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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.uk | Rachel Douglass
Asda is venturing into the fashion retail space. The supermarket giant has officially opened its first stand-alone store for its George clothing brand in a launch event headlined by Spice Girl, Mel B. Located at Crown Point Retail Park in Leeds, the store, housed in what had once been an Asda Living location, intends to serve as a trial of the fashion-focused concept that aims to replace the former homeware format. Asda's new George concept store. Credits: Asda.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.uk | Rachel Douglass
Next has called on its shareholders to vote against a resolution requesting for the British fashion retailer to disclose how it pays employees to address concerns over employee wages. A group of investors is hoping Next will increase its transparency and improve conditions for shop floor workers by revealing how many of its 40,000 staff are paid below the real living wage.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.com | Rachel Douglass
US retail company Vince Holding Corp. has been issued with a noncompliance notice from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after its market capitalisation fell below the listing standards. In a regulatory filing, Vince said it did not, at this moment, satisfy NYSE’s continued listing standard, which requires the company’s 30-day trading day average market capitalisation to be at least 50 million dollars and its stockholders’ equity to be at least 50 million dollars.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.uk | Rachel Douglass
Over the week spanning May 4 to 10, footfall across the UK saw a notable 3.3 percent decline compared to the week prior, largely driven by a significant 4.8 percent drop in high street activity. Retail parks and shopping centres also recorded declines, albeit less substantial, of 1.2 and 2.5 percent, respectively.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.com | Rachel Douglass
The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) and clothing manufacturing company R.M. Williams have established a new partnership to develop what would be Australia’s first-ever National Manufacturing Strategy. The duo intend to mobilise efforts to “rebuild and future-proof” the local fashion and textile industry in the pursuit of building up a globally competitive sector.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.com | Rachel Douglass
Skims is set to enter the UK retail market. Commercial business firm The Crown Estate has confirmed the signing of a one-year lease with Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand for a site on Regent Street, London, set to open summer 2026. Little is currently known about what the store will entail over its 12,000 square feet span.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.com | Rachel Douglass
Debenhams Group, formerly Boohoo Group, has said it is considering the refinancing of a 125 million pound revolving credit facility as it continues to embark on a transformation under a new management team. A spokesperson for the fashion group told FashionUnited: “Having become Debenhams Group, we are currently at the early stages of evaluating our financing arrangements to ensure they best support our capital-lite, stock-lite, marketplace strategy.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.ch | Rachel Douglass
Die US-amerikanische Footwear-Marke Allbirds hat ihre Geschäftszahlen für das erste Quartal 2025 vorgelegt, ein Zeitraum, der stark von der laufenden Umstellung vom Direktvertriebsmodell hin zu einem Distributionsmodell in ausgewählten internationalen Märkten geprägt war. Im Quartal bis zum 31. März 2025 verzeichnete Allbirds einen Umsatzrückgang von 18,3 Prozent auf 32,1 Millionen US-Dollar (etwa 28,83 Millionen Euro) im Vergleich zum Vorjahreszeitraum.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.ch | Rachel Douglass
Das Vorgehen gegen Per- und Polyfluoralkylsubstanzen (PFAS) in Funktionskleidung hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich an Dynamik gewonnen, nicht zuletzt, weil die Auswirkungen auf Umwelt und Gesundheit zunehmend umfassend erforscht werden. Diese Entwicklungen zwingen die führenden Unternehmen der Outdoor- und Sportbekleidungsbranche dazu, ihre Strategien zur Integration funktionaler Eigenschaften in ihre Produkte grundlegend zu überdenken.
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4 days ago | 
fashionunited.com | Rachel Douglass
Footwear brand Allbirds outlined its results for the first quarter of 2025, one reflective of its transition from a direct selling model to a distributor model across certain international markets. During the quarter ended March 31, 2025, the company posted a net revenue decrease of 18.3 percent to 32.1 million dollars, compared to the same period last year. Allbirds cited its retail store closures in the US and its business transformation as the key causes.
