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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Poundland, Uniqlo, Ulta Beauty, Space NK, Mulberry, Levi’s, Ikea, Next, Ellesse, M&S and John Lewis. Plus, how retailers are using personalised marketing to create loyalty, when and how to segment your product messaging and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
UK economy shrinks unexpectedly by 0.1%
The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product fell by 0.1% in May, missing City predictions of a 0.1% monthly expansion.
John Lewis scales back build-to-rent Reading plans
John Lewis Partnership has scaled back its plans for a build-to-rent development in Reading, with fewer flats and storeys than originally planned.
Poundland battles with availability issues
Poundland is struggling to fill its shelves after several major suppliers have toughened their terms following the discount chain’s sale last month.
Uniqlo profits dip amid global shift to summer clothes
Uniqlo sales were up 7.7% to £4.16bn but profits fell 9.7% to £530m in Q3 to May, however, it maintains it is still on track to hit its highest performing year.
Ulta Beauty to snap up Space NK
Ulta Beauty, which trades from nearly 1,500 stores in the US, is on the brink of a deal to buy the British high-street chain Space NK.
June's retail footfall "flatlined" but final week weather improves, outlook positive
Retail footfall across all destinations rose by just 0.1% in June (1 June-5 July), according to MRI Software. With footfall driven by a 1.2% uplift in retail park activity.
Four arrested over M&S cyber-attacks
Four young people have been arrested for their suspected involvement in the damaging cyber-attacks against Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods.
Mulberry sales down 21% and losses increase
Mulberry group revenues were down 21% to £120.4m and losses increased marginally to £23.7m – from £22.6m - for the year to 29 March.
Shein hit with second major fine in France
France’s data privacy regulator is seeking a €150m fine against Shein for violating laws governing the use of cookies in its targeted advertising.
Levi’s lifts annual forecasts on steady denim demand in Europe
Levi Strauss raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts after beating quarterly estimates with its net revenue up 14% for the quarter ended June 1, compared with a 2% decline a year earlier.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
How retailers are using personalised marketing to create loyalty
Retailers who understand consumers' preferences can gain a strong advantage by delivering offers and recommendations that feel relevant and engaging. Retail Times explains.
When and how to segment your product messaging
Product messaging works when it creates recognition when the reader thinks, “this is for me.” That moment sparks belief and begins to shape how they see your product.
How Boots Advantage Card users are saving and spending their points
Almost a quarter of the UK population (24%) and almost half of adult women (48%) now hold a Boots Advantage Card. Boots reveals how customers spend their Boots Advantage Card points.
How businesses are making discounting more strategic
When it comes to discounting, ‘how low can you go?’ seems to be a strategy that cannot pay off in the long run for retailers. Retail Week examines how things are changing with discounting.
How retailers are using AI to improve the shopper experience
Retailers are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) as they focus on the customer. Internet Retailing finds those already using the technology, 46% are using it to improve the customer experience.
The ultimate guide to selling on social media
Social commerce is what happens when savvy marketers take the best of eCommerce and combine it with social media. Hootsuite reveals the ultimate guide to social commerce.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
M&S strengthens food operations team by poaching former Asda exec
Marks & Spencer has strengthened its food operations team by poaching former Asda executive Matt Featherstone
BRAND NEWS
First Ikea ‘small store’ to open this month as brand continues expansion to new UK locations
Ikea is opening the first of its new ‘small store’ format this month in Harlow Retail Park, with stores in Norwich and Chester to follow, as it expands to new UK locations.
Next opens flagship store at Lakeside Shopping Centre
Next has opened a new flagship store at the Lakeside Shopping Centre. Spanning 83,000 square feet, the shop is one of the largest in Next’s portfolio.
Ellesse is returning to the US market with a new licensing partner
Italian sportswear brand Ellesse, owned by British group Pentland Brands, is returning to the US with a new licensing agreement with the US’s The Iconic Brand Corporation (TIBC).
Nike plans changes ahead for three more London stores
Nike announced it is making “significant investments across our London marketplace” with fundamental changes to several stores in the capital planned.
DHL adds 1,000 new robots as it spends £550m on automation and infrastructure
DHL Supply Chain is spending £550mn to expand automation and invest in infrastructure across its UK operations as it serves growing ecommerce demand.
AND FINALLY x2
Original Birkin smashes records at Paris auction
The first-ever Birkin bag designed by French luxury brand Hermes for celebrity Jane Birkin sold for €8.58m at a Sotheby's auction in Paris
With Brit Pop band Oasis back on stage and alcoholic lemonade Hooch unveiling a new ad campaign – you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s the 1990s again. Marketing Beat explores.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending July 4th 2025?
