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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from THG, John Lewis, Wickes, Warpaint London, Morrisons, Vivaia, Debenhams, Fenwick, Joanie Clothing, Sweaty Betty and Primark. Plus, 9 ways brands used data to drive creative impact, how social AI can help your business and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
THG has reported interim results for H1 to 30 Jun, with highlighting a return to revenue growth in Q2 although overall revenue in the H1 was 2.9% lower than in 2024, at £783.4m.
John Lewis Partnership posts loss despite higher sales
John Lewis Partnership reported a strong H1 performance in sales and customer satisfaction, despite posting a loss before tax and exceptionals of £34m for the 26 weeks to 26 July.
Ocado Retail posts strong revenue growth due to higher orders
Ocado Retail revenues grew 15.5%, underpinned by a 14.6% increase in active customers to 1.2m for an extended 70-week financial year to 6 April 2025.
Retail footfall holds steady in August as high streets lead growth
Retail footfall continued to rise marginally by +0.3% in August 2025 compared to last year in all UK retail destinations driven by a +0.8% uplift in high street activity.
Primark to ‘significantly’ raise prices in the US
Primark boss George Weston has revealed the fashion chain is “significantly” raising its prices in the US this week in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Wickes boss plans new stores drive in ‘underrepresented’ areas
Wickes is looking to expand its store presence to areas of the UK where the group is currently not present or underserved.
Gucci owner Kering gets more time to buy the rest of Valentino
Kering SA is getting more time to exercise an option to buy the rest of fashion house Valentino, as the French group focuses on reducing its debt levels.
Samantha Cameron to wind down Cefinn label
Samantha Cameron’s Cefinn label is to be wound down due to cost pressures, international trading issues and the tough wholesale market.
Warpaint London faces challenges
Warpaint London’s H1 figures to the end of June failed to meet forecasts with revenues up 8% to £49.3 m where it had earlier forecast sales of £50-£52m.
Ben & Jerry’s founders call for the brand to be ‘freed’ from its owners
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield say it is ‘not the Ben & Jerry’s’ they founded after being ‘silenced’ by Unilever over matters of social justice.
Barclays Consumer Spend report shows card spending inching up in August
The August Barclays Consumer Spend report found that UK consumer card spending rose by just 0.5% year-on-year, but down from 1.4% in July.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
9 ways brands used data to drive creative impact
The Drums awards for marketing winners show how a single data point can unlock big ideas with lessons marketers can borrow for their own campaigns.
How social AI can help your business
Social AI is a new kind of artificial intelligence that pulls in real-time data from social platforms. Hootsuite investigates how it can help you work smarter.
Why every marketer needs a ‘do-not-do’ list
Doing more isn’t always progress. Martech teaches you how subtraction can free up time, sharpen focus and boost your marketing impact.
How obsession with metrics can kill performance
If metrics become targets, it can negatively impact outcome. Lexi Coulter of Mediasmith explains why it pays to take a more holistic approach to judging success.
EU finalises rules to make fashion pay to clean up textile waste
The European Parliament greenlit new rules that will require brands and retailers to cover the cost of collecting, recycling and sorting old clothes, footwear and other products.
Morrisons to roll out AI-Powered shopping trolleys
Morrisons is launching AI-powered shopping trolleys from Instacart in a one store in early 2026. The trolleys feature interactive screens, integrated scales, and sensors to scan and monitor purchases.
Currys rolls out electronic shelf edge labelling to all stores
Currys is rolling out electronic shelf edge labelling (ESEL) to all of its UK and Ireland stores in the coming weeks.
BRAND NEWS
Vivaia opens first UK store in Westfield London
Direct-to-consumer online footwear brand Vivaia will open its first UK store on 12th Sept in Westfield London.
Debenhams Group widens delivery deal with Evri
Debenhams Group has extended its delivery partnership with Evri, Debenhams customers can now get deliveries to Evri lockers as well as their home address.
Fenwick launches ‘MyFenwick’ loyalty scheme
Fenwick has rolled out a new loyalty programme, called MyFenwick, designed to reward customers with points, experiences, and exclusive member benefits across its stores and online.
