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Are gardens a growth market for fashion retailers? As Next and Joules both home in on the garden retail sector, Drapers explores whether this growing market offers real opportunity for clothing and lifestyle retailers. Next reopened its stores in England and Wales this week (12 April), unveiling a Homebase shop-in-shop garden centre concept at six sites. The new venture, called Garden by Homebase at Next, sells pots, plants and garden tools, with staff on hand to offer customers advice on their...

23 February 2021 • 12:00pm Until we can socialise again, were unlikely to want to buy formal clothes Credit: Getty Images Remember shopping? The activity Carrie Bradshaw one referred to as her “cardio”, that involved more than tapping a few keys on a laptop or iPad?  It has been almost a year since we were last able to indulge in retail therapy as we used to know it; freely brushing our hands against silky fabrics as we browsed rails of clothing, or struggling into changing rooms with on...

Roo’s Beach expands menswear offering Cornwall-based independent Roos Beach is expanding its menswear offer to address a gap in the market. Bex Osman, store manager, Joe Leman, head of menswear and founder Roo Cross Roo’s Beach will add three new brands to the shop’s seven existing menswear labels in March 2021. These are canvas shoe brand Novesta, Hartford Mens, and Levi’s Vintage Clothing. Additional menswear brands are expected to be added throughout 2021.   To spearhead the expansi...