All Stores and property articles – Page 364

  • News

    House of Fraser eyes luxury brand tie-ups

    2008-06-27T08:00:00Z

    House of Fraser is understood to be in talks with luxury French fashion brands Louis Vuitton and Hermes to open shop-in-shops in its Glasgow store.

  • News

    Nike launches store for Wimbledon

    2008-06-25T12:38:14Z

    Sports retail giant Nike is debuting a new-format temporary store at Wimbledon this year.

  • Opinion

    A tougher game

    2008-06-23T12:20:00Z

    News that the chief executive and chairman of quoted shopfitter Styles & Wood (S&W) have exited stage left is an indication of the way things are heading in retail at the moment and the way in which this is cascading down the store design supply chain.

  • News

    Spirit at Selfridges Oxford Street

    2008-06-20T17:18:00Z

    As a proposition, Spirit, the young fashion department at Selfridges’ flagship store on Oxford Street, would not normally be eligible for consideration as a Store of the Week.

  • News

    Hamleys’ Jordan opening kick-starts expansion

    2008-06-20T11:52:00Z

    World-famous toy shop Hamleys opened a three-floor shop in Amman, the capital of Jordan, on Wednesday.

  • Where in the world:
    Analysis

    Purple reign

    2008-06-19T10:47:00Z

    PC World’s Enfield branch is the test bed for DSGi boss John Browett’s plans to revive the group’s computing brand. John Ryan goes to the north London suburbs to investigate

  • News

    Topshop installs photographic machine in stores

    2008-06-18T16:57:32Z

    Topshop has been setting up bespoke in-store photographic studios in an exclusive collaboration with The Helmut Newton Foundation.

  • Manchester
    Gallery

    Manchester Shopping

    2008-06-18T16:41:00Z

    A short stroll around the capital of the Northwest reveals some of the best retailing outside London.

  • Opinion

    Morrisons could do better

    2008-06-16T12:12:45Z

    In food retailing, Morrisons can do little wrong at the moment.

  • News

    M&S plans green store roll-out

    2008-06-13T12:48:00Z

    Marks & Spencer is to roll out about half of the initiatives it has been testing at its Bournemouth eco-store to its entire portfolio.

  • News

    Nike Town opens doors to Oxford Circus footy area

    2008-06-13T12:21:00Z

    Nike unveiled part of its revamped London flagship Nike Town this week to cash in on the start of the Euro 2008 football tournament.

  • News

    Ted Baker fashions upmarket Noir format

    2008-06-13T12:14:00Z

    Ted Baker is to launch a store format for its premium mens- and womenswear ranges and open a raft of stores as it continues to buck the downturn.

  • News

    Teknosa Planet, Istanbul

    2008-06-13T11:19:00Z

    Walk around a technology store in the UK and chances are you’ll find yourself in a variant of a racetrack layout, with a confusing mesh of overhead signage. This means time spent on finding the appropriate category, as well as a frustrating shopping experience.

  • Analysis

    Avanti: C&A’s value zeitgeist

    2008-06-13T10:55:00Z

    It may be gone from the UK, but C&A is alive and well in Europe and testing a value format called Avanti that looks promising. John Ryan reports from Gelsenkirchen

  • News

    Ann Summers raises curtain on plush look

    2008-06-13T10:22:00Z

    Ann Summers unveiled a new-look store on London’s Oxford Street on Monday that has been designed to give the brand a more upmarket feel.

  • News

    M&S to devote space to Per Una tailoring

    2008-06-13T10:12:00Z

    Per Una, the exclusive brand created for Marks & Spencer by fashion entrepreneur George Davies, is to open dedicated space for its tailored product for the autumn/winter season.

  • News

    Fresh look for Fresh & Easy

    2008-06-13T09:49:00Z

    Tesco rethinks format to create a ‘warmer’ feel as it prepares to press on with US store openings

  • PC World
    Gallery

    PC World – Enfield

    2008-06-09T16:56:00Z

    Where in the world? Enfield actually. This is DSGi’s latest attempt to provide a new shopping environment for its customers.

  • Opinion

    On doing the right thing

    2008-06-09T12:28:00Z

    It’s hard to talk to anybody about store design these days without matters environmental cropping up.

  • Avanti Gelsenkirchen
    Gallery

    Avanti Gelsenkirchen

    2008-06-06T17:46:00Z

    The Avanti store in Gelsenkirchen marks a new departure for Euro-value retailer C&A.