Hobbs
This coverage examines Hobbs’ operations and strategy within the UK premium fashion retail sector. Reporting highlights store portfolio developments, digital growth initiatives, seasonal collections, marketing campaigns, financial results, and leadership changes — offering insights for retail professionals, brand managers, and executives focused on womenswear, brand positioning, and luxury retail performance.
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Apr- 2023 -5 AprilNews
N Brown appoints former Hobbs CEO to board
N Brown Group has recently confirmed the appointment of Meg Lustman as an independent non-executive director. Lustman, who is a former Hobbs chief executive, has 35 years of experience in the retail industry. She held senior positions at many of the UK’s leading fashion retailers as well as having spent…
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Feb- 2022 -11 FebruaryHigh Street
Poundland to open biggest ever UK site
Poundland is set to open its biggest ever UK store in Nottingham this week, which will offer its widest range of products yet. The new Nottingham Riverside retail park site will open on 12 February. It stands at 15,000 square feet, making it the largest Poundland store to be opened,…
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Aug- 2021 -4 AugustPeople Moves
Ted Baker appoints two new non-executive directors
Ted Baker has announced the appointment of Fumbi Chima and Meg Lustman as independent non-executive directors of the company. Fumbi Chima is currently executive vice-president and chief information officer at BECU, the US-based credit union. She has also previously served similar roles at Adidas, Fox Network Group, Burberry, Walmart Asia’s…
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Apr- 2021 -15 AprilClothing & Shoes
Hobbs sees FY20 turnover fall to £133m
Hobbs, the women’s clothing, footwear, and accessories retailer, saw its turnover for the year ended 28 March 2020 fall 1.8% to £133m. The group’s adjusted EBITDA for the period also declined, falling £1.7m from £21.9m in FY 2019 to £20.2m in FY 2020. Operating profit and profit after tax at…
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Mar- 2021 -11 MarchClothing & Shoes
M&S adds third-party brands to online offering
Marks and Spencer has announced a set of third-party brands such as Joules and Sosandar are to be added to its online offering. The move is the first wave of guest brands to be marketed and sold under the banner ‘Brands at M&S’. The new offering is part of M&S’s…
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Feb- 2021 -24 FebruaryPeople Moves
British Land appoints new non-executive director
The British Land Company has announced the appointment of Loraine Woodhouse as a non-executive director, with effect from 1 March 2021. Woodhouse will chair the audit committee from 31 March 2021 at which time her predecessor Preben Prebensen will step down from his role as interim chair of audit but…
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9 FebruaryHigh Street
Cornhill retail development adds Superdry and Waterstone stores
Lincoln’s Cornhill Quarter, which is subject to a £70m redevelopment from Lincolnshire Co-op, has announced two additional high profile retail signings to the scheme. A Superdry franchise store will be added to the ground floor of the Waterstones building, with the designer clothing brand Richard Goddard operating from the first…
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Oct- 2019 -30 OctoberPeople Moves
Barbour appoints Nicola Brown as head of womenswear
British fashion retailer Barbour has appointed Hobb’s head of design, Nicola Brown, as its new head of womenswear. She will join the brand on 9 December, according to Drapers. Brown joined the team at Hobbs in 2011, as senior womenswear designer, before being promoted in 2016 as head of design.…
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May- 2019 -16 MayAnalysis
The state of the UK high street in 2019
We may only be in the first half of the 2019 but there has already been a continuation of 2018’s disastrous year for the UK high street. In recent weeks we’ve seen Debenhams slide into administration with other household names like fashion retailer Select and off-license group Oddbins both close…
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Apr- 2019 -1 AprilHigh Street
Cambridge named UK’s ‘leading retail location’ for second time
Cambridge has again been named as the UK’s leading retail location according to a list scoring Britain’s best and worst retail centres. The university city topped a list of 1,000 retail centres, compiled by strategic retail property consultancy, Harper Dennis Hobbs (HDH). The HDH 2019 Vitality Index determines the retail…
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