All Property articles – Page 326
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Jagtiani targets 250 stores as he mulls global prospects
Dubai-based retail group Landmark is to open a raft of stores and launch in new markets as well as create a Middle Eastern department store format.
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Leeds’ Clarence Dock development to unveil retail phase
The retail area of the 260 million Clarence Dock scheme in Leeds is due to open tomorrow.
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Analysis
Westfield: Down and out in Derby?
Westfield’s UK centre debut in Derby has been a success, but its arrival has unsettled the rest of the city centre. A year on from its opening, Ben Cooper examines the extent of the fallout.
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CACI: London and Southeast hold key to discounter growth
A report from location analyst CACI pinpoints London and the Southeast as presenting the greatest opportunity for discount retailers.
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Out-of-town sites lose shoppers
Shoppers are shunning out-of-town centres as the poor economic climate continues to affect consumers.
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West End needs £24m Olympics lift, says council
Retail in London’s West End is under serious threat unless investment is increased ahead of the 2012 Olympics, Westminster City Council warned this week.
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Bestseller eyes sites to treble UK stores
Danish multibrand fashion retailer Bestseller Group plans to treble its UK store portfolio by the end of next year.
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Opinion
A tense time for landlords and retailers
There have been some pretty serious conversations between landlords and retailers in the past week as the arrival of the September quarterly rent day last week brought two issues to a head.
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MFI retail and property divisions placed into administration
MFI placed its retail and property divisions into administration yesterday after the completion of a management buyout led by chief executive Gary Favell.
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Analysis
It's not all doom and gloom
Everyone in the retail warehouse market will be glad to see the back of 2008. Retailers and landlords alike have endured a miserable year, all stemming from the collapse in the market for furniture and home improvement.Weaker players like ScS, Floors To Go and New Heights have gone into administration, ...
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Analysis
Planning: Appetite for development
The Government’s latest report on out-of-town planning has raised more questions than it has answered, but if anything is certain it is that the sector must up its game, says Ben Cooper
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Analysis
Design with an edge
Way back when, retail parks were shiny, happy places to be. You could access them with ease and when you got there, by car, you could park for free more or less directly outside whichever shop you fancied. They also offered choice, albeit from within large sheds that boasted outsize ...
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Analysis
Supermarket non-food formats: home is where the heart is
There is not much good news on the retail park scene at the moment. But with the advent of the supermarket non-food formats, new life is being breathed into developments across the UK.Asda opened the first of its non-food-only Asda Living stores in Walsall in October 2004 and now has ...
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Analysis
It's goodbye from them...
The out-of-town market has had a turbulent year, with several big players falling by the wayside. But there is a new breed eager to fill the voids they have left, reports Ben Cooper
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Out of the way?
The rise in petrol prices might have got some in the out-of-town game worried, but there are plenty of others who believe that transport links are not an issue. Mark Faithfull investigates.
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NewsWestfield tenants angry over ‘nightmare’ charges
Major retailers have criticised Westfield London this week over problems they are facing fitting out their stores ahead of the scheme’s opening at the end of this month.
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Retail on the ropes
Sector left reeling as relentless financial crisis leads to dramatic sales slump over past fortnight
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Opinion
For extra cash, take in a lodger or two
While every retailer is constantly on the lookout for ways of increasing sales and cutting costs, there is a growing number that are generating a whole new stream of revenue from their prime asset: store space.
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Analysis
Bristol Cabot Circus: The circus comes to town
Bristol may be the UK’s eighth-largest city, but in retail rankings it barely makes the top 30. Ben Cooper goes to the opening of Cabot Circus, the scheme about to change all that
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Grosvenor opens Liverpool One second phase
The second phase of Liverpool One opened on Wednesday with a ceremony attended by The Princess Royal.