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Inflation Eats Away at British Retail
Foot traffic's falling and that just one of the challenges that retailers in the U.K. are working to contain…
Boots to Expand Offer With New, Online Marketplace
Boots is the latest British retail giant to embrace the marketplace model with plans to launch a new online…
Deal Digest: What’s Happening With Matalan, Reiss and Holzweiler
Fashion brands have a wide range of reasons for trying to secure outside investment, from refinancing debt to…
Cash-Strapped Joules Lines Up Potential Lifeline
Joules in talks with Next Plc for a financial lifeline to shore up its balance sheet.
Britain’s Next Says Online Slowing, Returning to Pre-pandemic Levels
Next said in a trading statement that online trends have been "normalizing" after accelerating during…
Modest Fashion Label Leem Hits the U.K. High Street With Next Online
The Saudi Arabian fashion label wants to attract a broad audience with on-trend design, vibrant color and…
Gap Makes a British High Street Comeback With New JV Partner Next Plc
Gap Inc. has opened its first, new-generation shop-in-shop on Oxford Street in a joint venture with Next plc…
What’s Next? Higher Prices, According to This 700-Store Retailer
A major retailer blamed stubbornly high freight costs as a factor in its decision to raise product prices in…
British Retailer Next Sees Customers Swapping ‘Volume for Quality’
The retailer, which operates physical and online stores and a marketplace, said it saw "better-than-expected"…
Next Plc Sounds Note of Caution on Holiday Deliveries
Next raised concerns over seasonal staff shortages and said it's had to raise prices—mostly on large home…
Gap Inc. Unveils UK Joint Venture
The San Francisco clothing company is making good on the asset-light European strategy it announced last year.
Next Backs Jack Wills’ Cofounder in Relaunch of Aubin Men’s Label
The high-street giant has taken a 33 percent stake in the relaunched label, a spin-off of the former Aubin…
Who Has a Better Site Experience? M&S and Next Beat Pure-Play UK Rivals
A Wunderman Thompson Commerce report unpacks the UK's state of digital fashion retail and what consumers…
Next Has Survived by ‘Following the Money’ and Here’s Where it Got Them
CEO Lord Simon Adam Wolfson explains what he means when he says the British fashion and home chain 'follows…
Next to Acquire 25% Stake in Fashion Rival
It could take a larger stake by July 2022, if all goes well.