Oliver Bonas news and archive

Oliver Bonas sees jump in profits, sales in 2022

Oliver Bonas saw profits jump 35 percent last year as it recovered from the pandemic and the knock to sales it suffered from months-long store closures. The British fashion and lifestyle retailer generated a profit after tax of 7.63 million pounds in the 12 months to December 31 2022, up from 5.65 million pounds a year earlier. It marked the...

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Oliver Bonas launches jewellery with Liv Purvis

Fashion and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas has launched a jewellery collection with influencer Liv Purvis, who the brand describes as a “long-standing friend”. The Liv Purvis x Oliver Bonas ‘Flower Moon’ collection features “heirloom inspired pieces” from gold earrings to rings, necklaces and a bracelet designed with delicate floral and...

Fashion

Oliver Bonas teams up with Re-Fashion

Fashion and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas is teaming up with second-hand clothes specialist, Re-Fashion, to help reduce clothes waste. The partnership will allow Oliver Bonas customers to recycle their unwanted clothes and raise funds for charity by adding a free Re-Fashion bag to their online order. All they have to do then is fill the bag...

Fashion

Oliver Bonas launches its first activewear collection

Fashion and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas has launched OB Active, its first activewear line described as a “playful collection designed to help, empower and motivate”. Oliver Bonas explains in a press release that it was inspired by the first coronavirus lockdown and the shift in wearing activewear more in our day-to-day lives. “The pieces...

Business

Oliver Bonas secures 3.5 million pounds in funding

British fashion and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas has secured 3.5 million pounds in funding from HSBC UK to help support the company post-lockdown. The funding is part of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) and aims to ease the financial strain on the retailer following months of its stores in the UK and Ireland being...

Retail

Oliver Bonas to open store at Liverpool One

Independent lifestyle and fashion brand Oliver Bonas is to open its first Liverpool store this autumn at Liverpool One, as new figures highlight the destination’s strong year-to-date performance. Designed by an in-house team, the 2,956-square-foot store will offer the brand’s ethically-conscious range of homeware, fashion collections and gifts,...

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Oliver Bonas to open eight new stores in 2019

Independent British lifestyle brand Oliver Bonas has announced ambitious plans to open eight new stores this year, resulting in some 80 new jobs. With the support of a 15 million pound revolving credit facility from HSBC UK, the expansion will begin with the opening of a new store in Gatwick North Terminal. Oliver Bonas, which currently has 77...

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Centre:MK reports footfall growth bucking national trend

Centre:MK in Milton Keynes has reported a 1.13 percent year-on-year increase in footfall in 2018, bucking the nationwide trend of declining footfall. As one of the top 10 shopping centres in the UK, Centre:MK attracted close to 25 million shoppers in 2018, including 3.5 million over the Christmas period, with 100,000 visitors on Boxing Day,...

Business

Oliver Bonas: Annual turnover jumps 22 percent

British lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas, for the year to December 31, 2017 reported like for like sales growth of 11.6 percent, its fourth consecutive year of double-digit like-for-like growth. The company said in its filing with the Companies House UK that the total turnover grew by 22 percent to 61.1 million pounds (78.2 million dollars) with...

Fashion

1,400 Oliver Bonas dresses stolen

London - Police are appealing for witnesses after 1,400 dresses from lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas were stolen from a lorry in Gravesend, Kent. The theft is thought to have taken place between the night of January 17 and the morning of 18. The dresses were stolen from the lorry which was parked in an Asda car park in Imperial Retail park in...

Retail

St David’s adds Oliver Bonas and CK Underwear

St David’s in Cardiff has added three new fashion retailers to its shopping centre totalling more than 5,000 square foot including Oliver Bonas’ first store in Wales. British fashion and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas has opened a 2,290 square foot store featuring its eclectic and stylish range of fashion, jewellery, homeware and gifts...

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Oliver Bonas prepares to open debut Welsh store in Cardiff

British lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas is set to open its debut Welsh store in Cardiff. The popular homeware, fashion and accessories store is set to open its first store in Wales at Cardiff’s St David shopping centre this November. “As the capital and foremost commercial centre in Wales, we are thrilled to call Cardiff the home of our first...