Shopping Centre
Shopping centres remain an important retail channel for the UK jewellery trade, offering jewellers access to high-footfall locations and diverse customer bases. For jewellery retailers, suppliers, and designers, understanding trends in shopping centre performance, leasing activity, and consumer behaviour is key to maximising commercial opportunities. Jewellery Focus covers shopping centre developments, including new openings, refurbishment projects, retail tenancy changes, and insights into how these hubs impact jewellery sales and the broader retail landscape.
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Mar- 2017 -10 MarchRetailers
Shrewsbury jewellers set to close this month
A jewellery store in Shrewsbury is set to close its doors this month after being a fixture in the town for almost 20 years. Gemstone Jewellery first opened in the town’s Darwin shopping centre some 18 years ago, and after 11 years the store moved to its current location on…
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Feb- 2017 -20 FebruaryRetailers
Goldsmiths unveils extension to Glasgow store
High street jewellery chain Goldsmiths has unveiled its extended Goldsmiths store in Glasgow, featuring a TAG Heuer shop-in-shop. The 1,200 sq ft store – located in the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre – features a TAG Heuer branded area with a variety of the brand’s latest styles and collections, including the…
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Dec- 2016 -12 DecemberEconomy
Footfall falls in November despite Black Friday sales
Retail footfall decline 1% in November compared with the same month last year, despite the popular Black Friday discounting event on 25 November. The latest monthly Footfall and Vacancies Monitor from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard found the decline was a deepening of the 0.9% fall in October…
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Sep- 2016 -12 SeptemberRetailers
F Hinds opens new store in Harlow
F Hinds has opened one of its largest stores to open in 25 years, in Harlow’s Harvey Shopping Centre. The opening was suitably marked by its first customer, Mark Rapley, who purchased an engagement ring after seeing it in the store’s diamond window display. That same afternoon he proposed and…
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9 SeptemberCrime
Have-a-go hero injured trying to stop armed robbers in jewellery store raid
A man has been injured after bystanders helped foil an armed robbery at a jewellery shop in Windsor, Berkshire. The raid took place at around 10am yesterday (Thursday, 8 September), when four men attempted to enter Robert Gatwood Jewellers in King Edward Court shopping centre by smashing windows with a…
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7 SeptemberRetailers
Jewellery space grows 50% for Meadowhall in past two years
The amount of jewellery retail space at Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield has grown 50% in the past two years, due to increasing sales and demand. According to the centre manager, Darren Pearce, this is a result of “consistent” sales growth, which has resulted in an increase in average spend…
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Aug- 2016 -24 AugustCrime
Man charged following Ernest Jones robbery in Derby
A man has been charged following a robbery at a jewellery store in Derby’s Intu shopping centre. The break-in happened at about 3am on Tuesday, August 23, at the Ernest Jones store in the shopping centre. An unknown quantity of jewellery was stolen but later recovered by police. A 21-year-old…
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Jun- 2016 -13 JuneEconomy
Retail footfall edges up in May
Retail footfall edged up 0.3% in May compared with the same month last year, according to data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard. The latest Footfall and Vacancies Monitor found the increase in retail footfall was up on the 2.4% decline seen in April and significantly above the…
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May- 2016 -4 MayCrime
Five arrested after smash-and-grab raid at shopping centre jewellers
Five men have been arrested after an attempted smash-and-grab raid at two jewellery stores in a North London shopping centre. Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called to the smash and grab raid at around 02:30am on Wednesday, 4 May, at Brent Cross shopping centre. It is believed that a…
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Apr- 2016 -28 AprilCrime
VIDEO: Man steals Rolex watches worth £28,000 from a Manchester jewellers
A man posing as a customer ran out of a jewellers in Manchester with two Rolex watches, valued at around £28,500. The man was caught on CCTV walking into a jewellery store in Manchester’s Arndale Centre on Saturday, 19 March, at around 6:35pm as he posed for a customer. The…
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