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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Nov- 2019 -1 NovemberEconomy
Treasury Committee urges MPs to reform ‘broken’ business rates
The government has been urged to fix the “broken” business rates system as it is continuing to affect high street retailers, a Treasury committee has said. An influential group of MPs has asked the government to examine alternatives to property tax, which puts more pressure on high street retailers than…
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Jan- 2019 -7 JanuaryAnalysis
What does Brexit mean for the high street jeweller?
2018 has been a tumultuous year for the UK high street and Brexit is now just over the horizon, bringing with it the culmination of two years of wrangling, debate and uncertainty about what will be the state of UK will be once we leave. But Simon Forrester, CEO of…
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Oct- 2018 -11 OctoberFeatures
Missing opportunities in bespoke manufacturing
Time was when many high street retailers would have had their own in-house jewellers who could undertake repairs, alter existing pieces of jewellery to give them a new look or potentially create something completely new and unique for those customers unable to find exactly what they were looking for in…
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2 OctoberRetailers
Business rates could be changed to help retailers, says Greg Clark
Secretary of state for business Greg Clark has admitted that business rates could be changed in order to help high street retailers. Clark told a fringe event at the Conservative party conference that a change in business rates would be “one way” of recognising the role that high street retailers…
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Jul- 2018 -6 JulyRetailers
Retail sales fall for fifth consecutive month
Retail sales fell for the fifth month in a row in June, data from BDO’s High Street Sales Tracker has shown. Total in-store like-for-like sales were down 1.7% compared with last year, when the figures rose 1.3%. It is also the ninth consecutive month that sales growth figures have failed…
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Jun- 2018 -20 JuneEconomy
Independent retailers feeling ‘optimistic’ about high street future
More than half of the nation’s independent high street retailers are optimistic about the future of their local high street – and four out of five shoppers would miss their local high street if it was no longer there. This is according to new research to launch the government-run Great…
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Dec- 2017 -22 DecemberEconomy
90% of retailers to ‘struggle’ with upcoming accounting rules
Britain’s retailers look set to emerge as the most exposed to new lease commitments, according to analysis by Aptitude Software, a global financial software specialist. The firm predicts that 90% of UK high street retailers will struggle to comply with the impending lease accounting standards (IFRS 16) which come into…
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Oct- 2017 -25 OctoberEditor's Blog
Fighting back against the algorithms
Now that the show season has cooled down, we head into the final quarter of the year, and begin gearing up for the Christmas sales period. The retail landscape remains challenging, but the UK economy continues to hold up in reasonable condition, and there are some significant reasons to be…
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Aug- 2017 -8 AugustEconomy
High street ‘dinosaurs’ left behind by digital age
High street retailers who don’t keep up in the digital age will be left behind, according to new data from Worldpay. According to the payments processor, small and independent stores are seeing year on year growth of up to 8% by allowing customers to browse and purchase online as well…
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Nov- 2016 -16 NovemberRetailers
High street struggles to ‘meet demand of time-poor and tech-savvy customers’
High street retailers are struggling to meet the demand of time-poor and tech-savvy customers, according to a new study new research from Barclaycard. The survey of 2,000 UK adults found increasingly busy and technology-savvy shoppers cite lack of time as a primary reason for buying online more often (32%), with…
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