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PRShots Digest brings you the latest retail news from Wolford, Lanvin, Little Mistress, Armani, Abercrombie & Fitch, Sainsbury, Primark, Anya Hindmarch, Rado, Coco de Mer and M&S. Plus articles on Superdry’s plans for sustainability, why you need location marketing, how White Stuff is using tech, and more.

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THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS

Thousands of retail jobs lost in ‘brutal’ start to year

UK retailers have cut almost 15,000 jobs since the start of 2023, according to the Centre for Retail Research.

The top Global Marketplaces by the number of visits

Practical E-commerce identifies the top retail marketplaces by visitors worldwide and in the UK and US.   

Wolford closes 2022 with 16% sales growth

Austrian hosiery specialist Wolford saw a 16% increase in turnover to €126.6m in FY22 with US sales up by 45%, EMEA up 9% and 'rest of the world' up by 80% with China down 7% due to lockdown.

Lanvin Group 2022 sales surge 38%

Lanvin Group revenues for FY22 grew 38% to €425m, on the back of sales increases across all brands, with Lanvin brand sales jumping 67% for the year.

M&S beats Waitrose and Aldi as UK’s best supermarket

M&S has nudged Waitrose and Aldi off the top spot in the annual supermarket satisfaction survey from Which?.

Sustainability manager is second fastest growing job title in UK

LinkedIn Jobs’ annual research finds sustainability manager is the second fastest-growing role in the UK, up from seventh fastest in 2022.

Business rates bills to plummet for London high-end stores

The new 2023 business rates revaluation will see retailers save 30% (£96m) on Oxford Street, Regent Street, Bond Street, Kensington High Street, King’s Road, Knightsbridge and Covent Garden rates

London lures more international luxury labels

Luxury brands dominated new store openings in London last year with more launches than pre-pandemic 2019, new research by commercial property agency Savills has shown.

TRENDS, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY

Superdry's Julian Dunkerton on the importance of affordability and sustainability

Superdry’s Julian Dunkerton tells TheIndustry.fashion about his plans for the business and how Superdry is navigating the difficult retail environment, and why sustainability is essential.

Does influencer marketing have a sustainability problem?

In recent months, several brands have faced backlash over their influencer marketing campaigns, both for their appropriateness in our current economy and over their environmental impact.

Why you should care about location marketing

Learn why location-based marketing is worth considering and ways brands with physical locations can leverage the strategy.

How White Stuff is using technology to improve its customers’ online experience

White Stuff is using Akeneo’s product information management (PIM) solution to improve the quality of product information on its website as well as using it to help third-party retail partners.

Why 3D should be part of fashion's go-to-market strategies?

Fashion brands are looking for talented 3D designers and digital artists to help them on their digital product creation journey.

Can fast fashion ever be sustainable?

What you wear is not just a fashion statement; clothes and accessories declare your outlook on the environment. Yet most people are unaware of fashion’s devastating impact on the climate.

How Armani beauty is testing an RFID-powered cashier-free checkout

Armani beauty has teamed up with checkout provider payfree to use Special-use RFID tags from Avery Dennison in a cashier-free pop-up store.

Retailers are not seizing critical 1st party data capture opportunities

Almost two-fifths (37%) of retailers employed no form of data capture during online buying, either when a customer first comes to the site, or after browsing the site for several minutes.

Instagram introduces new channel creator messaging tool

Instagram is trialling a new tool that will allow creators to share text, video, voice notes or photo updates to followers in a dedicated channel, with followers able to subscribe and react to content.

PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Abercrombie & Fitch appoints new board member

Abercrombie & Fitch has appointed Helen Vaid as an independent director. Until this month, Vaid was chief executive of Foundry Brands

BRAND NEWS

Sainsbury’s to stock Little Mistress

Sainsbury's will be stocking Mark Ashton’s womenswear brand Little Mistress online and in selected stores later this year and becomes the first brand to sell through all 7 big retailers.

Primark unveils new collection celebrating 100 years of Disney

Primark has unveiled its first collection to celebrate 100 years of Disney across adult and kidswear including sweatshirts, t-shirts, nightwear and accessories

Anya Hindmarch to launch Universal Bag in collaboration with Asda and Co-op

Anya Hindmarch has teamed up with grocers Asda and Co-op as it plans to launch its fully recyclable plastic bags in UK supermarkets.

Rado opens first boutique in UK

Premium Swiss watch brand Rado opened its first UK boutique in Birmingham, building on the success the high-end watch sector is enjoying.

Coco de Mer unveils new global growth plan, will be digital-first

Lingerie retailer Coco de Mer has a new customer-focused and global-expansion strategy with a wholesale and digital-first approach after a 500% increase in wholesale and 45% international.

Amazon requests corporate staff to return to the office

Amazon has requested that corporate employees return to working in the office for at least three days a week from 1 May.

