Christmas 2014 news and archive

Fenwick promises a White Christmas

Fenwick of Bond Street is promising Londoners a White Christmas as it announces its Christmas 2014 concept.The department store is collaborating with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas musical to showcase a festive season it hopes customers will “fall in love with”. The store will reopen its Bond Street corner balcony, which hasn’t been opened for...

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Mintel predicts an “unspectacular” Christmas 2014

Christmas sales growth is expected to be “slightly more modest” and “unspectacular”, according to predictions by research group Mintel. Mintel forecast a 3 percent total retail sales growth in December 2014, which will take retail sales up to 36.5 billion pounds. It added that non-food retailers would experience the biggest growth at 3.5...