Retail Focus

MAY 14, 2021

Shaftesbury announces the launch of a one-off installation at the M·A·C global flagship store on Carnaby Street to celebrate the forthcoming collection; The Disney Cruella Collection by M·A·C. The unique installation will include an exterior wrap of the store, bathed in Cruella’s style, and the store interior will be transformed too, giving customers a taste of the all-new live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – vi

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Prominent independent retailer Harj Dhasee is to switch his two stores in the Cotswolds to the Simply Fresh brand and will stock Sainsbury’s products as part of the deal struck by the symbol group and the big-four multiple last year. The stores, which previously operated under the Nisa banner, will move to Simply Fresh in. This story continues at Harj Dhasee to join Simply Fresh.

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MAY 14, 2021

Dazzling blooms and stunning floral landscapes take root as the Macy’s Flower Show ® brings a floral celebration of fortitude to Macy’s flagship store at Herald Square in New York. Give. Love. Bloom. will enchant floral aficionados as they explore over-the-top gardens both inside the flagship’s main floor, balcony level and famed windows and this year for the first time-ever with a special presentation at Herald Square Park.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Czech pilsner brand Staropramen is launching a 6x330ml pack to tap into the “growing demand” for multi-pack formats. The packs feature a matte can design encased in a recyclable cardboard sleeve. The brand said multi-pack formats are becoming more popular and the new launch is “ideally placed” to help retailers drive sales this summer. Kevin. This story continues at Staropramen taps into multi-pack trend with new format.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

The Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop, Costa Coffee, has today reopened one of its bustling London stores and welcomed back members of the local community for their favourite coffee. Situated in the residential district of West Hampstead, the store has received a fresh new look and feel and boasts a range of new enhanced digital features.

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Design Week

MAY 14, 2021

The Anonymous mask, one of the most recognisable symbols of modern protest, is the subject of a new exhibition opening at London’s Cartoon Museum. V for Vendetta: Behind the Mask explores the visual history of the mask, from its origins in a British comic series, to its modern popularity in protest movements. What is now popularly known as the Anonymous mask is the creation of English illustrator David Lloyd.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

James Hall & Co, Spar wholesaler for the north of England, has launched a new look Spar store in Lostock Hall, Preston. The company reconfigured the former Lansdown Garage site on Brownedge Road, Preston, to allow for a larger Spar store and additional facilities. The 3,000sq ft store features a range of everyday essentials alongside. This story continues at James Hall & Co unveils new look Spar store in Preston.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

Lidl is celebrating the best of British brewers with its spring British Craft Beer Festival 2021, with prices starting from £1.29. This latest collection features 20 beers sourced from new and exclusive breweries located all over the UK, from Dundee in Scotland to Wales and North & South of England, meaning there is a pint for every palette.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Nisa partners across the country have introduced a range of offers on staple baby items. The Best Baby Buys event kicked off on 12 May and will run in stores for three weeks. Among the deals available are Huggies Pull-ups at £4.50, Pampers Baby-Dry Taped Pants at £5, DryNites Bed Mats at £4.75, and Huggies. This story continues at Nisa partners launch baby event.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

Clare Lloyd and Colin Hardman of Smith & Williamson LLP have been appointed as joint administrators of AW Retail, the trading vehicle for British fashion designer, Amanda Wakeley.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Kent County Council Trading Standards officers, with the support of Kent Police and immigrations teams, have targeted illicit tobacco sellers in Margate and Ramsgate. Operation CeCe – a National Trading Standards initiative in partnership with HMRC to tackle illegal tobacco – revisited premises previously identified as selling illicit tobacco were revisited this week, resulting in.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

Amazon today announced that it will create more than 10,000 new permanent jobs in 2021, taking its total UK workforce to more than 55,000 people by the end of year. Amazon also announced that it will invest £10 million over three years to train up to 5,000 employees in new skills and support the Government’s investment programme. This training will be offered through Amazon’s Career Choice programme, where the company pays course fees for its employees who have expressed an interest in pursuing

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Grocery delivery service Grocemania has launched in Leeds. The company, which offers delivery within as little as an hour, currently works Nisa, Costcutter, Londis, and Spar stores located in BP petrol stations. The app, which launched in February 2019, is already operational in London, Bristol, Brighton, and has recently launched in Sheffield. It is also.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

Choosing a supply chain partner for reusable packaging solutions and pooling is a significant consideration for many businesses, as the level of support partners provide can be a key contributor to overall performance. It is a relationship built on trust. If your partner can’t deliver, your business bears the cost. Looking to find the best solution for their business, operators often have to decide between an aloof larger organization offering global reach but no local presence and a more intima

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Two former postmasters have been formally acquitted at Southwark Crown Court today (14 May 2021) in uncontested appeals in the Horizon IT case. The cases from 2001 and 2006, which were referred to the court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission in January 2021, relate to convictions in magistrates’ courts in which Post Office acted. This story continues at Former postmasters cleared in Horizon IT case.

