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Nov 30, 2020 · It started as a small section in the basement of a store in Sheffield called Peter Robinson. By 1974, Topshop had left the basement and established itself as a stand-alone store, catering to...
Dec 1, 2020 · In 1974, parent company Burton Group made Topshop a standalone store. Within two years, the brand’s primary target market became 13 to 24-year-olds, it opened 55 standalone stores and...
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- It's lost its cool. Topshop's popularity peaked in the heady years before the Great Recession, when people had more money to spend and celebrities were keen to be associated with the brand.
- Its digital business has lagged. Topshop, like other traditional High Street brands, has been challenged by online-only fashion platforms like Asos, BooHoo and Pretty Little Thing.
- It's had to deal with problems at the top. Ms Alexander says Topshop's brand has also been tainted by Arcadia director Sir Philip Green, after a series of less-than-favourable incidents.
- It scores poorly on sustainability. Topshop might not churn out new pieces at the breakneck speed of its online-only rivals, but it still has a fast fashion business model - mass producing garments cheaply, then shipping them to 260-outlets worldwide.
Feb 6, 2021 · The Topshop at 214 Oxford Street was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994. Thrillingly, to the many thousands of young women who flocked there, it was more than a location for the sale of...
Sep 26, 2022 · The first incarnation of Topshop was born in 1964, but it was in the nineties that its fashion currency started to soar. Led by Jane Shepherdson, and her team of passionate women, they showed what happened when the men at the top let women create what they actually wanted to wear (and subsequently, what happens when you don’t).
Sep 26, 2022 · You probably associate Topshop with the noughties, but the brand (originally Top Shop) was actually founded in Sheffield in 1964 as a ‘youth store’. And by the 80s, when Jane Shepherdson joined...
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Feb 10, 2021 · By making their suppliers publicly available, Topshop is allowing a transparent review of who they work with, enabling NGOs and local communities to discover whether any potential human rights or environmental issues exist.
