In a recent study examining the most cost-effective locations for establishing brick-and-mortar stores in the UK, Nottingham has emerged as the top choice for entrepreneurs. The research, conducted by business credit card experts at Capital on Tap, considered various factors including retail space costs, handyman rates, internet expenses, and...
Sep 20, 2024
The background article Exploring physical retail: From pop-ups to multibrand and flagships explores the diverse landscape of physical retail stores, categorising stores into multi-brand, monobrand, flagship, shop-in-shop, pop-up, concept, and department stores. The variety in physical retail enables each fashion brand to choose a store type that...
Feb 20, 2024
There are various types of physical stores, or so-called “brick and mortar” stores. For example, there are multibrand stores, monobrand stores, flagships, to name just a few. In this article, FashionUnited has created a list of all different types of physical stores, and what makes them special. You can choose to read the article from beginning...
Oct 2, 2023
The sustainable, on-trend luxury brand WRAY opened its first brick-and-mortar store at 38 Orchard Street in New York City. By providing one of the most size-inclusive lines in the US, the brand reached an annual revenue increase from 200,000 dollars to 3 million dollars in less than three years. The brick-and-mortar store exceeded revenue...
Jan 18, 2023
For close to a decade now, brick-and-mortar has been treated like it was some dinosaur that would slowly go extinct. It was like a cow someone was going to put out to pasture. It was your grandparent before you put them in a nursing home. The rise of e-commerce and online shipping did chip away at some of brick-and-mortar’s position as the...
Jul 29, 2022
The havoc that coronavirus is wreaking on the economy is being felt as companies lower their yearly projections and people file for unemployment claims in unprecedented numbers. The fashion industry is not immune to the effects of this, with companies furloughing employees left and right, CEO’s taking major pay cuts, and some stores permanently...
May 14, 2020
Fashion retail is in a state of disruption and it is becoming all the more important to focus on the strengths of a physical store. How this could work in today's digital age was demonstrated by the managing directors of three German multi-brand retailers at the convention of the BTE Textile Trade Association in Cologne at the beginning of June....
Jul 5, 2019
John Lewis has shortlisted six entrepreneurial businesses which it believes will change the way we shop in the future for its JLAB retail innovation programme. The six firms were selected from over 160 candidates - made up of new start-ups and more established businesses - before 11 of them were invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of ten...
Feb 20, 2019
Yesterday the National Retail Federation forecasted retail sales to grow between 3.8 and 4.4 percent in 2019. “The underlying state of the economy is sound”, said NRF’s president Matthew Shay in a statement. But today a BDO survey of 300 CEOs, CFOs and COOs from Retail & Consumer Products companies with revenues ranging from 50 million to 3...
Feb 7, 2019
The first Decoded: Future summit held by Stylus in New York shed light on the evolution of the fashion and retail industries in the age of technology. Despite the fact thatnew, innovative technologies are happening all around us, a panel of retail industry figures sat down early in the summit to discuss the importance of brick and mortar stores...
Nov 6, 2018