All Stores and property articles – Page 325
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AnalysisDesigner outlets
As London’s first designer outlet hoves into view we assess their popularity, the retailers that use them and how they’ve fared during the recession
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NewsExpanding Sainsbury’s opens its largest store yet
Sainsbury’s opened its largest store this week as it seeks to fulfil its ambitious expansion plans.
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AnalysisShopfitters survey: Flying in the face of reason
Shopfitters are an optimistic bunch, but are their predictions about the prospects for 2011 a bridge too far? John Ryan reports on the Retail Week/National Association of Shopfitters survey
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AnalysisMeating and greeting
Victor Churchill, a butcher’s shop in Melbourne, takes a mundane commodity and turns it into a real spectacle. John Ryan reports
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OpinionIn-store strengths are online strengths too
Rivals may tire of hearing it, but when it comes to innovation in retailing today, no one is doing more than the John Lewis Partnership.
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AnalysisThe price is light?
Lighting technology continues to push forward, with LEDs revolutionising interior options. But does investing in technical innovation produce a measurable sales uplift and payback return, and when is the right time to spend capital? Mark Faithfull investigates
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AnalysisTime for optimism
Nobody could deny that the last couple of years have been a rough ride for almost everyone involved in the store interiors sector. But as we head towards the end of 2010, at VINCI Construction UK we feel that things are finally on the turn.
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AnalysisShopfitting: still a tough place to be
Any analysis of the shopfitting sector reveals that business has been tough and continues to struggle. John Ryan looks at the landscape as we unveil this year’s top shopfitter survey
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GalleryPuma Rewind
To be fair this is only partly a shop, if you regard one of the functions of a shop as being to display goods that people might want to buy. This is, self-evidently, a truck that appears to have a variant of a Chinese puzzle along one of its sides.
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AnalysisWhat’s in store
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Retail Week Interiors, a standalone magazine that we hope will provide news and information about the retail design and fit-out sector that might not normally get coverage, allowing for the constraints of space and time.
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NewsRetail Week Interiors Awards 2010
The winners of this year’s Retail Week Interiors Awards really do represent the pick of what’s out there. John Ryan reports.
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OpinionThere’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever...Clarks
Why trial a new store format offshore when there are loads of opportunities at home?
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GalleryKmart Eastland, Melbourne, Australia
Mass merchandising of the kind generally found in edge-of-town locations has managed, over the years, to get itself something of a bad name for cavernous, lacklustre interiors.
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NewsWaitrose to open concept store in Leeds with a broader offer
Waitrose is to open a new concept store in Leeds next week with a homewares offer featuring products from sister chain John Lewis and other leading brands.
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NewsUK exit on cards for Spanish jewellery chain Tous
Spanish jewellery and accessories chain Tous wants to exit its store on Regent Street and is understood to be mulling the closure of its only other UK store in Westfield London.
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GalleryCrystal gazing
Austrian cut-glass retailer and brand Swarovski has opened a store on Oxford Street that is a bling heaven. John Ryan reports
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NewsRadley Sings A New Toon
Bags and accessories retailer Radley will unveil a new store design next month when it opens a shop in Newcastle’s Metrocentre.
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NewsJaeger opens shops-in-shops in Italy with Coin
Upscale fashion retailer and brand Jaeger has expanded into Italy with the opening of four shop-in-shops in Coin department stores.
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OpinionArchitects move in on store design
Tough times in the commercial design and build sector mean rich(er) pickings for retailers
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NewsLaura Ashley to open clothing-only stores
Floral-inspired fashion and furniture retailer Laura Ashley is to open standalone clothing stores in a bid to lift sales.