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A week on the high street - 21st March 2023

British Land has acquired three UK retail park destinations for £94m. It has acquired Capitol Retail and Leisure Park in Preston, Solartron Retail ...
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A week on the high street - 7th March 2023

Starbucks has announced plans to open 100 new UK sites, focusing on drive-throughs and “digitally-forward smaller stores”. However, the brand remains ...
A week on the high street - 28th February 2023

Next week, international beauty store Sephora will return to the UK for the first time in 17 years. The store will open at Westfield White City in ...
A week on the high street - 21st February 2023

Primark is set to expand its Westfield Stratford store, doubling the number of floors and taking total floorspace from 45,100sq. ft. to 81,000sq. ft. ...

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A Week on the High Street

A week on the high street - 21st March 2023

British Land has acquired three UK retail park destinations for £94m. It has acquired Capitol Retail and Leisure Park in Preston, Solartron Retail Park in Farnborough and a DFS warehouse in Cambridge since November. British Land head of strategy and ...

2 min Read March 21, 2023

A Week on the High Street

A week on the high street - 7th March 2023

Starbucks has announced plans to open 100 new UK sites, focusing on drive-throughs and “digitally-forward smaller stores”. However, the brand remains cautious amid the continuing competition from rival coffee companies and rising costs. Starbucks is ...

1 min Read March 7, 2023

A Week on the High Street

A week on the high street - 28th February 2023

Next week, international beauty store Sephora will return to the UK for the first time in 17 years. The store will open at Westfield White City in London on the 8th of March. It will feature over 6,000sq. ft. of beauty products from more than 100 ...

1 min Read February 28, 2023

A Week on the High Street

A week on the high street - 21st February 2023

Primark is set to expand its Westfield Stratford store, doubling the number of floors and taking total floorspace from 45,100sq. ft. to 81,000sq. ft. The expansion is expected to complete at the beginning of 2024 and “offer even more choice across ...

1 min Read February 21, 2023

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A week on the high street - 14th February 2023

Fashion brand Reserved has announced that it plans to open further UK stores alongside plans to open 400 stores across Europe by the end of 2023. The brand’s London flagship opened on Oxford Street in 2017, but further expansion was put on hold at ...

1 min Read February 14, 2023

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A week on the high street - 7th February 2023

Crew Clothing has announced plans to open 40 stores over the next three years. Chief executive David Butler said: “We have to react to customer behaviour and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that people are shopping in stores again. Our ...

1 min Read February 7, 2023

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A week on the high street - 31st January 2023

retail Store vacancies have fallen for the fifth consecutive quarter, according to the latest BRC-LDC Vacancy Monitor. Our latest research in partnership with the BRC found that the overall GB vacancy rate improved to 13.8% in Q4 2022, a 0.1% ...

1 min Read January 31, 2023

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A week on the high street - 17th January 2023

retail Sainsbury’s has reported a strong return to physical stores over the Christmas period, as online grocery sales fell by over 10%. CEO Simon Roberts said that the postal strike fostered uncertainty over whether products would be delivered by ...

2 min Read January 17, 2023

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A week on the high street - 10th January 2023

retail The latest data from the British Retail Consortium’s Sensormatic IQ footfall monitor recorded an uptick in year-on-year footfall in December. The 15.1% increase on the previous year brought footfall to its highest level since the beginning of ...

2 min Read January 10, 2023

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