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Online fashion group Asos has partnered with US retailer Nordstrom in a joint venture that will see Topshop clothes sold in physical stores again for the first time since the brand collapsed last year. The deal sees Nordstrom, which first struck a deal with…
Topshop’s ‘disgusted’ staff today revealed they were officially told they’d lost their jobs two hours after Asos announced its £330million takeover on Twitter – as Sir Phillip Green’s family is ‘set for £50m’ from the sale. The outraged workers, numbering…
Topshop and Topman Singapore are to close its last store in VivoCity and move online this Thursday (September 17). Topshop and Topman brand manager Wing Tai Retail told The Straits Times that the brands will focus on an omnichannel retail strategy to suit…
British fashion label Topshop will close its 14,000sqft flagship in Hong Kong when the lease comes up for renewal in October, the latest in a string of mid-level international retailers to exit the territory. And watch brand Swatch has shuttered its prime…
Topshop parent Arcadia Group has been given a lifeline by its creditors and landlords after a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) was approved yesterday. The vote was delayed last week after it became clear it would not gain the 75 per cent approval needed to…
The future of fashion label Topshop is in limbo after a crucial vote on a Company Voluntary Arrangement for parent Arcadia Group was delayed last week. Arcadia’s chairman Sir Philip Green is trying to gather approval from creditors for a scheme which would…
Embattled UK fashion retailer New Look is to quite China, closing some 130 remaining stores. The move follows a strategic review of the China business announced back in June, when the company put the brakes on an ambitious 450-store rollout plan after opening…
British apparel group Arcadia has terminated its contract with Chinese franchisee Shangpin to represent its Topshop brand in the PRC. Arcadia chairman Sir Philip Green had announced plans to open 80 stores in the region with the Chinese franchise partner in…
The JD Sports Perth store in Westfield Carousel will open on 30 August and the new store in Brisbane’s city centre will open on 20 September 2018. In April 2017, JD Sports was brought to Australia by local retail agent Hilton Seskin, whose Next Athleisure…
British retailer Topshop is about to make its Mainland China debut – opening its largest store in the world in Shanghai. To date, the fashion chain has opened just three stores in greater China – all of them in Hong Kong, where it made its debut in 2012.…
UK fast-fashion darling Topshop and brother brand Topman have returned to the Australian e-commerce sphere, partnering up with The Iconic for their online comeback. The Iconic will now sell and distribute — from its Australian website and fulfilment centre—a…
For the past few years, Black Friday has become a focal point for many US and UK retailers – and for media outlets hungry for images of shoppers bursting into stores in pursuit of posh televisions. The event, supposedly named after the moment when retailers…
A “steady if cautious” Hong Kong retail recovery is clearly underway, according to a report from Savills released today. “The retail sector is slowly coming to life after four years of painful adjustment which has seen the emergence of a ‘tenant’s market’, a…
Renewing the lease for its Queen’s Road shop in Central, fashion brand Topshop Hong Kong has halved the rent. It now has a rate of HK$1.5 million (US$192,000) a month for its 12,000sqft (1100sqm) store on one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping streets, reports…
Topshop and Topman have been salvaged in Australia, with Sir Philip Green and his UK-based Arcadia Group stepping in to take over the business. Administrators, Ferrier Hodgson, today made the announcement of the successful restructure of the fashion chains in…
At the time of writing, the company still lists the concessions on its website, but local reports said that there is little sign the brand had ever been there inside the 17 Myer stores that carried the women’s and men’s brands. The news comes just a few days…
