Beales opening in Perth shows that the department store isn’t yet dead
The news that Beales is to take over the ex-McEwens department store site in Perth, with an expected opening in November, was a surprise on various levels.
Read more....The news that Beales is to take over the ex-McEwens department store site in Perth, with an expected opening in November, was a surprise on various levels.
Read more....Shoppers in the North East can access Booths-branded products for the first time, after a small range appeared in the Food Hall of Fenwick in Newcastle.
Read more....More details are emerging about the new Days department store concept planned by EWM Group for Carmarthen’s former BHS. So, what do we know so far?
Read more....It’s a few weeks since I trailed the opening of Sandersons in Sheffield, and having visited the department store for its launch, it doesn’t disappoint.
Read more....What qualities have allowed stores like Rutherford’s, Barkers and Browns to thrive? New independent department store Sandersons offers some clues.
Read more....Retail development firm Dransfield invited me to visit its Fox Valley scheme in Sheffield, see the progress, and hear the latest on its plans and lettings.
Read more....Newcastle’s iconic Fenwick department store is rightly known for its annual Christmas window – which can’t, scarily, be very far off making its appearance for 2013....
Read more....Sunderland’s ex-Peacocks unit in The Bridges is finally to be reoccupied, after more than 18 months of vacancy. The prominent Market Square store was one of...
Read more....In the same month that Middlesbrough-based furniture institution Barker and Stonehouse has opened its first London store, in Battersea, it’s been revealed that another firm with...
Read more....The traditional, independent department store has been a fixture of the British high street for generations – yet look around, and you could be forgiven for...
Read more....Just one week after Midlands Co-op announced the closure of its department stores, Lincolnshire Co-op has revealed that it too is to exit non-food.
Read more....Midlands Co-op has become the latest co-operative society to exit non-food, with its announcement today that eight Fashion & Home department stores are to close within...
Read more....Tamworth shoppers now have access to a raft of Jacques Vert Group womenswear brands, following the opening of a new upmarket outlet concession in the...
Read more....TJ Hughes, the discount department store chain, has announced that its Middlesbrough store will reopen next week, at 10am on Wednesday 3 October. Under the heading...
Read more....Hoopers, the upmarket Carlisle department store whose closure was announced in May, is to finally shut at the close of trade today (Saturday 25 August)....
Read more....The confirmation that Debenhams will be opening up in Lichfield’s former TJ Hughes store in March 2013 is great news for the city, and should give...
Read more....Talks that could result in the rescue of Hoopers department store in Carlisle are still ongoing, I understand, three months on from the announcement of...
Read more....TJ Hughes is to reopen its store in Middlesbrough’s Captain Cook Square, it has been confirmed. The move comes almost exactly a year after the...
Read more....The recent news that Hoopers in Carlisle is to close is clearly a disappointing development for the city, but it’s also very sad for anyone – like me...
Read more....Among all the retail gloom that the newspapers seem to like writing about, it was refreshing to read last week that Browns of York is to...
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