Luxury businesses have renewed calls for the UK government to reverse its decision to end VAT-free shopping for tourists, saying Britain is losing out to other European countries as big-spenders go elsewhere.
Ebay announced on Friday that it is setting up shop in Los Angeles for the opening of its first-ever sneaker store.
British luxury jewellery retailer David M Robinson (DMR), has significantly upsized and extensively refurbished its Liverpool One flagship store.
Luxury jewellery retailer Laings has opened a dedicated Omega showroom at the St David’s mall in Cardiff. The watchmaker has taken an 838 sq ft space at the Landsec-operated mall.
Official retail sales figures for the UK in April were released on Friday and they showed volumes ticking upwards again after they’d fallen during March.
BNPL giant Klarna has been growing fast and clearly wants to grow even faster with the payments firm about to launch a three-day event targeting its many millions of consumers around the world.
There was good news for the growing UK cycling clothing and accessories market on Friday with a new Mintel report showing that Britons are continuing to switch on to cycling in large numbers.
Since its 2000 debut, ASOS was only found online. Nordstrom is about to change that. Asos wants to get physical.
The global luxury online retailer this week celebrated its long partnership with Loro Piana, and its excellent form in the American market, a territory where the brand has recorded strong growth.
M&S is continuing to open statement new stores as the UK retail giant enjoys a turnaround in its fortunes. It’s set to take over another former Debenhams site, at the Lakeside mall in Essex.
French Connection has become the latest retailer to join the blossoming rental service sector, but with a difference. It will become first major UK brand to operate its own dedicated standalone rental operation.
Malls giant Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) is continuing to roll out its Westfield brand to more locations and has announced that it’s rebranding three flagship centres under that name.
Landlord Grosvenor has launched an interesting project, unveiling “an innovation challenge seeking to find new technologies and partners that are putting customer experience at the heart of bricks and mortar retail”.
Rental platforms are continuing to expand their branded offers with Hirestreet saying this week that it has added Miss Pap and Little Mistress to its line-up in time for summer events season.
British inflation surged last month to its highest annual rate since 1982, piling pressure on finance minister Rishi Sunak to step up his help for households facing a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
