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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Wickes, Primark, Inditex, Klarna, Puig, Asos, Interparfums, BTG, Decathalon, Stella McCartney, Farm Rio, Clarks, Simmi London, Calvin Klein and Barbour. Plus, a guide to improving employee social media advocacy, 4 ways AI is reshaping marketing operations and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Wickes posts record retail market share
Wickes has delivered a strong H1, reporting record retail market share alongside a 16.7% rise in adjusted pre-tax profit as both DIY and trade customers drove growth.
Primark delivers strong UK sales but warns of uncertain outlook
Primark’s owner Associated British Foods (ABF) results for FY ending 13 Sept 2025 are expected to deliver sales growth of around 1%.
Zara, Bershka and Massimo Dutti owner Inditex said sales rose 1.6% in H1 to the end of July, reaching €18.357 bn with gross profit up 1.5% to €10.7bn.
Klarna raises $1.37b in US IPO
Klarna is believed to have raised $1.37bn in its US initial public offering (IPO), achieving an initial value of $15.11bn, a significant step down from the more than $45bn valuation in 2021.
ASOS has dropped out of the FTSE 250 following the FTSE’s September 2025 quarterly review.
Touker Suleyman tables bid to rescue Claire’s
Touker Suleyman the owner of fashion brands Hawes & Curtis, Ghost and Finery London, has reportedly tabled a proposal to buy struggling accessories retailer Claire's.
Puig reports 79% jump in first-half profit as US tariffs drive early sales
Puig the group behind brands such as Carolina Herrera and Jean Paul Gaultier, saw profits jump 79% to €275m in H1 2024, driven by early US shipments and price hikes ahead of higher tariffs.
UK supermarkets could be set for longer Sunday opening hours
Supermarkets could be given the green light to open for longer on Sundays under a proposal reportedly being considered by the government.
Interparfums lowers 2025 sales target, despite operating profit up 23.2% in H1
Interparfums reported a 23.2% increase in H1 operating profit. However, it also lowered its FY sales outlook, due to geopolitical instability and cautious consumer behaviour across multiple markets.
Beauty Tech Group plans £350m London IPO
The Cheshire-based Beauty Tech Group is seeking an IPO valuing the company at £350m, founded over 15 years ago, it is best known for its LED facemasks worn by celebs such as Kim Kardashian.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
A guide to improving employee social media advocacy
Employee advocacy is when employees share their company’s content on their personal social media to boost brand awareness and trust, Hootsuite looks at why it matters to brands.
4 ways AI is reshaping marketing operations
Manual data cleanup slowing you down? AI automates hygiene, enriches insights and optimizes campaigns. Martech helps make your workflows smarter.
It is not all doom and gloom on the high street: some fashion retailers are expanding and opening new stores. Keep up to date with all the latest store openings with Drapers.
The majority of retail leaders say warehouse automation drives sustainability
A new study, “Fit for Growth”, reveals that 88% of senior retail and ecommerce leaders believe warehouse automation can significantly improve sustainability and achieve smarter fulfilment.
Self-gifting surges as 1 in 2 Millennials spend more on themselves than others at Christmas
New research from eBay Advertising UK found that almost 1 in 3 (29%) shoppers tend to spend more on themselves than friends or family at Christmas jumping to 50% of Millennials.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Decathlon names new CEO as UK and Ireland operations merge
Decathlon has unveiled a new leadership structure for its UK and Ireland business, with Elena Pecos appointed as CEO and Romain Gravigny as chief operating officer (COO).
Retail landlord Hammerson has named Rob Wilkinson as its new CEO, succeeding Rita-Rose Gagné. He will join the board from 15 December as CEO designate, becoming permanent from 1 Jan 2026.
Stella McCartney taps former Ralph Lauren brand president for CEO
Stella McCartney has named Tom Mendenhall as its new CEO, replacing Amandine Ohayon who is stepping down after two years.
BRAND NEWS
Barbour and Farm Rio partner for collab
Barbour is collaborating on a new range with Farm Rio. The new collection launches on 9 Sept and features clothing, footwear and outerwear. See images on Barbour.
Clarks to launch online marketplace
Clarks is set to launch its own digital marketplace next year as it looks to diversify its offering beyond footwear.
Calvin Klein chooses Rosalía as new campaign face
Calvin Klein joins Rosalía in its new campaign. The American brand has chosen the Spanish singer, author of "El mal querer" and "Motomami," as the face of its underwear collection for this fall.
Simmi London steps up delivery experience with Scurri Connect
Fashion footwear brand, Simmi London, has selected Scurri, the delivery management platform, to enhance its delivery operations and support continued growth across its ecommerce business.
AND FINALLY x2
Just Eat unveils Craig David as first-ever UK face of its iconic ad
Craig David, is named as the new Just Eat ambassador, starring in a new music-fuelled campaign for the on-demand delivery app.
Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone Farmer’s Choir creates song for every pub serving their brand
Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone Farmer’s Choir will create a unique AI-generated song and video for every pub serving their British farmed beers and cider.
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 – 51
Days until Black Friday - 79
Days until Christmas Day – 106
Days until Valentine’s Day - 157
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
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.
Monsoon has new AW25 clothing, jewellery and accessories, including bags, sunglasses, shoes, boots, scarves and jewellery, new wedding and bridal ranges, new SS25 ranges for the beach and holidays, plus women’s and kids clothing for the summer.
Accessorize has new AW25 womenswear, new jewellery, charms, socks, hats, scarves and wraps for Christmas, a new Palma range of womenswear shoes and accessories, a new SS25 beachwear, bags, and scarves.
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 of summer womenswear, plus her Linen Edit for summer, a new SS25 Edit range, and a new menswear range.
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, Summer Darks ranges of clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories, plus 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.
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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