All Stores and property articles – Page 344
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NewsUniqlo seeks to expand after festive sales jump
Japanese-owned fashion retailer Uniqlo is on the expansion trail after it is understood to have delivered UK like-for-like sales up 38% in December.
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Swarovski eyes more openings in year ahead
Swarovski is to continue its expansion after reporting like-for-likes up 9% for the 2009 calendar year.
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GalleryA change of Habitat
Habitat has introduced new elements at its latest store, in Liverpool One, but is it a format that could be used elsewhere.
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GalleryHobbs, Covent Garden
Just before Christmas, Hobbs opened a flagship in Covent Garden. The move followed hot on the heels of its Regent Street shop and the Covent Garden interior design followed suit. Except it didn’t.
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NewsStore Twenty One pushes homewares
Value retailer QS is to drive homewares as it continues to expand its Store Twenty One fascia.
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OpinionGood Evans
My Christmas Eve tale is of a retailer restoring your faith in humanity as well as the commercial sector.
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OpinionChristmas market anybody?
Only three days until the big day and one of the things that many towns and cities have been enjoying is a slice of Continental Christmas Market fayre. Something of the kind can be seen in Liverpool at the moment, which has its streets filled with wooden chalet-style huts from which grateful shoppers are expected to stop and buy. Except that they’re rubbish.
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GalleryDyson Bluewater
There is a sense currently that if it’s a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, then there will be a new pop-up store on the block and last week, Wednesday saw the opening by Dyson, the vacuum cleaner people, of a temporary store in Bluewater.
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NewsCoco de Mer opens New York store
Luxury erotica retailer Coco de Mer has opened a store in New York this week and is seeking more franchisees to open further shops in Europe and Asia Pacific.
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NewsLakeland strikes deal to launch Dubai store
Kitchenware retailer Lakeland is to open its first overseas store next year in Dubai.
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Oliver Sweeney gets foot in door on Regent Street
Footwear retailer Oliver Sweeney this week opened a new-look flagship on Regent Street.
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NewsNew look for Jones Bootmaker
Jones Bootmaker has launched a new retail identity at its Milton Keynes store.
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OpinionWhat’s the point of a door?
Unusually, I was asked to appear on TV last week to talk about shop doors, or rather the lack of them.
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NewsPhones 4U accelerates store refit programme
Mobile phone retailer Phones 4U plans to ramp up its store refits in the new year with the aim of completing the whole chain by the middle of 2010.
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NewsElton John AIDS Foundation to open a pop-up shop
The Elton John AIDS Foundation will open a pop-up shop called Out the Closet in Covent Garden tomorrow.
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Dyson creates pop-up shop at Bluewater
Upmarket vacuum cleaner brand Dyson has opened its first bricks-and-mortar shop, with a 1,200 sq ft pop-up store at Bluewater that opened yesterday.
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GalleryStreet of the week: Carnaby Street London
Anyone familiar with the Batman movies will know the one in which Jack Nicholson, playing the role of the Joker, heads into Gotham with a load of sinister-jolly balloons that spray poison gas onto the celebrating street revellers. Take an evening walk down Carnaby Street at the moment and something ...
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GallerySteamer Trading: A cook shop worth its salt
Kitchen retailer Steamer Trading has opened an architecturally bold store that is sure to impress. John Ryan gets a tour in historic Guildford.
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NewsToast opens Cheltenham pop-up store
Toast, the French Connection-owned fashion, accessories and homewares retailer, has opened a pop-up store in Cheltenham that will become permanent in February.
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OpinionThe duck’s nuts
The two-year-old Pets at Home store in New Malden shows how retailers that know their business are comfortable with evolving a format, refining it and constantly looking to improve what’s already there.