Liverpool
This coverage focuses on retail activity and developments in Liverpool, including store openings and closures, investment projects, consumer trends, and regional market performance. Reporting highlights how retailers adapt strategies to Liverpool’s economic and cultural landscape — offering insight for executives, managers, and professionals overseeing retail operations in this key UK city.
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Feb- 2023 -9 FebruaryClothing & Shoes
Under Armour unveils ambitious UK expansion plans
Under Armour will open three new brand-owned stores in key cities throughout the UK over the next couple of months, following what it called “significant growth and consumer demand in the market”. The stores are part of Under Armour’s overall strategy to strengthen its direct-to-consumer channel, a key element of…
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Jan- 2023 -16 JanuaryDepartment Stores
M&S announces £480m store investment plan
Marks and Spencer has announced a £480m plan to invest in 20 “bigger and better” stores over the next two years. The new store pipeline for 2023/24 includes eight full line destination stores in key city locations. These include a new 97k sq ft store in Leeds White Rose and…
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Dec- 2022 -20 DecemberClothing & Shoes
Flannels joins rental market with Hurr partnership
Flannels has announced the launch of its new rental strategy, in partnership with rental platform Hurr. It has revealed that customers will be able to rent out items for a period of 4, 8, 10 and 20 days directly from its online store. This will be followed by the launch…
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20 DecemberSupermarkets
M&S to open new store in Liverpool One
Grosvenor has announced that Marks and Spencer is to join Liverpool One, anchoring South John Street in two floors of the former Debenhams. Set to open in mid-2023, the grocer is relocating from Church Street to create a 100,000 sq ft store. Its Liverpool One investment is part of the…
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Nov- 2022 -28 NovemberHigh Street
Primark to invest £140m in UK stores over next two years
Primark has unveiled plans to invest £140m over the next two years in its UK store estate. This will include the opening of at least four new stores in Bury St Edmunds, Craigavon, Salisbury and Teesside Park. The investment creates at least 850 new jobs and increases selling space by…
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15 NovemberHigh Street
Primark launches click and collect service in 25 stores
Primark has unveiled the trial of a new click and collect service that will allow customers to shop for products online and order for delivery to one of the 25 locations available. It is reported that this trial is available across the north west of England, Yorkshire and north Wales,…
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Sep- 2022 -28 SeptemberHigh Street
Boxpark to open first site outside London in Liverpool
Boxpark, a retail, dining and leisure group, has announced its sixth site and first Boxpark-branded development in Liverpool, set to open in 2023. Boxpark has agreed a 15-year lease with Terracotta Asset Management Limited for The Canning Hall site in the south of Liverpool city, which sits within the Baltic…
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Aug- 2022 -23 AugustHigh Street
Frasers to open 3 new Flannels flagship stores
Frasers Group has announced plans for three more Flannels flagship stores, which will see it open stores in Leeds, Cardiff, and Gateshead all upwards of 80,000 sq. ft in size. The announcement closely follows the opening of Flannels’ Liverpool flagship, which is the largest store opening to date and, largest…
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22 AugustHigh Street
Hargreaves enters new fight with lenders to secure Matalan’s future
John Hargreaves, the founder of Matalan, is preparing for a new fight with its lenders over its ownership ahead of a deadline for refinancing £350m in debt, according to Sky News. Hargreaves reinstated himself as chairman of Matalan last month, and has since injected tens of millions of pounds into…
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16 AugustClothing & Shoes
Kick Game appoints PwC to explore £150m sale
Kick Game, a footwear reseller, has reportedly hired PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) to explore options which could include a £150m sale, according to Sky News. Reports suggest Kick Game, which was founded in 2013, is working with the accountancy firm to field interest from a number of suitors. The process is expected…
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