Category: Specialist Retailers
Polish fashion chain Reserved made its UK debut last week, opening in part of the ex-BHS in London’s Oxford Street at the same time as launching online.
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Value fashion retailer Pep&Co has increased its exposure thanks to ITV docusoap Bargain Shop Wars – and is now planning up to 15 new stores this autumn.
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Fashion chain Bank became the first major retail collapse of 2015 – but the brand looks to have made a surprise comeback in Ashton-under-Lyne and elsewhere.
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Danish retailer Tiger has confirmed what I expected – the location of its new store in Newcastle’s Intu Eldon Square will indeed be the ex-Foot Locker unit.
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Danish variety chain Tiger is opening a store in Newcastle’s Intu Eldon Square “around mid-November”, and is advertising for sales staff and supervisors.
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Last month I wrote about the impending arrival of new value fashion and homewares chain Pep&Co – and its first store, in Kettering, has now...
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Talking to retailers – as I spend much of my time doing – it’s interesting how many businesses have embraced Facebook and its Pages functionality, but...
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Few consumers will have heard of it yet – for one thing, there’s no Twitter or Facebook presence that I can see – but new value...
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I’ve written before about independent online businesses – like fashion accessories store Tesoros – that have managed to carve a great niche for themselves in...
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If you’ve passed through the St George’s Way mall of Newcastle’s Eldon Square in the last few days, you’ll have noticed new hoardings around the three...
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One of the most interesting things to emerge from my regular Retailer Q&A features is a sense of how different, longstanding independents are navigating the increasingly multichannel...
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With my CannySites.com business traditionally focusing upon stores in the home, garden and holidays space, it’s fair to say that fashion probably hasn’t been my...
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One of the eight new Poundland stores scheduled to open by the end of March is the long-awaited branch at Gateshead’s Trinity Square development, which Poundland’s...
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As Poundland gets ready to float on the London Stock Exchange this week, in a move expected to value the business at £750m – similar in...
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Think of a great northern city, and the chances are that you’ll bring to mind one of the great northern retailers that’s based there. Bradford...
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Though navigating the economic downturn continues to challenge many stores, one of the fascinating subtexts has been the growth of new independent retailers, sometimes borne out...
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It’s hard to believe that it’s five years ago today – on 26 November 2008 – that Woolworths collapsed into administration after trading in the...
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The new Lego Store at Gateshead’s Intu Metrocentre is to open on Friday 29 November, I understand. The imminent opening of the store seems to have prompted...
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The thriving discount retailer B&M is recruiting staff for its new Gateshead store, which is scheduled to open at Team Valley Retail World on Saturday...
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If you like looking at shops and high streets, going on holiday to north west Sutherland, in Scotland – as I did earlier this month – isn’t...
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