Kent
This coverage highlights retail developments, openings, and trends across Kent, examining store launches, commercial property activity, consumer footfall, and local economic factors shaping the county’s retail landscape. Reporting is aimed at retail managers, landlords, and executives interested in regional performance, location planning, and opportunities within one of the UK’s key retail areas outside London.
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May- 2024 -29 MayNews
Poundland introduces new £3 meal deal
Poundland has today (28 May) launched its brand new £3 meal deal with sandwiches, salads and snacks. The new ranges raise the bar as Poundland introduces new options from high quality companies that already supply other multiple retailers such as M&S. What sets Poundland’s offer apart is that the price…
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7 MaySupermarkets
Co-op opens new branch in New Romney
Co-op has opened its newest store to serve and support the community in the market town of New Romney, Kent. Located in Littlestone Road, New Romney, the 2,250 sq ft convenience store has created 16 local jobs and includes an in-store bakery, Costa Coffee Express machine, customer car parking, and…
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Apr- 2024 -12 AprilNews
White Stuff opens new outlet store in Ashford
White Stuff has recently opened a new outlet store at the McArthur Glen Designer Shopping Outlet in Ashford, Kent. The new 1,300 sq ft store, situated near M&S and Barbour, will create 11 new jobs in the area and offers shoppers outlet prices on White Stuff’s womenswear and menswear collections,…
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Mar- 2024 -1 MarchNews
Today’s news in brief-1/3/24
The forthcoming £90m Oxford Street Programme is poised to generate up to £2.8bn in additional sales for London’s West End between 2027 and 2033, as indicated by the New West End Company. This initiative, supported by both public and private investments, aims to revamp Oxford Street’s public spaces, infrastructure, and…
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1 MarchHealth & Beauty
The Body Shop to close 75 stores and cut over 400 jobs
The Body Shop will close 75 more stores across the UK in the coming weeks, with 489 jobs set to be lost, according to administrators at FRP Advisory. The firm said it would “support all impacted staff with claims to the Redundancy Payments Service”. Some 116 stores will continue trading…
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Feb- 2024 -22 FebruaryHigh Street
Taxpayers to foot bill for Body Shop redundancies
Taxpayers are set to pay millions of pounds to laid off staff at The Body Shop as the restructuring of the collapsed chain gets underway, The Telegraph has reported. Employees who have lost their jobs have reportedly been told to make claims through the government-backed redundancy payments service, which is…
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20 FebruaryHealth & Beauty
The Body Shop to reduce store estate by almost half as part of restructuring
FRP Advisory has announced that it expects keep “more than half” of the The Body Shop’s 198 store open at the end of its restructuring plans amid news it is closing seven stores today (20 February) in a bid to secure the future of the retailer. After years of unprofitability…
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9 FebruaryHigh Street
EE opens new Gateshead store amid £6m investment
EE has announced the opening of its latest Experience store in Gateshead, the fourth of 10 planned openings. The announcement comes as EE commits to investing £6m in the British high street in the next 12 months. The company has launched new store formats including its flagship Studio store in…
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Jan- 2024 -16 JanuaryNews
Frasers Group to launch new flagship store in Kent
Frasers Group has announced that it has signed a new long-term lease agreement for its 101,921 sq ft unit at M&G Real Estate’s Maidstone town centre retail destination. The new agreement will see Frasers Group fully refurbish its current House of Fraser unit at Fremlin Walk into a flagship store…
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Nov- 2023 -17 NovemberSupermarkets
Co-op relaunches New Ash Green store following nine-week refurb
Co-op has reopened its store in New Ash Green, Kent yesterday (16 November), following a nine-week programme of works and improvements. The near 7,000 sq ft store – located on The Row, New Ash Green – supports approaching 30 local jobs, and opens between 7am-10pm between Monday and Saturday, and…
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