Edinburgh
This coverage focuses on retail activity in Edinburgh, including store openings and closures, investment initiatives, local consumer trends, and regional trading performance. Reporting highlights how retailers tailor strategy, site selection, and marketing to the city’s unique economic, cultural, and tourist landscape — offering insight for executives, managers, and professionals overseeing retail operations in Scotland’s capital.
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Oct- 2018 -19 OctoberShopping Centres
Westfield London named UK’s top shopping centre
Westfield London has been named the UK’s best performing shopping centre according to new research. The research by GlobalData also placed Westfield’s Stratford City in second and Bluewater in third. The shopping centres were ranked on performance (footfall, sales, turnover, dwell time), potential (shopper spending and five year forecasts), provision…
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19 OctoberOnline & Digital
Amazon to open new Manchester hub; vows to create 1000 jobs
Amazon has announced plans to open a new corporate office in Manchester in 2019 and increase the capacity of its Scotland Development Centre and Cambridge Development Centre. The new investment is part of the company’s boost to UK innovation and is set to provide additional capacity for over 1,000 new…
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Sep- 2018 -25 SeptemberDepartment Stores
Three further House of Fraser stores to shutter due to ‘greedy landlords’
House of Fraser has announced it is to close three further stores in Hull, Edinburgh and Swindon, with new owner Mike Ashley saying he was unable to agree terms with “greedy landlords”. The retailer is currently in consultation with staff at the affected stores, and said its Bath store was…
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20 SeptemberClothing & Shoes
Cath Kidston clarifies store review reports
Cath Kidston has clarified reports that it is to undergo a formal portfolio review and instead said that it is reviewing individual branches as leases come up for renewal. The fashion retailer, which has 65 stores across the UK, stressed it is looking to move stores where leases are coming…
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20 SeptemberHigh Street
Poundland to open in 20 former Poundworld locations
Poundland is finalising plans to open stores in up to 20 large former Poundworld locations and has offered all former Poundworld staff to get in touch for “guaranteed interviews”. Initial openings in the first phase include Edinburgh (Cameron Toll), Killingworth (Tyne & Wear) and East Kilbride and Ayr in Scotland,…
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Aug- 2018 -16 AugustDepartment Stores
Philip Day eyeing House of Fraser stores
Philip Day, the owner of Edinburgh Woollen Mill is reportedly in talks with landlord groups regarding a takeover of several House of Fraser stores. Day is talking to 10 to 15 landlords with a view to running them as Days Department Stores according to Drapers. Rents and leases on House of…
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14 AugustDepartment Stores
Mike Ashley plans to keep 80% of House of Fraser stores open
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has vowed to keep 80% of House of Fraser’s stores open, after he saved the department store chain from administration in a £90m buyout last week (Friday 10 August). When the department store entered a CVA in June, it planned to shut 31 of its…
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9 AugustDepartment Stores
House of Fraser sets new deadline to secure funds
House of Fraser has set itself a new deadline to secure funding to avoid collapse. In a statement to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, the company said that it would require an investment no later than 20 August. Earlier reports said the department store would make a final decision on its…
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9 AugustDepartment Stores
House of Fraser fate could be decided today
A decision could be made on the future of House of Fraser today as its creditors assess takeover bids made by Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley, retail tycoon Philip Day, and retail turnaround fund Alteri Investors. According to Sky News, PwC spent Wednesday (8 August) afternoon negotiating on the 169-year-old’s department…
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7 AugustClothing & Shoes
Phillip Day to snap up Jacques Vert
Retail boss Phillip Day is said to be preparing to add womenswear brand Jacques Vert to his retail portfolio, which has already seen the recent addition of Jaeger. Day will look to acquire the struggling brand through a separate company to Edinburgh Woollen Mill according to Sky News. The deal…
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