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Contra

MAY 14, 2021

The Contra Vision team share tips for maintaining good mental health. It is Mental Health Awareness Week 2021, and the theme is Nature. Through the many hardships of the past year, millions of people turned to nature for reprieve. Research done by the Mental Health Foundation found that during the pandemic, “going for walks outside was one of our top coping strategies and 45% of us reported being in green spaces had been vital for our mental health”.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

After 420 days of lockdowns, handwashing, staying at home, fighting for loo roll and forgetting to unmute ourselves, Byron, the maverick burger restaurant, has announced the launch of their truly delicious new ‘Freedom Burger’ to properly welcome the Great British public back to its restaurants nationwide from 17 May.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Retailer Andrew Thornton has sold his Thornton’s Budgens store in Belsize Park, north London, to Kavanagh Group for an undisclosed sum. Kavanagh Group owns 11 SuperValu stores in Ireland and a number of stores in the UK. The company is operated by chairman Noel Kavanagh Snr and managing director Noel Kavanagh Jnr. Thornton said: “After. This story continues at Thornton’s Budgens bought by Kavanagh Group.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

GSK Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH), the world-leading consumer healthcare business, announced today that it is partnering with two global packaging suppliers to launch fully recyclable toothpaste tubes across its specialist and science-based oral health brands, including Sensodyne, parodontax and Aquafresh.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Lucozade is kicking off an advertising campaign in preparation for a “massive summer of sport”. The campaign is running throughout the summer across TV, social media, digital platforms and in-store marketing, and includes a text-to-win competition for consumers to win a limited edition Lucozade Sport football, running across Lucozade Sport bottles. Tom Bell, head of.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

With indoor hospitality set to return in the UK from Monday 17 May, a study into behaviour and spending of more than 8,000 UK students by student benefits platform, UNiDAYS, has revealed that a quarter don’t intend on spending any money in pubs, bars and restaurants in the first week following the relaxing of COVID restrictions.

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Design Week

MAY 14, 2021

Wildish & Co has designed the branding for its own plant-based nutritional yeast product Notorious Nooch. Nutritional yeast is a deactivated form of the raising agent, which offers a range of different vitamins and minerals when consumed. As an ingredient in vegan and plant-based food, it can be used to mimic the flavour of cheese. It’s a product that has been on the market for some time, but has grown in popularity with the development of the vegan lifestyle movement. “What if w

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

One of the UK’s most recognisable and leading household brands, Russell Hobbs has joined forces with the nation’s favourite tea brand PG tips, on a campaign to spread positivity across the UK.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Mars Wrigley is kicking off an on-pack promotion offering shoppers the chance to win football prizes. The “Win2Gether” promotion is running until 12 August across packs of Mars, Revels, M&M’S, Galaxy Minstrels, Maltesers, Twix, Galaxy Ripple, Snickers, Starburst and Skittles. Shoppers can enter via win2getherpromo.com to win prizes including a VIP trip to Wembley Stadium, This story continues at Mars Wrigley launches football on-pack promotion.

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Retail Times

MAY 14, 2021

Following today’s release of The Works figures for FY2020/21 (pre-close); Georgina Sreeves, retail analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “The Works lost almost one-fifth of its previous-year sales in FY2020/21; this is moderate considering its entire store estate was closed for 16 weeks of the period, and at least 75% was closed for a further eight weeks due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Retailer Mital Morar is set to open a new store in the Kampus garden neighbourhood in Manchester. The 4,500sq ft Kampus General Store will feature independent, artisan food and drink sitting alongside daily essentials. A regular series of local collaborators will showcase new produce with a focus on local specialists from butchers and greengrocers to.

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Design Wanted

MAY 14, 2021

A compact list of product design books that will inspire you to think deeper in design. There are hundreds of product design books out there that can tell you how to design great stuff but fewer offer a deep understanding of the theory behind them all. From design thinking as a philosophy to the expert approach behind the success of some of the world’s most iconic products, these 10 books below will give you a strong base , helping you think differently about design, and providing inspiration fo

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Talking Retail

MAY 14, 2021

Valeo Snack Foods is set to launch a new design for its Barratt Liquorice Novelties. The re-fresh will roll out to convenience stores from August and include a new tapered box shape, which has enabled the company to reduce the plastic content by 89%. The 400g box contains and assortment of Liquorice Comfits, Pontefract Cakes, This story continues at Barratt Liquorice gets refreshed design.

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Dezeen

MAY 14, 2021

Dezeen promotion: furniture company Boffi De Padova has opened a new showroom in Chelsea, London. Overlooking Sloane Square, the showroom was envisioned in line with the art direction of Piero Lissoni and designed by the Boffi De Padova creative division helmed by Chiara Tombari. Boffi De Padova has opened a showroom in London's Chelsea. The 900-square-metre space spans three floors and is dominated by a sculptural helical staircase that twists up through the showroom.

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Retail Store Windows

MAY 14, 2021

Its been a while since we looked at this brand but as always they have produced a great quality scheme. The theme or inspiration for this appears to be based on music and musical instruments in particular with the inclusion of a rock guitar and keyboard. Albeit of course Tod-ified in a range of materials. Small goods are not easy to present in an interesting way although this brand always produces such interesting concepts.

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