Posts Tagged ‘london’
Back to the future with London’s Lost Department Stores
Our high streets are still littered with the remains of former department stores including the shells of once dazzling outlets of Debenhams, House of Fraser and BHS that have been recently joined by various John Lewis & Partners properties. Amid the carnage today it is incredible to believe that London (and its suburbs) alone supported…
Read MoreCarnaby Street rolls back the years to iconic status
Ahead of chunks of the Carnaby Street area of central London celebrating their 25th anniversary under the ownership of Shaftesbury PLC, Retail Insider took a tour around this buzzing area with its retail director. There’s no doubt that the iconic road, and surrounding streets, had become pretty jaded when the property company acquired a significant…
Read MoreRetailers and restaurants enter a very different landscape
As non-essential retailers reopen their stores for the first time in three months they return to a very different environment to the one they left when lockdown was enforced. Over the coming weeks they will realise that some elements of their operations will be changed indefinitely and there will unfortunately be some casualties as a…
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