1/ AW25
2/ SS25
3/ Christmas
4/ Throw
5/ Embroided
6/ Summer
7/ Bag
8/ Hat
9/ Sandals
10/ Bathroom
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NEW BRANDS TO PRSHOTS
Villeroy & Boch manufactures everything from crockery for the table to bathroom fittings including vanity units, bathrooms and taps and they’ve been around since 1748, and are available in 140 countries.
Quay is a sunglasses company that was born out of the US festival scene and as you would expect from an alternative birth it does things differently.
Inspecs has new SS25 imagery of sunglasses from Radley, Superdry and Botaniq.
Salts Cashmere is launching 1st September with a unisex range of cashmere jumpers and tops that are made in Yorkshire.
The Orchard specialises in everything for the home and the garden, from sofas and chairs to soft furnishings and kitchenware through to barbecues and firepits.
BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES
Clothing, beauty and accessories
Bonmarché has new women's wear ranges for AW25, including coats, blouses, jackets and jumpers.
John Lewis has a new back-to-school kids range of uniforms.
Primark has new denim, youth and newborn – including Bambi - ranges, a new KEM collaboration and has new perfume ranges, plus new nightwear, and new Hight Summer Rita Ora collaboration of clothes and accessories.
F&F has new active wear and Abbey Clancy festival imagery, a new summer band t-shirts and beach wear drop, new F&F Active sportswear and athleisure collaboration with Kate Ferdinand, new summer beachwear campaign imagery.
Very has new V by Very July drops of womenswear for high-summer from midi skirt dresses to jeans and ra-ra skirts.
Peacocks has a new Louise Redknapp Edit of summer womenswear, plus her Linen Edit for summer, a new SS25 Edit range, and a new menswear range.
TK Maxx has new summer clothing, jewellery and accessories, including bags, hats and sunglasses.
River Island has new Rococo Revival and Perfect Prints range of summer clothing, RI Studio range and Mykonos Night range of womenswear, new Wimbledon whites ranges, new summer festival outfits and accessories, new Arm Candy beaded bag range.
Barbour has new outfits and footwear for the festival season.
Cotton Traders has new AW25 womenswear, new Jasmine Harman’s SS25 Edit of beachwear and relaxed summer clothing and accessories.
Roman Originals has new Petite and Curve ranges, plus outfits with this summer’s must-haves, crochet and embroidery/broderie anglaise, including big-pattern midi-length summer dresses, Bardot tops, denim, trousers and cropped pants.
Deichmann has back-to-school shoes, sandals, water bottles and lunch bags and boxes for kids for the autumn term.
Monsoon has new July and August clothing and accessories drops, 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.
Matalan has back-to-school ranges, AW25 transitional womenswear and accessory ranges, England football strips, plus Paw Patrol kidswear, makeup ranges, and new accessory ranges for women.
Oliver Bonas has new clothing, jewellery and accessories drops for July, including bags, hats, shoes, sandals, scarves and sunglasses.
Sims Wear has new linen menswear for the summer.
Accessorize has a new Palma range of womenswear shoes and accessories, a new SS25 beachwear, bags, scarves and jewellery – including Z charms - a new Seville range of beachwear and clothing.
New Look has new cowboy core womenswear drops for July.
The Orchard has a new Christmas gifting collaboration with Ellie Beaumont.
Fatface has new AW25 clothing ranges for women and has a new collaboration with the Marine Conservation Charity and has new beachwear and evening wear for the summer plus new shoes, sandals and accessories.
Iolla has new summer sunglasses ranges for him and her.
M&S has new summer menswear and womenswear campaign imagery, plus new t-shirts, sandals, shoes, sunglasses, swimsuits and bikini ranges, Autograph underwear, and a suede-themed range of clothing.
Scamp & Dude has new stripey clothes and accessories, new SS25 athleisure wear, dresses, shorts, jackets, hoodies, coats, bags and scarves, plus new collaborations with Nicky Newman and Sabrina Elba.
National Trust has a new collaboration with Craghoppers on outdoor AW25 clothing.
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Home, garden and food
Dunelm has a new 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.
TK Maxx has new back-to-school ranges with lunch bags and stationery and pens, homeware ranges for the kitchen, dining room and lounge from cups and vases to cushions and lamps.
Quorn Stone has Chalfont and Orotelli decorative tiles, plus new natural stone and new Lullington Beige stone effect floor tiles, Canyon Terrazzo effect porcelain tiles and chequered decorative tiles for the bathroom.
