All Stores and property articles – Page 324
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Analysis
Books etcetera
Distracted by the allure of online, consumers might be forgiven for turning their backs on bookshops. So are booksellers offering anything to persuade them otherwise?
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News
Arcandor kicks off ‘radical’ move to luxury at Karstadt
Arcandor has started transforming its Karstadt department stores into luxury destinations for brands in an effort to create a high-end pan-European chain.
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Opinion
Don’t just blame the market
It gives no one at Retail Week any pleasure that last week’s front page story about The Works being on the brink of administration came true even more quickly than expected.
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News
Nokia opens its interactive flagship on Regent Street
Nokia opens its delay-hit Regent Street flagship today, which was due to open before Christmas.
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Whole Foods casts net wider in search for UK supermarket sites
US grocer Whole Foods has widened its search for UK supermarket sites to out-of-town locations.
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Kensington to taste-test fresh M&S food format
Marks & Spencer will open a new-format standalone sandwich shop in London this spring, called M&S To Go.
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Disney makes Portugal debut
The Disney Store has opened its first store in Portugal at the Colombo shopping centre, Lisbon.
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Opinion
Cheap is no longer enough
News that value book chain The Works has gone under should come as no surprise to anyone who’s shopped at a Tesco Extra lately.
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News
Arvind Mills opens fashion outlet store in India
Indian brand operator and manufacturer Arvind Mills has opened a discount fashion store in Chennai.
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Carrefour to refocus stores and own-label food brands
Carrefour is expected to focus on a radical overhaul of the branding of stores and its own-label food business in France to deliver a “breakthrough year”.
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Snow+Rock to launch in Ireland
Ski and outdoor sports retailer Snow+Rock is to open its first store outside England in the Republic of Ireland in October.
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American Golf back on par as full-year sales rise 18%
American Golf has bounced back from a difficult 2006 with a jump in sales for the year to January 27.
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Analysis
The greatest show on earth
EuroShop is the biggest show of its kind in the world and it only takes place once every three years. John Ryan previews the most important event in the shopfitting world
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Opinion
UK is design supermarket
Walk along Regent Street, take a stroll along a high street or visit almost any shopping mall and the one thing you will see everywhere is new shops.
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News
Saks unveils new look for Off 5th ahead of sale
Saks will test a new format for its Off 5th outlet chain as speculation mounts that a takeover bid by Baugur is imminent.
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Dunhill plans flagship for London
Luxury menswear retailer Dunhill is to open a flagship new-format store and fascia in central London this summer, following a launch in Tokyo last month.
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Marks & Spencer in talks over Sephora shop-in-shops
Marks & Spencer has held talks with French beauty retailer Sephora about opening cosmetics and perfume shop-in-shops in the UK giant’s stores.
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Analysis
Crystal Palace
Blink and you won’t miss them. Costume jewellery brand Swarovski’s flagship branch on Regent Street and new concept store on Great Marlborough Street mark a turning point for a category that is often dismissed as plain vulgar. John Ryan takes a turn at the dazzling duo
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John Lewis to ramp up luxury sales with fashion brands area
John Lewis is to test a luxury fashion brands shopfit as part of its drive to more than triple sales from its luxury brands business.
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HMV to roll out new look after Christmas sales soar
Following market-bucking Christmas trading, entertainment retailer HMV is to roll out its next-generation store format.