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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Aldi, Primark, Skechers, Sainsbury’s, Debenhams, AO, Gola, Yass Clean, Asos, Frasers Group, Fatface, Urban Outfitters, Wax London and M&S . Plus 20 strategic planning tips for 2026, the 10 best AI copywriting tools and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Aldi’s UK boss warns shoppers face higher food prices if budget adds costs
The UK boss of Aldi has said shoppers could face higher food prices if the government introduces further measures that increase costs for employers.
Primark owner says larger stores to come under pressure from rates changes
George Weston the boss of Primark’s parent firm ABF has warned the Government that proposed business rates changes are “mistaken” and heap pressure on big stores on UK high streets.
Skechers, the world's third-largest footwear company, has been acquired in a $9bn go-private deal with Brazilian private equity firm 3G Capital.
Sainsbury's ends talks to sell Argos to China's JD.com
Sainsbury's said it has terminated talks with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com over selling the Argos, a day after confirming discussions were underway.
Debenhams bosses’ pay prompts concerns
Debenhams could face a backlash at its shareholder meeting on Thursday (18 Sept), after two advisory groups urged investors to vote against the brand’s executive pay proposal.
Aldi unveils record expansion plan
Aldi has revealed plans to invest a record £1.6bn over the next two years into its expansion, opening 80 stores, as its sales continue to rise.
AO ups profit guidance as it expects to deliver double-digit sales growth
Electricals retailer AO has increased its profit guidance and it said it was on track to deliver a strong profit performance and double-digit sales growth.
Whole Foods Market losses deepen as sales decline
Whole Foods Market has recorded deepening losses for its UK operations, as revenues took a sharp downturn.
Gola owner plots international expansion as sales and profits surge
Gola parent company Jacobson Group has reported a "record" year of growth and is eyeing expansion into new international markets.
TRENDS, SUSTAINABILITY, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
The 10 best AI copywriting tools
In 2025, AI writing assistance isn’t limited to standalone apps, it’s being built into the platforms marketers already use says Hootsuite.
20 strategic planning tips for 2026
Planning feels impossible in a year of AI upheaval and global instability. Don’t freeze use these 20 expert tips from Martech to move forward with clarity.
How Yass Clean has become an international brand using TikTok shop
Influencer-led brand Yass Clean launched on TikTok shop just eight months ago and has seen huge growth with over 300k boxes sold to an increasingly international market.
Why traditional marketing strategies are becoming obsolete
Traditional search engine dominance is loosening as consumers demand more dynamic ways to find information online. The Drum looks at how to move with the times.
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.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Marks & Spencer may extend Archie Norman’s tenure as chair
Marks & Spencer is considering extending Archie Norman’s tenure as chairman of the brand beyond the UK’s recommended nine-year term.
ASOS creates new customer and commercial role as Ben Blake joins from World of Books
ASOS has appointed Ben Blake to the newly created role of executive vice president, customer and commercial, bringing together its customer and commercial operations under one role.
Frasers Group strengthens board with digital expert Jacky Wright
Frasers Group has announced the proposed appointment of Jacky Wright as a non-executive director, effective September 24, 2025, pending final board approval.
BRAND NEWS
FatFace expands product offering with new petite sizing
FatFace has launched a new petite sizing offering as part of its product expansion strategy. The move follows direct customer feedback and demand on social platforms.
Urban Outfitters to open second Irish store as it ramps up European expansion
Urban Outfitters is to open a second store in Ireland next week as it continues its expansion across Europe.
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.
Wax london launches first-ever selvedge denim
For AW25, Wax London is embracing denim, introducing the debut of the brand’s very first selvedge denim range.
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.
AND FINALLY x3
Emmy awards 2025 red carpet looks
There was glamour, grace and subtle political statements on the red carpet – and many Armani gowns in tribute to the late designer.
New Victoria Beckham Netflix documentary launches in October
Victoria Beckham is to be the subject of a new Netflix documentary coming in October. The series follows Beckham and her family and follows on from the series focusing on her husband David.
Maybelline New York brings back its iconic ‘90s jingle
Maybelline has brought back its “Maybe It’s Maybelline,” jingle with a modern spin for its latest brand campaign featuring ambassadors Gigi Hadid, Storm Reid, Peggy Gou, and Shay Mitchell.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending Sep 12th 2025?
1/ AW25
2/ Christmas
3/ Halloween
4/ Pumpkin
5/ Christmas Tree
6/ Lighting
7/ Bauble
8/ Bathroom
9/ Orange
10/ Coat
PRSHOTS DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until Halloween – 46
Days until Black Friday - 74
Days until Christmas Day – 101
Days until Valentine’s Day - 152
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;
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
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
Habitat Nest Sofology TK Maxx National Trust Hobbycraft
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