Новости за 11.02.2020

The Mary Quant retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington has welcomed over 400,000 visitors, cementing the institution’s fashion credentials just in time for the designer’s 90th birthday.

Following Springboard’s footfall report for January earlier this week, a second footfall study has agreed that visitor traffic to non-food stores fell just 0.5% in the UK last month.

River Island has committed to publishing the names and locations of the Tier 1 factories that manufacture its clothes by the end of March, in an initiative that aims to provide further transparency in the supply chain.

Terry von Bibra had been working for the Chinese e-commerce giant since 2015, initially in German-speaking countries, East Europe and Turkey. He then took charge of all of Europe in 2016.

The chairman of JD Sports has slammed the CMA’s "fundamentally flawed" assessment of the UK sports retail market, saying it demonstrates a "complete misunderstanding" of how consumers shop on a national scale.

Burberry has this week opened a new manufacturing facility in Castleford, near Leeds, where textile workers can expand their skillset and learn new manufacturing techniques.​

​Marks & Spencer has appointed Eoin Tonge as its new chief financial officer to help it navigate through the tricky trading conditions in the UK retail market.

Skincare was the star category in the UK prestige beauty market last year with the overall high-end beauty sector falling to £2.6 billion in 2019, but skincare turning in respectable growth.

New Look gave us more evidence of its slow climb back to health on Tuesday as it released results for the first nine month of its financial year. It made a loss, but it’s tantalisingly close to the break-even point.

Two new spending surveys, from Barclaycard and the BRC, showed fashion stores struggling in January, discount stores on the rise and online spend strengthening its hold on UK consumers overall.