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Feefo adds fashion retailers

Feefo, the world’s leading purchaser verified reviews platform, has signed up a host of fashion retailers including French Connection, Gant, Jane Norman and Peacocks as new merchants. With Feefo, only genuine customers who have made a purchase are invited to leave feedback, eliminating the phenomenon of fake or biased reviews. This feedback is...

Retail

Jane Norman launches outlet website

Women’s young fashion retailer Jane Norman has launched a new outlet website, JaneNormanOutlet.com, which will offer customers up to 70 percent off its products. The Edinburgh Woollen Mill-owned brand went into administration last summer, closing all 24 stores, but continued to trade online and through its concession stores. In September, Jane...

Retail

Edinburgh Woollen Mill to open 100 new stores

Edinburgh Woollen Mill, owner of high street retailers such as Jane Norman and Peacocks as well as its eponymous knitwear label, is set to open an additional 100 new stores over the next two years. The new store openings come after the privately owned fashion group reported an increase in profits by over a quarter to 71.3 million pounds for the...

Design

Jane Norman enters administration

Womenswear retailer Jane Norman has placed its remaining 24 stores in the UK and Ireland into administration,as the company to be unable to continue sustaining its money-losing high street retail locations. Jane Norman will continue to run its online and international concession stores as normal and will try to keep its high street stores open...

Design

Edinburgh Woollen Mill signs Bangladesh Accord

Edinburgh Woollen Mill, owner of high street chains Peacocks and Jane Norman, has become the latest apparel retailer to sign up to the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord, following months of pressure from campaign groups. The move comes eight months from the Tazreen Fashions factory fire in Dhaka which killed more than a hundred workers...

Fashion

UK casualties of fashion

It has been a tough year for British high street fashion. The consumer downturn has seen customers think twice about spending their pounds on clothing and accessories and the result has been a string of businesses going into administration, being sold or shutting down altogether. This week Rare London, the young women's fashion chain, is thought...

Fashion

Administrators sell Jane Norman to Woollen Mill

Zolfo Cooper, the administrator of troubled women´s retailer Jane Norman, has sold a third of the chain´s stores to Edinburgh-based Woollen Mill. The deal with the privately owned knitwear retailer was sealed for an undisclosed sum. On appointment, the administrators immediately effected a sale of 33 stores to the retailer group, The Edinburgh...

Design

Jane Norman in rescue talks

Jane Norman, the struggling fashion retailer, is in rescue talks with two new private-equity investors. Sun Capital Partners is negotiating with Jane Norman's lenders – led by Royal Bank of Scotland – about buying the debt and taking over the troubled business, while Jon Moulton's private equity business, Better Capital, has also held talks....

Fashion

Jane Norman expands aggressively

Following a boost in sales, British young fashion chain Jane Norman is to expand with up to 30 store openings a year. The chain, which operates 50 stores and 84 concessions, reported a rise in like-for-like sales of 11 percent since the beginning of April this year. Total sales leaped 35 percent despite strong comparables. The 30 outlets-a-year...

Fashion

Jane Norman Heads Fashion Profits League

Jane Norman has emerged as the clothing retailer with the best pre-tax profit margin in Britain. A survey by consultancy The Prospect Shop shows that for 2001/2002 the young fashion chain had a pre-tax profit margin of 22.4%. This compares with designer brand and retailer Joseph's figure of 21.7 and is almost three times the industry average of...