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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...

JD Sports has reported that it is on track to deliver full year headline pre-tax profit at least equal to current market expectations. Ahead of its AGM later today, the sportswear retailer said in a statement that it has seen encouraging like-for-like sales growth at its core sports fashion fascias in...

The Hut Group saw its group sales climb by 24% to £916 million in 2018. EBITDA rose by 31% to £91 million while gross profit increased by 31% to £417 million. The group continued see strong growth in its own brand revenues, with 59% of group sales coming from own brands...

Aldi will be launching a trial of plastic free packaging for toilet rolls. The supermarket will be selling four-packs of Luxury Toilet Paper wrapped in paper in 174 of its stores across parts of the North East and the Midlands. If the trial is successful, the packaging will be rolled out...