Joanie Clothing and Christina Hendricks collaborate for UK and US
British brand Joanie Clothing has launched a collection with Christina Hendricks, marking the American actress’s debut fashion line.
Sweaty Betty launches new Athlete collection in recycled material
Sweaty Betty has returned to Italian synthetic yarns specialist Fulgar to create a new ‘Athlete’ collection using Fulgars recycled yarns made from reused tyres.
Aldi confirms Boxing Day store closures
Aldi has said all of its UK stores will close on Boxing Day this year, continuing a long-standing policy aimed at giving staff additional time off during the festive season.
AND FINALLY
Tracing 115 years of covering fashion, retail, beauty and more
Women’s Wear Daily made its first appearance on July 13, 1910 as a daily afternoon paper at 1 cent an issue. WWD celebrates over 115 years of fashion reporting.
Christmas turkeys to be sold on TikTok Shop UK
TikTok Shop UK will soon be selling Christmas turkeys on the platform in time for the festive season.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending Sep 5th 2025?
1/ AW25
2/ Christmas
3/ Halloween
4/ Candle
5/ Cushion
6/ Boots
7/ Kids
8/ Bathroom
9/ Wood
10/ Mug
PRSHOTS DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until Halloween – 50
Days until Black Friday - 78
Days until Christmas Day – 105
Days until Valentine’s Day - 156
How to make your products attractive to the media in September
Our September PR toolkit and content calculator is here to help PRs and marketers forward-plan campaigns and pitches armed with some timely and topical angles, plus it’s a checklist for potential campaign hooks.
Summer is nearly over, and it’s time to look to the autumn and to the winter. Mid-September marks just 100 days to Christmas so you should be adding your Christmas images for those monthly/weekly magazines with medium lead times. Plus, look at adding some Spring-Summer 2026 images for those titles with long lead times, as they will be starting to look at their Feb and March 2026 issues so you can help them out with previews of SS26.
The media are going to be starting to create features around what to wear for university or college, and the office autumn wardrobe. Now the nights are drawing in, they’ll also be running features on winter wear, so add coats/jumpers/boots. Plus they’ll be looking for images for Halloween and bonfire night parties and then there are titles looking for decorations and gifts for Christmas and some last-minute AW images.
Don’t forget to add keywords – Gifts, Christmas, Xmas, Autumn, Winter, and Halloween will all be looked for. It’s National Yoga Awareness Month, so you could add yoga as a keyword on any athleisure wear, floor mats, rugs etc.
If you’re a PRShots brand user and you need more ideas, then take a look at the keywords that media are searching for on PRShots and try and add those in.
If you’re looking for more hooks to help promote your brand and products, then see the list of days, weeks and fortnights below.
September Diary - Weeks/Months
September is National Honey Month and National Yoga Awareness month and it’s second-hand September (an Oxfam initiative https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/second-hand-september/), Self-Care September, as well as Organic September, and Sourdough September.
September also has London Fashion Week between 18th-22nd September and will features men and women’s fashion and includes digital and physical events. The schedule will be available here https://londonfashionweek.co.uk/schedule, other fashion weeks include New York Fashion Week (11th-16th), Milan Fashion Week (23rd-29th) and Paris Fashion Week (29th Sept -7th Oct)
There’s also: the Moda trade show (7th-10th Sept), London Textile Fair (2nd-3rd Sept), Top Drawer (14th-16th Sept) and Sustainable Fashion Week (27th Sept to 5th Oct).
Other weeks to celebrate this month include;
Sexual Health Week (8th- 14th) (Second week in September)
British Science Festival (10th -14th)
Jane Austen Festival (12th-21st)
Open House Festival (13th -21st)
Bridal Fashion Week (14th-16th)
Great British Beach Clean Week (19th-28th)
Wrap’s National Recycle Week (22nd-28th)
Negroni Week (22nd-28th)
Fairtrade Fortnight (22nd –5th Oct)
British Food Fortnight (26th Sept – 12th Oct)
Wool Week (28th Sept – 4th Oct)
September - Days
12th -14th – The Goodwood Revival
16th – 100 days until Christmas
21st – Zero Emissions Day
22nd – Car-free Day
22nd – September Equinox
22nd-25th – Rosh Hashanah
22nd – Navaratri Starts
25th – 3 months until Christmas Day
27th – World Tourism Day
For more diary dates for this year see the Marketing Retail Diary
NB - All dates have been checked, but some events may change due to unforeseen circumstances or have not been fully confirmed for 2025 by the authorities controlling the event(s).
