Doll retailer American Girl will eventually open between 10 and 15 Canadian locations, according to Indigo CEO Heather Reisman. American Girl's first two Canadian locations opened last weekend in Toronto and Vancouver, within Chapters/Indigo stores. American Girl's Canadian popularity is unquestionable: an estimated 4,000 girls attended its Yorkdale Shopping Centre grand opening last weekend, while about 1,500 attended its new Downtown Vancouver shop...
Montreal-based luxury outerwear brand Mackage will open stores in selected Canadian cities. The company has retained a real estate company to establish its brand across Canada. Despite being Canadian, its first and only free-standing store is in New York City...
This week, Nordstrom Rack simultaneously launched its new e-commerce website and mobile app. They are on a shared platform with HauteLook, Nordstrom's flash sale business. Both website and app facilitate Nordstrom Rack shopping, as well as participation in HauteLook flash sale events...
American footwear retailer Vince Camuto will open store locations across Canada. The company has teamed up with a real estate firm to spearhead its Canadian expansion, focussing on major enclosed shopping malls. Construction has already begun on its first boutique at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre, scheduled to open this summer...
An Armani Collezioni boutique has opened on the third floor of Montreal's Ogilvy store. Armani is the latest addition in Ogilvy's endeavour to move increasingly upscale, before becoming a merged Ogilvy/Holt Renfrew store in 2017...
Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Centre has done what many thought was impossible, by adding world-class luxury stores to a suburban Canadian mall. Traditionally the domain of Canadian downtowns, Yorkdale has changed Canada's luxury game with an unprecedented number of new boutique announcements. Canada's first free-standing Bulgari, Moncler and Jimmy Choo stores will join other Canadian firsts, including David Yurman, Mulberry, John Varvatos and others. Adding to this is a Holt Renfrew store with several large luxury shops-in-store, creating an upscale shopping destination unrivalled in Canada...
The Retail Council of Canada has selected Larry Rosen, Chairman & CEO of upscale menswear retailer Harry Rosen, as recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Retailer of the Year Award...
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No two Harry Rosen stores are the same - thanks to a free-thinking, guitar-playing, detail-driven designer named Mark Teixeira
THEY SOUND PRETTY GOOD — two dudes in their 50s, jamming on guitars at the Cherry Beach studios in downtown Toronto. It’s something they do together from time to time, swapping riffs for hours, taking musical ideas and seeing where they lead, getting inside each other’s heads. The guy with the left-handed Fender Strato caster is Larry Rosen, CEO of Harry Rosen Inc.; the other rocker is Mark Teixeira, the man who has designed each Harry Rosen store across the country since the early 1990s. Their most recent hit is the new, 30,000-square-foot flagship store at the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto...
