M&S is focusing heavily on its retail operations and said that it has added two key new roles to the organisation to help it build “a store estate that’s fit for the future with industry-leading store operations”.

Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe, has bowed to the inevitable and is stepping down from his role in May. He’s being replaced by current Retail and Operations Director Simon Roberts, who’s been at the firm for three years.

Crystal behemoth Swarovski has announced the launch of lab-grown diamonds in 16 new colors.

Fans of Holly Golightly rejoice – Tiffany is bringing the Breakfast at Tiffany’s experience to London this February.

After catching a bit of a winter chill over “disappointing” Christmas trading, Joules was more upbeat on Tuesday, talking of “robust" first-half sales for the pre-festive period, despite a profits dip.

The Jigsaw-owned luxury multi-brand store The Shop at Bluebird is to close on Sunday, a further sign of the challenges in the UK retail sector at present.

The UK recorded another year of falling average annual like-for-like (LFL) in-store sales in 2019, new figures from BDO’s High Street Sales Tracker (HSST) showed at the weekend.

It has survived for almost than 140 years, but department store chain Beales has gone into administration Monday as urgent talks to find a buyer failed to produce an offer for the firm.

Under-pressure shopping centres giant Intu confirmed on Monday that it’s taking action to deal with its large debt load and said it “continues to make progress in its strategy to fix the balance sheet”.

He could be sipping cocktails in his silk slippers yet fashion legend Kenzo is back at the age of 80, throwing himself into the world of interior design Friday with the launch of his new brand, K3.

The full line-up of Christmas trading statements may not yet have been released, but plenty have already come out and it’s clear that Black Friday’s success could have dealt a crushing blow to Christmas trading overall.

Designer Kenzo Takada will launch a new luxury home and lifestyle brand K三 (pronounced K3) at the Maison & Objet trade show in Paris, France, which begins on January 17.

When retailers put the words ‘profit warning’ at the start of a press release these days, it’s always bad news. But in the case of Lindex owner Stockmann, it wasn’t. In fact, profits will be higher.

MySale continued to face tough times in the past six months with a trading update for the period to December 31 showing lower sales and an underlying loss.

Self-sufficient stores, in-store manufacturing, more space dedicated to experiences, and community activities: what does the next decade in retail look like according to Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield?

The volume of calls from retailers for changes to the business rates system is growing as they say more stores will close, as Frasers demands change, and as Beales has been forced to overpay by £1m+.