All Stores and property articles – Page 326
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GalleryDyson Bluewater
There is a sense currently that if it’s a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, then there will be a new pop-up store on the block and last week, Wednesday saw the opening by Dyson, the vacuum cleaner people, of a temporary store in Bluewater.
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NewsNew look for Jones Bootmaker
Jones Bootmaker has launched a new retail identity at its Milton Keynes store.
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OpinionWhat’s the point of a door?
Unusually, I was asked to appear on TV last week to talk about shop doors, or rather the lack of them.
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GallerySteamer Trading: A cook shop worth its salt
Kitchen retailer Steamer Trading has opened an architecturally bold store that is sure to impress. John Ryan gets a tour in historic Guildford.
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GalleryStreet of the week: Carnaby Street London
Anyone familiar with the Batman movies will know the one in which Jack Nicholson, playing the role of the Joker, heads into Gotham with a load of sinister-jolly balloons that spray poison gas onto the celebrating street revellers. Take an evening walk down Carnaby Street at the moment and something ...
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Dyson creates pop-up shop at Bluewater
Upmarket vacuum cleaner brand Dyson has opened its first bricks-and-mortar shop, with a 1,200 sq ft pop-up store at Bluewater that opened yesterday.
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NewsElton John AIDS Foundation to open a pop-up shop
The Elton John AIDS Foundation will open a pop-up shop called Out the Closet in Covent Garden tomorrow.
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NewsPhones 4U accelerates store refit programme
Mobile phone retailer Phones 4U plans to ramp up its store refits in the new year with the aim of completing the whole chain by the middle of 2010.
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NewsToast opens Cheltenham pop-up store
Toast, the French Connection-owned fashion, accessories and homewares retailer, has opened a pop-up store in Cheltenham that will become permanent in February.
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OpinionThe duck’s nuts
The two-year-old Pets at Home store in New Malden shows how retailers that know their business are comfortable with evolving a format, refining it and constantly looking to improve what’s already there.
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GalleryWinter window wonderland
With less than four shopping weeks to Christmas, the stores on Oxford Street should be a riot of festive fun. John Ryan walks the West End with Mary Portas to get her take on the displays.
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GalleryStore of the week: Hawes & Curtis Jermyn Street, London
If one is honest, it’s not often that a shirt retailer would really merit consideration for inclusion in this section of the magazine for the simple reason that it can be a case of seen one, seen them all. Not so with the Hawes & Curtis flagship on Jermyn Street, ...
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NewsSelfridges ready for online debut as centenary profits to hit £100m
Department store group Selfridges said it is on track to launch its much-anticipated online offer in spring, as it revealed it expects profits of at least £100m in its centenary year.
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OpinionPopping in to pop-ups
Bit of a rant this, but when is a pop-up shop not worth the space on which it is temporarily situated? The answer’s really simple, when it doesn’t convince you that it’s worth a visit.
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GalleryBetter by design: New uses of former Woolworths
When you look at the retailers that have replaced Woolworths, it’s a wonder the general store had any shoppers at all. John Ryan reports on how the new guard are making use of Woolies’ former branches.
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NewsAnthropologie’s London debut a hit, says owner
US giant Anthropologie’s debut in the UK has been hailed an early success by its parent company, which said it “generated the second best opening day sales in our history”.
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GalleryStore of the week: Simon Carter Accessories, Mayfair
It’s a shade over two years since Moss Bros opened the first Simon Carter fashion store in London, and at the time it looked a promising debut.
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NewsReiss redesigns stores for luxury
Luxury fashion chain Reiss has refreshed areas of selected stores in support of its capsule 1971 collection, the year in which the retailer opened its first store.
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OpinionAn Anthropologie lesson
In this unseasonably warm period of goodwill to all men, there is much to be leant from the way in which Anthropologie is pulling them through doors by the simple expedient of quick-fire change.
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GalleryStore of the week: Kurt Geiger Regent Street
There’s been every reason to admire the Kurt Geiger format that’s been around for a while now. The mirrored cubes on which the merchandise is displayed, piled on top of each other, give a show-stopping entrance to every store.