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Boohoo enters Indian market through Myntra partnership

British fashion retail group Boohoo has entered the Indian market for the first time via a partnership with the region’s multi brand platform Myntra. As part of the launch, three of the group’s owned brands – Boohoo, Dorothy Perkins and Nasty Gal – are now available to shop through the site, offering over 1,500 goods across a multitude of...

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Boohoo launches new Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton websites

Boohoo has launched new websites for newly acquired Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands in just nine weeks in partnership with digital agency, Astound Commerce. Following the purchase of the three brands in February 2021, Astound Commerce, the retailers’ retained digital implementation partner since 2016, worked collaboratively with the...

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Same item, different prices: Boohoo faces retail discrepancies

Online retail giant Boohoo is plagued by price discrepancies across its brand portfolio, despite items being the same. Research by the BBC found same items of clothing sold for various prices across its fashion labels, including a puffer coat that was 34 pounds more expensive at Coast than at Dorothy Perkins. Both brands are owned by Boohoo, as...

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Boohoo’s rise from small-scale UK retailer to fashion giant

On Monday, online fashion retailer Boohoo acquired brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins, and Wallis from Arcadia Group Limited’s joint administrators for 25.2 million pounds. That came just weeks after the fast-fashion giant acquired Debenhams Retail Limited for 55 million pounds in cash. The two deals will see Boohoo take over the online operations...

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Boohoo acquires Arcadia brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis

Online fashion retailer Boohoo has acquired all of the e-commerce and digital assets and associated intellectual property rights, including customer data, related business information and inventory of the Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis brands from the joint administrators of Arcadia Group Limited for 25.2 million pounds. The deal does not...

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Boohoo to add more than 500 million pounds in annual sales if Arcadia’s deal crystallised

The British fashion e-commerce darling has entered exclusive talks with the administrators of defunct Arcadia Group to acquire Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands. If their offer is accepted by administrators at Arcadia Group, the e-tailer could boost its group annual sales by 500 million pounds. “Boohoo Group confirms that it is in...

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Boohoo could snap up Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton

British fast-fashion group Boohoo has said it is in “exclusive discussions” with the administrators of collapsed retail empire Arcadia over the acquisition of the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands. But the company added that the discussions “may or may not result in agreement of a transaction. A further announcement will be made when...

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Dorothy Perkins, Burton Menswear and Miss Selfridge announce new partnership with First Insight

Fashion retailers Dorothy Perkins, Burton Menswear and Miss Selfridge have announced they are partnering up with predictive analytics platform First Insight. Using the company’s consumer-driven predictive analytics, the brands will now be able to “operationalise product testing, allowing them to make faster and better merchandising decisions to...

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Arcadia avoids collapse as CVA gets green light

Arcadia Group will go ahead with its planned store closures and rental cuts after all seven of its proposed company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) were approved by the required majority of creditors. The CVA will see Arcadia close 23 stores across the UK and Ireland. Lady Tina Green, the group’s majority shareholder and wife of Sir Philip Green,...

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Miss Selfridge London flagship to close amid Arcadia restructuring efforts

Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia is set to close its flagship Miss Selfridge store in Oxford Circus this July as Green pushes forward with the restructuring of his retail empire. The flagship site will be leased to another retailer and Miss Selfridge will move into a concession in the basement of Topshop next door. "Many of the Miss Selfridge staff at...

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Arcadia names 23 stores to close as part of turnaround plan

Topshop owner Sir Philip Green is planning to close 23 stores in his retail empire as part of a CVA proposal, putting 520 jobs at risk. Arcadia, which owns Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans and Burton, is also asking for rent cuts at 194 of its 566 UK and Irish stores, and plans to close all 11 of its Topshop and Topman...

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Sir Philip Green launches ‘radical review’ of Arcadia

Retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has called in advisers from Deloitte to launch a ‘radical review’ of Arcadia, as the fashion group risks losing 100 stores when their leases come to an end in late 2020, the Telegraph reported. Arcadia, which owns Topshop and has closed more than 200 of its stores since 2016, has seen a prolonged dip in sales and...