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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Kingfisher, Lacoste, Bodycare, All Saints, Reasn, NikeSkims, Mint Velvet, Fittora, Clarks, Debenhams, Burberry, and FatFace. Plus, the customer service tasks that consumers most dread, why retailers are turning stores into entertainment hubs and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Kingfisher upgrades full-year guidance after strong half-year performance
Kingfisher has reported a robust set of half-year results for the six months ended 31 July, with group like-for-like sales up 1.9% to £6.8bn.
FatFace results show transitional year
FatFace FY accounts to the end of Jan 2025 show revenue declined to £237.4m from £267.7m and trading profit before tax fell to £16.9m from £21.6m.
Lacoste UK results show it remains loss-making
Lacoste UK FY accounts for 2024 show revenue at the company jumped to £98.1m as it changed its distribution agreement for its branded footwear. Gross profit also rose.
All remaining Bodycare stores are to close with the loss of 444 jobs after the health and beauty chain's administrators failed to find a buyer for the shops.
BRC warns government against further tax rises in autumn Budget
The British Retail Consortium has warned the government against any further tax rises on retailers in the coming autumn Budget, saying any such moves risks “losing the battle against inflation”.
Debenhams Group shareholder Frasers Group votes against resolutions
Frasers Group, which owns around 29.7% of shares in Debenhams Group voted against the groups choice of chairman, CEO, CFO and non-exec but are outvoted by other shareholders.
Burberry has rejoined the FTSE 100 today in the index's latest quarterly review amid CEO Joshua Schulman's ongoing turnaround.
British fruit market set for strong autumn
UK growers and retailers are forecasting a buoyant autumn fruit season, with apples expected to follow a summer of record-breaking demand for British-grown berries and cherries.
Poundland axes over 100 roles in head office restructure
Poundland has axed more than 100 roles across its head office in Walsall as part of a company-wide restructure.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
The customer service tasks that consumers most dread
New research by the Institute of Customer Service (ICS) reveals half of consumers feel that service is overly automated.
Why retailers are turning stores into entertainment hubs
Shopping for milk shouldn’t take 2 hours. But throw a wine tasting corner in a grocery store, and suddenly everyone’s trying six different chardonnays and buying cheese they can’t pronounce.
The high street isn’t doomed – omni-channel is its comeback plan
Katie Shepherd, head of brand at fulfilmentcrowd shares insights into the future of the high street, including the importance of omni-channel to ensure retail survival and growth.
Your holiday marketing playbook must put sincerity before sales
Not every holiday is a sales opportunity, knowing when to celebrate and when to stay silent can make or break customer connections.
Will we mourn the loss of WHSmith from the high street?
CityAM outlines the 200+ year history of WHSmith and asks if the loss of the high-street staple will be the end of an era or will the new TJ Jones be the start of something new for the high-street?
Christmas sales are expected to grow to $1.25tn
Salesforce data shows that global digital sales are expected to grow by a 4% YoY increase to $1.25tn, with an estimated 21% of orders ($263bn) will be driven by AI and agents.
Asda reveals AI and Cloud tie-up with Microsoft
Asda has unveiled a new AI and cloud computing tie-up with Microsoft, which it called “one of the largest technology deals in UK retail”.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
AllSaints makes promotions to global leadership team
British premium fashion brand All Saints has made two internal promotions to the global leadership team of the group comprising AllSaints and John Varvatos.
Burberry buying and merchandising director exits
Lee Goldup, Burberry’s global director of buying and merchandising, has departed the British heritage brand.
BRAND NEWS
In The Style’s Adam Frisby launches new brand
In The Style founder Adam Frisby and influencer Perrie Sian have joined forces to create womenswear brand Reasn.
Nike confirms release date for Skims activewear brand
Nike is set to debut its highly anticipated new women’s activewear brand NikeSkims in partnership with Kim Kardashian’s Skims this Friday (Sept 26).
Mint Velvet's autumn denim campaign focuses on fit, movement and style
Mint Velvet has unveiled its autumn Relaxed Glamour autumn denim campaign which shines a light on women in sport “balancing performance and personal style”.
ThredUp unveils new brand identity supported by more AI tools
Online resale platform ThredUp has launched a full rebrand designed to strengthen its position as a leader in the now-mainstream secondhand market.
Fittora launches AI-powered, made-to-order fashion platform
Fittora is tackling the problem of returns with the launch of its AI-powered, made-to-order clothing platform offering consumers perfectly tailored pieces, without a single fitting room visit.
AND FINALLY x2
Clarks opens museum to celebrate 200th year
Clarks has opened The Shoemakers Museum, at its Clarks Village shopping outlet in Somerset to mark its 200th anniversary and showcase over 25.000 shoes from the brand.
Apprentices breathe new life into historic Savile Row
Beneath the old-world exterior of a tailors on Savile Row, the workshops where the magic happens is more youthful than ever as aspiring tailors vie for competitive apprenticeships.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending Sep 19th 2025?
1/ Christmas
2/ AW25
3/ Halloween
4/ Dress
5/ Coat
6/ Scarf
7/ Bedroom
8/ Candle
9/ Wreath
10/ Earrings
PRSHOTS DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until Halloween – 38
Days until Black Friday - 66
Days until Christmas Day – 93
Days until Valentine’s Day - 144
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;
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
22nd-25th – Rosh Hashanah
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
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.
George at Asda has new AW25 womenswear ranges of clothes and boots and an Erica Davies collaboration, plus the Tickled Pink cancer charity clothing ranges for Breast Cancer awareness month.
The Orchard has Christmas gifting clothing ranges for men and women.
Deichmann has new AW25 ranges of shoes, trainers, bags and boots for women.
F&F has new Kids and womenswear Christmas clothing ranges, autumn womenswear ranges, a new Kate Ferdinand active wear collaboration.
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.
New Look has new September drops of AW25 ranges including clothes, bags, shoes, boots and accessories, plus new womenswear outfits and cowboy core womenswear drops.
Very has a new Michelle Keegan collaboration, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Home, garden and food
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.
The Orchard has Christmas furnishings, tabletop fire pits and mini pizza ovens, artificial Christmas tree ranges, new Miami Corner Group sofa, new autumn and Halloween decorations.
Cambridge Imprint has notebooks, patterned papers, new notecards and envelopes, Christmas cards, garlands, paper chains, coronets, banners, plus notebooks, and exercise books.
Treats by Mars has new Malteser gingerbread cake bars, Mars and Snickers flavour milk drinks, M&M festive and Halloween hot chocolate kits and Galaxy hot chocolate ranges.
Very has new Halloween and Christmas decorations for the home, plus Christmas toys and homewear.
Accessorize has new Christmas decorations for the tree.
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.
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.
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.
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
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