All Store of the week articles – Page 11
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Store of the week: Undiz, Paris
Remember Etam? As a retail brand it was around for years before Arcadia took the UK chain off its French parent’s hands in 2005. Since then it has vanished from UK high streets, but is alive and kicking in France and Undiz is a spin-off fascia that the company has ...
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Store of the week: Ecco Cologne, Germany
Shoe shops tend not to be the sort of places that most people linger in, for no better reason than that when you’ve bought a pair of shoes it’s a case of job done and head for the exit. This, along with surplus space, may be the reason why the ...
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Store of the week: Recipease, Battersea, London
It may seem, from time to time, that Sainsbury’s front man, school dinner saviour and Volkswagen campervan driver Jamie Oliver is in almost every place you might care to think of, but the opening of his foodie shop Recipease last week added to this extensive list.
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Store of the week: Hamleys, Dubai
How portable is a retail brand and when is it so linked to a particular location that it’s hard to see it working anywhere else?
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Store of the week: Le Bon Marche Paris
It rarely matters how much good work is done on the internal design of a store, the basement is always a second-class citizen. In department stores it often houses a food hall, the logic being that this will turn it into an area shoppers have to visit.
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Store of the week: Harvey Nichols, Jakarta
Luxury may be taking a bit of a battering at the moment but this doesn’t appear to be preventing some of the bigger players from continuing to expand.
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Store of the week: Levi’s, Berlin
Levi’s is one of those brands that seems part of the furniture – you know it’s there, but don’t always give it your full attention.
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Store of the week: Esprit, CentrO, Germany
Perhaps surprisingly for UK shoppers, Hong Kong-listed lifestyle retailer Esprit has been around for more than 40 years.
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Store of the week: Oil & Vinegar, Newcastle
To judge from what’s happening in the wider economy, you might think that being a niche retailer is not the finest thing in the world at the moment.
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Store of the week: Sony Style, Paris
One of the complaints often levelled against technology retailers is that however slick their products, the shops themselves are cold, impersonal spaces. Sony has attempted to overcome this in the French capital with its Sony Style flagship store.
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Store of the week: Southern Co-op, Southampton
It's not often that an outfit like a co-op would merit inclusion as a store where design is one of its central selling points, but this Southern Co-op outpost is at least as good as any food to go meets convenience store that's out there.
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Store of the week: Globus, Mumbai
In these troubled times, when even Russia has announced that it has gone into recession, India is one of the world’s few remaining economic highlights.
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Store of the week: Adnams Southwold, Suffolk
Suffolk brewer Adnams has opened a flagship for its nine-strong chain of wine and beer stores in its home town of Southwold.
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Store of the week: Disney Store, Westfield London
Look at Disney Store’s financial record for the year to September 2007 and you might be inclined to think it isn’t doing very well.
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Store of the week: Le Studio SFR Rue Tronchet, Paris
Probably not the most festive shop in Paris, but telecoms network and technology retailer SFR offers one of Europe’s most interesting new retail environments.
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Store of the week: Carphone Warehouse, Romford, Essex
It’s said that gadgets like mobile phones are heading for the scrap heap. The new buzz centres on “convergence” – handsets that take pictures, play films and music, and allow near instantaneous broadband connection. Oh yes, and you can make phone calls if you feel inclined.
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Store of the week: Mulberry, Westfield London
A visit once again to Westfield, for which there will be no apology: nothing else on this scale will open in the UK for some time to come, so it makes sense to take a look at one of the stores that actually managed to open on time in the ...
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Store of the week: House of Fraser Westfield
In days gone by, House of Fraser was associated with a particular kind of rather starchy luxury and frequented by well-to-do maiden aunts.
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Store of the week: Hollister, Brent Cross
Abercrombie & Fitch fashion brand Hollister finally made it off the UK starting blocks this week with stores in Westfield London, which opened yesterday, and at Brent Cross (pictured), which welcomed its first shoppers last Saturday.
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Store of the week: Streatham Pharmacy, London
It’s not often that Streatham makes it into the pages of this magazine and this is definitely the first instance of the south London suburb boasting a store of the week.