All Topshop articles – Page 2
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Analysis
Do you really need shops? Lessons from Cath Kidston, Karen Millen and Coast
As pureplays Boohoo and Asos scoop up the brand rights to former high street darlings Debenhams and Topshop, switching them to online only, Retail Week gleans lessons from brands that have already ditched their stores.
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Analysis
Analysis: How Asos will make Topshop live up to its name again
Asos this week swooped on Arcadia’s Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands in a bid to reach new heights with the iconic names under its umbrella
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News
Asos scoops up Topshop in £265m deal
Asos has acquired Topshop and other Arcadia brands in “a hugely exciting moment” for the online fashion specialist.
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Opinion
‘Asos and Boohoo swoops for Topshop and Debs are changing of the guard’
If proof were needed of the scale of change underway in retail, it came this week as pureplays Asos and Boohoo swooped on two of retail’s most venerable high street names.
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News
Asos could retain Topshop flagship if Arcadia deal goes ahead
Online retailer Asos, which is in exclusive talks to buy Arcadia brands, is interested in retaining the flagship Topshop store on Oxford Street.
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News
Asos emerges as frontrunner to acquire Topshop
Asos is closing in on a deal to acquire Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge out of administration.
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News
Next pulls out of race to acquire Topshop
Next has withdrawn from the bidding process to acquire Arcadia’s Topshop brand, despite previously being pinned as the frontrunner to snap up the fashion retailer.
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News
Arcadia to close 31 stores as buyers circle
Arcadia has confirmed it will close 31 of its stores by the end of the month as the race to buy its brands out of administration tightens.
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News
Next emerges as frontrunner in race to buy Topshop
Fashion giant Next has emerged as the leader in the race to salvage Topshop from the administration of the Arcadia brands.
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Opinion
‘Investors must separate wheat from chaff as etailers race to market’
The acceleration of online retail sales during the pandemic has brought a race to market as ecommerce players rush to pull off IPOs.
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News
Trump’s tie-maker joins fight for Arcadia
US clothing firm G-III Apparel has reportedly joined the battle to take over Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire.
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News
US giant circles Arcadia and Debenhams for ‘double takeover’
The owner of US department store Barneys has emerged as a potential buyer of both Arcadia and Debenhams.
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News
Topshop administrators seek up to £200m for flagship Arcadia brand
Topshop’s administrators hope for offers of up to £200m for the business, the jewel in the crown of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia fashion empire.
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Opinion
Peter Williams: ‘The job losses are awful, but fashion needs a cull’
I joined the retail industry rather a long time ago – in 1987 to be precise, at Freemans, the traditional mailorder business that produced a 1,000-page catalogue twice a year.
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Opinion
‘Arcadia tycoon Green – from retail’s King Midas to King Canute’
Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green’s fall from grace has been so spectacular and so total that it’s hard to remember what a force he once was.
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Analysis
As Arcadia and Debenhams collapse, what will the aftershock mean for retail?
As December, traditionally the height of retail’s peak trading period begins, two of the industry’s most venerable names have been brought low by the Covid earthquake that has shaken the industry.
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News
Arcadia collapses into administration putting 13,000 jobs at risk
Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia group has tumbled into administration leaving the future of its 13,000 employees hanging in the balance.
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Opinion
‘Black Friday exposes a divide retailers can’t afford to be on wrong side of’
Shopify president Harley Finkelstein described retail as a tale of two worlds when he spoke to us last week – the “resistant” and the “resilient”.
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News
Ashley offers Arcadia a lifeline as Cowgill backs away from Debenhams deal
The imminent collapse of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire has prompted a domino effect in the high street, with JD Sports’ rescue bid for Debenhams now in jeopardy.
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News
Arcadia teeters on brink of collapse, 13,000 jobs at risk
Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia empire could collapse into administration as soon as next week.