Manchester Arndale news and archive

Champion opens new concept store in Manchester

Apparel brand Champion has opened a new concept store at the Manchester Arndale shopping centre, offering a “sportstyle heritage and a community-focused” retail space. The 2,045-square-foot store, located on the first floor of the shopping centre, showcases Champion’s new evolved retail concept, grounded in its century-long legacy, with a space...

Design

Manchester Arndale record footfall

Manchester Arndale, the UK's largest inner-city shopping centre, is celebrating its best-ever annual footfall total with over 41 million visitors in 2012. Footfall rose to 41,377,255 visitors from 40,713,772 in 2011. David Allinson, centre director, said: "Every week in December, footfall exceeded a million shoppers which has never happened...

Fashion

In talks with event organiser of Manchester Fashion Network

With the Fashion Network conducting a series of discussions and forums on specific areas of retail in today's changing climate and working between Manchester and London, FashionUnited posed a few questions for event organisers and heard more on what arose from the panel experts, including Jo Davies, founder of independent luxury boutique, Black...

Design

Manchester Arndale's best-ever Saturday footfall

The UK’s largest inner-city shopping centre, Manchester Arndale, has beaten its best-ever footfall figures for a Saturday with more than 232,000 shoppers visiting the centre on December 3. The centre recorded an increase of 10.2% year-on-year on last Saturday’s figures. This is in contrast to the North West region as a whole, which recorded a...