It’s been a tough month for unsecured creditors of failed retail companies. But money owed by Hunter Boot (£112.8 million) and Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group (£167 million) are dwarfed by the cost of Debenhams’ failure.

​Value omnichannel fashion and homewares retailer Matalan has made two key senior executive appointments with Phil Hackney joining as Chief Supply Chain Operations Officer and Katherine Davis as Chief Retail Officer. 

The turmoil surrounding Revolution Beauty Group intensified Wednesday as the beleaguered beauty supplier/retailer aims to postpone next week’s AGM in the face of “hostile shareholder actions” by Boohoo Group.

​UK inflation is proving more stubborn than expected and despite widespread predictions of a fall in May, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that hope to be wide of the mark.

​E-tailer and tech specialist THG issued a trading update on Wednesday and said it’s seeing “strong profitability progression with cash generation ahead of expectations in H1 2023”.

Business-to-business beauty exhibition Cosmoprof North America announced on Tuesday that it will return to a one-hall format for its 20th edition to ease navigation between different product sectors.

We’re hearing a lot about artificial intelligence at the moment and the stories seem to veer from the end of the world as we know it to a boon for humankind. And the latest is definitely on the gloomy side.

Revolution Beauty just can’t catch a break. Uncertainty continues to plague the troubled beauty business with news it’s set to take legal proceedings against the company’s founder and former CEO Adam Minto. 

​The Perfume Shop has seen strong sales around one of the year’s key gifting days — Father’s Day —  with the company reporting a sales jump and high demand for big-name brands in the past fortnight.

​Unscheduled trading updates are usually cause for alarm. But Monday saw one from Next and given that this is one of the most successful retailers in the UK, it's unsurprising that it contained good news, not bad.

​Boohoo Group may be under pressure in its own business but a company in which it holds a large stake — Revolution Beauty — is under even more pressure and on Monday Boohoo moved to exercise more control over it.

​The environment for European luxury brands in the US may have got a little tougher in recent months, but Hermès has said US store traffic continues to rise and it has now opened a store in Aspen, Colorado.

​Coca-Cola was clearly pleased with the first iteration of its high-profile relationship with Kate Moss a year ago as its Diet Coke brand is back for a second link-up with the supermodel-turned-beauty-entrepreneur.

​One of London’s highest-end and oldest luxury shopping destinations — Burlington Arcade in Mayfair — has announced that Vilebrequin and Lalique have taken on second boutiques within the Arcade.

Bed Bath & Beyond's lender Sixth Street Partners is considering bidding for at least some of the bankrupt retailer's assets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing a court hearing.

THG’s commerce tech division, Ingenuity, has formed a strategic alliance with international professional services giant PwC, “to help brands design, build and run immersive customer experiences online”.