Mar 27, 2026 | Stories
The Easter Egg market is a dynamic one – in the children’s sector in particular, the offer changes from year to year to reflect the latest trends. But how about the gender bias? The Archive of Market & Social Research offers insights from qualitative work in the...
Mar 18, 2026 | Stories
The shoe retailer Russell and Bromley has been bought by Next, following a period in administration. The business is over 150 years old, having started in 1873, but now joins other brands in a familiar path to largely disappearing off the high street. 30-year TGI data...
Feb 26, 2026 | Stories
One of the new breed of design and retail brands that emerged in the 1960s, Habitat enjoyed a longer time in the sun than many of its peer group. And it’s still around today, albeit in a somewhat different form. Founded 1964 by Terence Conran, the Habitat business...
Feb 18, 2026 | Stories
Topshop is returning to the High Street, several years after closing all its UK stores. It’s going to be available in 32 John Lewis branches from February 2026. After its heyday from the 1980s to the 2000s, the Topshop chain disappeared with the collapse of Sir Philip...
Nov 14, 2025 | Stories
“Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrive!” Back in the 1980s, this announcement prompted trend-loving consumers to flood to wine warehouses, off-licences and supermarkets around Britain every November, keen to pick up the first bottles of the latest Beaujolais vintage. The...
Oct 10, 2025 | Stories
Homebase featured on our High Streets (or more often Retail Parks) for over 40 years, but the name has now disappeared. The BBC Radio 4 programme: Toast covered Homebase recently: Sliced Bread – Toast – Homebase – BBC Sounds AMSR can track the...
