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Gap announces plans to shut a fifth of its stores
Fashion retailer Gap has announced that it plans to shut more than a fifth of its Gap stores in North America over the next two years. The retailer recognised that it had expanded to such an extent that the US market became oversaturated with its stores. As a result, Gap ...
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GalleryThe streets of San Francisco
A small area in the centre of San Francisco has all of the major US brands that characterise the country’s retail activity. They are also where US retail puts its best West Coast foot forward. By John Ryan
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Gap opens first franchised Banana Republic store in Russia
Clothing retailer Gap has opened its first franchised Banana Republic store in Russia, in AfiMall City, Moscow.Gap began offering its Gap and Banana Republic products online to Russian consumers through its international online shipping provider in 2010.Fiba Holding will manage the store under Gap’s existing franchise agreement.
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Gap to open in Vietnam and Guam
Gap has announced plans to open its first stores in Vietnam and Guam through its franchise channel. In Vietnam, the first two Gap stores will open in Ho Chi Minh City this October followed by Hanoi in 2012.Banana Republic will make its debut in late 2012. The first Gap store ...
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GalleryGap, Via del Corso, Rome
Gap understands the notion of what makes a flagship to judge from this 14,110 sq ft, two-floor branch that has just opened on Rome’s Via del Corso, one of the Eternal City’s principal shopping streets.
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NewsBanana Republic lands at the Trafford Centre
Gap-owned fashion retailer Banana Republic is to open its first store in the North after signing for a unit at the Trafford Centre in Manchester.
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Gap to open stores in Africa
US clothing retailer Gap said it will open its first stores in Africa this year, with its first Gap store opening in Egypt next month and its first Banana Republic and Gap stores in Morocco in October. The company began shipping products to Egypt, Morocco and South Africa last year, ...
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NewsGap remodels Old Navy
Clothing retailer Gap is to remodel its discount clothing chain Old Navy, abandoning its surplus feel in favour of a more modern lookThe new store arrangement organises clothes into areas based on outfit types to encourage more impulse purchases.Store designers have moved the checkout area and changing rooms to the ...
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NewsDiane von Furstenberg to design kidswear for Gap
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg is to design a kidswear range for Gap with the collection available online, in GapKids and babyGap stores from March 2012.
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Analysis
Gap needs fresh approach to reverse domestic fall
Gap chief executive Glenn Murphy has given himself five months to stop years of bleeding at the eponymous brand.
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NewsGap warns of rising costs after profits drop
Profits at US casualwear giant Gap dropped by 23% in its first quarter as the company warned it expected its performance to be heavily impacted by rising costs.
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AnalysisWhy fast fashion can be eco-fashion
H&M is resolved to prove that low-priced fashion can still be green. Gemma Goldfingle interviews UK managing director Magnus Olsson to find out why the retailer is on a mission to improve its eco-image.
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NewsBigger role for Sunnucks as Gap picks London as its non-US base
US fashion giant Gap is to take advantage of the UK’s “great retail talent” by making London its new international hub as it improves efficiencies across the business.
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NewsStephen Sunnucks to head up Gap's international arm
US casualwear giant Gap has centralised its overseas operations to London and promoted European president Stephen Sunnucks.
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NewsSpace race
Two more retailers have signed to Land Securities’ Buchanan Street development in Glasgow, meaning it is already 75% let by space.
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News‘Minimal closures’ in Gap’s UK portfolio
Gap has said its international arm, which includes the UK, will continue to be a key driver of the fashion giant’s growth despite a handful of store closures.
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Gap to close 200 of its 900 stores worldwide by 2013
Clothing giant Gap is to close 200 of its 900 stores worldwide by 2013, and has stated that part of its difficulties are due to it not investing enough in attracting ethnic minority customers in the US. Chairman and chief executive Glenn Murphy said Gap’s market share among African-, Asian- ...
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NewsRetailers relocate in Japan amid nuclear fallout fears
Swedish fashion retailer H&M and French luxury group PPR have temporarily relocated from their offices in Tokyo for fear of nuclear fallout.
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NewsGap to close stores and become more trend-led
Casualwear giant Gap is to close 200 of its 900 stores worldwide by 2013, and has admitted it has not invested heavily enough into attracting ethnic minority customers in the US.