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NEW BRANDS TO PRSHOTS
Gardena has been producing products and solutions for the garden for more than 50 years and operates in more than 100 countries. Products and services include watering, lawn care, tree and shrub care and soil cultivation.
Flymo invented the hover mower more than 50 years ago, and since then Flymo have become the market leaders in the design and innovation of unique gardening products, which makes gardening easier.
Salts Cashmere has launched a unisex range of cashmere jumpers and tops that are made in Yorkshire.
BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES
Clothing, beauty and accessories
Monsoon has new AW25 clothing, jewellery and accessories, including bags, shoes, boots, scarves and jewellery, new wedding and bridal ranges.
Inspecs has new Regen Optics glasses to reduce glare, blue light, plus lenses to enhance gaming, as well as campaign imagery of sunglasses for men and women from Radley, Superdry and Botaniq.
Very has a new Elegant Opulence, Future Heirlooms and West Country Craft drops for its new Very Collection range of women’s clothing which includes the labels V by Very and Everyday, new Halloween outfits, including Addams Family ranges.
Barbour has new collaborations with Farm Rio and a collaboration with Kaptain Sunshine collaboration of outdoor wear, new Heritage ranges, September clothing ranges plus new outfits and footwear for the festival season.
Matalan has new AW25 baby, toddler and kids wear ranges, Et Vous ranges of women’s shoes and boots, men and women’s autumn winter ranges including Happily Denim after denim ranges, AW25 menswear including casual and formal evening wear, Disney Villains family outfits including Halloween ranges.
Accessorize has new AW25 womenswear, new jewellery, charms, socks, hats, scarves and wraps for Christmas, a new Palma range of womenswear shoes and accessories.
George at Asda has Tickled Pink cancer charity clothing ranges for Breast Cancer awareness month.
Bonmarché has new Lisa Snowdon, Dash and Autonomy ranges of AW25 clothing, new Lorraine Kelly collaborations for AW25, plus new women's wear ranges including coats, blouses, jackets and jumpers.
Peacocks has new AW25 ranges, including a Dani Dyer Collection and a Louise Redknapp Edit.
John Lewis has new Topshop range, AW25 kidswear and womenswear lookbook images, plus bags, shoes, boots and accessories, a John Lewis x Rejina Pyo new collection.
River Island has a new collaboration with Olivia Attwood, new Suede season handbags, plus new ranges of clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories and new denim ranges.
Primark has new denim ranges, Premium Essentials and Kem ranges, Snaffle ranges of accessories including bags, belts, jewellery and shoes, Performance athleisure ware, a viral products clothing range, Conscious Clothing ranges, Wednesday Core themed clothing and accessory ranges.
Cotton Traders has new winter clothing ranges including coats, cardigans, trousers and Christmas jumpers.
Threadbare has new menswear and women’s wear ranges for the autumn and winter.
Roman Originals has new AW25 Dusk, Curve and Petite ranges, plus outfits with this year’s must-haves, crochet and embroidery/broderie anglaise, big-pattern midi-length dresses and Bardot tops.
New Look has new AW25 clothes, bags, shoes, boots and accessories, new womenswear outfits and cowboy core womenswear drops.
F&F has new Kids and womenswear Christmas clothing ranges, autumn womenswear ranges, a new Kate Ferdinand active wear collaboration.
Fable England has a new range of scarves, bags, and jewellery plus Agnes jewellery, nightwear, scarf and bag range for the autumn.
Sims Wear has new men’s accessory ranges.
Joe Browns has new AW25 for men and women including clothes, jewellery and accessories; large patterned maxi and Midi-dresses big coats, khaki and camouflage trousers and lots of warm outfits for the autumn and winter.
Oliver Bonas has new autumnal womenswear including jumpers, cardigans, trousers, scarves and shoes, plus jewellery and clothing for September, new accessory drops including bags, hats, shoes, sandals, scarves and sunglasses.
