Tesco is set to open 750 stores in Thailand over the next three years. This will be the retailer’s first major overseas expansion under Dave Lewis. Thailand is the groups largest and most profitable market outside of the UK. Lewis believes that Thailand offers huge opportunity because of its young, increasingly urban...
Adidas has launched a hoodie that is made from garment waste, to make it 100% recyclable, in collaboration with Stella McCartney. The Infinite Hoodie is made from Evrnu’s NuCycl fibre as well as organic fibre. The brand has also launched a biofabric tennis dress made from Microsilk and cellulose blended yarn. Microsilk...
James Lakeland has launched its first Midlands store at Birmingham’s Mailbox. The retailer will be in a unit on the second level. The shopping centre already boasts a host of brands including Paul Smith, Boss. Burrows & Hares and English Brands. A spokesperson for James Lakeland said, “Our new store in the...
Uniqlo is planning to open a new store in Angel. This comes just three months after opening a store in London’s Spitafields. The store is set to open in late 2019. It will take up 5,300 square feet on the ground floor and a further 10,200 square feet at basement level. The...
Kim Kardashian-West has won $2.7m in damages from Missguided USA, after accusing the fast fashion retailer of copying her outfits. She took the US arm of the brand to court, claiming that it was using her name to sell clothes and was ‘notorious’ for ‘knocking off’ designer items that she had...
Amazon is set to create 2,000 new jobs in the UK 2019. This will take its total UK workforce to 29,500. The positions being hired will include engineers, software developers, data scientists, and cloud and machine learning experts. There will also be some entry-level positions. More than 170 of the new jobs...
Phase Eight has appointed Gail Finnegan as its new global retail director. She will be tasked with strengthening the Phase Eight brand globally during a transformation programme for the company. In her most recent role, Finnegan was the retail director EMEA at Michael Kors and has also led the retail operations of...
Decathlon has revealed plans to create 200 new jobs in the UK by 2021. This will be done mainly through investing in a new warehouse to support its growing business. The retailer opened the doors to seven new stores last year, and redeveloped its campus store and headquarters in Surrey Quays. ...
Primark has posted a 4% sales increase in the 40 weeks up until June 22nd, according to Associated British Foods. Sales growth in in May was held back by unseasonable weather, although that did change in June. This was also the case in the Eurozone. Primark’s new stores performed particularly well during...
Topps Tiles has posted a 3.8% uplift in like-for-like sales in its third quarter. This represents a clear improvement on the first half of its financial year when like-for-like sales edged up 0.2%. Topps Tiles chief executive, Matthew Williams said: “The business performed well over the third quarter with like-for-like sales...
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