All Shopping centres articles – Page 45
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OpinionRetail Recommendations: Can They Save the High Street?
We’re all familiar with the Portas Pilots, the Town Teams and the controversial reality TV show whose resulting furore has overshadowed Mary Portas’s December 2011 report and its 28 mainly sensible and constructive recommendations.
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AnalysisRetail Week on the Road: North East and Yorkshire
We visit Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough, Doncaster, Harrogate and Leeds.
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OpinionWestfield Stratford: May the force(s) be with you
Westfield Stratford on a wet Wednesday morning and just ahead of opening the security forces almost outnumber the shoppers waiting for the stores to open.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why landlords are embracing multichannel
Meadowhall’s launch of a CollectPlus pick up service is another example of how landlords are embracing the world of online and multichannel retail
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NewsNewcastle's Eldon Square seeks planning approval for £22m revamp
Capital Shopping Centres (CSC) has submitted a planning application for the Northumberland Street entrance of Eldon Square, Newcastle marking the next stage in the mall’s refurbishment.
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NewsMeadowhall launches CollectPlus parcel service
Sheffield’s Meadowhall Shopping Centre has launched a new parcel collection service through a tie up with CollectPlus.
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AnalysisRetailers get set for the Games
In a bumper summer featuring the Jubilee celebrations and football’s Euro 2012, the Olympics should still top the bill. Mark Faithfull looks at how some retailers are presenting the Games in store.
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OpinionRetail interiors: Tough times, diverse store design
Fewer, better and more focused might be the watchwords for retail interiors in 2012 and as the year passes the halfway mark, it’s a tendency that might be becoming more, rather than less, evident.
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AnalysisMOOD Stockholm: Shopping centre with a difference
The new MOOD Stockholm shopping centre in the Swedish capital is different from many.
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OpinionHigh Street Revival: Creating better town centres
You’d expect a conference bringing people together around the sombre fact that the North West has the highest number of empty shops to be a pretty solemn affair.
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NewsWestfield to reveal Croydon Whitgift plans next week
Shopping centre developer Westfield will next week reveal its £1bn plans to develop the Whitgift centre in Croydon.
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NewsFlooding hits North East retail
Retailers in the North East are recovering after high winds and heavy flooding attacked stores yesterday.
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NewsWestfield Stratford retailers fear Olympic car park closure impact
Retailers at Westfield Stratford City have vented their frustration about the closure of the car park at the giant shopping centre, which is understood to have resulted in a plunge in footfall.
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OpinionHow to stop landlords diluting your brand
All retailers, from carpet sellers to wine merchants, need stores that reflect their brand identity.
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NewsLiberty opens at Westfield Stratford City
Luxury department store Liberty today opened its first shop outside of its iconic store on Great Marlborough Street in central London with a shop in Westfield Stratford.
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OpinionDoes the weather really have an effect on retail?
“Make mine a double,” the Queen must have said. And so the final bank holiday weekend this side of the summer is extra-long and a valuable opportunity for many retailers to make up some of the sales lost over the past few difficult months.
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AnalysisDiamond Jubilee: How retail has changed over 60 years
As the nation hangs out the bunting and prepares for street parties to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Rebecca Thomson looks at the transformation of retail during her reign.
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OpinionWe must breathe new life into our high streets
When Mary Portas conducted her review of the high street last year the popular view was that it was a response to decline. But the real issue for our high streets is divergence.
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NewsChain retail store numbers continue to grow
The total number of retail chain stores in the UK has continued to grow over the last three years despite the impact of online shopping.
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NewsM&S latest retailer to slow down store expansion
Marks & Spencer has become the latest retailer to switch the lights to amber on UK store expansion plans as punishing trading conditions persist and multichannel retail grows.