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In 2025, Nordic design and lifestyle brand ARKET continues its expansion with the opening of a flagship store in Oslo, the brand’s first physical location in Norway.

The shoe retailer buys extensive rights to the brand – and snatches them away from a British financial investor, based on a corresponding resolution passed by the Esprit creditors’ committee on Monday.

Fashion company Peek & Cloppenburg* Düsseldorf opened the Conscious Fashion Store at The Playce Berlin in 2023. With this store, P&C* Düsseldorf wants to create awareness for more sustainable fashion and positively influence the industry. The company focuses on the corresponding design and direct exchange via panel discussions, workshops, or even on making the plants in the store particularly green. P&C’s Conscious Fashion Store exemplifies how even a large, international fashion chain can develop and integrate individual concepts that focus on experience. ACROSS spoke to Thimo Schwenzfeier, General Sales Manager of the Conscious Fashion Store at Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf, about the idea.

After the collapse of a previous deal last year, the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont has found in Mytheresa a new buyer for its online fashion and accessories business Yoox-Net-a-Porter (YNAP).

NIKE announces that Elliott Hill will become President and Chief Executive Officer of NIKE, Inc., effective October 14, 2024. Hill will also become a Director of the NIKE, Inc. Board of Directors and a member of the Executive Committee.

Just over a month after the German sister companies decided to close all 56 stores, Esprit´s French subsidiary is now also ceasing operations.

Deichmann is interested in Esprit’s shoe brand rights, a company spokesperson said on Monday, explaining that “the offer relates exclusively to brand rights and not to operational shares in the company.”

This fall, H&M Beauty opens its first ever Swedish flagship stores, offering customers an elevated and inspiring in-store experience with an upgraded and reimagined brand portfolio across all categories as well as in-store services.

Foot Locker plans to shut down stores and e-commerce operations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. This will result in the closure or transfer of operations for approximately 30 stores of the company’s 629 stores in Europe, expected to be completed by mid-2025.

The General Store, an Australian consulting agency, presented the 50 coolest stores in the world at the World Retail Congress in Paris. According to the consulting agency, the so-called coolness factor is of great importance at the moment: in addition to design, service, and impressive experiences, creativity, cult status, and commercial viability were decisive factors in the evaluation.

Marks & Spencer is making preparations to launch a new format store in the shape of a standalone branch, offering a curated selection of its womenswear, menswear and beauty ranges.