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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Sep- 2016 -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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18 AprilEconomy
Early Easter and bad weather deters shoppers away from high street
An early Easter and bad weather conditions deterred shoppers from the high street in March, as footfall fell 2.7% compared with the same month last year. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Springboard Footfall and Vacancies Monitor found the decline in March was lower than the 1.1% fall in February.…
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8 AprilCrime
Basingstoke jewellers hit by thieves
Police are appealing for information following a “high value” burglary at a jewellers in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Officers were called to Festival Place shopping centre just after 2:30am on Thursday 7 April to reports of a burglary at the recently refurbished Beaverbrooks The Jewellers store. Thieves smashed the doors at the…
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Mar- 2016 -23 MarchCrime
£400,000 worth of watches stolen in Stoke-on-Trent jewellery store raid
Some £400,000 worth of watches have been stolen in a raid on a Beaverbrooks store in Stoke-on-Trent. Staffordshire Police said they believe 10 people were involved in the burglary, which happened just after 2:35am on Thursday, 10 March, at the Intu Potteries shopping centre in Hanley. The offenders, who were…
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17 MarchRetailers
F Hinds opens Doncaster store
Jewellery chain F Hinds has opened a new store in Doncaster’s Frenchgate Shopping Centre – its 118th shop in the UK. The store opened on Thursday, 10 March, with Emily Simpkins, full-time professional midfielder for Doncaster Rovers’ Belles Ladies Football Club, cutting the ribbon to its doors. The new shop…
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