With digital taking over as the dominant channel for luxury shopping, physical retail spaces are becoming much more than just a place to shop.

Shein, the Chinese online clothing giant, has grown at such speed that it has left competitors’ heads spinning. How has it done it? Through clever use of TikTok, cosying up with Gen Z and – many warn – throwing environmental concerns to the wind

On top of ever-present online competition, high street stores just recovering from lockdown now have to contend with inflation, labour shortages and supply-chain issues. Still, experts don’t expect a tide of insolvencies just yet

Supporters of the capital’s business promotion body claim its existence is now more necessary than ever, but its critics say it should be scrapped

Pandemic and online competition have hit high street retail hardest in the west of Ireland, where nearly a third of units are empty

The furniture giant’s studio forms part of several new short-term licence agreements agreed by high-profile occupiers at the Dublin 2 shopping centre

The homeware retailer is to open a huge outlet on the ground floor of the Blackrock shopping centre

Minimum unit pricing aims to reduce alcohol-related illness and death, as it has done in other countries – but its efficacy here is likely to be tested by everything from legal challenges to cross-border shopping

Spanish-owned fashion giant Inditex, which also owns Pull&Bear among others, has been closing thousands of stores globally, but plans to expand here

France has banned single use plastic packaging on most vegetables and fruits since new year’s day

The rush to replace our legal tender with credit card and smartphone payments disadvantages the more vulnerable in society, not to mention the fact that technology has a habit of breaking down

The results represent the second year in a row the company has made a loss in Northern Ireland

The sportswear giant has the cash to go to court, but smaller businesses need a better mechanism for settling lease disputes, and the new Scarp rescue scheme falls short here

There was exceptional growth in real estate in 2021, due to unprecedented global monetary stimulus and a sturdy domestic economy

Agriculture minister said new regulation of relationships in the agricultural and food supply chain would come into force next April, overseen by new office of food ombudsman

Online B2B service Pointy has added another 600 retailers this year, listing over five million items on the global marketplace

Publicans and restaurateurs are braced for a bleak Christmas and New Year in the wake of the government’s decision to impose a midnight curfew to try to combat the spread of Covid-19

The Finnish company, which sells refurbished iPhones, is benefiting from a scarcity of the components used to make new devices

The sale of the Selfridges Group may take longer than expected due to the number of interested parties

New government legislation will mean retailers could lose their tobacco licence for varying periods if they are found to have sold cigarettes to children