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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Lululemon, ebay, Superdry, Aldi, River Island, JYSK, Six Stories, Dobbies, Arc'teryx, H&M and John Lewis. Plus, how PRs are using AI, what support do fashion retailers need to be more sustainable and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Lululemon slashes annual sales, profit forecasts
Lululemon has cut its annual revenue and profit forecasts and now expects annual revenue between $10.85-$11bn, down from $11.15-$11.30bn.
Amazon has revealed it paid £1bn in direct taxes to the UK in 2024, as revenues continued to rise.
High street sales record highest growth since August 2023
The latest BDO high street sales tracker shows retail sales in-store and online rose 3.9% in August, with bricks-and-mortar store sales were up 5.2% compared to last year.
Retail sales marginally rise in July
Retail sales volumes across the UK are estimated to have increased by 0.6% in July, according to a delayed monthly report by the ONS. And follows a more modest 0.3% increase in June.
UK retail footfall declines for fourth month in a row
BRC-Sensormatic total UK retail footfall figures show a 0.4% fall in August, but high-streets bucked the trend with a 1.1% growth in footfall.
John Lewis Partnership launches ‘biggest ever’ seasonal recruitment drive for Christmas
The John Lewis Partnership has kicked off its “biggest ever” seasonal recruitment drive, advertising 13,700 roles to support anticipated demand during the so-called “golden quarter.”
ebay expands authenticity guarantee to clothing in UK
ebay has expanded its authenticity programme to cover clothing, shoes, and accessories in the UK, offering what it calls a “head-to-toe” authentication service for pre-loved fashion.
Government launches consultation to modernise UK design protection
The government has launched a wide-ranging consultation to overhaul the UK’s design protection system, in the most significant reform for the country’s £100bn design sector in decades.
Merry Hill mall is up for sale at £250m+
West Midlands shopping mall, Merry Hill, is up for sale with a price tag exceeding £250m. The mall’s footfall is up 5.6% year-on-year and is expected to exceed 15.5m this year.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
PRMoment asked PR professionals from all levels of seniority in the UK to reveal what they are using AI for.
What support do fashion retailers need to be more sustainable?
As pressures and costs relating to sustainability mount, Drapers wants to know what support fashion businesses need, as part of a new campaign to help drive this change.
Is Manchester the next big fashion city?
Manchester has long been a cultural hub. But in recent years, it has become home to some of the UK’s fastest-growing contemporary fashion brands. Vogue Business investigates.
How Superdry is implementing AI to streamline its global retail operations
Superdry has transformed its global store operations and retail communication with the implementation of an AI-powered task management platform.
What will the future hold for a new era at Vogue?
Chloe Malle inherits Vogue at a time when legacy gloss meets digital grind, and the once "fashion bible" faces a future beyond print.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
H&M veteran Karen O’Rourke takes the reins as UK & Ireland MD
H&M has appointed Karen O’Rourke as its new managing director for the UK and Ireland, taking the helm of more than 200 stores.
BRAND NEWS
Aldi set to bring InPost Lockers to more than half of its UK stores
Over 500 Aldi UK stores now have InPost Lockers, with the supermarket aiming to have at least 600 stores with lockers installed by the end of the year.
River Island unveils Olivia Attwood as face of new campaign
River Island has unveiled TV personality and influencer Olivia Attwood as the face of its latest campaign. Download pictures from PRShots here River Island.
JYSK launches new strategy to become customers’ first choice
JYSK has announced a new global strategy where it will invest DKK 2 billion in IT solutions over the next three years.
Co-op Wholesale and Costcutter launch new partnership
Co-op Wholesale and Costcutter Supermarkets Group (CSG) have joined forces under a new partnership which it calls “the start of a new opportunity”.
Six Stories launches in the US with premium department stores
Occasionwear brand Six Stories has launched in the US via new partnerships with US department stores Nordstrom and Macy's.
Dobbies unveils fourth new-look store in national refurbishment programme
Dobbies Garden Centre in Beaconsfield is the latest store to complete its refurbishment as part of the retailer’s national programme of investment across the store estate.
Arc’teryx launches in JD Sports
Canadian outdoor and technical fashion brand Arc'teryx has launched in-store and online at JD Sports.
AND FINALLY x2
Harrods to remove Egyptian busts of disgraced ex-owner Fayed
Harrods has submitted plans to remove busts of former owner Mohamed al Fayed, accused of sexual abuse, as part of a wider refurbishment of its Grade II* listed Egyptian hall.
Giorgio Armani passes away aged 91
Influential Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has passed away aged 91. His namesake company was launched 50 years ago and has become a brand known worldwide.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending Aug 29th 2025?
1/ Christmas
2/ AW25
3/ Halloween
4/ Cushion
5/ Candle
6/ Wreath
7/ Throw
8/ Vase
9/ Stocking
10/ Bauble
PRSHOTS DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until Halloween – 56
Days until Black Friday - 84
Days until Christmas Day – 111
Days until Valentine’s Day - 162
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
4th-5th – Eid Milad an-Nabi (Mawlid)
5th – International Charity Day
6th – Read a Book Day
12th -14th – The Goodwood Revival
7th – National Beer Lovers Day (US)
7th – Great North Run Newcastle
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
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.
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.
Very has launched the new Very Collection of women’s clothing which includes the labels V by Very and Everyday, a new new Halloween outfits, including Addams Family ranges.
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.
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.
Barbour has new Barbour X 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Lewis has new AW25 kidswear and womenswear lookbook images, plus bags, shoes, boots and accessories, a John Lewis x Rejina Pyo new collection.
See additional new clothing and accessories images from
Iolla Scamp & Dude Tu Clothing TK Maxx National Trust George at Asda Dune London
Home, garden 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.
Cambridge Imprint has new notecards and envelopes, Christmas cards, garlands, paper chains, coronets, banners, plus notebooks, exercise books, new clipboards, tissue boxes, postcard boxes, pencil pots, letter trays, portfolios and magazine files.
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.
Treats by Mars has new M&Ms festive and Halloween hot chocolate kits and Galaxy hot chocolate ranges.
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.
Very has new Halloween and Christmas decorations for the home.
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.
George Home has new AW25 Cosy Autumn, Autumn Revival, French Fancy and Serene ranges of tableware, tables, lights, candles, cushions, and soft furnishings.
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.
Dobbies Garden Centres has a new RHS collaboration range of gifts, plus Christmas decorations, gifts and food, Halloween decorations, new summer pots, pet toys and accessories for the garden.
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.
Habitat has new AW25 Festive Fairground, Alpine Retreat, Jazz Bar and Moorlands ranges of home furniture, lighting and accessories for the lounge, dining room and bedroom, plus dinner sets and glassware.
Nest has new Knoll Studio dining tables and chairs, new Tradition Icons furniture, new HKLiving furniture and rugs, Audo Copenhagen and Norwegian designer furniture for the home plus Hay Traverse and Pallisade garden furniture.
Sofology has a new Modern Classic Christmas range of sofas and chairs and a new Texturalism and Materiality, Rural Refined and Get Yer Freak On range of chairs and settees.
See additional new home images from
TK Maxx National Trust Hobbycraft
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