AND FINALLY

Elon Musk apologises for featuring ‘irrelevant and annoying’ ads on Twitter

The owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, has apologised for the frequency of advertisements featuring on people’s timelines on the social media app.

PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES

What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending February 17^th 2023?

1/ Easter 

2/ Mother’s Day

3/ Cushion

4/ Floral

5/ Dress

6/ Blazer

7/ Candle

8/ Vase

9/ Wallpaper  

10/ Plant

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NEW BRANDS TO PRSHOTS

Curvy Kate lingerie and swimwear is designed to make women feel fabulous about their curves. With sizes from D to K cups Curvy Kate lingerie and swimwear ethos is to “Fit, lift, shape and comfort.”

Imp & Maker founded by entrepreneur Sarah Louise Fairburn to bring together food, drinks & gifts from established, emerging and exciting new names in the food & drink world for both home and corporate gifting.

Scamp & Dude was created by Jo Tutchener-Sharp, founder and previous MD of Beauty Seen PR and is famous for their signature leopard and lightning bolt print and vibrant designs, which features in their mens, womens, kids and baby ranges.

Hobbycraft was founded in 1995, and has since grown to be the largest arts and crafts retailer in the UK with over 100 stores across the UK, and has everything you need for art, knitting and crochet, haberdashery, papercraft, wedding and party, baking, jewellery making and more.

Silk & Lawn are a Brighton-based accessories brand creating beautiful handmade headbands, hair ties & turbans for little and grown-up people made from silk and Tana lawn cottons.

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BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES

Clothing, beauty and accessories

Barbour has new kids clothing and womenswear ranges

Marks & Spencer has a new denim collection and lingerie for its “Love your Boobs” campaign

Primark has new summer clothing, makeup, women and kids clothing, accessories and new KEM, bridal, Denim, and Varsity ranges.

Roman Originals has new spring and summer ranges

Monsoon has a new SS23 womenswear and accessories, kids swimwear and summer clothing and new eco fabric Lenzing clothes

New Look has new swimwear and summer clothing drops

Very has V by Very swimwear and dresses plus Everyday womenswear ranges, handbags, shoes and accessories

Matalan launches the Papaya Curve range of clothes as well as new shoes and bags

River Island has new summer clothing and wedding outfits for him and her

Lipsy has new SS23 clothing, accessories and shoes for women and bridesmaid outfits

PrettyLittleThing  has a new Ella May Ding ranges, Gemma Owen collabs and a new Renew range featuring Molly Mae and going out wear

Office has new men and womens ranges

Dune London Men’s has new SS23 ranges

TU Clothing has new ranges

Cotton Traders has new men’s and women’s wear

NoLoGo  has new ranges for spring and summer

Fatface has the Fletchers in its new campaign

Regatta has new active and outdoor shoes and clothes

Radley has new ranges but check the embargo

Dune London has SS23 shoe and bag ranges and accessories

Cath Kidston has new Harry Potter collaborations

Bryony Bel has new jewellery ranges

Threadbare has new SS23 clothing ranges for him and her

Joe Browns  has new women’s and men’s ranges

See additional new clothing and accessories images from the last few weeks at

Aspiga Oliver Bonas From my mother’s garden Cath Kidston TK Maxx  Freemans Night Store Peacocks John Lewis Tu Clothing F&F Bonmarché Deichmann UK George at Asda Accessorize Dancing Leopard Sarvin

Home and food

Cuckooland has new furniture

Dobbies Garden Centres has new things for the home, edible planting, patio furniture, house plants, chimeneas, pizza ovens, firepits.

Dunelm has new homeware and Easter gifts and decorations

The Range has Easter homeware and decorations, plus kitchen and home ware to keep you organised in 2023

Cartwright & Butler has new Easter and Mother’s Day hampers and gifts

Cardfactory has new Mother’s Day gifts

Wilko has hundreds of new kitchen, dining, bed, bath and living room items

National Trust shop has new Easter gifts

B&M has their new Ocean Tide and Simply Home ranges for the bedroom, bathroom, dining room and lounge

Next launches Easter collections as well as a new Tahiti, Stockholm, Arches, Valencia and Medley collections

Homesense has new SS23 home and garden items plus gifts for Easter and Mother’s day

Biscuiteers Baking has new ranges for Easter, Mother’s day and Father’s Day

Cutter & Squidge has Mother’s day and Easter hampers and goodies

National Trust Shop has new puzzles,  gifts and things for the garden

Fritz Fryer has new lighting solutions

Cult Furniture  has new tables and chairs

Nest  has new lamps and lighting solutions

Furniture Village has new sofa ranges

Fatface has new Easter decorations for the home

George Home has new homeware and gifts for your pet

Daisy Park  has new kitchenware

Very unveils its new Everyday Homes collection

See additional new home images from the last few weeks from

Primark Home Oliver Bonas Cath Kidston TK Maxx Hotel Chocolat Sofology John Lewis Marks & Spencer Cambridge Imprint  Designers Guild Matalan NoLoGo Avalana Dune London Luxdeco Designers Guild White Stuff Monsoon  KMI Brands DFS Fatface Very Habitat Christy Matalan Oliver Bonas

