All Hobbs articles – Page 5

  • Hobbs has secured £46.5m of funding
    News

    Hobbs secures £46.5m funding to accelerate expansion

    2011-06-23T09:32:00Z

    Womenswear retailer Hobbs has secured £46.5m funding to accelerate brand development and retail expansion.

  • Mainstream womenswear retailer Hobbs is to introduce a more contemporary, trend-led sub-brand aimed at the 35-plus customer to coincide with its 30th anniversary celebrations.
    News

    Hobbs to launch contemporary sub-brand

    2011-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Mainstream womenswear retailer Hobbs is to introduce a more contemporary, trend-led sub-brand aimed at the 35-plus customer to coincide with its 30th anniversary celebrations.

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    Hobbs creative director to star in new BBC series

    2011-02-17T07:00:00Z

    Fashion retailer Hobbs is to feature in a new BBC series called Working Girl,where creative director Sandy Verdon mentors a work-shy young apprentice in the world of fashion and retail.

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    Hobbs secures £14m of new investment

    2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Womenswear retailer Hobbs has secured £14m of new investment from its private equity backer 3i and parachuted in turnaround specialist Iain MacRitchie to replace retail veteran Tony Campbell as chairman.

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    £14m windfall for Hobbs

    2011-01-12T08:51:00Z

    Hobbs has secured £14m of new investment from its private equity backer 3i, and parachuted in turnaround specialist Iain MacRitchie to replace retail veteran Tony Campbell as chairman.

  • Hobbs has posted a fall in sales and EBITDA in the year to October 23
    News

    Hobbs profits fall

    2010-11-01T10:56:00Z

    Profits at womenswear retailer Hobbs dropped more than a third in the year to January 30 but the chain said it remained confident over future trading.

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    Analysis

    The Asda family tree

    2010-09-17T00:00:00Z

    In the past 20 years, Asda has proved to be a finishing school for many of the retail industry’s highest flyers. Here Retail Week maps the connections, and the faces, that go to make up the family tree

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    Hobbs sub-brand NW3 picks Westfield London for its debut

    2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Womenswear retailer Hobbs will launch the first standalone store for its younger NW3 sub-brand next month and is plotting up to 30 in the next four years.

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    Funeral of Nick Samuel to take place on Thursday

    2010-07-05T09:53:00Z

    The funeral of former Hobbs boss Nick Samuel will take place on Thursday.

  • Nick Samuel
    News

    Industry pays tribute as former Hobbs chief Nick Samuel dies

    2010-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Former Hobbs chief executive Nick Samuel has been remembered by the industry as an innovator with a passion for retail and tireless energy.

  • Opinion

    Nick Samuel

    2010-06-29T15:32:00Z

    The untimely death of former Hobbs chief executive Nick Samuel was very sad news.

  • Nick Samuel has passed away
    News

    Former Hobbs chief executive Nick Samuel dies

    2010-06-29T15:15:00Z

    Nick Samuel, former chief executive of womenswear retailer Hobbs and former finance director of womenswear chain Karen Millen has died.

  • Premium retailers such as Ted Baker are set to increase market share, according to Verdict
    News

    Retailers to battle for premium market share

    2010-05-18T08:51:00Z

    The premium end of the market is set to take over from value as the biggest battle ground for market share, according to market analyst Verdict.

  • One New Change
    Analysis

    One New Change: Big change in the big City

    2010-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Can Land Securities’ soon to open, mixed-use development wake the City up to a new kind of retail offer?

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    Hobbs, Covent Garden

    2010-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Just before Christmas, Hobbs opened a flagship in Covent Garden. The move followed hot on the heels of its Regent Street shop and the Covent Garden interior design followed suit. Except it didn’t.

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    Hobbs appoints Alana Mazza as retail director

    2009-06-15T12:15:00Z

    Hobbs has appointed former Principles retail trading director Alana Mazza as retail director of the upmarket fashion brand.

  • Hobbs appoints design consultancy to help with new store design
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    Hobbs appoints design consultancy to help with new store design

    2009-06-01T09:46:00Z

    Fashion retailer Hobbs has appointed design and architectural practice Child Graddon Lewis to assist on the development of a new concept that will house the existing Hobbs collections and its new NW3 range that is due to launch this autumn.

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    Hobbs profits decline

    Upmarket fashion retailer Hobbs has revealed full-year pre-tax profits slid from £21.3m to £18.8m, on sales up 3.6 per cent to £101.6m.

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    Hobbs to pilot mother and daughter format

    2009-04-03T00:00:00Z

    Upmarket fashion retailer Hobbs is to try out a new fascia for a range targeting mothers and daughters in the autumn.The contemporary womenswear range, called NW3, is designed to attract a broader shopper base and lapsed Hobbs customers. It has been spearheaded by former Jaeger creative director Sandy Verdon, who ...

  • News

    Hobbs chief steps down

    2008-06-24T08:56:31Z

    Hobbs chief executive Nick Samuel has stepped down from the role after seven years at the helm of the womenswear chain.