Retailers

Astrid and Miyu partner with Hero for live video shopping service

Astrid & Miyu has launched a new bespoke shopping service that will aim to make purchasing product on its website a ‘seamless experience’, in time for the busy Christmas period. ‘Hero’ is a brand new live video chat service that creates a hybrid between in-store and shopping online. The service…

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Jacobs the Jewellers announces 70th anniversary celebrations

Jacobs the Jewellers officially revealed its 2018 70th anniversary celebrations, ‘Seventy for Seventy’, at its Christmas Showcase in front of over 200 customers on Wednesday 15 November. The Jacobs’ 2018 program centres around the goal of raising £70,000 for the Royal Berkshire Hospital Charity, specifically the Berkshire Cancer Centre, in…

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Domino retailers opt for a colourful Christmas

Domino Jewellery has reported strong sales for right-hand rings incorporating fashionable coloured stones and creative alloy options. Marketing co-ordinator Chantelle Serrell-Cooke says the brand has seen its retailers become “more adventurous” with the alloy combination selections, choosing a mixture of white and coloured metal. Many are also opting to purchase…

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Online retailers taking more ‘showroom stores’ as internet sales slow

A growing number of formerly ‘pure-play’ online retailers are taking physical stores as the rate of internet sales growth looks set to slow during the next few years. New research from Colliers International shows that by 2021, the rate of growth in e-commerce sales is expected to decline from the…

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Fewer closures, more openings for high street retail

There were more high street retail businesses opening and fewer closing in the first half of 2017, according to a report from the Local Data Company. The data, which studied the top 500 British town centres, found that 2,564 stores closed in the first six months of the year whereas…

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Thieves use concrete block to steal £150k of jewellery in Watchfinder raid

A group of thieves used a concrete block to smash their way into a Leeds Watchfinder store in a raid on Wednesday (8 November), making off with goods worth £150,000. Some 15 Rolex watches were also taken in the raid which happened at 6.45pm at the store in Victoria Quarter,…

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Jewlr and Edinburgh Assay Office announce quality control partnership

North American online jewellery retailer Jewlr has announced its partnership with the Edinburgh Assay Office (EAO). The EAO’s hallmarking services will be combined with Jewlr’s craftsmanship and personalised styles, to bring fine jewellery of the highest quality to customers in the United Kingdom. Since 1457, the EAO has been verifying…

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Soru Jewellery launches at Fenwick London

Soru Jewellery will now be stocked at Fenwick stores in London. British-Sicilian sisters, Francesca and Marianna, used their love of travel and summer holidays spent in Sicily, to influence the brand’s designs. Since its launch four years ago, Soru has accrued a number of wholesale partnerships. This new partnership marks…

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Spending growth slows to 2.4% as consumers feel ‘inflation squeeze’

Consumer spending growth slowed to 2.4% year-on-year in October which, with inflation at 3%, equated to a contraction in real terms. Brits cut back across the board to cope with their diminished spending power, and in anticipation of a potential interest rate hike. Data from Barclaycard revealed that spending on…

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Jacobs the Jewellers wins Pride of Reading award

Jacobs the Jewellers has won the ‘Pride of Reading’ award at a gala ceremony hosted by local born Chris Tarrant on Friday 3 November. The business scooped the 2017 ‘Business in Action’ Award for Reading businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The award is in recognition of the outstanding contribution…

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