Fashion news

• Competition watchdog to probe JD Sports Footasylum deal

  17-05-2019 17:02
  
  The competition and markets authority (CMA) is planning to review JD Sports Fashion’s acquisition of smaller rival Footasylum.
  
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• Sports Direct to sell HQ property for £120m

  17-05-2019 16:49
  
  Sports Direct Group is in advanced negotiations to sell property at its Shirebrook headquarters for £120m.
  
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• Fashion sales hit ‘hardest’

  17-05-2019 16:04
  
  Fashion sales took the “hardest hit” last week, as total like-for-likes were down 4% year on year for the week to 12 May.
  
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• New toolkit supports the future of fashion

  17-05-2019 12:36
  
  Non-profit organisation Forum for the Future and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion have launched a learning toolkit designed to raise awareness of the impact that fashion has on global sustainability.
  
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• First look: Flannels opens in Newcastle

  17-05-2019 10:23
  Flannels has opened its latest multimillion-pound new store concept in Newcastle.
  
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• Missguided opens in Vietnam

  17-05-2019 09:22
  
  Missguided has opened its first store in Vietnam, at the Saigon Centre mall in Ho Chi Minh City.
  
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• 82,000 business rates appeals lodged since revaluation

  17-05-2019 09:15
  
  More than 82,400 properties in England have lodged appeals against business rates since the system’s 2017 overhaul, official figures have shown.
  
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• Google launches fashion supply chain tool

  17-05-2019 09:03
  
  Google has partnered with luxury brand Stella McCartney and fashion innovation consultancy Current Global to develop a new supply chain tool.
  
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• Burberry to close 38 stores

  17-05-2019 08:53
  
  Burberry will close one in 10 of its stores worldwide as it takes its proposition further upmarket.
  
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• Lost Ink buyer opens indie in Stamford

  17-05-2019 08:45
  
  A former River Island and Lost Ink buyer has opened a new fashion and lifestyle independent called Iris & Violet today on St Mary’s Street in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
  
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