All Stores and property articles – Page 306

  • Gallery

    Store of the week: Le Bon Marche Paris

    2009-02-13T07:00:00Z

    It rarely matters how much good work is done on the internal design of a store, the basement is always a second-class citizen. In department stores it often houses a food hall, the logic being that this will turn it into an area shoppers have to visit.

  • Analysis

    Printemps: Monumental ambitions

    2009-02-13T07:00:00Z

    One of Paris’s most iconic stores is halfway through a £56m-plus makeover. John Ryan joins Printemps chief Paolo de Cesare there and learns of his vision to create a national monument

  • Le Bon Marche
    Gallery

    Paris department stores

    2009-02-10T10:17:00Z

    Paris department stores are about glamour and giving the shopper a real experience. Among them, Printemps, currently undergoing refurbishment, and Le Bon Marche, stand tall.

  • Opinion

    There are some store design benefits to a downturn

    2009-02-09T11:29:52Z

    One of the unexpected consequences of a recession is that things get done better and quicker. Walking the floor of French department store Printemps' Paris flagship with its chairman and chief executive (two for the price of one must be a bonus in the current climate) last week, it was ...

  • Jim McCarthy
    Analysis

    Poundland: Sound as a Pound

    2009-02-06T06:57:00Z

    As the downturn bites, discount retailers like Poundland are stealing a march. John Ryan talks to chief executive Jim McCarthy about its no-frills approach and evolving store design

  • Gallery

    Store of the week: Harvey Nichols, Jakarta

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Luxury may be taking a bit of a battering at the moment but this doesn’t appear to be preventing some of the bigger players from continuing to expand.

  • News

    Bloomingdale’s boss defends premium strategy

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Department store retailers should continue to push upmarket in defiance of the downturn, according to Bloomingdale’s chairman and chief executive Michael Gould.

  • News

    H&M takes axe to plans for divided store roll-out

    2009-02-05T13:00:00Z

    Swedish retailer H&M will not expand its standalone Divided fascia because of doubts over whether it works well as a separate concept.

  • Opinion

    Regent Street: don't waste the recession

    2009-02-02T10:58:00Z

    ‘A recession is a terrible thing to waste,’ said Kevin Roche, a director at US store design company Callison, last week in what might, at first glance, appear to be a distinctly counter-intuitive moment.

  • Analysis

    Video: Tesco's green blueprint in Cheetham Hill

    2009-02-02T10:29:41Z

    John Ryan interviews Tesco head of environmental construction Mark Sowter about the grocer's new Cheetham Hill eco-store

  • Analysis

    Regent Street: Prince Regent

    2009-01-30T10:00:00Z

    Regent Street has been at the forefront of retail innovation for years, but as the downturn bites how are its leading lights coping with the economic gloom? John Ryan takes a stroll to find out

  • News

    Carrefour dips into convenience

    2009-01-30T07:56:00Z

    Carrefour has launched Carrefour City, the first of its convenience format stores.

  • Gallery

    Store of the week: Levi’s, Berlin

    2009-01-30T07:38:00Z

    Levi’s is one of those brands that seems part of the furniture – you know it’s there, but don’t always give it your full attention.

  • News

    B&Q opens eco-store under Extra fascia in Surrey

    2009-01-30T07:03:00Z

    DIY retailer B&Q opened its latest eco-store today in New Malden, Surrey.

  • News

    M&S adopts in-store outlet model in value hotspots

    2009-01-30T07:00:00Z

    Marks & Spencer is to open outlet shop-in-shops in some of its high street stores in a departure from its traditional practice.

  • Opinion

    The retail banking crisis

    2009-01-26T11:08:12Z

    Type “store design” into the search box on Vimeo's home page and hundreds of short videos, including some excellent Retail Week inclusions, will be available for your perusal. And strangely, among these, there's even a short clip showing a bank at Piccadilly with a swish new interior.

  • Gallery

    Store of the week: Esprit, CentrO, Germany

    2009-01-26T10:02:31Z

    Perhaps surprisingly for UK shoppers, Hong Kong-listed lifestyle retailer Esprit has been around for more than 40 years.

  • News

    Fortnum & Mason eyes shop-in-shop empire in Japan

    2009-01-23T06:38:00Z

    Iconic department store Fortnum & Mason is to expand its operations in Japan in a tie-up with local department store group Isetan.

  • News

    Next carves out shop space for Lipsy brand

    2009-01-23T06:28:00Z

    Next is to carve out space in its Manchester store to open a shop-in-shop for its recently acquired young-fashion brand Lipsy.

  • Analysis

    Tesco: Knock on wood

    2009-01-23T05:06:00Z

    Updated with video interview: Tesco has finally accomplished its goal of an eco-store blueprint that is innovative and green but cost-effective too. John Ryan visited the shop in Manchester’s Cheetham Hill on opening day