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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Laura Ashley, Aldi, B&Q, Asos, Dreams, Boots, Freemans, Cox & Cox, Rixo, H&M, Falconeri, Wickes and M&S. Plus, the ‘click’ era is dying, but what will replace it, when and how to approach a brand refresh and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
UK economy saw zero growth in July
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the economy saw zero growth in July, following a 0.4% expansion in June.
Laura Ashley to return to physical retail with new flagship store
Laura Ashley is set to return to bricks-and-mortar retailing this month with the opening of its first standalone store in over five years.
Business rates rise to put 400 of Britain’s largest shops at risk
400 of Britain's largest shops, and up to 100,000 jobs, will be at risk if the government forces large shops into its proposed higher business rates tax band warns the British Retail Consortium (BRC).
Aldi invests £300m in price cuts across 900 items
Aldi has announced it will have invested over £300 million in price cuts since the start of 2025 to help customers with the cost of rising inflation.
B&Q to cut over 650 roles to ‘simplify retail structure’
B&Q has placed more than 650 roles across its business into consultation as part of efforts to streamline its retail structures.
M&S tech chief leaves months after cyber attack cost it £300m
Rachel Higham, chief digital and technology officer at M&S who only joined the brand last year, is leaving the company months after the devastating cyber-attack.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
The ‘click’ era is dying, but what will replace it?
AI search tools have many marketers panicking that their metrics of old will no longer get the job done – but is it really a case of out with the old and in with the new?
Why John Lewis chair is taking “the long term view”
John Lewis Partnership chair Jason Tarry remains confident in the group's ability to bounce back during the golden quarter, as first half profits were hit by rising taxes.
The 4 Ps of marketing, reimagined for the AI era
They shaped decades of marketing, but in the AI era, product, price, place and promotion no longer look anything like they used to.
When and how to approach a brand refresh
Brand marketing isn’t just about image it's now tied to LLMs, visibility and trust. Twilio's Adam Morgan shares tips on brand refreshes with MarTech.
30 AI marketing tools to drive growth
Looking for some robot assistance? Hootsuite’s top 30 AI marketing tools can make social media management and marketing in general so much easier.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
ASOS appoints new VP of customer and commercial
ASOS has appointed Ben Blake to the newly created role of executive vice president of customer and commercial.
Dreams appoints new chief marketing officer
Bed retailer Dreams has announced that it has appointed Siobhan King as its new chief marketing officer. She previously worked at Pandora, Game Digital, Office and New Look.
BRAND NEWS
Boots encourages shoppers to visit their pharmacy
Boots has launched a new campaign aimed at getting Brits to think of their pharmacist first when they have a health concern.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s debut Freemans collection
Following the success of Sophie Ellis-Bextor in Freemans Christmas adverts the singer has now launched her first clothing collection for the retailer.
Cox & Cox launches Stylist’s Edit and new pricing strategy
The Cox & Cox interiors brand has announced a new Stylists Edit range and has reduced prices across its ranges in response to a survey of more than 84,000 subscribers.
H&M returns to London Fashion Week
H&M will present its AW25 collections at London Fashion Week this month and will feature stars such as Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser, Amelia Gray, Angelina Kendall, and Sora Choi.
Rixo returns to London Fashion Week as it rebrands and adds categories
Rixo will be back on the official London Fashion Week schedule this season “to mark a milestone moment, the brand’s 10-year anniversary”.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham in Falconeri campaign
Falconeri unveils the second chapter of its AW25 advertising campaign, featuring Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham.
Wickes Launches First Pink Kitchen
Pink kitchens are no longer a niche choice, they’re the home interior trend of 2025, and home improvement retailer Wickes has released its first-ever pink kitchen.
Swatch responds to US tariffs with special "39%" watch
Watch brand Swatch has responded to US tariffs with a special edition “39%” watch. The design plays on the 39% levy imposed on Switzerland by Donald Trump.
AND FINALLY x2
Savile Row celebrates 50 years of the Golden Shears Awards
London’s Savile Row is marking five decades of the Golden Shears Awards by hosting a two-week celebration during London Fashion Week.
30 years of eBay: How far has pre-loved fashion come?
eBay is celebrating its 30th year by cementing its place in culture. But re-commerce has many of the same challenges as the primary market, says CEO Jamie Iannone. Vogue Business investigates.
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 – 49
Days until Black Friday - 77
Days until Christmas Day – 104
Days until Valentine’s Day - 155
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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