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10 new stores to open in Covent Garden for festive season

Covent Garden has announced the opening of 10 new stores for Christmas 2022, including an array of new retail spaces, pop-ups and Piazza activations to add to its ongoing festive shopping and dining experiences. Among the openings are Tudor Watches, which is launching a mono-brand store with luxury watch retailer Bucherer in late November,...

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Chinese retail up 14.5 percent

Retail sales in China are booming and is quickly becoming the highest consumer market in the world. November saw a 14.9 percent year-on-year rise to CNY1.85 trillion, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), reported WGSN. The growth rate was faster than the 14.5 percent year-on-year increase registered in October, data showed. That...