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A Review of FT Future of Retail conference by Financial Times Live, 2019

A Review of FT Future of Retail conference by Financial Times Live, 2019

FT Future of Retail Conference, 18 Sep, 2019 Royal Garden Hotel, West London, United Kingdom ST...
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The real reason for the demise of high street retailers - customer service

The real reason for the demise of high street retailers - customer service

Retail is detail... and customer service.  Long gone are the days when you could instruct your st...
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A review of Retail Without Borders by We Are Pentagon

A review of Retail Without Borders by We Are Pentagon

Definitely worth visiting!  Retail Without Borders 2018 #RWB18 is one of the better conferences ...
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Seasonality gone out of the window? Tesco easter products on display Jan 2nd...

Seasonality gone out of the window? Tesco easter products on display Jan 2nd...

Was going to check out what Tesco did with their Christmas shelves in the new year. We were sligh...
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Europe's busiest shopping street to become a 'people only' place; London's Oxford Street to transform from 2018

Europe's busiest shopping street to become a 'people only' place; London's Oxford Street to transform from 2018

Oxford Street is being transformed to a people-only place in 2018, starting with closing the stre...
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Breakfast meeting @ Retail Week Prospect, 4 Dec 2017

Breakfast meeting @ Retail Week Prospect, 4 Dec 2017

As many other traditional publishers, Retail Week have suffered from a slump in paper copy sales ...
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Christmas Windows 2017: Piccadilly, Regent Street, Oxford Street and Argyll Street

Christmas Windows 2017: Piccadilly, Regent Street, Oxford Street and Argyll Street

Christmas window display on Regent Street, Oxford Street and Argyll Street. Hunter, Topshop, Tommy Hilfiger, Superdry, Burberry and more
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Trade show report: Ecommerce Expo, London, September 2017

Trade show report: Ecommerce Expo, London, September 2017

Our verdict (of 5): Admittedly we visited Ecommerce Expo in 2016 and were very impressed and the...
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Arket (the sheet), H&M's new format following disappointing sales growth

Arket (the sheet), H&M's new format following disappointing sales growth

H&M today finally announced the name and type of new brand they are launching. This ends a pe...
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British Fashion Ecommerce divided by geography and sector

British Fashion Ecommerce divided by geography and sector

Posted by Thomas Andersson, March 7, 2017. When looking at the UK fashion e-commerce landscape (e...
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Online going Offline: VR360 of Made.com store on Tottenham Court Road, London

Online going Offline: VR360 of Made.com store on Tottenham Court Road, London

Made.com, the online furniture store, opened their physical 'guideshop' on Tottenham Court Road i...
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A walk in Seven Dials in London Dec 7th, 2016 - 360 Video

A walk in Seven Dials in London Dec 7th, 2016 - 360 Video

Will December trade save retailers? Not on this evidence... We took a stroll in Covent Garden (or...
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Where has the omni-channel gone?

Where has the omni-channel gone?

Omni-channel retailing has been one of the most talked about concepts in retailing for a while. T...
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And the prize for the most boring store interior in London's Oxford Street goes to...

And the prize for the most boring store interior in London's Oxford Street goes to...

The most boring store interior designs in London this Christmas We visited Oxford Street, Carnab...
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Primark revenues within touching distance of £6bn + 360 Interior Views of Oxford Street Store

Primark revenues within touching distance of £6bn + 360 Interior Views of Oxford Street Store

Primark has reported about £0.7bn in net profits on revenues of close to £6bn in its 2016 full ye...
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Some Oxford Street Store Fronts Oct-16

Some Oxford Street Store Fronts Oct-16

Images from pre-Christmas store fronts on Oxford Street. Taken Oct 13, 2016. Dr Martens Shopfront...
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Fenwick on Bond Street blooming

Fenwick on Bond Street blooming

Fenwick is a chain of independent department store in the UK. Individual stores manage their own ...
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Jack Wills in the Red

Jack Wills in the Red

In 2007, at the height of its popularity, Inflexion Capital invested in a 27% stake in the compa...
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Have your own fashion brand? Dont forget to apply to Asos Fashion Discovery!

Have your own fashion brand? Dont forget to apply to Asos Fashion Discovery!

Asos are looking for two brands to win £50,000 and a chance to be nurtured by the very best in on...
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Topshop x bPAY accessories collaboration with Barclaycard

Topshop x bPAY accessories collaboration with Barclaycard

Following the release of "Topshop x bPay" accessories as a collaboration with Barclaycard the Arc...
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UK Retail Vacancy Rates

UK Retail Vacancy Rates

On a recent visit to the Brent Cross shopping centre in North London we counted no less than nine...
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