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AnalysisData: Five fastest growing shopping centre retailers
Smiggle was the fastest growing shopping centre retailer in the UK last year as it continued its assault on the British market.
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OpinionOpinion: West End to have a very happy Chinese New Year
The Chinese Spring Festival, with New Year as its centrepiece, has long been a key date in the West End calendar.
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AnalysisWHSmith: 225 years old and still going strong
WHSmith earned a gold star from the City this week as it posted a better-than-expected 1% increase in group like-for-likes.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Holland & Barrett is staying healthy
Holland & Barrett has opened a 6,000 sq ft flagship in London, with a fresh focus on health and beauty, sports nutrition and vegan nails.
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OpinionOpinion: Why London can weather 2017’s retail storm
It’s difficult to think of a year when so much has happened politically – both nationally and internationally – and when the only certainty seems to be uncertainty.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Why is French Connection under attack?
French Connection’s investors are continuing to agitate, renewing calls for the retailer to address governance.
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OpinionOpinion: H&M Oxford Street has itself to blame
Closing a secondary H&M store in London’s West End makes sense. There are just too many of the things.
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OpinionOpinion: A retail business plan for ‘interesting times’
I’m taking a break from finishing the Calliope business plan for 2017/18. We’re a small business with two shareholders, three stores plus a website, so this is a swift process.
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AnalysisStore gallery: Lululemon springs onto Regent Street
The Canadian athleisure retailer has opened a London flagship with a sense of space and style. John Ryan reports.
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OpinionOpinion: Closing on Boxing Day is about having heart
The simple question for retail leaders is – do we care as much about family as we do about making money?
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OpinionOpinion: Happy Christmas, but a challenging New Year?
It was late, cliff-hangingly late. But, as usual, Christmas did come for retailers.
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AnalysisConsumer 2017: Where will people shop?
Over the past five years, many observers have heralded the death of the high street in the face of online growth, but it’s still alive and kicking.
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OpinionOpinion: Is it still worth trading in the West End?
The cost of opening a successful shop in London’s West End may outweigh the benefits. It could be better to go to a shopping centre.
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AnalysisIn pictures: How retailers are selling the Sales
Appealing to cash-strapped January Sales shoppers is a tricky business and there are many approaches that can be adopted.
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OpinionPractical lessons in reinvigorating high streets
British towns should take inspiration from Belgium, where a passionate mayor forced through change to make his city’s high streets fit for the 21st century.
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AnalysisIt wasn’t all bad: The 12 gifts of retail in 2016
It wasn’t all bad for retail this year. Here’s our seasonal celebration of how retail enhances lives and the nation.
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InterviewDwell’s founder on why it's sitting pretty at DFS
Dwell founder and boss Aamir Ahmad says his furniture and homewares business has been revitalised since DFS snapped it up in 2014.
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AnalysisHandbags and cocktails in Selfridges’ Accessories Hall
The newly completed Accessories Hall in Selfridges’ flagship is about grandeur and luxury.
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OpinionOpinion: Why Amazon Go is not a grocery game-changer
Will Amazon’s bricks-and-mortar grocery venture prove to be an industry game-changer? TCC’s global insight director, Bryan Roberts, has his say.
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AnalysisIn the pink at Missguided's first store
Missguided opening in the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, London, marks another etailer clearing the digital divide.