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  • The Works brings back dividend as demand for cheap books and Peppa Pig toys boosts sales

    The Works

    Discount retailer The Works has reinstated its dividend after telling investors its sales are now significantly higher than at pre-pandemic levels, on the back of a record Christmas and booming demand for books.   The firm said it had capitalised on the “BookTok” trend on social media platform TikTok to boost sales of its discount [...]

  • Makeup seller Revolution Beauty’s sales soar after Boots picks up products

    Revolution Beauty

    British makeup seller Revolution Beauty Group today vowed to continue selling “quality products at affordable prices” as the firm said strong demand for “mass market beauty” led to its earnings increasing by 73 per cent year-on-year. The cosmetics firm said its UK sales increased 85 per cent over the previous year, following the successful rollout [...]

  • The Works has ‘record’ Christmas as it beats pre-pandemic levels

    THE WORKS

    The Works reported a revenue hike this morning, up 30.6 per cent, and increasing 17.9 per cent compared to pre-pandemic performance.

  • Retail in 2022: Leisure explosion and flexible landlords will give the UK high street a much-needed boost this year

    January 11, 2022

    Demand for property outside traditional retail and pragmatic landlords have given “renewed optimism” for some high streets and shopping districts despite the toll of the pandemic, according to industry experts. The pressure from lockdown measures, after a steady decline in recent years, saw vacancy rates across shopping destinations hit record levels in the second quarter [...]

  • UK bricks and mortar sales have stronger-than-expected November, but Omicron threatens festive figures

    December 17, 2021

    Black Friday deals on toys, clothes and tech pushed UK retail sales up by a better-than-expected 1.4 per cent in November, as shoppers hit the high street for their early Christmas shopping, the Office for National Statistics said today. Last month’s UK retail sales figures were 4.7 per cent higher than a year earlier, the [...]

  • Christmas light switch-on brings shoppers back to the high street

    November 15, 2021

    The number of people on UK's high streets rose by 2.5 per cent last week compared to the previous week, with the Christmas buzz gradually bringing shoppers back.

  • The future of the High Street: Hyper-local, AI and with touches from the 17th century

    November 9, 2021

    In order to save the Great British high street of the 21st century, we need to go back in time and take inspiration from the 17th century. Far from the vision of a super futuristic, tech-heavy world, a desire for face-to-face contact and micro communities, which has been accelerated by the pandemic, will drive us towards a [...]

  • Rain and fuel chaos kept shoppers away from the high street

    October 8, 2021

    Shoppers were deterred from the high street last month because of rain and chaos surrounding fuel buying.  Total UK footfall dropped by 16.8 per cent in September, compared to pre-pandemic levels, BRC-Sensormatic IQ data found. Out of all regions, London saw the biggest drop of 26.3 per cent, compared to 2019. The city has suffered [...]

  • Two-tiered recovery? High Streets struggle as one-in-seven shops sit vacant

    July 30, 2021

    A wave of administrations, closures and downsizing has decimated the UK high street, with new figures out this morning showing one in seven shops are sitting empty – and the problem is getting worse. In the second quarter of 2021, the overall vacancy rate increased to 14.5 per cent across the UK, from 14.1 per [...]

  • Small shops face £1.7bn debt, says report by ex-boss of Iceland

    July 16, 2021

    Small shops are struggling under £1.7bn debt, the former retail chief of Iceland, has warned. Independent businesses’ borrowing increased fourfold during the pandemic, according to the report. While the money borrowed has allowed small shops to survive, the task of paying back the loans still looms over them, said Bill Grimsey, the author of the [...]

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