All Scotland articles – Page 7
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Fashion Rocks pushes on with launch
Fashion Rocks, the young fashion retailer to be launched by the founders of USC, is to debut online in January and open its first shop in March.
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Alworths continues to grow after first year
Alworths, the variety store that sprung from the ashes of Woolworths, enjoyed a record week last week as it hits its first year anniversary today.
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Analysis
The shop of the new
Technology-astute, value conscious shoppers are redefining what they are looking for from a trip to a shopping centre. Mark Faithfull reports on the impact of a new consumer mindset
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Delivering a decade of top shopping destinations
What is it that makes a great shopping development? Over the next five pages Mark Faithfull highlights the best of the past decade
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Forever 21 aims for 100 UK stores as it prepares for Bullring launch
US fast-fashion retailer Forever 21 has revealed plans to open more than 100 stores in the UK as it gears up to make its debut in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre next month.
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Fenchurch appoints retail manager
Urban clothing retailer Fenchurch has appointed Gap’s Alexis Potter as its first retail manager, as it embarks on a European store expansion.
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White Stuff aims to double in size
Lifestyle retailer White Stuff has laid out plans to almost double its portfolio within five years.
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Analysis
How the plus-size market is becoming a big deal
With mainstream retailers targeting plus-size and specialists ramping up their offers, how is this expanding market best exploited, asks Joanne Ellul
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Analysis
Iain McGeoch
True to form, M&Co’s chairman and managing director is remaining tight-lipped on the value retailer’s recession-busting success
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Fossil’s best year ever fuels store expansion
Accessories and fashion chain Fossil wants to double its store portfolio as it expands across the UK and Europe.
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Opinion
Scotch Mist
Across the UK, the overall retail picture isn’t that bad. But the further north you go, the worse it gets
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The Perfume Shop to trial Superdrug tie-up
The Perfume Shop is gunning to be the number one perfume retailer in the UK, after signing a deal with sister firm Superdrug to trial shop-in-shops in its stores.
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Charles Tyrwhitt to open a store on Regent Street
Menswear retailer Charles Tyrwhitt will open a store on London’s Regent Street by the autumn.
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Joules eyes major city centres as profits soar
Lifestyle retailer Joules is targeting major city centre locations for store openings for the first time, after reporting net profit soared 200% to £3.6m in the year to May 1.
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Analysis
Resort trading: Sun, sea and selling on a summer holiday
Huge sales spikes in certain products are a boon, but life’s no beach for retailers trading in holiday resorts
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Greater brand mix lifts Jones Bootmaker sales
Jones Bootmaker has delivered improving trade this year with like-for-like sales up 17% in the four months to the end of May.
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Kütchenhaus steps up expansion trail
German kitchen specialist Kütchenhaus is on the expansion trail with plans to open up to seven stores in the next 12 months.
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Analysis
The new North-South divide
With looming public sector cuts and job losses set to hit the North harder than the South, will regional disparities return?
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McCarthy group injects £2m into skincare business
A consortium of private investors led by House of Fraser chairman Don McCarthy has injected £2m into beauty clinic chain DestinationSkin to fund expansion.
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Forever 21 on track for UK debut in Birmingham
US fashion giant Forever 21 has signed its second deal for a UK store in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre, which is likely to be its first to open here.