes will mean furloughed staff who are made redundant won’t be “short-changed”, the government said. Announced in March, The Coronavirus...

31 Jul 2020

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Burberry blends physical and digital with first social retail store in China

Burberry has opened the doors of what it describes as “luxury’s first social retail store” in Shenzhen, China. The store, opened on Friday, aims to “blend the physical and social worlds” - a concept the British luxury label has been progressively exploring. In early July,it launched a campaignjuxtaposing a video of CGI digital avatars - one of...

31 Jul 2020

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John Lewis expects to become 60 percent online retailer in digital-first push

John Lewis expects to increase its online focus by 20 percent to 60 percent from its pre-Covid-19 levels as it moves forward with its digital-first strategy. The group’s chairman Sharon White announced the plans on Thursday as part of a broader update to employees about its strategic review announced back in March. White said the company expects...

30 Jul 2020

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Strong online sales boost Next Q2 results

Next results are down nearlyone-third, but better than originally expected. Nigel Frith, a senior market analyst at www.asktraders.com told FashionUnited: “Next reported a 28 percent decline in full price second-quarter sales. Online sales have proved to be a bright spot with warehouse capacity returning to normal levels and online sales rising...

30 Jul 2020

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Working from home could revive the high street

As companies scale back their corporate offices, a shift to neighbourhoods and suburban locations could boost local high streets. A commercial property survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) shows almost respondants, a colossal 93 percent, said businesses would be scaling back their office space in the next two years. It...

30 Jul 2020