British fashion retail group Boohoo has entered the Indian market for the first time via a partnership with the region’s multi brand platform Myntra. As part of the launch, three of the group’s owned brands – Boohoo, Dorothy Perkins and Nasty Gal – are now available to shop through the site, offering over 1,500 goods across a multitude of...
Dec 1, 2022
Online retail giant Boohoo is plagued by price discrepancies across its brand portfolio, despite items being the same. Research by the BBC found same items of clothing sold for various prices across its fashion labels, including a puffer coat that was 34 pounds more expensive at Coast than at Dorothy Perkins. Both brands are owned by Boohoo, as...
Apr 2, 2021
On Monday, online fashion retailer Boohoo acquired brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins, and Wallis from Arcadia Group Limited’s joint administrators for 25.2 million pounds. That came just weeks after the fast-fashion giant acquired Debenhams Retail Limited for 55 million pounds in cash. The two deals will see Boohoo take over the online operations...
Feb 11, 2021
Online fashion retailer Boohoo has acquired all of the e-commerce and digital assets and associated intellectual property rights, including customer data, related business information and inventory of the Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis brands from the joint administrators of Arcadia Group Limited for 25.2 million pounds. The deal does not...
Feb 8, 2021
The British fashion e-commerce darling has entered exclusive talks with the administrators of defunct Arcadia Group to acquire Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands. If their offer is accepted by administrators at Arcadia Group, the e-tailer could boost its group annual sales by 500 million pounds. “Boohoo Group confirms that it is in...
Jan 29, 2021
British fast-fashion group Boohoo has said it is in “exclusive discussions” with the administrators of collapsed retail empire Arcadia over the acquisition of the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands. But the company added that the discussions “may or may not result in agreement of a transaction. A further announcement will be made when...
Fashion retailers Dorothy Perkins, Burton Menswear and Miss Selfridge have announced they are partnering up with predictive analytics platform First Insight. Using the company’s consumer-driven predictive analytics, the brands will now be able to “operationalise product testing, allowing them to make faster and better merchandising decisions to...
Oct 9, 2020
Arcadia Group will go ahead with its planned store closures and rental cuts after all seven of its proposed Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) were approved by the required majority of creditors. The CVA will see Arcadia close 23 stores across the UK and Ireland. Lady Tina Green, the group’s majority shareholder and wife of Sir Philip Green,...
Jun 13, 2019
Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia is set to close its flagship Miss Selfridge store in Oxford Circus this July as Green pushes forward with the restructuring of his retail empire. The flagship site will be leased to another retailer and Miss Selfridge will move into a concession in the basement of Topshop next door. "Many of the Miss Selfridge staff at...
May 28, 2019
Topshop owner Sir Philip Green is planning to close 23 of his retail empire's stores across the UK and Ireland, as well as all 11 of the Topshop and Topman stores in the US as part of a CVA proposal. Arcadia, which owns Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans and Burton, is also asking for rent cuts at 194 of its 566 UK and Irish...
May 23, 2019
Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has called in advisers from Deloitte to launch a ‘radical review’ of Arcadia, as the fashion group risks losing 100 stores when their leases come to an end in late 2020, the Telegraph reported. Arcadia, which owns Topshop and has closed more than 200 of its stores since 2016, has seen a prolonged dip in sales and...
Jan 21, 2019
With limited luxe malls and high streets along with steep rentals in India, global luxury labels are taking the e-tail route to tap consumers in metros and small towns. As per a recent McKinsey report, online sales of luxury items in India are growing twice as fast as the overall e-tail. Recently, leading fashion portal Jabong.com brought...
Jun 8, 2015
