It was simply known as Barton Square, but the TraffordCity retail, leisure, and entertainment space in Manchester has been renamed Trafford Palazzo.
Property giant Landsec is reported to be in talks to buy a further 25% in the giant Kent shopping mall Bluewater with the price pitched at a bargain £200 million.
Clearpay is now offering UK retailers access to millions more shoppers. The Australian buy-now-pay-later financier has introduced another cross border trading option for its 6,000+ UK merchant partners.
It’s official: the Christmas trading period has begun in Britain. Week-on-week footfall to UK retail destinations rose faster than it had done in previous weeks across the latest seven days (14-21 November), rising 4.1%.
The John Lewis Partnership is looking for environmental “innovators”. In a bid to end the high street’s ‘throwaway culture’, the UK retail giant has launched a £1 million ‘Circular Future Fund’.
Virgil Abloh’s additional talents as an architect and artist are resurfacing in the designer’s latest collaboration with luxury car marque Mercedes-Benz.
Speculation is buzzing around M&S at present with hints that CEO Steve Rowe may step down within the next couple of years and even that the company could be a bid target.
Online wholesale marketplace Faire announced that it has secured $400 million in a Series G investment round, bringing the company’s total valuation up to $12.4 billion.
Karl Lagerfeld, design great, legendary illustrator, Paris’ greatest conversationalist and photographer, was also a brilliant photographer of architecture. And now he will brand a unique series of couture villas.
Very.co.uk and Littlewoods owner Very Group has released its Q1 results with group sales rising 3.9% to £484.1 million in the three months to October 2.
It's not yet back to pre-Covid levels of performance, but major central London landlord Great Portland Estates is once again reaping the benefits of a “clear recovery” in the capital, it said Friday.
It seems consumers took a breather in November, sidelining concerns over decade-high inflation and retail shortages as UK consumer confidence actually inched up, according to GfK on Friday.
Investors are usually forgiving of tech firms when they spend years targeting the kind of profitability they’d like, but they weren’t forgiving Farfetch on Thursday as the firm’s shares fell 22% in late trading.
Frasers Group has confirmed what was largely assumed to be the case saying that its Oxford Street House of Fraser flagship is to close.
British Land is back in the black. The UK commercial property giant returned to profit in its half-year to 30 September, mirroring the performance of its sector peer Landsec.
