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TNT || THE NEW TREND OPENING AT TORONTO’S BAYVIEW VILLAGE

Toronto-based TNT The New Trend will open its fifth store at Toronto's Bayview Village Shopping Centre in September 2013. The store will be almost 5,500 square feet. TNT is an upscale larger-format clothing store with branches in Toronto and...

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Happy April 1st! We were thinking of doing an April Fool's Retail Insider post but given that we're less than a year old, we're not ready to potentially jeopardize our credibility.  Which brings us to our age... Retail Insider turns one...

LA MAISON SIMONS OPENING AT OTTAWA’S RIDEAU CENTRE || SPRING 2015

La Maison Simons will open a 105,000 square foot store at Ottawa's Rideau Centre in the Spring of 2015. This will be Simons' ninth store (after its Galeries d'Anjou store opens this August) and its second location outside of...

NEW CANADIAN UNDERWEAR LABEL LAUNCHES AT HOLT RENFREW’S HR2 TOMORROW

Vancouver-based 'Naked' underwear will launch its lower-priced 'NKD' line at tomorrow's hr2 by Holt Renfrew grand opening in Montreal. The line includes t-shirts, tanks and underwear.  The NKD line will include 'soft fabrics' the Naked mainline is known for. It...

KLEINFELD BRIDAL OPENING CANADIAN STORES || FIRST STOP: TORONTO’S HUDSON’S BAY

NYC-based Kleinfeld Bridal is opening a  20,000 square foot flagship salon on the seventh-floor of Toronto's flagship Hudson's Bay (aka "Queen Street store"). Readers may be familiar with Kleinfeld as featured on the TLC television show 'Say Yes to...

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Do Readers Remember Toronto’s Creeds?

We had to borrow this image from Toronto Life, since it is the only suitable Creeds image we can find online! The link to where we found this image is here --------> Hello Readers! We want to do a...

TopShop Opening This October at Mississauga’s Square One

TopShop/TopMan will open a store inside of Hudson's Bay's Square One Shopping Centre store in October. This will coincide with a renovation of the Square One Hudson's Bay store, now underway. TopShop will be located on the main-floor of...
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