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PRShots Roundup brings you the latest retail news from Shein, Temu, Topps Tiles, Trinny London, Argos, L'Oreal, Asda, Skims, Puma, H&M and M&S. Plus, how consumers shopped Black Friday weekend, what happens when nobody clicks any more and more.
THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Shein and Temu face calls for US investigation
Shein and Temu are facing increased pressure in the US after two senior politicians pushed for investigations, including into claims of forced labour and intellectual property theft.
Topps Tiles swings back into the black
The incoming new chief executive of Topps Tiles has hailed the retailer’s “encouraging results” as it swung back to profitability for the full financial year.
Black Friday deals started early
Non-food inflation decreased to -0.6% year-on-year in November, against a decline of 0.4% in October, as retailers went early on Black Friday offers to entice hesitant shoppers.
Trinny London MD says US expansion is a ‘big part of future strategy’
Trinny London managing director Mark Smith has said US expansion forms a big part of the group’s future strategy.
Argos loses more than £200m as over 2,000 jobs cut
Argos has reported a pre-tax loss of £223.2m for the 12 months to March 1st, 2025, and its revenue fell from £4.22bn to £4.13bn over the same period.
UK growth to slow as unemployment rises
The UK economy is set to lose momentum next year, with unemployment expected to rise, according to new analysis from KPMG published in the wake of the Autumn Budget.
L'Oreal will start work on potential Armani deal ‘very soon’, says CFO
French cosmetics group L'Oreal will "definitely" look at an investment in Italian fashion group Armani and start working on it "very soon".
Hammerson completes full takeover of Reading's The Oracle
Retail landlord Hammerson has acquired the remaining 50% interest in The Oracle, Reading, shopping mall for £104.5m and has upgraded its earnings guidance for FY25.
Topp Tiles acquires Fired Earth
Topps Tiles acquired the Fired Earth brand, associated IP, website and a provisional £2.5m of stock, for a total cash consideration of £3m in November 2025.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
How consumers shopped Black Friday weekend 2025
Retail Week analyses Black Friday’s deals and discounts as retailers wrap up the event before turning their attention to Christmas.
What happens when nobody clicks any more
Learn how shifting user behaviour in the age of AI could impact traffic and revenue, and what marketers and publishers can do to stay ahead.
How Asda CEO Allan Leighton plans to rebuild the brand ‘to its former glories’
Even as Asda sales continue to slip and its private equity owners turn to sale and leasebacks of stores, executive chair Allan Leighton insists his turnaround strategy is working.
Why more retailers are opting out of Black Friday and what it means for shopping trends
With recent data suggesting October's dip in sales may be due to consumers holding out for Black Friday, is the shopping event losing power?
The best marketing initiatives of 2025
From campaigns to product launches to uses of data, Marketing Week has rounded up eight of the standout marketing initiatives of the year.
AI helps drive record $11.8bn in Black Friday online spending
AI-powered shopping tools helped drive a surge in US online spending on Black Friday, as shoppers bypassed crowded stores and turned to chatbots to compare prices and secure discounts.
Snapchat launches festive AR retail experience
Snapchat is launching a festive augmented reality retail experience, the Winter Village, featuring immersive shoppable digital boutiques from Boss, Chopard, and Lancôme.
PEOPLE, MOVERS AND SHAKERS
M&S welcomes New Look exec as stores innovation director
M&S has named Elaine Cartwright as its new stores director of innovation and implementation. Cartwright was most recently New Look’s retail director UK and ROI.
Kingfisher names retail media director
Home improvement firm Kingfisher has named Hélène Trad as retail media director based at the company’s London headquarters in Paddington.
BRAND NEWS
H&M unveils Stella McCartney collaboration
H&M has unveiled Stella McCartney as its latest designer collaborator, marking 20 years since the designer’s first partnership with the retailer in 2005.
M&S launches week-long live shopping event
M&S is launching a week-long live-streaming event, with the brand teaming up with influencers to deliver expert tips, trend-led ideas, and inspiration across fashion, beauty, gifting, and hosting.
Skims to venture into live entertainment for Christmas
Kim Kardashian is to host a shoppable holiday livestream event on her own TikTok channel for her Skims brand for the Christmas period.
Puma unveils largest European flagship on London’s Oxford Street
Puma has opened its new 24,000 sq ft flagship store on Oxford Street, and will host a dedicated launch event on 4 December to celebrate its official debut.
AND FINALLY x3
The best adverts from the past 125 years
To mark ISBA’s 125th anniversary, Campaign asked readers to help decide the greatest ads from the past century and a quarter. Here is the very, very debatable list of winners.
Millions of Brits to spend more on furry friends than family at Christmas
According to Pets at Home research, UK households will spend more on gifts for their furry friends than any other family member.
It’s that time of the year again. Yes, it’s the PRShots retail Christmas adverts round-up, an ever-growing list of all the Christmas goodies, updated as the adverts appear on your TV and socials.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots Week ending Nov 28th 2025?
