While some brands launched free and flexible return policies for online shopping, other brands decided to go directly to their clients by launching fashion trucks.

Timo Schmidt-Eisenhart, who has served at VF Corp brand's including The North Face, Timberland and Napapijri, will take over as leader of Switzerland's Calida Group in early 2021, succeeding Reiner Pichler. 

Pretty Little Thing, which offered Black Friday bargain-hunters discounts of up to 99%, faced criticism on social media over how it could keep its promises to pay factory workers fairly when charging such low prices.

Over 30 retail brands from across London’s King’s Cross and Coal Drops Yard retail destination have launched a combined ‘United We Shop’ campaign, supporting the area’s extensively redeveloped shopping streets.

​With Mothercare’s radical transformation into an international franchise operation now complete, the retailer is hoping the toughest of years (and some ugly trading figures) are now firmly in the past.

Crisis-hit Moss Bros has launched a CVA proposal as it works towards restructuring its fixed cost base on the back of the Covid crisis and a second wave of lockdowns that have “severely impacted” its trading.

Remarkably, on the day  the second lockdown in Paris ends, November 28, and clothing stores can open, Canada’s Nobis will debut a brand new store there. Its founder Robin Yates explains how it has defied the downturn.

Retail property giant Hammerson has created a new senior role with Grégoire Peureux joining it as Chief Operating Officer. He will “focus on the delivery of strategic initiatives at a group level”.

​End Clothing is in talks to sell a stake in the business that could value it at around £700 million, a report said on Friday. 

​Giant fashion group Arcadia is reported to be on the verge of collapse with suggestions that it could go into administration as early as next week. This would put 13,000 jobs at risk. 

A week after filing for administration, fashion chain Jaeger is to cut 103 jobs and close 13 of its shops. Of the job cuts, 47 of them are in-store positions and 56 are head office and distribution roles.

Following Pitti Uomo’s decision to postpone, Milan-based trade shows Micam, Mipel, Homi, Lineapelle and TheOneMilano have also pushed their dates back by one month, and will all be staged on March 20-24.

Barclaycard said on Friday morning that the volume of sales transactions from midnight to 9am were down 13.2%. The company’s figures are particularly useful because it actually almost £1 in every £3 spent in the UK.

Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would spend more than $500 million on one-time bonuses for its front-line employees in the United States who are working the holiday season amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Boohoo’s well-publicised bid to clean up its ethical act has intensified with the appointment of a serious heavyweight to oversee its ‘Agenda for Change’ programme, announced in September.

Profitable and debt-free are two elements to any results statement worth opening with in Covid-crushed times like these. So it’s little wonder Australia-based e-tailer MySale Group was in an upbeat mood Thursday.