All Retail parks & out-of-town articles – Page 17
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OpinionMapping retail’s changing landscape
At AlixPartners, we work with retailers around the world, both healthy and successful, and also those under operational and financial pressure.
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OpinionLess is more for UK retail
Charlotte Hardie is features editor of Retail Week. She writes about all retail sectors, overseeing the longer features in the magazine’s general analysis and in business sections.
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AnalysisThe race for space
Development of major new retail space has all but stalled, leaving UK retailers chasing a dwindling supply of large, prime space. Mark Faithfull asks whether the imbalance will force expansion strategies to change.
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AnalysisPlanning policies
Retail is contending with a raft of planning policies. How will they play out this year? Christine Eade takes a look at the implications.
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AnalysisDesigner outlets: Design of the times
Designer outlets have been a standout success during the downturn but with the UK being Europe’s most mature market, the sector is having to evolve to meet consumer requirements. Mark Faithfull reports.
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OpinionRace for space must slow down
Mark Price became the managing director of Waitrose in 2007. He held numerous posts at the John Lewis Partnership since joining as a graduate trainee in 1982.
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AnalysisEtail has left the future of hypermarkets in doubt
The 1960s were a momentous decade for retail.
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OpinionBig retailers are acting on Portas’s best idea
If the Portas review were a high street it would look quite familiar – a cheek by jowl mix alternately appealing or a turn-off.
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NewsPortas sets out new high street vision
Mary Portas has called for a “shift to a new, multi-functional, social high street”.
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AnalysisParks and recreation
Harvester pub restaurants, banks and ‘health villages’ are popping up where once stood DIY stores and furniture shops. Mark Faithfull asks what such changes mean for the world of retail parks
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OpinionThe move out of town
Bright spots may be hard to find in the retail sector at the moment, but those involved in retail parks can claim that this is one of them
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AnalysisAnalysis: The out-of-town fashion set
Some fashion retailers are mixing things up and turning to retail parks for store growth. Is this a trend that will increase? Rebecca Thomson examines the shift and asks if it will last.
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AnalysisStores that click all of the boxes
Multichannel has transformed shopping and forced big changes to the way retailers and landlords do business. Ben Cooper finds out how multichannel is revolutionising the out-of-town market.
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OpinionRates rise could render Portas plan irrelevant
It was standing room only in Committee Room 9 in the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday morning.
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NewsMake life tougher for out-of-town retail, Portas tells MPs
Mary Portas has told MPs her review of the high street will be about “making life easier for town centres and tougher for out-of-town.”
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OpinionCan't get no satisfaction?
The only was to let landlords know you’re a dissatisfied tenant is to tell them
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AnalysisRetail schemes: A zero-sum game?
The development pipeline has almost ground to a halt and, as Mark Faithfull discovers, more realism from councils and retailers will be required if schemes are to see the light of day.
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NewsBest Buy insists plans are on track despite pulling out of deal
Best Buy has insisted its plans for the UK are still on course despite it pulling out of a deal to open a store in the north-east of England.
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NewsHouse of Fraser considers out-of-town stores
House of Fraser, the department store chain, is understood to be drawing up plans to open out-of-town stores.
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NewsB&M Bargains and Poundland homing in on out-of-town stores
Value retailers are extending their rivalry from the high street to out of town as B&M Bargains launches a home format and Poundland targets retail parks. Family Bargains, the fledgling sister chain of 99p Stores, is also looking out of town.
