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Westminster Council opens pop-up for emerging independent businesses

Westminster City Council is teaming up with Heart of London Business Alliance, GPE, and Appear Here to open a pop-up boutique for 12 emerging independent businesses to “give them the opportunity to be part of the West End’s retail offer”. The pop-up will take over unit 12 in Piccadilly Arcade, between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street, and will house...

Retail

Appear Here launches Space for Ideas competition for emerging brands

Emerging designers with ambitions to launch a retail emporium with a cause can apply for a new competition to win a two-week free store in London, Paris, New York or Los Angeles. Appear Here, a leading marketplace for short-term retail space, is launching Space for Ideas, a competition providing free flagship space to entrepreneurs and brands,...

Retail

The Wardrobe Workshop and Natural x Lab collab on London pop-up

Independent brand The Wardrobe Workshop and lifestyle brand Natural x Lab have collaborated to open a luxury, sustainability focused pop-up store in London’s Islington. The pop-up, which is open between 23 August - 15 September 2019 at 124 Upper Street, Islington, will shine a spotlight on the brand’s shared focus on sustainable fashion...

Retail

Appear Here launches third Space for Ideas competition

Appear Here, the leading marketplace for short-term retail space, has opened its third Space for Ideas competition, offering four aspiring entrepreneurs to win a two-week free store in the centre of London, Paris, New York or Los Angeles. The competition to discover and launch the next big retail idea, comes as Appear Here reveals that demand...

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Appear Here launches ‘Space for Ideas’ competition

Appear Here, the marketplace for short-term retail space, has announced the launch of its second ‘Space for Ideas’ competition, which looks to discover the next three “big retail ideas”. The competition offers emerging brands and young designers with the chance to win a two-week, rent free flagship space in London, Paris and New York, as well as...

Retail

Hammerson and Appear Here to launch 'Up Market'

Hammerson has joined forces with Appear Here, digital marketplace leader for renting retail space, to launch a new initiative: Up Market. This new initiative sees the retail destination owner working together with Appear Here to introduce new and emerging independent retailers its existing UK portfolio of shopping centres. Up Market is said to...

Retail

Appear Here makes US debut

Appear Here, the London-based marketplace for short-term retail space, has made its US debut in New York City. The firm, which was founded in 2013 by Ross Bailey, said on its blog that it was only a “matter of time before it went stateside” and that New York City was the perfect place to “kick off” its US expansion. Appear Here’s mission is "to...

Retail

World’s first “smart street” coming to London

The New West End Company is set to bring a world first in technology and retail to London in what it is calling a “smart street”, which will feature next-generation technology, fashion, innovation and sustainable retail concepts. Taking over Bird Street, which is just off Oxford Street, the New West End Company has said that the project with...

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Bullring adds pop-up space

Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre has partnered with Appear Here, the online marketplace for short-term retail, to offer a new hub for contemporary retailers in its newly refurbished LinkStreet mall. Inspired by innovative London retail spaces including Seven Dials, BoxPark and Carnaby Street, LinkStreet, the connecting route between the...

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Appear Here launches pop-up opportunities in Paris

London-based marketplace for short-term retail, Appear Here, is expanding its operations internationally, starting with Paris. Founded in 2013, by the 20-year-old CEO Ross Bailey, Appear Here’s mission is "to build a global network of spaces” to enable retailers to “make their ideas happen”. The service has been used by over 15,000 brands...

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Appear Here launches pop-up shop competition

Pop-up marketplace Appear Here is offering retail entrepreneurs the chance to win two-weeks of prime retail space in Central London after launching its ‘Space for Ideas’ competition. The competition is calling for brands to pitch their idea to win one of three London shops for a two-week period rent free this August. Each pop-up is located in a...

Fashion

Retail demand for pop-up boutiques

Retailers and fashion brands have long been popping up all over London and now a website dedicated to temporary retail space has been launched. The term Pop-Up is often applied to shops offering fashion and clothing, where the shop is intended less to transact profitable sales than to promote demand for the goods and thereby produce profitable...