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​US-based licensing giant Marquee Brands has acquired heritage lifestyle and fashion brand Laura Ashley from Gordon Brothers for an undisclosed sum. 

Wajima, a coastal city with a population of just over 20,000, is a nationally celebrated centre for fine lacquerware.

A colossal £2 billion is expected to be spent on pre-owned gifting this Christmas and is an indication of just how consumers have embraced this growing and now mainstream secondhand market.

Tradition fails to ring any bells when it comes to what younger consumers want to hear in stores during the Christmas period.

British Land continues to back retail parks as its desired commercial retail format, buying Orbital Retail Park in Cannock, Staffordshire, for £27.6 million from Clearbell Property Partners.

​Turkish digital baby and parenting brand Ebebek is to open its first UK store at The Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex. The upcoming opening early in Q1 marks a planned three-store expansion into physical UK retail.

​Represent is known for its rock music collabs and its latest is one that links with one of the biggest music comebacks of the decade as the Oasis reunion continues to grab headlines.

​Manchester’s Trafford Palazzo says it has been “firmly cementing its place as one of the leading shopping and leisure destinations in the North” this year.

Despite its conjuring of a cozy, soft brown, not everyone embraced the hue.

​The UK government’s forthcoming rises in National Insurance contributions and the minimum wage announced in last month’s Budget “make British businesses less competitive”, according to department store Liberty's boss.

With TikTok already predicting a bumper Christmas for its UK retail platform, it’s just announced record-breaking sales for Black Friday (29 November), “marking its biggest ever UK sales event to date”. 

Positive end-of-year reports from many-a-shopping centre reflect how well the UK sector has performed in 2024. And Victoria Leeds has joined them following its “strongest ever footfall figures”.

A group of London’s best up-and-coming designers and artisans have launched a pop-up store at the Battersea Power Station mall this month.

Think of it as cool sibling symbiosis in fashion and fine food, since designer Simone Rocha and brother Max Rocha have each just published books on their adventures on runway and in kitchen.

Dolce & Gabbana has unveiled a special holiday market at its Sydney boutique.

The world's biggest retailer of IKEA furniture on Wednesday reported a big drop in annual net profit after cutting prices in an attempt to coax more cost-conscious shoppers into its big blue stores.