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 has reported sales ahead of guidance, with all over-performance coming from its international business.
Fashion retail giants Next and Frasers have both run the rule over Dune London as they weigh potential bids for the footwear retailer, Retail Week understands.
Graeme Smith became chief technology officer at Zalando this summer, having previously worked at Amazon and YouTube. He speaks to Retail Week about managing tech costs, AI agents and the impact of GLP-1s on personalisation.
US-based retailer Bath & Body Works is to open seven new UK stores before Christmas.
The latest Kantar Brandz ranking values the country’s top grocer at $10.1bn (£7.6bn), making it the most valuable retail brand in the UK and eighth most valuable brand overall.
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