Flagship Store
This coverage examines flagship stores and their strategic role in UK retail, highlighting openings, refurbishments, closures, and design innovations. Reporting focuses on how these high-profile locations serve as brand showcases, influence customer experience, and support broader commercial objectives. Insights help retail managers, brand executives, and decision-makers assess the impact of flagship strategies on visibility, engagement, and sales.
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Nov- 2021 -18 NovemberDepartment Stores
House of Fraser to close its Oxford Street store
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has confirmed that its flagship store on London’s Oxford Street is to close permanently. The retailer revealed that it had been served its notice by the landlord after planning permission was granted to redevelop the site. Frasers added that since it acquired the site in 2018…
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4 NovemberClothing & Shoes
Superdry welcomes strong Autumn trading
Superdry has welcomed an “encouraging” start to its Autumn trading season, with revenue up by 8.8% against last year in the eight weeks to 23 October, and by 17.2% against the same period in FY20. While the group welcomed an improvement in its retail channel performance across the eight-week period,…
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Sep- 2021 -16 SeptemberClothing & Shoes
Superdry sees its losses narrow to £36m
Superdry CEO Julian Dunkerton has hailed that the company is “turning the corner” after it revealed statutory losses before tax for FY21 have narrowed to £36.7m, down from £166.9m the previous year. In its preliminary results for the 52-week period ending 24 April 2021, the retailer posted a full year…
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Aug- 2021 -5 AugustHigh Street
Astley Clarke to open flagship London store this Autumn
British jewellery brand, Astley Clarke has announced that it will debut its first UK flagship store at Seven Dials’ Monmouth Street, London, this Autumn. Spanning just over 900 sq ft, the jeweller’s first bricks and mortar home will stock fine and demi-fine elevated jeweller. Founded in 2006 by Bec Astley…
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Jul- 2021 -27 JulyHigh Street
Superdry opens new flagship store on London’s Oxford Street
Superdry has announced that it has agreed a deal to open a global flagship store on London’s Oxford Street this Autumn. The store is located at 360 Oxford Street, close to Selfridges and adjacent to the new Bond Street Crossrail station, which is due to open in early 2022. Totalling…
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22 JulyClothing & Shoes
Burberry opens flagship store in London
Burberry has announced the opening of its first flagship store which features the brand’s new global design concept, situated in Sloane Street, London. The store opening mirrors that of founder Thomas Burberry, who opened his first London store in the SW1 area 130 years ago, it still remains the home…
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16 JulyLuxury Goods
Liberty London swings to £12.6m loss in FY21
Liberty London has swung to a management EBITDA loss of £12.6m for the 52 weeks ended 30 January 2021, following profits of £14.4m the previous year. While the group’s Great Marlborough Street flagship was closed for almost six months during the financial year, Liberty claimed that its online operations “benefitted…
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1 JulyNews
Innovating retail spaces for a successful future
Whilst the growth of online consumer shopping was highly publicised during the prolonged periods of Covid-19 lockdown, the relaxing of the rules for non-essential retailers in England and Wales has led to a 174% rise in high street footfall. It’s a figure that shows the high street is certainly not…
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Jun- 2021 -24 JuneDepartment Stores
Selfridges opens garden centre at flagship store
Selfridges London has revealed that its Accessories Hall and the store exterior on Duke and Orchard Streets has been transformed into a garden centre as part of its “Good Nature”, creative theme for 2021. The garden centre sells gardening tools, seeds, indoor and outdoor plants and pots, as well as…
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23 JuneClothing & Shoes
Reformation to launch Covent Garden flagship
Sustainable fashion brand Reformation has agreed terms to launch a new London flagship store in Covent Garden. Opening at 27 King Street, the retailer’s latest flagship store follows from its first London site which opened in August 2019. Reformation was founded in 2009, and acts water, waste, and carbon neutral…
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