M&S has new accessories and jewellery, ballet shoe ranges, new kids ranges of clothes and shoes.
See additional new clothing and accessories images from
Iolla Scamp & Dude Tu Clothing TK Maxx National Trust Dune London
Home, garden and food
Very has new Halloween and Christmas decorations for the home, plus Christmas toys and homewear.
Accessorize has new Christmas decorations for the tree.
Treats by Mars has new Mars and Snickers flavour milk drinks, M&M festive and Halloween hot chocolate kits and Galaxy hot chocolate ranges.
George Home has Tickled Pink cancer charity food and drink ranges for Breast Cancer awareness month and has new AW25 Cosy Autumn, Autumn Revival, French Fancy and Serene ranges of tableware, tables, lights, candles, cushions, and soft furnishings.
Cambridge Imprint has patterned papers, new notecards and envelopes, Christmas cards, garlands, paper chains, coronets, banners, plus notebooks, exercise books, new clipboards, tissue boxes, postcard boxes, pencil pots, and letter trays.
Dobbies Garden Centres has Halloween decorations, a new RHS collaboration range of gifts, plus Christmas decorations, gifts and food.
Oliver Bonas has a new Shrimps collaboration of homeware, new furniture, Christmas decorations, gifts and things for the home, plus new September/October drops of homeware ranges for the lounge, bedroom, kitchen, dining room and lounge for AW25.
B&M has it’s Christmas Gift Guide and Frosted Night, Nordic Glow, Peaceful Wishes, Snow Much Fun and Festive Folklore Christmas decorations, homeware for back to college, university Halloween decorations and accessories.
Ruggable has a range of Halloween and Autumn-themed doormats as well as rugs in autumn colours.
The Orchard has tabletop fire pits and mini pizza ovens, artificial Christmas tree ranges, new Miami Corner Group sofa, new autumn and Halloween decorations, new furniture ranges for indoors and outdoors from garden tables and chairs to sofas and chairs for the lounge.
Homesense has new Halloween and Christmas decorations for the home, new furniture and accessory ranges for the kitchen and living room, including soft furnishings, dishes and glassware.
Jellycat has new Christmas cuddly toys and tree decorations, new Halloween themed cuddly toys and amuseables, plus new designs and bag charms.
Arran Sense of Scotland has new Island Dusk range, 2025 Christmas gift packs and an advent calendar, new refill packages, home fragrances, scented candles, plus a new mum and bride scent range.
Joe Browns has new homeware including lights, faux plants, signs, lamp shades, dining and drink ware, trays, coasters, stools, side tables soft furnishings, prints and throws.
John Lewis has its new Ancient Wonders, Worldly Treasures and Heirloom Splendour ranges of Christmas 2025 decorations and homeware, and a new collaboration with John Cooper and AW25 lookbook images from its Heritage, Modern Luxe and Timeless range of homeware collections.
Primark has a new Viral Product range, Halloween decorations and gifts, back-to-college ranges, harvest festival ranges of decorations, and Edit homeware ranges.
Oriana B has new furniture ranges including side tables, sideboards.
Ivyline has a selection of Autumn and Halloween decorations, Christmas trees, tree decorations, lights and decorations for the home plus candle holders, pots and vases.
Home Bargains has new autumn and Halloween things for the home as well as Christmas decorations and homeware.
Quorn Stone has new marble and decorative effect tiles, Parisian Manoir, Lullington, Chalfont and Orotelli decorative tiles, plus new natural stone and Canyon Terrazzo effect porcelain tiles and chequered decorative tiles for the bathroom.
Dunelm has a new homeware for the autumn, plus festive Kitschmas collaboration with designer Sophie Robinson, a new AW25 Modern Nostalgia, Into the Wild, Harvest Hues and Quite Luxury collections of homeware including furniture, bedding, curtains, soft furnishings.
Designers Guild has new Trevenna, AW25 ranges of big-patterned print material for curtains and soft furnishings.
M&S has new Christmas decorations for the tree and the home.
Matalan has Christmas decorations and gifts, AW25 homeware for the autumn including Halloween and Harvest Festival themed soft furnishings.
See additional new home images from
Habitat Nest Sofology TK Maxx National Trust Hobbycraft
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