All Property articles – Page 328

  • News

    Irish retail at saturation point

    2008-09-11T09:20:03Z

    The Irish retail market could be completely saturated by 2015 if pipeline developments proceed as planned.

  • News

    BRC slams expected business rates rise

    2008-09-09T15:39:39Z

    The British Retail Consortium has hit out at the Government for failing to protect retailers from extra costs being piled onto the industry following a report suggesting that business rates will increase by 16 per cent from April 2010.

  • News

    Liverpool’s Clayton Square set to grow

    2008-09-09T12:51:07Z

    Land Securities has started work on the first phase of investment in Liverpool across two shopping centres in the city centre.

  • News

    Staines centre submits plans for extension

    2008-09-09T12:44:36Z

    Elmsleigh Shopping Centre in Staines could benefit from a third phase of extension, following an application to Spelthorne Borough Council by Clerical Medical Investment Group.

  • News

    Orange begins expansion drive

    2008-09-09T12:38:18Z

    Mobile phone giant Orange has kick-started its latest phase of store roll-outs in the UK with the opening of its second outlet in Southampton last week.

  • Opinion

    Will the West End win?

    2008-09-09T11:46:39Z

    This morning the New West End Company hosted an interesting breakfast meeting discussing the future of retail and how it affects the West End.

  • News

    Retail acquisitions likely in Central Europe as credit crunch bites

    2008-09-05T11:23:06Z

    The impact of the credit crunch and inflation is threatening to pitch emerging retailers in Central and Eastern Europe into difficulties, providing acquisition opportunities for Western groups.

  • News

    Asda to open five Asda Living stores this year

    2008-09-05T09:19:15Z

    Asda will open a further five Asda Living stores across the UK this year, bringing its total to 21.

  • Opinion

    Act tough now and win later

    2008-09-04T12:45:51Z

    As famed former Marks & Spencer boss Sir Richard Greenbury points out on page 23, retailers have had a good run. Such a good one, in fact, that many of today’s senior retailers won’t have worked through a recession. Not many of us here at Retail Week have either.

  • News

    Urban Outfitters set to bring Anthropologie to Regent Street

    2008-09-04T12:40:23Z

    US fashion retailer Urban Outfitters is poised to bring its sister brand Anthropologie to London’s Regent Street, sending a clear signal that the UK remains an important European launch pad despite the slowdown in the economy.

  • News

    Christmas in the balance

    2008-09-04T12:32:00Z

    Sector braced for toughest season since the 1980s, with December like-for-like drop expected.

  • Analysis

    Sweat your assets

    2008-09-04T10:37:32Z

    The quarterly rents debate may still be raging, but there are other ways retailers can work with their landlords to make savings in these straitened times. Ben Cooper investigates.

  • Opinion

    What's the Verdict?

    2008-09-02T12:56:20Z

    With prescient timing, Verdict has today predicted a revival in retail parks at the expense of city centre retail locations.

  • News

    Delayed Newbury centre finally given green light

    2008-09-02T12:54:51Z

    Standard Life and Shearer Property Group have given the Parkway scheme in Newbury the go-ahead after a string of delays following questions over the project’s viability.

  • News

    Hob snaps up store at Leeds’ Clarence Dock

    2008-09-02T12:50:49Z

    Culinary retailer Hob has taken its third UK store and its second outside London as part of a raft of signings to Clarence Dock in Leeds.

  • News

    Ireland’s Pavilions development unveils blueprint for extension

    2008-09-02T12:46:16Z

    Irish developer Chartered Land has submitted an application for an extension to its Pavilions shopping centre at Swords, north of Dublin, which would significantly increase the scheme’s retail offer.

  • News

    Out-of-town retail parks to ‘lead retail renaissance’

    2008-09-02T11:10:37Z

    Out-of-town retail is set to bounce back from the economic gloom and will be more successful than town centres in instigating a retail resurgence, a Verdict survey has claimed.

  • News

    Asda leads charge against tax on empty property

    2008-08-28T17:52:21Z

    Asda has given its backing to a campaign by the British Property Federation (BPF) and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) against stealth tax on empty property.

  • News

    A demanding autumn line-up

    2008-08-28T17:01:44Z

    Most years, next week’s opening of Leicester’s Highcross Quarter development would be the biggest shopping centre event of the year.

  • News

    35 retailers back Green’s letter to landlords

    2008-08-28T16:59:03Z

    Sir Philip Green has written to some of the UK’s biggest landlords on behalf of 35 retail groups in an attempt to bring key aspects of how retail property is leased into the modern era.