Topshop was founded in 1964 as Peter Robinson’s Top Shop, a youth fashion brand within the Sheffield branch of Peter Robinson, a now-defunct British department store chain. The first stand-alone Topshop store was opened in 1974. In 1970, Toman was created as a spin-off brand to cater for male customers and is now run as a separate chain, although some stores are co-located. On 1 May 2010, Topshop opened its first New Zealand store. Located on Auckland’s North Shore, the shop sold out of some of its ranges before it had even opened.
Topshop expanded into Australia in 2011, with flagships opened in both New South Wales and Victoria. In November 2012, Topshop launched its first store in South Africa. In April 2013 a Topshop-Topman store launched in Cape Town, at the V&A Waterfront, with then a total of three stores in the country. In December 2012, Philip Green agreed to sell a 25% stake in Topshop and Topman to the United States-based private equity group Leonard Green and Partners for US$805 million. Flagship stores Oxford Circus, London
Topshop Oxford Circus is the flagship Topshop store in the United Kingdom and the largest fashion store in the world. The store’s features include a nail bar, a one-hour tailoring service, a hair salon by catwalk hairdresser Daniel Hersheson, an EAT cafe/sandwich bar, and a one-hour delivery service whereby customers can place an order to the store and their products will be delivered by Vespa scooter to them within one hour, providing that they live in the delivery zone. Topshop Oxford Circus is roughly 90,000 square feet (8,400 m2) and covers five floors.
The Essay on ASOS and Topshop
‘Fashion industry is characterised by short product life cycles, volatile and unpredictable demand, tremendous product variety, long and inflexible supply processes and a complex supply chain.’ (Sen, 2007, pp. 1) Due to the nature of the fashion industry, the demand in supply chain changes rapidly. Time is a crucial factor for fashion and therefore supply chain management should be sensitive ...
The shop attracts up to 30,000 customers each day. Broadway, New York City Topshop’s first flagship store outside the United Kingdom is located on Broadway in SoHo, New York City. The store offers services similar to Topshop Oxford Circus in London. The New York store is the brand’s second largest store after the company’s flagship store in London: the New York store is roughly 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2).
Liverpool One, Liverpool In the summer of 2009, Topshop opened its first Manhattan-style concept store in the United Kingdom, in Liverpool, England.
Located in Liverpool One, the new store provides 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) of retail space making it the second largest store in the country. It is the company’s north of England flagship store and also contains Topman, an Office and Kurt Geiger shoes outlet, and a Voodoo hair salon. Briggate, Leeds In October 2012, Topshop opened a 31,000 square feet (2,900 m2) flagship store on Briggate in Leeds, which became the third-largest Topshop in the UK. It is one of only two stores in the UK to offer a personal shopper service. It is part of the Trinity Leeds shopping development which is due to be fully opened by March 2013.
