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Primark to launch fashion collaboration with Rita Ora

Singer Rita Ora is teaming up with value retailer Primark on a multi-season fashion collection based on her personal style. The debut Rita Ora x Primark collection launches on September 19 and will be available in all Primark stores across its 16 markets, allowing customers to shop Ora’s “famous style for less”. The collaboration is almost two...

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Primark expects ‘slightly better’ trading than forecasted in pre close report

Associated British Foods (ABF) has published an update of its financial performance ahead of issuing its full year results for the 52 weeks to 16 September, 2023, which are scheduled to come on November 7. The group, which counts Primark as one of its central brands, said that its outlook for the financial year is expected to be “slightly better...

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Primark expands click-and-collect to womenswear

Value fashion and homeware retailer Primark is expanding its click-and-collect service to include womenswear for the first time from September 13. The expansion means that up to 1,000 womenswear products will be available to shop online, joining the kidswear and nursery products already part of the click-and-collect trial service. This means...

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Primark promotes Damien O’Neill to vice president of US retail

Value retailer Primark has promoted Penneys' Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland head Damien O’Neill to the newly-created role of vice president of US retail, where he will oversee its 20 stores in the country. O’Neill will relocate to the US, where he will be based in Primark’s US regional office in Boston, joining the US leadership team...

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Primark announces WornWell expansion and new Glasgow store

Primark has announced plans to roll out its vintage clothing concessions in collaboration with ‘WornWell’ by the Vintage Wholesale Company as the high street retailer celebrates one year of the partnership. The vintage concession offers Primark customers the chance to shop pre-loved branded and non-branded vintage and one-off items of clothing...

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Say Pants to the Tax gains momentum as more retailers back campaign

The ‘Say Pants to the Tax’ campaign and petition, launched by Marks & Spencer and Wuka, calling on the Government to reclassify period pants in line with other period products, which have been exempt from VAT since 2021, has gained support from Primark, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Mountain Warehouse. Currently, period products such as pads, tampons...

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Most garments donated to major fashion stores are destroyed, not repurposed

Major fashion stores, including H&M, Zara, C&A, Primark, Nike, The North Face, Uniqlo, and M&S, are falling short in their promises of reusing or recycling donated clothing, as revealed by the largest tracking investigation of its kind. The study conducted by the Changing Markets Foundation, using Apple AirTags to monitor 21 items, found that...

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Primark to lower prices of kidswear amid continued inflation

Budget retailer Primark has said that it will be lowering the prices of “hundreds” of essential kidswear products for its upcoming autumn/winter collection. The changes will be applied to select product ranges set to debut in stores towards the end of July. According to a release, Primark’s decision was based upon the continued high levels of...

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Primark rolls out click-and-collect in London

Primark has expanded its click-and-collect trial to 32 more stores, allowing consumers in Greater London to buy online from the fashion retailer’s extensive range of kids’ and nursery products for the first time. The click-and-collect trial, which launched in November 2022, started with 25 stores across the North West of England, South and West...

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Barbiecore: Fashion and beauty brands team up with Mattel

Mattel’s favourite doll Barbie is the toast of fashion and beauty ahead of the highly anticipated ‘Barbie the Movie’ film release starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, with the toy company securing over 100 licensing deals across fashion, beauty, and accessories. Everywhere you go you are bombarded with Barbie pink, with the Barbiecore trend...

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Durability of clothing not linked to a higher price

New research conducted by the School of Design at the University of Leeds has found that price is not an indicator of how long clothes will last, challenging the perception that paying a higher price means better garment durability. The ‘Worn Out’ report, commissioned as part of a wider project by environmental charity Hubbub and clothing...

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Primark sales grow by 13 percent in Q3

In the third quarter, Primark, part of the diversified Associated British Foods, grew sales by 13 percent, with like-for-like sales growth of 7 percent, supported by higher average selling prices. Like-for-like sales growth for the year to date is 9 percent, while like- for-like sales growth in the quarter was 6 percent in the UK and 7 percent...