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Harrods is to open three further H Beauty stores over the course of the next 12 months. The new stores will be situated in Bristol’s Cribbs Causeway, Edinburgh’s St James Quarter and Newcastle’s Metrocentre.  The Newcastle shop will be the largest H Beauty store to date. The move follows the launch of...

Morrisons' share price has surged by 28% after a US private equity firm made an offer to buy the supermarket group for £5.5bn. The shares closed at 228p on Monday, just below the 230p-a-share proposed by Clayton Dubilier & Rice. Morrisons' board has rejected the offer, saying it "significantly undervalued" the business...

Travis Perkins has said its full year adjusted operating profit will be materially ahead of market expectations and is expected to reach at least £300 million. In a trading update, the company said the high levels of growth it saw in March have continued throughout its second quarter, driven by the...

Selfridges London has transformed its accessories hall and store exterior on Duke and Orchard Streets into a garden centre as part of its Good Nature creative theme for 2021. The centre will sell a range of gardening tools, seeds, plants, pots and the retailer’s own label compost. Customers can also select...

New figures have revealed that footfall edged down 3.1% across all UK retail destinations last week from the previous seven day period as rain deterred people from going out shopping later in the week. The data from retail specialist Springboard shows that high streets saw a 5.4% fall while shopping centres...

Aldi has committed to remove single-use plastic from all its own-brand tea bags by the end of 2021. The supermarket will be changing the oil-based plastic sealing of the tea bags to biodegradable material following a range of trials. This means that all tea bags will be 100% biodegradable. Aldi is...

Beauty retailer Space NK is launching its first advertising campaign in over ten years today. Called This is your Beauty – Space NK, the campaign will appear across multiple media platforms as well as in the windows of the retailer’s store estate. Space NK said the creative will explore the importance of...

Pepco Group is to launch in Austria after agreeing to acquire up to 29 store leases in the country. The owner of the Pepco and Dealz brands in Europe and Poundland in the UK said a framework agreement has been signed between Pepco Poland and CCC Austria that will provide an...

It has been reported by the BBC that retail sales fell by 1.4% between April and May as people chose to visit reopened bars and restaurants instead of buying food at supermarkets. The Office for National Statistics said sales fell most significantly at food stores as consumers took advantage of Covid...

Dr Martens saw its revenue increase by 15% to £773 million in the year to 31 March following a good performance across its markets around the world. Revenue climbed by 17% in both its EMEA and Americas regions and by 7% in APAC. Growth in China was particularly strong at 46%. Meanwhile,...