High Street Retailers
High street retailers form the backbone of the UK jewellery trade, encompassing national chains, department store concessions, and independent stores in bustling town centres. These outlets shape consumer demand through strategic location, promotional activity, and accessible price points, making them critical for footfall-driven sales and everyday branding. Jewellery Focus provides in-depth trade coverage of high street retailers—including performance analysis, store openings and refurbishments, promotional scheduling, margin management, supply-chain logistics, and digital integration. We deliver insights tailored to the needs of retailers, distributors, brand teams, and suppliers seeking to understand how high street channels can drive volume, accessibility, and sustained commercial growth in the broader jewellery market.
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Feb- 2024 -7 FebruaryRetailers
Pandora named as UK’s most prominent jewellery brand in 2023
Pandora has been named as the UK’s most prominent jewellery and watch brand in 2023, with over 1.8 million brand searches per month and an owned social score of 46,122, according to Salience Search Marketing’s annual report. The report analysed 11 performance indicators, including year-on-year visibility, search volume trends, and…
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Aug- 2021 -4 AugustTrade Organisations
Birmingham Assay Office to launch LGD screening service
The Birmingham Assay Office has announced that it will now screen laboratory-grown diamonds (LGDs) as a part of its jewellery valuation service. SafeGuard Valuations will automatically screen all diamond-set items to determine whether they are natural or potential lab grown. It comes in a bid from the organisation to support…
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Sep- 2020 -22 SeptemberRetailers
Footfall rises despite ‘rule of six’
Footfall across all retail destinations in the UK has risen by 2.4% in the last week, despite the government’s new ‘rule of six’ social distancing measure, according to data from analytics company Springboard. High street retailers saw a footfall increase of 5.2%, while shopping centres and retail parks saw a…
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8 SeptemberEconomy
UK retail sales increase by 4.7% in August
UK retail sales in August have increased by 4.7% on a like-for-like basis from August 2019, according to figures released in BRC-KPMG’s Retail Sales Monitor report for the month. Overall sales increased by 3.9% in the period, in comparison to a decline of 0.4% in August 2019. This is above…
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Jul- 2020 -2 JulyCoronavirus
High street retailers ‘urgently’ need government recovery plan, says Usdaw
Shopworkers union Usdaw has urged the government to agree with employers and trade unions a recovery plan for the high street as “thousands of further job losses are announced”. The union said the scale of job losses across the retail industry is “accelerating” as the high street continues to struggle…
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Jun- 2020 -16 JuneCoronavirus
Footfall up 41% yesterday morning as shoppers returned to high streets
Retail footfall across high streets, shopping centres and retail parks in England increased by 41.7% yesterday morning (15 June) in comparison to last week, and by 51.7% in England’s high streets, according to the latest data from retail experts Springboard. The 51.7% rise in footfall in high streets from last…
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May- 2020 -27 MayAdvice
From dark store to hybrid store – adapting to a new world order
It’s safe to say the embattled UK high street had a rocky start to the year, with a reported 18,248 retail jobs lost and 1,211 shops closed in the first two months of the year alone. In fact, in February, the high street saw a 7.8% drop in footfall, as…
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15 MayCoronavirus
IRC launches ‘We are open’ scheme amid Covid-19 crisis
The Independent Retailers Confederation (IRC), a group of trade organisations representing different independent retail sectors across the UK, has launched ‘We are open’, an online map and directory of independent shops that are still open and operating responsibly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Under the government’s guidance some high street retailers…
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12 MayCoronavirus
Safety first is the only way lockdown measures can be eased, says Usdaw
Trade union Usdaw has responded to the prime minister’s statement by urging a safety first approach to easing lockdown measures. The union cautions non-food retailers not to open until they can guarantee staff and customer safety and urges them to adopt the joint advice agreed with the British Retail Consortium…
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Apr- 2020 -29 AprilBusiness Bites
The aviation industry is now in very serious trouble
In a sign of just how distressed the aviation industry is, British Airways has announced plans to lay off 30% of its workforce, or about 12,000 employees, and says it expects it to take several years before passenger volumes return to 2019 levels. The chief executive, Alex Cruz, wrote to…
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