All Stores and property articles – Page 318
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NewsFortnum & Mason to sell from European department stores
Fortnum Mason is poised to launch its food products in top European department stores as it seeks avenues for its merchandise and takes advantage of sterling’s weakness against the euro.
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AnalysisFeast for the eyes: John Lewis food halls
Opening a food hall at its Oxford Street store was a gamble for John Lewis but the move paid off. Now Bluewater is due to have a version installed that will move the format on. John Ryan reports
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Gallery
Store of the week: Hamleys, Dubai
How portable is a retail brand and when is it so linked to a particular location that it’s hard to see it working anywhere else?
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Analysis
John Lewis food halls: a new vintage at Bluewater
John Ryan visits the food hall at John Lewis's Oxford Street store to see its new wine bar and then travels to Bluewater to learn about plans for the second iteration of the format from John Lewis head of retail design Kim Morris.
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News
Sainsbury's offers UK's first in-store polyclinic
Sainsbury’s has created the first supermarket polyclinic by opening a dental surgery at a store that already boasts several other health services.
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Opinion
Finding store design inspiration in the most unusual places
It's high time retailers looked beyond their competitors for store design inspiration and spread the net further afield. There are new tricks to be learnt and ideas to take on board, if only retailers will look around.
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Gallery
Store of the week: Joules, Cheltenham
We’re all familiar with stores that offer shoppers a particular view. Normally carrying the lifestyle tag, these are shops that invite their customers to be part of a club that will be readily recognised by those who are members and, equally, those who are not but might like to be.
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News
Liberty unveils look of its renaissance
Luxury department store Liberty has unveiled its new look as it embarks on its “Retail Renaissance”.
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Burberry’s new home reflects best of British
Luxury fashion retailer Burberry has moved into its new global head office in London’s Westminster.
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Analysis
Sainsbury’s: Tomorrow’s store today
Sainsbury’s revamped Hayes branch in west London shows that a store of the future can be just that. John Ryan visits
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AnalysisB&Q: Orange is the new green
New Malden is home to B&Q’s greenest store. John Ryan visits and tests out its eco-boasts
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Analysis
B&Q opens 'greenest' store in New Malden
B&Q has opened what it terms its “greenest” store. As well as packing a host of eco-features, the store in the south London suburb of New Malden boasts what the retailer claims is the UK’s largest single selling floor – 117,000 sq ft.
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Opinion
Valentine’s Day and a last minute trip to Neuhaus
For the unromantic among you, Saturday was St Valentine’s Day and Friday was the day on which the average bloke hurried round the shops looking for a card and some tired red roses from the nearest garage.
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News
Tesco launches superstore format at Liverpool One, piling pressure on non-food rivals
Tesco will next week unveil a new store fascia – Superstore – in the centre of Liverpool.
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Gallery
Store of the week: Le Bon Marche Paris
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.
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Analysis
Printemps: Monumental ambitions
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
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GalleryParis department stores
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.
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Opinion
There are some store design benefits to a downturn
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 ...
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AnalysisPoundland: Sound as a Pound
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
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Gallery
Store of the week: Harvey Nichols, Jakarta
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.
