All Property articles – Page 279
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NewsAurora to open dual branded Oasis/Warehouse stores
Aurora Fashions, owner of high street chains Warehouse and Oasis, is creating a larger, dual-branded store format that will allow it to open in out-of-town retail parks.
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NewsArcadia mulls closure of 200 shops
Arcadia could close as many as 200 stores as it looks to restructure its property portfolio in the next three years.
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NewsAlworths continues to grow after first year
Alworths, the variety store that sprung from the ashes of Woolworths, enjoyed a record week last week as it hits its first year anniversary today.
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NewsNew stores aid TJ Hughes’s profit rise
Discount department store chain TJ Hughes posted a pre-tax profit hike of 22% to £6.8m for the year to January 30, compared with £5.3m the previous year, driven by store openings and growth in online sales.
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Opinion
Back in business
It may have been the usual suspects who were most prominent, but this year’s BCSC was a much more positive affair
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NewsPaphitis reveals plans for lingerie chain Boux Avenue
Entrepreneur Theo Paphitis has revealed his new lingerie brand will be called Boux Avenue, and has outlined plans to open in top shopping centres including Manchester’s Trafford Centre, Sheffield’s Meadowhall and the Bullring in Birmingham.
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NewsWestfield Stratford will not undermine West End, study finds
The opening of Olympics shopping centre Westfield Stratford will have a limited effect on London’s West End a study has found.
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NewsProperty and retail industry bosses call for change in lease structures
One of the UK’s best known fashion retail chains and one of the country’s largest retail developers both called for change in lease structures at the BCSC annual conference in Manchester this week.
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NewsGuide to healthy high streets launched
The department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a high street health-check guide designed to promote successful high streets.
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John Lewis reveals plans for further 2 home shops
Department store John Lewis will open a further two home stores as part of its rollout plan for 2011.
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NewsAnthropologie to open Edinburgh store
US womenswear and homeware giant Anthropologie is to open its first UK store outside of London next summer, in a three-storey site on Edinburgh’s George Street.
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NewsLondon vacancy rates continue to outperform rest of UK
Central London continues to significantly outperform the rest of the UK in terms of vacancy rates, resulting in an exacerbated two tier retail property market.
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NewsPrimark gears up for UK growth
Primark, the value fashion giant, is poised to open six new UK stores before Christmas.
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Opinion
Two new changes
An afternoon of property yesterday: Westfield Stratford followed by One New Change
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NewsTraffic-free shopping on Oxford Street on November 27
London’s famous shopping Mecca Oxford Street will offer traffic-free shopping again this year, on November 27.
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NewsForever 21 aims for 100 UK stores as it prepares for Bullring launch
US fast-fashion retailer Forever 21 has revealed plans to open more than 100 stores in the UK as it gears up to make its debut in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre next month.
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OpinionIt’s all about quality
Rather like the BCSC and MAPIC events we preview in this special supplement, celebrating the best retail environments is at the heart of what Retail Week is about.
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AnalysisCan workers provide a big break for WHSmith?
The retailer - more used to operating in railway stations - believes the workplace could prove to be an untapped source of growth. George MacDonald examines the venture’s potential
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OpinionBuild it, but will they come?
Looking back on the last 10 years of Retail Week Awards we see the very best centres that hit the headlines for all the right reasons. All demanded the unprecedented vision and conviction of a few; each believing in a new generation of regional or city centre malls that would ...
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NewsSegal: ‘I can’t open in UK’
Crate & Barrel’s legendary founder says rents and lease structures are a barrier to new entrants