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NewsLakeland unveils a new-look store design
Homewares retailer Lakeland has unveiled a new-look store design with the opening of its Durham shop.The 5,000 sq ft shop, which opened last week, features a demonstration kitchen to promote the retailer’s recently-launched own-brand electricals range, alongside an area to showcase kitchen essentials.The centrepiece of ...
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AnalysisTopshop: an English brand in New York
The delays have been overcome and the most eagerly awaited store of the year has arrived – Topshop has opened in Manhattan. Before the crowds descended, John Ryan walked the shop with Sir Philip Green
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GalleryStore of the week: Zain, Bahrain
Zain, a Bahrain-based phone retailer, has just unveiled a flagship in the Emirate’s Seef Mall. At 3,550 sq ft, this single-floor store has a large footprint by the sector’s standards.
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GalleryStore of the week: Wigmore Sports London
Wigmore Sports is an independent racquet sports specialist in London’s West End that emerged from a store-wide makeover at the end of last year. The redesign was the handiwork of London design consultancy Portland. Over two floors and 3,765 sq ft, it shows what can ...
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NewsFenwick's eye for ladies
Department store group Fenwick has begun revamping its womenswear level on the first floor of its London Bond Street store.The overhaul, led by design consultancy Studio db, aims to maintain a boutique feel for Fenwick’s classic contemporary and niche brands.The project is part of a wider plan announced last summer ...
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GalleryGlobus: Switzerland’s branded houses
Department store operator Globus has two fresh stores in one city that are a model of brand cohesion. John Ryan reports from Bern
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Store of the Week: House of Barbie, Shanghai
Barbie’s turned 50 and strangely remains as shapely and improbable as ever – there must be a very ugly portrait somewhere in her attic. Perhaps it’s in Shanghai’s House of Barbie, which opened earlier this month and is a multi-floored, 40,000 sq ft homage to this icon of unachievable femininity.
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GalleryTesco MyLiberec – Liberec, Czech Republic
My Liberec is the first instance of Tesco’s new department store format in the Czech Republic.
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Store of the week: Undiz, Paris
Remember Etam? As a retail brand it was around for years before Arcadia took the UK chain off its French parent’s hands in 2005. Since then it has vanished from UK high streets, but is alive and kicking in France and Undiz is a spin-off fascia that the company has ...
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Store of the week: Ecco Cologne, Germany
Shoe shops tend not to be the sort of places that most people linger in, for no better reason than that when you’ve bought a pair of shoes it’s a case of job done and head for the exit. This, along with surplus space, may be the reason why the ...
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GalleryWhite Stuff – York
Quirky fashion retailer White Stuff has opened a store in York that shows how a chain with large numbers of stores doesn’t have to mean that every shop has to look the same.
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Store of the week: Recipease, Battersea, London
It may seem, from time to time, that Sainsbury’s front man, school dinner saviour and Volkswagen campervan driver Jamie Oliver is in almost every place you might care to think of, but the opening of his foodie shop Recipease last week added to this extensive list.
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Store of the week: Hamleys, Dubai
How portable is a retail brand and when is it so linked to a particular location that it’s hard to see it working anywhere else?
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Store of the week: Joules, Cheltenham
We’re all familiar with stores that offer shoppers a particular view. Normally carrying the lifestyle tag, these are shops that invite their customers to be part of a club that will be readily recognised by those who are members and, equally, those who are not but might like to be.
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Store of the week: Le Bon Marche Paris
It rarely matters how much good work is done on the internal design of a store, the basement is always a second-class citizen. In department stores it often houses a food hall, the logic being that this will turn it into an area shoppers have to visit.
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GalleryParis department stores
Paris department stores are about glamour and giving the shopper a real experience. Among them, Printemps, currently undergoing refurbishment, and Le Bon Marche, stand tall.
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Store of the week: Harvey Nichols, Jakarta
Luxury may be taking a bit of a battering at the moment but this doesn’t appear to be preventing some of the bigger players from continuing to expand.
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Store of the week: Levi’s, Berlin
Levi’s is one of those brands that seems part of the furniture – you know it’s there, but don’t always give it your full attention.
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Store of the week: Esprit, CentrO, Germany
Perhaps surprisingly for UK shoppers, Hong Kong-listed lifestyle retailer Esprit has been around for more than 40 years.
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Store of the week: Oil & Vinegar, Newcastle
To judge from what’s happening in the wider economy, you might think that being a niche retailer is not the finest thing in the world at the moment.