Paris
This coverage explores Paris’s relevance to the UK retail sector, focusing on fashion weeks, luxury brand strategies, flagship store launches, and cross-border retail trends. Reporting highlights how developments in Paris influence UK retail operations, consumer expectations, and competitive positioning — offering insights for executives, buyers, and professionals engaged with luxury, fashion, and international retail markets.
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Feb- 2020 -14 FebruaryAnalysis
German stagnation, Javid out, RBS gets environmental, Norton no-show
The German economy has stagnated due to significant falls in spending and exports. New figures show that GDP ‘flat lined’ (financial jargon for neither growing nor contracting) in the final quarter of 2019, bad news since economists and analysts had hoped that it would grow about 0.1%. It means Germany’s…
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Jan- 2020 -28 JanuarySupermarkets
Sainsbury’s pledges to become carbon neutral by 2040
Sainsbury’s has announced it will commit £1bn towards becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The supermarket giant will use the £1bn investment to “implement a programme of changes”, including reducing carbon emissions, food waste, plastic packaging and water usage, and aim to increase recycling, biodiversity and healthy and sustainable eating. The…
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9 JanuaryComment
How retailers can make their social media shoppable
Social media commerce presents retailers with one of the biggest changes and opportunities since the emergence of online shopping. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram are becoming stand-alone direct sales channels, meaning retailers have to change how they approach social media to cash-in on this new opportunity. Social commerce – a…
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Nov- 2019 -20 NovemberShopping Centres
Hammerson reaches £577m of disposals with £54m St Oswald’s sale
Hammerson has exchanged contracts on the sale of St Oswald’s Retail Park, Gloucester, to a local authority for £54m, taking its total to £577m in disposals this year. The 20,900m2 scheme, which is located to the north of Gloucester city centre offers a range of bulky goods, retail and leisure…
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5 NovemberPeople Moves
Hammerson appoints new non-executive director
Hammerson has announced the appointment of Méka Brunel as its new non-executive director. Brunel is currently chief executive of Gecina, a Paris-based retail estate investment trust that owns almost €20bn (£17.2bn) in office and residential assets. Her career in retail estate began in construction, where she delivered major residential and…
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Oct- 2019 -25 OctoberAdvice
How retail businesses can reduce electrical consumption
Energy remains one of the largest in-store operating costs for UK retailers; and with electricity prices in particular continuing to rise, an increasing focus on decarbonisation and expectations for businesses to be more environmentally responsible, pressure is more intense than ever for the sector to meet these challenges head on.…
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3 OctoberPeople Moves
Burberry appoints new chief supply chain officer
Fashion retailer Burberry has announced that Jerome Le Bleis has been appointed chief supply chain officer, effective 1 January 2020. Le Bleis will join Burberry from Lacoste in Paris, where he is currently executive vice president of group operations. He has previously held senior positions at Carrefour and Nestle and…
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Sep- 2019 -26 SeptemberHigh Street
Ikea retail sales jump 5% in full-year results
Furniture retailer Ikea has reported a 5% increase in retail sales to €36.7bn (£32.5bn) for the year ended 31 August 2019. Its parent company, the Ingka Group, said this follows a number of investments during the year, including the launch of new Ikea stores in cities, strengthening its home delivery…
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Aug- 2019 -9 AugustComment
Halting the demise of the ‘not my department’ store
Be it House of Fraser, retail bellwether John Lewis or in-the-wars Debenhams, department stores are in the news for all the wrong reasons – whether for profit warnings, sales dips or being sued by Sports Direct. The pace of change in the retail industry is ever accelerating, and department stores…
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May- 2019 -21 MayClothing & Shoes
Elle to launch childrenswear brand
Clothing retailer, Elle has announced it is to launch a childrenswear brand across all of its European stores in partnership with international licence partner Brand Machine Group (BMG). The license agreement between BMG and Elle operator Lagardère Active Enterprises (LAE) enables BMG to design, manufacture and market the Elle childrenswear…
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