Merry Hill
This coverage examines retail activity and trends at Merry Hill, offering insights for UK retail executives, managers, and brand professionals. Reporting includes store openings and closures, redevelopment projects, investment activity, marketing initiatives, and the performance of retailers within this major West Midlands shopping centre. The analysis helps professionals assess opportunities, challenges, and consumer behaviour shaping retail at Merry Hill.
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Jan- 2024 -26 JanuaryNews
Rituals opens at two new locations
Luxury beauty and wellbeing brand Rituals has officially opened at Festival Place in Basingstoke, and Merry Hill in the West Midlands. The Dutch retailer offers a collection of body care, home fragrance, and skin care products, home items, and gift sets, to a range of luxurious bath and body products. …
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23 JanuaryNews
Merry Hill signs 65 new leases in 2023
Retail and leisure destination Merry Hill has completed 65 leasing deals covering more than 330,000 sq ft in 2023. The destination also increased its sales – 2023 exceeding 2022 by 7%, and December up 6.5% year-on-year – while footfall rose by 9.4% in the 12 month period. In total, the…
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15 JanuaryNews
Harvey Norman to open flagship at Merry Hill
Lifestyle, technology, and entertainment retailer Harvey Norman has recently signed a lease for a flagship store at Merry Hill. The new location will offer the retailer’s selection of luxury furniture, including sofas, dining sets, as well as outdoor furniture. A range of homeware products will also be on offer, including…
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Nov- 2023 -14 NovemberNews
Phase Eight and Hobbs open upsized store at Merry Hill
Sovereign Centros has announced that premium womenswear brands, Phase Eight and Hobbs, have opened at Merry Hill, one of the UK’s top ten retail and leisure destinations. Having relocated from separate units, the sister brands have been brought together into an upsized 6,000 sq ft space on the Upper Mall,…
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Sep- 2023 -25 SeptemberNews
Kenji and Rituals set to open at Merry Hill
Sovereign Centros has announced that Kenji, the design-led homeware retailer, and Rituals, the luxury beauty and wellbeing brand, have signed at Merry Hill. Set to open later this year, Kenji and Rituals will occupy over 6,850 sq ft of retail space, joining a series of recently opened leading retailers and…
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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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Dec- 2019 -20 DecemberShopping Centres
Westfield named best shopping centre in the UK
Westfield London and Westfield Stratford has been named the best shopping centres in the UK, for the second year running. According to GlobalData’s Top 50 Shopping Centres Report for 2019, Bluewater in Greenhithe, Kent was ranked in third place, followed by Intu Trafford Centre in Manchester. Intu Lakeside, Sheffield’s Meadowhall…
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Mar- 2019 -28 MarchClothing & Shoes
Arcadia ‘draws up list of 67 store closures’
Arcadia has listed 67 stores it wishes to close across all of its brands, the Financial Times has reported. As seen by the publication, stores of varying sizes across the UK and Ireland with a total annual rent of £11m are set to be shut. These include Burton, Topshop, Evans,…
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Feb- 2019 -14 FebruaryHealth & Beauty
Fragrance Shop to open 15 new ‘Sniffbars’
The Fragrance Shop has announced it is to open 15 new ‘Sniffbars’, which will allow customers to smell a wide variety of fragrances and speak with perfume consultants. Opening as concessions in shopping centres, the standalone outlets are aimed at creating a retail experience for customers, merging both physical and…
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Jan- 2019 -17 JanuaryClothing & Shoes
Primark store expansion boosts festive sales
Fashion retailer Primark recorded a 4% increase in sales over the festive period buoyed by the continued expansion of store space. In a trading update for the 16 weeks ending 5 January 2019, its parent company Associated British Foods (AB Foods) said sales growth was driven by increased retail selling…
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