All Shopping centres articles – Page 56
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AnalysisLeeds: The holy Trinity?
Work is recommencing at Land Securities’ Trinity Leeds development, but does this bode well for the development pipeline or is it too soon to call an upturn in retail property?
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NewsThe Perfume Shop to trial Superdrug tie-up
The Perfume Shop is gunning to be the number one perfume retailer in the UK, after signing a deal with sister firm Superdrug to trial shop-in-shops in its stores.
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NewsTrinity Leeds work to resume in August
Shopping centre Trinity Leeds has been given the go ahead by developers Land Securites, which has said it expects work to resume on site next month, in preparation for opening in spring 2013.
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OpinionSilly Season
Listing the Milton Keynes shopping centre is a victory for pressure groups over the public at large.
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NewsRock shopping centre in Bury due to open doors
The Rock shopping centre in Bury was due to open its doors today, one of the few new major shopping centres to debut this year.
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AnalysisLearning to play their cards right
With Clinton Cards issuing a profit warning and Paperchase being sold, the UK’s £1.5bn card market is a hive of activity.
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NewsSuperGroup posts £22.5m in pre-tax profit
SuperGroup, the young fashion business which owns brands Superdry and chain Cult, has posted £22.5m in profit before tax in its first set of annual results since it joined the stock exchange.
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Opinion
Flexible friends
Proposals that local authorities should be allowed to offer discounts on business rates to encourage investment in struggling high streets are a good idea.
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NewsDixons launches clearance format at Merry Hill
Electricals retailer Dixons has opened a clearance format at Merry Hill in the West Midlands.
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InterviewInterview: Steve Rowe, Marks & Spencer’s man on the frontline
Retail director Steve Rowe has worked hard to up M&S’s game. He talks to George MacDonald about the customer experience and being a ‘lifer’.
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NewsHed Kandi to open first store in Bluewater
Music and lifestyle brand Hed Kandi has confirmed its first move into retail with a store opening in the Bluewater shopping centre in August.
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OpinionTough talks ahead
Retailers are going to be talking tough when it comes to lease renewals over the next few years.
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GalleryCalvin Klein Jeans, Bluewater
There’s been a branch of Calvin Klein Jeans at Bluewater for about a decade - making it part of the original line-up at the Kentish mall. And although it still looks perfectly respectable, any retail fit-out that is 10 years old will inevitably show its age, if only because fashions ...
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GalleryLimelight Marketplace, New York
Less of a store of the week and rather more of a destination of the month, Limelight Marketplace is the successful outcome of remodelling a former nightclub housed in a Gothic revival church.
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NewsDSGi tests combined Currys/PC World at Bluewater
Electricals group DSGi is testing a combined Currys and PC World store at Bluewater following the success of big two-in-one shops.
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NewsCharles Tyrwhitt unveils multiplatform plan
Formalwear specialist CharlesTyrwhitt has unveiled a suite of plans to overhaul its website, move into the made-to-measure market and open up to a further 50 stores over the next eight years.
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AnalysisTraffic Jams
As trade becomes increasingly unpredictable, Liz Morrell asks retailers whether it is down to multichannel, competition from leisure, the weather or something more fundamental
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NewsHomeSense reveals large format and website plans
Off-price furniture retailer HomeSense, the sister brand of TK Maxx, has opened a new-model, larger-format store in Merry Hill as it gears up to launch its first transactional website.
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NewsSouthGate Bath 75% let
Shopping centre SouthGate Bath has signed a raft of fashion and electricals retailers ahead of opening in September, meaning the scheme is now 75% let.
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Analysis
The new North-South divide
With looming public sector cuts and job losses set to hit the North harder than the South, will regional disparities return?