These updates on October's North East store openings are a sample of what's in the upcoming (and inaugural!) issue of my monthly Soult's Retail Report.
Following Graham’s recent article about HMV’s buyout by restructuring specialists Hilco, it is worth taking a look at what lies ahead for this British institution....
https://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2013/04/11/hmv-needs-to-know-its-own-strength/
It’s been nearly three months coming, but now the news that everyone wanted to hear has been confirmed: the iconic entertainment retailer HMV, which collapsed...
As you may well have seen last week, four North East locations are among the 66 loss-making HMV stores that will close within the next couple...
If reports tonight are to be believed, it looks like the 92-year-old entertainment retailer HMV could collapse into administration tomorrow (Tuesday 15 January), putting around 235 stores and....
Eighteen months on from securing a £220m refinancing ‘lifeline’, HMV’s warning today that it is likely to breach its banking covenants in January and April has...
Twenty-one Game and Gamestation shops in the North East are among the 277 stores that have closed immediately following Game Group’s collapse into administration this...
Since this is my first post of 2012, I must begin by wishing all Soult’s Retail View readers a very Happy New Year! Thank you...
https://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2012/01/04/what-does-2012-hold-for-newcastle-city-centre/
It’s hard to dispute that the last couple of weeks has been a torrid time for the UK high street, with a succession of well-known...
Plans for Northumberland Street’s new BHS store have been submitted to Newcastle City Council, and propose a more radical than expected transformation of the former...
While in London last week, High Holborn (store #173) and Tottenham Court Road (#175) weren’t the only two ex-Woolworths I managed to work into my...
https://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2011/04/11/tracking-down-oxford-streets-second-ex-woolworths/
Mixed fortunes in the news today for two specialist retailers that both have a presence at Team Valley Retail World in Gateshead – HobbyCraft and Borders. Privately-owned HobbyCraft,...
https://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2009/11/26/hobbycraft-shines-borders-stumbles/
I popped over to MetroCentre this afternoon, and spotted a few things that seemed worthy of blogging about. Millets: Following on from my post last...
https://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/2009/10/05/some-observations-from-visiting-metrocentre-today/