Posts Tagged ‘high street’

A survey carried out by the British Council of Shopping Centres (BCSC) has found that 42% of retailers have plans to capitalise on the VAT rise in January 2011with targeted sales and promotions in December.
58% of retailers said they will review costs to improve margins before the increase kicks in, while 19% are thinking of [...]

Shop was intrigued to read on Market Insight that Dave Dodd, who co-founded Poundland, is plotting to develop a variety chain by the name of Hub. Despite Dodd’s protestations to the contrary, the business proposal looks set to plug some of the remaining gaps on the high street (and in shopping centres) left by Woolworths. [...]

Shop was encouraged to hear the latest research from the CBI which found that high street sales are growing at their fastest annual rate in two years, leading the Confederation to say that: “The retail sector seems to be finding its feet again.’
The distributive trades survey found 41 per cent of retailers, led by [...]

John Lewis has reported record sales in it’s newly launched online clothing sector. Online sales for clothing have surpassed expectations with the retailer now expecting to reach its self set target of £8.5m by the early December instead of its initial prediction of the end of January. Pretty impressive stuff John! Although the site is [...]

Shop is very excited about the launch of London Fashion Week today, which comes hot on the heels of a raft of high street initiatives and special offers that took place in the capital last week. Our first port of call is going to be The Exhibition at Somerset House, which runs from Friday 18 [...]

Shop got caught reading The Mail on Sunday this week and was interested to see the paper turning its vitriol on bargain shops, bewailing in a full page article that: ‘Protests grow over the 99p High Streets.’
So they’ve noticed have they, thank heavens for that?! While there is nothing wrong with providing consumers with a [...]

Jacqueline Reynard, who works for a Nottingham-based manufacturer, talks about the detrimental effect that car-parking fees are having on the local high street’, saying:
 
When the obvious thing is to keep retailers in local high streets in business, after years of free parking, many areas in Nottingham now face the grim prospect of being hit with [...]

If there’s something we’re seeing a lot of recently it’s discounting. Sales, here, there and everywhere, BOGOF, 241 etc. But it’s the clever discounting that interests me, those businesses who seem to be really thinking about the best way to protect their brand whilst still bringing in the cash.
Low-end brands seem to have it [...]

A recent blog post on Retail Rehab  made the great suggestion of using a Birthday to promote your business. It seems such a simple idea, an excuse to celebrate, draw attention to yourself and more importantly, draw people to you and your business. It also gives the opportunity to do an offer/sale without cheapening your brand [...]

The Sunday Times has caught up with Trading Talk and reported on the looming threat of Britain’s high streets turning into ghost towns, with worrying numbers of retailers shutting up shop and 15 per cent of the UK’s retail floor space set to be vacant by the end of 2000. (139,500 stores according to recent [...]