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Mango to open 20 new UK stores in 2025

Feb 7, 2025 / Spain
The Spain-based fashion group continues to expand its presence in the UK. As part of its 4E 2024-2026 Strategic Plan, 20 new store openings are planned for 2025

H&M reports fourth quarter and full year results

Feb 7, 2025 / Sweden
The Swedish fashion group has highlighted the strength of its online channel and improved profitability, despite lacklustre sales in the fourth quarter of its 2024 financial year

US Retail: fuzzy outlook for the year 2025

Premium ContentFeb 4, 2025 / United States
While footwear sales are expected to have ended 2024 on a high note, overall retail sales were more subdued than in the previous year, suggesting that consumers were cautiously optimistic throughout the year. However, rising inflation in the final months of the year appears to have made them wary again and import figures suggesting that retailers will need to stock up again may be hard to come by, as the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on goods from Mexico, Canada and China have caused some instability. While the outlook for 2025 is not negative, it is certainly not euphoric

Growing number of foreign buyers at Pitti Uomo

Jan 31, 2025 / Italy
At the last edition of the men’s fashion fair held in Florence, foreign buyers increased by 6.5% compared to twelve months ago and in line with the June edition, while Italian buyers remained stable

Primark lowers full year outlook

Jan 30, 2025 / United Kingdom
The UK-based fashion retailer, owned by Associated British Foods, has lowered its full year outlook, after a first quarter sales decline in the UK and Ireland, which accounted for around 45% of its total sales

LVMH reports stable performance after a difficult year in 2024

Jan 29, 2025 / France
Amidst a challenging global economic environment, the France-based luxury group has reported stable 2024 results, highlighting a slight acceleration in growth in the fourth quarter

UK Retail: the future is not looking very bright

Premium ContentJan 28, 2025 / United Kingdom
Textile, Clothing and Footwear (TCF) sales have held their own in the final quarter of the year, showing resilience to the drag from overall retail sales. However, the sticky above-target inflation in the UK over the past year is a cause for concern as wages fail to keep pace. In addition, the higher costs for retailers predicted in the last Budget may leave them with little choice but to raise prices and cut jobs. As much as imports have shown some stability, the future for the retail sector is not looking very bright at the moment

Sanjo teams up once again with Wolf & Rita

Jan 21, 2025 / Portugal
The footwear brand has once again teamed up with the fashion brand Wolf & Rita, renowned for its distinctive and artistic approach to clothing, to show its pride in Portuguese heritage

More than 7 000 visitors expected at the next edition of Inspiramais

Jan 20, 2025 / Brazil
The next edition of Brazil’s leading event for the launch of materials for the footwear, clothing, upholstery, furniture and jewellery industries returns to Porto Alegre on the 21st and 22nd of January

Solid start to the fiscal year for Uniqlo’s parent company

Jan 15, 2025 / Japan
The Japan-based fashion retailer has posted a solid first quarter for fiscal 2025, as Uniqlo continues to perform well at home and abroad, particularly in North America and Europe

Spain Retail: will the positive momentum hold up?

Premium ContentJan 10, 2025 / Spain
Fashion retail sales were generally positive from July to November 2024, but will this trend continue? While we await official data on year-end sales, the negative footwear inflation seen in October and November, combined with a rise in consumer confidence, may have helped to boost spending. And with import figures showing that retailers were stocking up, let’s hope the holidays were the reason, as a recent dip in retail confidence could be just the bad news the sector didn’t need to hear at the start of the year

Next raises full year profit outlook

Jan 9, 2025 / United Kingdom
Following a strong Christmas trading period, the British fashion retailer has raised its profit before tax forecast for the current financial year by 5 million British pounds to 1.010 billion British pounds

New Look to accelerate store closures ahead of tax changes

Jan 8, 2025 / United Kingdom
The British fashion retailer is reportedly accelerating its store closure campaign ahead of tax rises in the UK’s next budget. It’s feared more retailers will follow in its footsteps

H&M acquires minority stake in Swedish platform Voyado

Dec 26, 2024 / Sweden
The Sweden fashion group has acquired a minority stake in the Swedish-founded retail technology platform Voyado, thus strengthening their existing partnership

Macy's concludes internal investigation and reports results

Dec 20, 2024 / United States
The US-based company delayed the announcement of its third quarter results due to deliberate accounting errors. Macy's assured stakeholders of limited financial impact and declared stricter controls
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