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Indian fashion touch

Design duo Falguni and Shane Peacock will bring their philosophy ‘…life’s too short to blend in’ to LFW. The Indian designers will present their SS11 collection inspired by animals facing extinction. To illustrate their inspiration they use experimental pattern cutting techniques with textural and embellishment detailing. Falguni & Shane Peacock...

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Peacocks geared up for expansion

The Peacock Group, which owns Peacocks, Bon Marche and The Fragrance Shop, is set to open over 60 new stores as part of a £15 investment programme. Peacocks and Bon Marche will both increase by 30-plus, while three new stores will be added to The Fragrance Shop's portfolio, in addition to a £2.5 refurbishment programme for the perfumery. Richard...

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Peacock buyout at £410m

Peacock will today become the latest UK retailer to be taken pr ivate when it announces it has agreed to a management buy-out valuing the high street discount chain at about £410m. John Lovering, former chairman of the group, will invest £9.2m in the buy-out through Echelon Partners, his investment vehicle, in exchange for a substantial stake in...

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Peacock enhances profitability

The British value retailer The Peacock Group is implementing Freeborders'100% browser-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. With this new software tool the company hopes to enhance its effectiveness and the speed with which products are brought to market, thereby pushing revenue growth. The new PLM software should drive the Group's...

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Strong Growth For Peacock Group

Value clothing retailer Peacock Group has reported strong profit growth at the end of an 'outstanding' year for the UK retail group, with a major store opening programme driving sales. In the year to the end of March, total sales grew by 23.7 per cent to GBP490.4m, with group like-for-like sales up 3.5 per cent. Pre-tax profits are up 59.8 per...