All Staff pay articles – Page 94
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GalleryStore of the week: Cavells Outdoor Oakham, Rutland
Oakham is a small town of 12,000 people from which Nottingham, Leicester and Northampton are all similarly distant. As such, any retailer wishing to attract anything other than very local shoppers has to provide an environment that can’t be found elsewhere.
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GalleryTopman’s top shop
Topman’s Oxford Circus flagship store is a new standard bearer for Sir Philip Green’s menswear chain. John Ryan takes a tour with him
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GalleryStore of the week: Manolo Blahnik, Dublin
If there’s one thing that upscale shoemaker Manolo Blahnik is famous for, it has to be killer heels. This is the purveyor of footwear that leaves women feeling empowered and men emasculated with dizzyingly high heels being de rigeur.
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GalleryPutting on the style at Homebase
Homebase has been working hard to improve the interior of its stores. John Ryan visits Basingstoke to see the latest stage in its design journey
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GalleryMassimo Dutti: Continental chic meets country home
Massimo Dutti’s UK presence has so far been muted but the Inditex brand’s new Oxford Street store puts it in the limelight, says John Ryan
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OpinionRetail surgery: Visual merchandising display costs
How can I keep the costs of my visual merchandising displays to a minimum and how regularly do I need to change them?
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GalleryStore of the week: Dr Martens Spitalfields
The Dr Martens pop-up shop in trendy Spitalfields epitomises all that’s best about the rage for stores that are here today and may be gone by tomorrow.
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AnalysisShopfitters survey: Bumping along the bottom
It’s been a tough year and this year’s shopfitting league table shows how much the market has shrunk. But are things levelling out and are we seeing the new normal? John Ryan reports
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AnalysisShopfitters survey: Hoping for the best
Fearing the worst but ploughing ahead seems to be shopfitters’ default approach for surviving this recession. But is the optimism coming through in this year’s National Association of Shopfitters/Retail Week survey misplaced? John Ryan reports
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GalleryStore of the week: Havaianas Sao Paulo, Brazil
This impressive store really is a long way away: Sao Paulo in Brazil to be precise.
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NewsJulian Graves fascia to survive acquisition by Holland & Barrett
Holland & Barrett will retain the Julian Graves fascia in the majority of stores following clearance last Friday from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for its takeover of the chain.
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GalleryStore of the Week: Camper Beaubourg, France
Spanish shoe retailer and brand Camper provides a new reason for visiting the Paris’s Beaubourg area with a store that takes a pretty unusual stance to visual merchandising and layout.
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GalleryTop (Pri)marks: the new Primark in Bristol
The value giant has just opened a swish store in Bristol, but can it steal the flagship mantle from Marble Arch? John Ryan finds out
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NewsManchester City and Umbro overhaul club store
Manchester City Football Club has overhauled the look of its merchandise store to coincide with the new season and mark the signing of a 10-year partnership with Manchester-based Umbro.
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GalleryBreathing new life into dead space
With voids skyrocketing in the recession, landlords and developers need to be creative with empty space to keep shoppers interested. John Ryan reports on some of the inventive ideas being tested
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GalleryStore of the Week: Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge
You can normally rely upon Harvey Nichols to do something special with its windows: it’s part of the way the brand works. However, the Knightsbridge flagship has a scheme at the moment that is likely to stop even the most fashion-hardened Sloane in her tracks.
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OpinionPaperchase shows the way
In spite of the apparent emergence of Germany and France from recession (that’s what the figures indicate), retailers in those countries are under the cosh just as much as over here and store openings are as thin on the ground.
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GalleryRobert Dyas: Playing hard ball with hardware
Following Robert Dyas’s management buyout the hardware retailer wants to declutter its stores. John Ryan visits the Maidenhead test bed
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GalleryStore of the week: John Lewis Foodhall Bluewater
The John Lewis/Waitrose Foodhall at John Lewis Bluewater has now been up and running for two weeks. At 16,500 sq ft, it is around a third larger than the Oxford Street format on which it has been modelled and is now the biggest food collaboration between the two retailers that ...
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GalleryStore of the week: Levi’s Women Paris
In the heart of Parisian denim country, on the Rue Pierre Lescot, is the new Levi’s Women store. Design consultancy Checkland Kindleysides’ creation spreads over two storeys and aims at a more mature customer than the traditional Levi’s-clad teen, according to the designers.