All Stores and property articles – Page 343
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Analysis
Steamer Trading: Full steam ahead
Kitchenware retailer Steamer Trading Cookshop’s gleaming new store shows what can still be done in a depressing retail climate. John Ryan takes a look at its impressive visual merchandising
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Opinion
Comment: How retailers can lighten the mood
It’s quite a challenge to remain optimistic in the present climate, but at least one retailer is working on making shoppers feel better at a highly subconscious level.
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News
Specsavers searches for 20 London stores
Optician Specsavers is to ramp up its presence in London with the opening of 20 stores over the next 18 months.
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Gallery
John Ryan’s store of the week: Suit Supply, Savile Row
Having arrived in London in spring, Dutch retailer Suit Supply is everything you would want a men’s formalwear retailer to be.
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News
Steamer Trading plans 30 stores by 2011
Kitchenwares retailer Steamer Trading Cookshop opened its 18th store last week and plans to increase its portfolio by more than a third.
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News
Greek fashion brand to make UK debut at Westfield London
Athens-based fashion retailer No Name is to make its UK debut at Westfield London at the end of the month.
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AnalysisStore design: Design heroes
Times may be tough but, as Retail Week’s Stores 2008 book shows, that needn’t mean good design should go out the window. John Ryan showcases this year’s stunners
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GalleryRetail Interiors Awards 2008 winners
The 11th Retail Interiors Awards took place on September 30 at London’s Hilton hotel on Park Lane.
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Opinion
The X factor: how mid-market retailers can get ahead in the push for posh
Last week brought the annual handing out of gongs for the best in UK store design at the 11th Retail Interiors Awards and a glittering event it was, as wine flowed (rather too) freely and the design cognoscenti danced ’til dawn.
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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
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
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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Gallery
Store of the week: Marks & Spencer, Grafton Street, Dublin
In the week when Marks & Spencer scooped the Retail Week Interiors award for best in-store catering and hospitality for its restaurant in Newcastle, it’s worth noting what the retailer has done at its Dublin flagship.
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NewsHarvey Nichols set to axe homewares
Harvey Nichols is to axe homewares from its Knightsbridge flagship store in a bid to expand its fashion offer.
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News
Hotel Chocolat debuts cafe in Bristol
Hotel Chocolat opened its first dedicated shop-cum-caf in Bristol last week, following a trial at its Kensington High Street store in London.
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Analysis
Store Operations: Are shoppers being served?
As the credit crunch sets in, people are changing the way they shop. But are retailers changing how they run stores to reflect this? Charlotte Hardie reports
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Analysis
Cabot Circus: Bristol fashion
Another day, another shopping centre? Not so for the all-singing, all-dancing Cabot Circus. John Ryan profiles six promising shops at the Bristol scheme
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GalleryHotel Chocolat – Kensington
Hotel Chocolat has majored on selling confectionery in combination with highly designed interiors.
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Opinion
Stores 2008: this year’s retail design round-up
Tomorrow sees the publication of Stores 2008, a book produced by Retail Week with the support of Land Securities that celebrates the best in retail design across the world during the past 12 months.