Topshop

Topshop (own typography in capital letters: TOPSHOP ) is a British multinational retail company, which specializes in fashionable clothes, shoes, makeup and accessories. The company has branches in about 20 countries and beyond also have an online mail order business, which is active in many countries, including in Germany. Topshop is a subsidiary of the Arcadia Group, which is 100 % owned by Philip Green, and which includes a number of other retailers and fashion outlets in the clothing segment such as Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge.

Topshop was Peter Robinson's Top Shop ( German as " The Great store of Peter Robinson "), founded in 1964 as a youthful fashion brand within a branch by Peter Robinson in Sheffield, a now -defunct retail chain in the UK. The first stand-alone Topshop store was opened in 1974. Topman has been further developed in the 1970s as an offshoot brand in order to meet the needs of male customers can. Nowadays, Topman is run as an independent chain, although some branches are located within regular Topshop stores in order to achieve synergies.

• 3.1 British tax policy after the financial crisis
• 3.2 suppliers

Branch Network

In North and South America Topshop currently has branches in Brazil, Canada, Chile and the USA. In Europe there are currently branches of Topshop brand in Croatia, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Iceland, Poland, Ireland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom. In the Middle East has the clothing chain stores in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In Southeast Asia, Topshop has a presence in the markets of Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

After the recent success of the clothing collection that has been shaped and inspired by Kate Moss to Topshop decided to launch the collection on the U.S. market. Topshop has signed a contract with the U.S. clothing chain Barneys New York, which allows the sale of the collections through their 19 branches. Topshop is also with a branch in New York department store Opening Ceremony present.

1 May 2010 Topshop opened its first store in New Zealand, North Shore City in the Auckland region. Before ever had opened the store, some of the collections were already sold. The New Zealand designer Karen Walker visited Britain before, and was responsible for the selection of many pieces that were offered in the New Zealand branch.

In 2011, Topshop expanded to Australia with flagship stores in both South Wales and in Victoria, it was at least reported in various sources. Topshop parent company Arcadia Group, however, has any opinion and thus both a confirmation and a rejection of that message is rejected.

Flagship stores

Oxford Circus, London (United Kingdom )

Topshop Oxford Circus is the official name of the flagship store in the United Kingdom and the world's largest department store for fashion and clothing. The flagship store includes a " Nail Bar " ( Nail Studio), a one-hour Alteration service, a hair salon fashion show stylist Daniel Hersheson, a cafe sandwich bar-restaurant of the brand EAT, a one-hour delivery service in which customers Topshop jobs to give up and can get delivered by Vespa within 60 minutes if they live within the offered delivery zone. The flagship store covers over five floors. The flagship store is frequented daily by about 30,000 customers. Customers can also reach the next door located and also is part of the Arcadia Group branch of clothing chain Miss Selfridge means of a connecting passage through the candy department.

Broadway, New York City (USA)

The first flagship store of Topshop outside the United Kingdom is located on Broadway in New York City. The new branch offers services similar to the flagship store on Oxford Circus in London, but the office is in New York City in rank only the second- largest of the brand after the flagship store in London: The New York office is approximately 5,600 square meters.

Liverpool One, Liverpool ( United Kingdom )

In summer 2009, Topshop opened its first concept store in Manhattan -Style in the United Kingdom, in Liverpool, England. The branch is located in Liverpool One and offers approximately 5,600 m² of retail space. This makes the Topshop store in Liverpool 's second largest retail store in the country. The branch is designed as a flagship store in the north of England and, in addition Topman also an office, a shoe - Outlet by Kurt Geiger and a "Voodoo Hair Salon ".

Branch Network by country

• United Kingdom United Kingdom: 300
• Russia Russia: 22
• Ireland Ireland: 16
• Philippines Philippines: 11
• Israel Israel: 9
• Singapore: 9
• Danemark Denmark: 8
• Malaysia Malaysia: 8
• Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia: 8
• United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 8
• Chile Chile: 7
• Indonesia Indonesia: 5
• Japan Japan: 5
• Turkey Turkey: 5
• Sweden Sweden: 4
• Croatia: 4
• Cyprus Republic of Cyprus: 4
• Spain: 3
• Netherlands Netherlands: 1
• Thailand Thailand: 3
• Slovenia: 2
• Kuwait: 3
• Australia: 2
• Iceland Iceland: 2
• Qatar Qatar: 2
• United States United States: 3
• Czech Republic Czech Republic: 1
• Ukraine: 1
• Poland Poland: 1
• Lebanon Lebanon: 1
• Gibraltar Gibraltar: 1
• Bahamas 1
• People's Republic of China People's Republic of China: 1
• Brazil Brazil: 1
• Germany Germany: 1 ( in the coming weeks in addition opened a branch in Munich)

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland there are currently no stores of the brands Topshop or Topman. The only way to purchase articles of clothing chain is via the online mail order business, which is now also available in German speaking countries.

Products

The current fashion brands Topshop are ' Belief ', ' Calypso ', ' Pageant Princess' and ' Off Track ', among other luxurious garments and designer affiliations, trading under the label ' The Boutique '.

In May 2007, the British supermodel Kate Moss designed her first collection for Topshop. The announcement of the Moss collection was just before the departure of the Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) Jane Shepherdson.

Controversies

British tax policy after the financial crisis

On 4 December 2010, organized Protestants as part of a comprehensive action day a sit-in in front of the flagship store of Topshop on Oxford Circus in London and in Brighton a few people leimten to the window of the store while in other business lines similar across the UK scenes were, have been the expression of the protests against tax increases, against the machinations and tax evasion by wealthy Indivialpersonen and against the profiteering of "Big Business".

In February 2011, armed police arrested the 19 -year-old Jed Miller after he indelible ink with the words " Pay Your Taxes": had (too German "Pay Your Taxes" ) on the wall of a Topshop store in Colchester written.

Supplier

Topshop has been sharply criticized by the student campaign network People & Planet for the alleged use of in Uzbekistan by slaves picked and harvested cotton. In addition, the Topshop " Ethical Trading Initiative " in the UK refused to join an agreement of more than 70 British companies to ethical and moral principles in trading.

In response to the criticism of the working conditions of employees of factories that manufacture products for Topshop, Philip Green let it be known succinctly: " You [ The Sunday Times ] are telling me that factories are happy to breach our code of conduct I've got. to look into it. " ( to German as: "You (meaning the British newspaper " The Sunday Times " ) tells me that factories easily break our code of conduct I have to shoot an own image.. " ) This could mean that the company could seek future to improve the production conditions, the allegations turn out to be inconclusive.