1/ Christmas
2/ SS26
3/ AW25
4/ Desk
5/ Lamp
6/ Kitchen
7/ Living Room
8/ Scarf
9/ Cushion
10/ Rug
PRSHOTS DIARY
PRShots Retail Calendar Alerts
Days until Christmas Day – 23
Days until Valentine’s Day – 74
Days until Mother’s Day – 104
Days until Easter – 124
December Diary
How to make your products attractive to the media and influencers in December
Christmas is nearly over by now for the media; there are just a few dailies, weeklies, websites and influencers doing last-minute gift guides for Christmas but for most print media it’s the New Year, and what’s happening in 2026.
You should be uploading SS26 outfits and home goods for those “A new you for 2026” and “Redecorate for 2026” issues, so athleisure, outdoor healthy sporty images will all be useful, plus anything for the home.
As always don’t forget to add keywords – New Year, Gifts, Spring, Christmas, Xmas, Holidays, Winter plus all those words beloved of home magazines like cosy, cosiness, hygge, wellbeing.
Clothing wise the media are still looking for going out outfits for Christmas and New Year, so party wear, party dresses, nightwear and also winter clothing like jumpers, scarves, bobble hats, beanies, cardigans, coatigans, jackets, coats are still being looked for. So, make sure that you have plenty of images in those categories uploaded and labelled with as many of those words as you can.
You can also start to look at holiday clothing and outfits for when the weather gets a little warmer so make sure SS26 is flagged on your drops even if they’re not yet available until 2026 – If they’re not on sale until Jan or Feb then use the On Sale date field to flag this up. You can either add a specific date, 2/2/26 or if you’re not sure then you can use the text “available first week in Feb.”
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.
December Diary - Weeks/Months
December is all about Christmas and New Year events, but it’s also AIDS Awareness Month, Universal Human Rights Month, Decembeard, and No Gender December.
Additionally, the 1st week (1st-5th ) is UK Charity Week, and Kwanzaa (26th - 1st Jan).
Men’s Ashes tournaments Australia (Second Test 4th-8th Third 17th-21st Fourth 26th-30th)
December Diary - Days
2nd – Five years since the second-lockdown ended in the UK
2nd – English Breakfast Day
2nd – National day of giving (US) (Tuesday after thanksgiving)
4th – Returns will start to come back from Black Friday sales – be ready for them (Three days after Cyber Monday)
6th – St Nicholas Day
6th – UK Small Business Saturday
10th – Human Rights Day
11th – Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day (https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/christmas-jumper-day)
14th – Hanukkah begins
18th – Stilton Day
18th – National Regifting Day (Thursday before Christmas)
20th – Super Saturday/Panic Saturday (Last Saturday before Christmas)
21st – Winter Solstice
22nd – Hanukkah ends
25th – Christmas Day
26th – Boxing Day
31st – New Year’s Eve
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 ON PRSHOTS
Rhoen is the brainchild of designer Rebecca Rhoades. The Rhoen collection features ready-to-wear, bridal, party, signature and casual ranges of luxury womenswear, featuring big bright prints and colours in mini, midi and maxi lengths.
BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES
Clothing, beauty and accessories
Very has new Christmas Pyjamas, slippers and dressing gowns, a new Very Collection and a denim range, a new Michelle Keegan collaboration, new Elegant Opulence, Future Heirlooms and West Country Craft drops for its new Very Collection range.
F&F has new athleisure wear, new spring 2026 transition outfits, a new Abby Clancy collaboration of party outfits for Christmas, new Kids and womenswear Christmas clothing ranges.
Inspecs has new ranges of men and women’s sunglasses from Barbour and Viktor& Rolf.
New Look has party season outfits and accessories, Christmas jumpers and winter clothing, plus new going out outfits for autumn drops of AW25 ranges including clothes, bags, shoes, boots and accessories.
Barbour has new collaborations with Ganni, Baracuta, Sorel, Levi’s, Arket, Paul Smith, Farm Rio and a collaboration with Kaptain Sunshine of outdoor wear.
Accessorize has new Valentine's day and & bridal accessories, Christmas gift ranges including slippers, scarves, gloves, hats and bags, plus accessory ranges with sunglasses, jewellery, and belts.
Monsoon has new going out bags, shoes and jewellery, a new collaboration with Sarah Corbett-Winder, AW25 clothing, jewellery and accessories, including bags, shoes, boots, scarves and jewellery.
Primark has a new Edit collection, plus a Perrie Sian collaboration, new faux fur coats and jackets, Christmas party clothing ranges, new Wicked 2 themed pyjamas, new Ski Collection ranges of outdoor wear, new Adaptive clothing range, new perfume ranges, Christmas pyjamas and jumper ranges and lingerie.
Matalan has new January transitional ranges, a new nightwear collaboration with Little Mistress Vicky Pattison, new occasion wear, a new Stranger Things collaboration, Winter Smart Edit, Christmas pyjamas and jumper ranges, Grinch & Cindy themed clothing ranges for the family.
