All Shopping centres articles – Page 55
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GalleryCult following
The new Cult store at Lakeside is parent company SuperGroup’s largest to date. John Ryan visits and talks to chief executive Julian Dunkerton about the group’s approach to store branding
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News
Card retailer Thoughts in pre-pack deal
Greetings cards retailer Thoughts has been bought in a pre-pack administration deal after it collapsed due to an absence of banking facilities.
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AnalysisShopping centre Grade II listing alarms retailers and mall owners
The decision to give a shopping centre in Milton Keynes a Grade II listed status is a concern for both its owners and the retailers that trade there. What are the wider ramifications, asks Mark Faithfull
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NewsHobbs sub-brand NW3 picks Westfield London for its debut
Womenswear retailer Hobbs will launch the first standalone store for its younger NW3 sub-brand next month and is plotting up to 30 in the next four years.
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NewsEmpty shops could be used as courts
Empty shops in shopping centres could now have a very different purpose, being set up as courts.
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NewsWestfield Stratford to open in September 2011
Westfield’s new shopping centre in east London, Stratford City, will open in September 2011, the developer has revealed.
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AnalysisNet-a-Porter: Casting the Net
Net-a-Porter chief executive Mark Sebba tells Lisa Berwin about the challenges of running a business that just keeps on growing
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AnalysisApple: The tech company transforming retail
The fanfare surrounding Apple’s Covent Garden store is the latest example of how it is not only driving technological innovation but transforming retail as well. By George MacDonald
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NewsEd Hardy closes Westfield store as Australian arm collapses
US fashion brand Ed Hardy has closed its store at Westfield London after the Australian arm of the retailer collapsed into administration.
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NewsGIVe signals multibrand future with Ghost tie-up
Retail entrepreneur George Davies is to turn his high street womenswear chain GIVe into a multibrand retailer.
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NewsTrinity Walk gains fashion retailers
Fashion retailers Republic, JD Sports and Bank and mens’ gift and gadget specialist Menkind, have all signed 10-year leases at Wakefield’s Trinity Walk shopping centre, due to open next spring.
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AnalysisA new lease of life?
Britain’s leasing system has moved in tenants’ favour during the downturn. With stability returning, Mark Faithfull asks if the terms of retail property deals have now changed forever
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NewsThe 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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AnalysisLeeds: The holy Trinity?
Work is recommencing at Land Securities’ Trinity Leeds development, but does this bode well for the development pipeline or is it too soon to call an upturn in retail property?
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OpinionA sobering lesson for Ocado’s founders
Well, they got it away, but there won’t have been too many champagne corks being popped in Ocado’s Hatfield headquarters on Wednesday morning.
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News
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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NewsSuperGroup to expand in UK and abroad after good results
SuperGroup, the fashion retailer that owns the Superdry and Cult chains, is on the expansion trail following a strong set of annual results since becoming a quoted company.
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NewsTrinity Leeds work to resume in August
Shopping centre Trinity Leeds has been given the go ahead by developers Land Securites, which has said it expects work to resume on site next month, in preparation for opening in spring 2013.
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OpinionSilly Season
Listing the Milton Keynes shopping centre is a victory for pressure groups over the public at large.
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AnalysisLearning to play their cards right
With Clinton Cards issuing a profit warning and Paperchase being sold, the UK’s £1.5bn card market is a hive of activity.