All Stores and property articles – Page 338
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GalleryJessops has high hopes for its new-look London store
VIDEO: Jessops is hoping its refurbished central London flagship will provide a stimulus for wider change at the chain.
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GalleryStore of the week: Louis Vuitton Westfield London
This is Louis Vuitton in Westfield, London, last week the scene of an opening event that featured an urban garden, created by artist Jeremy Deller. Quite what the collection of plants – contained within black plastic bin bags and resting on a straw-strewn floor – had to do with the ...
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OpinionNike Town made me run a mile
It’s a store designer’s dream, but despite some customer gadgets, Nike Town London is style over substance.A quick trip to buy some running shorts on Bank Holiday Monday turned into a masterclass in poor customer service at Oxford Circus’ Nike Town. While the store look great, it won the Retail ...
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NewsJohn Lewis unveils new home store format name
John Lewis has revealed that the name of its new format home and electricals store will be ‘John Lewis at home’.
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NewsRetailers opt for shopfitting security
Retailers’ worries about the financial security of some of the UK’s largest shopfitting companies is opening doors for Wates.
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OpinionLouis Vuitton vs the Post Office
Visiting the new Louis Vuitton store in Westfield London last week was an impressive, but ultimately unsatisfying experience. Yes, it’s a fine example of the brand’s current shop-fit, but were you to travel to Munich and to wander into local luxury department store Oberpollinger, you’d find more or less the ...
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GalleryStore of the week: Nike Covent Garden
It’s close to a year since Nike unveiled the glass cube that appeared to be suspended between floors in its Oxford Circus flagship and wowed all who visited. This store, in the heart of Covent Garden, is a more recent addition to the US sportswear giant’s portfolio.
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NewsPrinci is the new heart of Soho while Game fails to wow
Howard Saunders, creative director, Echochamber, explains his choices for ‘Good shop, bad shop’
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AnalysisAt Mahon Point in Ireland retailers are fighting the recession
Times may be tough but Cork’s Mahon Point scheme isn’t taking the recession lying down. John Ryan goes to see how it’s wooing shoppers
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OpinionIn praise of visual merchandising
Retailers may well have suffered the worst six months in recent memory, but that has merely made the top players raise the visual merchandising bar yet again.
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NewsSaints & Sinners opens in Liverpool One
Just opened in Liverpool One, Saints & Sinners is a men’s fashion shop that is dubbed a lifestyle store and which is intended to combine elements of Tokyo retail design with the look and feel of a boutique hotel.Designed by Manchester-based consultancy Rawfish, the 4,500 ...
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GalleryStore of the week: Intersport, Gothenburg
It’s not often that retailers open very large sports stores these days, but pan-European operation Intersport has just unveiled this 10,000 sq ft, single-floor outlet in Sweden’s second city, Gothenburg.
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NewsAnthropologie unveils Regent Street blueprint
News has emerged about the interior form of the UK’s first Anthropologie store, set to open on Regent Street in the autumn.
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OpinionCheap products needn’t mean cheap-looking stores
This year’s World Retail Congress in Barcelona ended on Friday, closing three days of conferencing, networking and, it has to be said, a fair amount of evening carousing. But for those who wandered across the road into the adjacent Diagonal Mar shopping centre, there was an additional talking point. Diagonal ...
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Make more of what you have, urge store designers
Revise, remix, reinvent and reuse. This was the advice given by a panel of store designers at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona in a session on Store Design During a Recession.
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GalleryAdidas’ Parisian store revamp impresses
Adidas is going for gold with the striking revamp of its Champs Elysées flagship. John Ryan goes to Paris for a tour
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GalleryStore of the week: Lulu Guinness London
Handbag designer and homewares retailer Lulu Guinness is 20, or at least the brand that bears her name is, and this store, which has just opened on Ellis Street in the heart of London’s ritzy Knightsbridge, stands as evidence that the creative streak has not deserted her.
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NewsJohn Lewis to launch standalone home and electricals format
John Lewis is to open standalone homewares and electricals stores in a bid to gain greater coverage of the UK market.
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OpinionKeep going, there’s still stuff to be done
The UK’s largest shopfitter has unveiled what can only be termed as a catastrophic set of results — but Styles & Wood’s 23 per cent fall in sales also means is that retailers are still handing out 77 per cent of the fit-out contracts that they were in the prior year.
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Styles & Wood announces massive drop in profits
Shopfitter Styles & Wood has unveiled a catastrophic drop in profits for 2008 as it was hit by a combination of cancelled and scaled-down retail contracts and substantial restructuring costs. Profits for the year to December 31 were £3.8m , down more than two thirds from £11.8m in the previous year.