Tom Bottomley

Shop price inflation eased to 0.8% in April, down from 1.3% in March and below the three-month average rate of 1.4%, as clothing and footwear retailers encouraged consumers to spend with promotional activity.

Patrick Grant acquired Savile Row bespoke tailors Norton & Sons in 2004. Twenty years later, and just turning 52, he has a lot to say about clothing, who makes it and how it's made.

Labrum is set to open an 800 sq ft pop-up store at 35 Marshall Street in Soho "in the coming weeks", as agreed with Shaftesbury Capital.

German footwear retailer Deichmann has opened a new 8,438 sq ft store at The Keep retail and leisure centre in Belfast, its first in Northern Ireland.

JD Sports Fashion non-executive director Mahbobeh Sabetnia is stepping down from her role in June, after two and a half years.

Sports Direct's flagship store on Oxford Street is celebrating the return of the Hyrox fitness event to London with a range of pre-event in-store activations from 2-3 May, in partnership with Puma

Personalised consumer engagement is the key reason for an uptake of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, with 85% of brands planning to invest in connected products, including QR codes, in the next 12 months.

British menswear brand Hackett London has launched a four-piece capsule collection in collaboration with London-based luxury travel goods brand Carl Friedrik "for the modern globe-trotter".

Bleckmann, a logistics partner for omnichannel commerce, has launched a new white paper with its latest insights for fashion and lifestyle brands.

Lifestyle brand FatFace has today opened a new 2,000 sq ft store at Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin, marking its first full price store opening in Ireland for 14 years, adding to five existing stores.