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DIARY

Days until Mother’s Day – 27

Days until Easter – 48

Days until Eid al-Fitr – 60

Days until Halloween – 253

Days until Singles Day - 264

Days until Black Friday – 277

Days until Christmas Day – 308

How to get your brand on the February Editorial Calendars, search engines and social media 

Aside from continuing to keep an eye on those SS23 drops the first half of the month is about preparing for Valentine’s day issues and the second half is about getting ready for Easter. For Valentine’s day make sure everything has some of the keywords the media will be looking for eg gifts, pink, red, lingerie etc. For Easter make sure everything has some of the keywords the media will be looking for eg eggs, chocolate, easter bunny, easter egg, chick etc.

As we’re coming out of winter it’s time to start putting up images for the spring and summer. So anything related to getting out of the house is good, so get uploading images and adding keywords relating to summer outfits, swimwear, the garden, garden parties and Barbecues (don’t forget to add all of the other spellings BBQ, Bar-B-Que etc). 

February Diary - Weeks/Months

In the UK it’s LGBT+ history month and in the US this is Black History Month. It’s a great month for food, we have Pancake Day, national Pizza Day and Bread Week (18^th-26^th)

Other events include;

London Fashion Week (17^th – 21^st)

Fairtrade Fortnight (Feb 27^th – Mar 12^th)

February is also National Bird Feeding Month in the US

February - Days

21^st – Shrove Tuesday / Pancake Day 

22^nd – Ash Wednesday 

26^th - National Wear Red Day (Support for Heart disease)

How to get your brand on the March Editorial Calendars, search engines and social media 

March is mostly about preparing for the big Easter holidays in April so make sure you are starting to include relevant Easter keywords, plus it’s also the time people make their first big getaway abroad so any keywords and clothes for warmer climes, loungewear, going out wear, swimsuits, bikinis etc should be added.

At the end of the month there’s Mother’s Day so try and get Mother, gifts, or Mother’s Day into your keywords for anything that seems appropriate. Also, if you have anything green then add the Keyword St Patricks Day.

Plus, as we’re now definitely in Spring, carry on adding those spring and summer-related images and adding keywords relating to the summer like swimwear, outdoor living, garden, garden parties and Barbecues (don’t forget to add all of the other spellings BBQ, Bar-B-Que etc).   

We’re also starting to get ready for the bridal season – the peak is May to October – so If you have bridal wear or anything appropriate to weddings then start to upload it, and label it with the keyword wedding.

Lastly, it’s Oscar month so why not upload some smart suits and dresses and create an Oscar section for an evening watching the Oscars.  

If you’re looking for more hooks to help promote your brand and products then see the list of days, weeks and fortnights below.

March Diary - Weeks/Months

In the UK it’s National Bed Month - Introduced by The Sleep Council and The National Bed Federation, it aims to raise awareness of the importance of sleep so push anything sleep-related. it’s also the British Heart Foundation Dechox month which encourages people to give up chocolate – cakes and biscuits - for the month! So, any chocolate, biscuit or cake alternatives should be pushed.   

Interesting Stat: National No-Smoking day was originally on Ash Wednesday when it was started in 1984. It was moved to the second Wednesday in March as, while it’s less easy to remember, the date doesn’t move around the calendar quite so much as Ash Wednesday does.  

Other events include;

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

Fairtrade Fortnight (Feb 27^th – Mar 12^th)

British Pie Week (6^th-12^th)

British Science Week (10^th-19^th)

Butchers Week (6^th-12^th)

World Autism Awareness Week (Mar 27^th – Apr 2^nd)

Ideal Home Show (Mar 17^th – Apr 2^nd)

London Bridal Fashion Week (19^th-21^st)

National Fragrance Week (20^th-26^th)

March - Days

1^st – St David’s Day

2^nd – Dr Seuss Day (US)

2^nd – World Book Day

3^rd – World Wildlife Day

3^rd – World Hearing Day

4^th – World Obesity Day

5^th - Passover Begins 

7^th – Holi Hindu Festival

8^th – International Women’s Day

8^th – No Smoking Day

12^th – The Oscars 

13^th – Commonwealth Day

13^th - Passover Ends 

15^th – Spring Budget Day

17^th – St Patrick’s Day

17^th – World Sleep Day

17^th - Red Nose Day for Comic Relief

18^th – Global Recycling Day

19^th - Mother’s Day UK

20^th – First Day of Spring 

21^st – International Day of Forests

21^st – World Poetry Day

22^nd – World Water Day

22^nd - Start of Ramadan

25^th – National Bridesmaids Day

26^th – British Summertime Begins 

26^th – Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

31^st – Wear a Hat Day (Brain Tumour Research)  

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