FTSE 100-listed Next is the largest clothing retailer by sales in the UK, As well as stores, it has a growing marketplace platform selling brands such as Calvin Klein, Reiss, Fat Face, Joules, Dorothy Perkins, Warehouse and Ralph Lauren. It also launched its Next Total Platform, offering an online, tech and logistics solution that can be licensed by smaller fashion brands to give them an online presence. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Next and the fashion sector.
Next is gearing up to open its first multi-brand concept store in Bluewater shopping centre at the end of this month, featuring more than a dozen fashion and homeware labels, Retail Week can reveal.
John Lewis was the highest-rated retailer for customer satisfaction in the July edition of a long-running barometer published by the Institute of Customer Service, but retailers are now rated lower than banks on average
Retail behemoth Next is setting its sights on luxury department store business Harvey Nichols, after the retailer’s Hong Kong owner hoisted a ‘for sale’ sign above the door
Next is reportedly plotting to make an offer for luxury department store Harvey Nichols.
Retail is the biggest private employer in the country. As rising youth unemployment stokes concern, retailers could help more if the government would let them, says George MacDonald
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