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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Oct- 2015 -28 OctoberWatch Focus
Breitling opens Bluewater store
Swiss watch brand Breitling has opened a 1,500 sq ft boutique in Kent’s Bluewater shopping centre. The store, which officially opened on October 27, is situated on the upper Rose Gallery and will be managed by Aurum Holdings, the owners of Watches of Switzerland, Mappin & Webb and Goldsmiths. The…
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23 OctoberEvents
Drakes named ‘Best Independent Fashion Retailer’ in Plymouth
Drakes has been named the ‘Best Independent Fashion Retailer’ at Plymouth’s City and Waterfront Awards. The family-run business, which last year opened a new store in Drakes Circus Shopping Centre, picked up the award at the James Bond-themed black tie event at Plymouth Pavilions on Thursday, October 22. The City…
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13 OctoberCrime
Police investigating Ernest Jones raid
The Metropolitan police have confirmed that they are investigating an early-morning raid on the Ernest Jones store in Romford, north-east London. Police were called at 2:30am on Monday, October 12, to the incident in Liberty Shopping Centre on Western Road, in which they confirmed a number of items had been…
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8 OctoberEconomy
Shop vacancy levels fall to five-year low
The number of vacant shops in Britain has fallen to its lowest since April 2010, according to new figures from the Local Data Company (LDC). In September, Britain’s shop vacancy levels fell to 12.9%. This was despite the leisure vacancy rate increasing from 8.13% in August to 8.16% in September…
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1 OctoberRetailers
F Hinds opens three new stores
Jewellery chain F Hinds has opened three new stores in Liverpool, Middlesborough and Peterborough. The first to be opened was the Liverpool store in St Johns Shopping Centre. Managed by Marcia Lee-Jones, who was previously at F. Hinds’ Bury store, the 1,800 sq ft store has seven members of staff.…
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Jul- 2015 -6 JulyWatch Focus
Breitling to open Bluewater boutique
Land Securities has announced that watch brand Breitling is set to open a 1,583 sq ft boutique in the Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford. The boutique, which will open this autumn on the shopping centre’s upper Rose Gallery, will be the first of its kind to be managed by Aurum…
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Jun- 2015 -16 JuneCrime
Gang admit £230,000 armed jewellery store raid
Three men have admitted carrying out a £230,000 armed robbery on a jewellers at the Argyll Arcade in Glasgow last year. Jason Yendall, 29, Aaron Brannan, 24, and Jason Britton,23, pleaded guilty to the armed raid on the jewellery retailer Rox in the Argyll Arcade. In total, 21 watches were…
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16 JuneInternational
Endless opens first own-brand store
Endless Jewelry has revealed its first fully own-brand retail premises with a store opening event in Estonia, its 23rd market. The opening of the ‘Monobrand Store’ was attended by a range of national media, who had the chance to quiz the firm’s founder founder, Jesper Nielsen. Nielsen said: “We have been active less…
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15 JuneRetailers
Mococo relocates and expands its Chester store
Jewellery retailer Mococo has relocated its Chester store and more than doubled its size in bid to improve its presence in the city. The store has been relocated from the Grosvenor Shopping Centre on St Michael’s Row to the corner of Foregate Street, a “more prominent location in the city…
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8 JuneRetailers
Lumbers Jewellers set for £1m relocation
Midlands-based jeweller Lumbers has announced plans to expand its store with a £1m relocation and refurbishment. The family-owned jewellery retailer said it will move from its current location to a larger showroom on the main high street in Leicester. The move will see Lumbers increase in size from its current…
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