Arran Sense of Scotland has 2025 Christmas gift packs and an advent calendar, new refill packages, home fragrances, scented candles, After the Rain summer fragrance and a new mum and bride scent range.
Nest has new HKLiving furniture and rugs, Audo Copenhagen and Norwegian designer furniture for the home plus Hay Traverse and Pallisade garden furniture, including tables, chairs and loungers.
Oliver Bonas has Christmas decorations, gifts and things for the home, plus new July/August/September/October drops of homeware ranges for the kitchen, dining room and lounge for SS25.
Matalan has Christmas decorations and gifts, AW25 homeware for the autumn including Halloween and Harvest Festival themed soft furnishings.
Hobbycraft has new kids ideas for the summer holidays plus DIY decoration ideas for homes.
Ruggable has new outdoor ranges of its machine-washable rugs, plus rugs for every room in the home including collaborations with top designers and influencers.
Cambridge Imprint has new mug ranges, sketching pencils, patterned wrapping paper, memo books, labels, tea towels, box files, envelopes, postcard boxes, postcards, and tea trays.
Ivyline has Christmas ranges including trees, wreaths, tree skirts and decorations, and new pots, planters, candleholders and lanterns for inside and outside the home.
Treats by Mars has new Galaxy Frappe Duo and Caramel mixes.
Primark has new travel gadgets, new summer-themed homeware including kitchenware, candles and soft furnishings, Lilo and Stitch themed things, outdoor ranges from picnic blankets to thermoses, bedding and tableware.
Dobbies Garden Centres has tomato growing kits, Christmas and Halloween decorations, new summer pots, pet toys and hoses, plus Disney-themed garden tools, bags, wheelbarrows and bird houses.
Homesense has new Halloween items and new homeware plus new homeware for the kitchen, dining room and the conservatory, plus tableware and picnic items for eating out in the garden.
Jellycat has a new Amuseables range of animals, flowers and food, new baby ranges, a Bartholomew Bear collaboration with department store Liberty.
National Trust has a collaboration with Sitting Spiritually on a selection of outdoor swings from two-seater to four-seaters as well as pots for the garden, water bottles and autumn decorations.
Furniture Village has new AW25 Cottagecore Comfort furniture for bedrooms and Cherry Lacquer for dining rooms and living rooms and Seeing Green office and dining furniture.
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DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until School holidays start (23rd July) – 12
Days until School holidays ends (3rd Sept) – 54
Days until Halloween – 112
Days until Black Friday - 141
Days until Christmas Day – 167
How to make your products attractive to the media in July
Our July 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 here! So keep on adding anything summer-related to your media centres, eg summer clothing, swimwear, bikinis, shorts, beachwear, sunglasses, plus things to keep you cool, like fans, sun hats and sun shades. Also, push anything to do with the outside, such as garden furniture, anything for a garden party, or a picnic or barbecue, and don’t forget to add all of the other spellings that people may search on eg BBQ, Bar-B-Que, etc and other related keywords like picnic.
The festival season is now in full-swing, and the media are all looking for festival wear and things to take to festivals (tents, fans, ice boxes, torches, etc). We’re also getting ready to go on holiday, so luggage, bags, bumbags, beach towels, etc are all being searched for.
Clothing keywords being searched for this summer include; denim, florals, crochet, midi-dresses, maxi-dresses, polo, preppy, tennis-core, cottage-core and festival wear.
But not everyone is going abroad. The cost-of-living crisis is still cutting-into everyone’s wallets, so shoppers are still looking at holidays closer to home. Add in keywords and phrases like “staycation”, “holistay”, “holiday at home” to your keywords and why not suggest clothing like raincoats, coats, hoodies, and cardigans? If you stock them, then firepits and chimineas for the colder UK evenings would be good to add.
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.
July Diary - Weeks/Months
July is Independent Retailer Month, Plastic-free Month, and National Ice Cream Month in the US.
Weeks to celebrate this month include;
Wimbledon fortnight (30th June - 13th)
The Tour De France (5th – 27th)
Alcohol Awareness Week (7th- 13th)
July - Days
10-13th - Goodwood Festival of Speed
11th – World Population Day
12th – Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)
12th – Wimbledon Womens Final Day
13th – Wimbledon Mens Final Day
14th - Bastille Day (France)
15th – St Swithin’s Day
18th - Nelson Mandela International Day
19th-20th - Northern Pride
19th – National Ice Cream Day (US Third sundae in July 😉)
22nd- 23rd – Start of the school holidays
24th – National Tequila Day (US)
25th – Christmas in July (5 months until Christmas)
27th – Tour de France ends
27th – National Parents Day (US 4th Sunday in July)
29th – National Lipstick 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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