Peacocks has new accessory ranges for Christmas, plus Christmas clothing ranges modelled by Louise Redknapp and Danni Dyer, new kidswear, more Danni Dyer AW collections and a new Michael Owen range of menswear.
Bonmarché has new Spring 2026 ranges, Christmas pyjamas, new Lisa Snowdon and Lorraine Kelly ranges for Christmas 2025 including coats, jumpers, trousers and tops.
Joe Browns has new spring 2026 womenswear ranges featuring midi and maxi dresses in small and big patterns, pastel-coloured box jackets, plus t-shirts, shirts, jumpers and blouses.
Oliver Bonas has new January drops of Winter wear clothing, bags and jewellery, Autumn women’s accessories and jewellery, new womenswear including coats, jumpers, cardigans, trousers and shoes.
Threadbare has new AW25 ranges.
Scamp & Dude has new going out ranges for the Winter.
M&S has a new range of Goodmove ski wear, a collaboration with 16Arlington, a new Christmas clothing collections and Collection and Autograph clothing, accessories and jewellery, plus ballet shoe ranges, and new kids ranges of clothes and shoes.
Salts Cashmere has new collections of menswear and womenswear.
Roman Originals has new AW25 Dusk, Curve and Petite ranges for parties and going out, including coats, jackets, dresses and trousers.
Curvy Kate has new ranges for AW25 including Classique, Embrace, Glamour Puss, Eos, Entwinned, Embrace, Harnessed, Icon, Loved Up, Indulgence, Suspense, Hell for Pleather, Mirage, Zen Pink, Wonderfully, Wild One, Victory Forest, Spotlight, Pucker Up, Lush Oxblood, Lovelace Deep, Flare Full, Enchant, Cool Cat, Lightstyle and Boost Diamante.
Cotton Traders has new SS26 women and mens athleisure wear, new Will Mellow and Alex Jones collaboration lines, plus winter clothing ranges including coats, cardigans, trousers and Christmas jumpers.
Fable England has new Solara ranges of jewellery and scarves for Christmas.
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Home, garden and food
Nest has new homeware including clocks, vases, glassware and things for the kids bedrooms.
Cult Furniture has new lamps, bar stools, foot stools, coffee tables, bedside tables and sofas.
Dunelm has new Beautility, Confident Combinations, Nautical Nostalgia, Pattern Drenching and Coastal ranges of home furnishings for the kitchen, bedroom, living room and dining room for SS26 plus a new Sophie Robinson collaboration.
Online Home Shop has new Arch and Jacquard ranges of towels and mats.
Cambridge Imprint has new Very Slim List books, Christmas Crackers, new occasion cards, place cards, notebooks, patterned papers, new notecards and envelopes, Christmas cards, garlands, paper chains, and coronets.
Accessorize has new ranges of Christmas decorations for the tree and gifts for the home.
Jellycat has new ranges of soft toys and amuseables.
Hobbycraft has new Valentine gifts and ideas plus Christmas gift ideas for adult crafters, children and teens.
Oliver Bonas has new January homeware for the dining room, living room and bedroom, new homeware and Christmas gifting, a new Shrimps collaboration of homeware, new furniture, Christmas decorations, gifts and things for the home.
Homesense has new SS26 homeware including kitchenware, bathroom ware, soft furnishings and furniture, Christmas homeware and gifts, plus Christmas decorations.
Sofology has new Adler, Mayfair, Remy, Portbello, Fitzrovia and Waldorf ranges of sofas and chairs for your living room.
Quorn Stone has new terracota decorative tiles, natural stone range, marble and decorative effect tiles, Parisian Manoir, Lullington, Chalfont and Orotelli decorative tiles.
Oriana B has new furniture for the home.
Very has new home furniture and Christmas soft furnishings, plus Western, Folk Cottage and Playful furniture and soft furnishing ranges, plus homeware for the kitchen and lounge, new Christmas decorations for the home, plus Christmas toys and homeware.
Primark has a new Wicked 2 line of gifts, new Christmas homeware for the bedroom, table and the lounge, new Christmas and Wicked/Stitch/ themed gifting ranges for kids, a new low-key luxury ranges, a new Viral Product range.
Dobbies Garden Centres has Winter gardening, Christmas gifts from the Gruffalo collection, Lemax and Disney-themed Christmas decorations.
Matalan has Christmas decorations and gifts, AW25 homeware for the autumn.
Ivyline has Spring Summer 2026 planters, pots, watering cans and misters for indoors, plus chimeneas and pots for outdoors.
The Gluttonous Gardener has gifts for the horticulturist in your life including their Growbar flower seed kits.
Treats by Mars has new Galaxy Caramel and vegan Galaxy dairy-free biscuits and selection boxes, Malteser gingerbread cake bars, Mars and Snickers-flavour milk drinks.
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