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Arcadia Group is creating 50 jobs at a new Outfit fashion store due to open at Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent in August. 04-Jun-2009 Arcadia is to invest £250m in the expansion of its retail stores over the next three years, and is particularly interested in the international development of the Topshop chain. 30-May-2007 Arcadia is to open a 60,000 sq ft Topshop fashion store in Liverpool city centre in 2008, as part of the Liverpool One retail development. 06-Apr-2007 Etam has sold its UK-based chain of 209 fashion stores to the owner of Arcadia for undisclosed terms, and about 50 of the sites are expected to be sold on to other retailers. 11-Apr-2005 Arcadia's owner is planning to set up a £10m retail academy, in order to train school leavers in all aspects of the retail sector. 27-Sep-2004 Arcadia has identified 60 potential sites to set up new Topshop fashion stores. 06-Sep-2004 Arcadia and Bhs are to replace the Co-op at the Fairhill Shopping Centre in Ballymena, as part of a £20m redevelopment of the site that will create 200 jobs. 12-Jun-2003 Arcadia is considering plans to open Top Shop fashion stores in Europe's leading cities. 05-Mar-2003 Arcadia is to restructure its retail brands and management structure with the loss of about 100 jobs early next year. 18-Nov-2002 Arcadia has completed the sale of a majority stake in four fashion chains - Warehouse, Racing Green, Hawkshead and Principles - to Rubicon Retail for an initial £6.6m. 03-Sep-2002 Arcadia is looking to consolidate its London offices into a single headquarters, and is seeking 200,000 sq ft of space in the West End. 08-May-2002 Arcadia is planning to open about 50 Wallis womenswear stores over the next three years, to add to the existing 125. 15-Apr-2002 Arcadia has received a takeover approach from Baugur of Iceland that could value the fashion retailer at up to £568m. 26-Oct-2001 Arcadia has announced a £35m deal to sell the Warehouse, Principles, Hawkshead and Racing Green retail chains to management buyout vehicle Rubicon Retail. 11-Oct-2001 Arcadia is to sell the Warehouse, Racing Green, Hawkshead and Principles chains to management, while its Wade Smith Jr children's wear stores will be sold to its founder for £7.5m. 06-Apr-2001 Arcadia, the fashion retailer, has identified a further 55 stores for closure, in addition to the 400 announced in April. 20-Oct-2000 Arcadia is to launch a new website to advertise the sale of 400 stores, in order to speed up the disposal process. 25-Sep-2000 Arcadia is looking to reduce costs at its 1,300 stores by renegotiating the leases with landlords, and plans to reduce space at some the country's leading shopping malls. 12-Jun-2000 Arcadia is to close 400 of its clothing stores with the loss of 3,500 jobs, in order to save £160m a year. 14-Apr-2000 Arcadia is said to be looking to sell up to 300 shops, following a review of its properties. 24-Jan-2000 Arcadia is planning to sell off 56 of its Richards shops, while most of the other Richards stores will be converted to other Arcadia brands. 13-Nov-1999 Arcadia is to centralise its head office functions in Leeds with the creation of 59 jobs, but 103 jobs will be lost at the recently-acquired Sears offices in Leicester. 29-Sep-1999 Arcadia has announced plans to step up its overseas expansion programme by opening stores in Poland, Hungary, Turkey and the Czech Republic. 23-Aug-1999 Daily Mail & General Trust is acquiring the Zoom online shopping site from Arcadia for £15m, and will promote the business in its newspapers. 27-Jul-1999 Arcadia is acquiring Sears' women's clothing chains for £151m, including Richards, Wallis, Warehouse, and Miss Selfridge, and 77 of the Richards stores will be closed or sold off. 09-Jul-1999 Arcadia is to create 200 jobs by setting up Hawkshead clothing distribution centres in Preston and Burton-on-Trent, but existing warehouses in the Lake District, Barrow and Lancaster will be closed. 23-Jun-1999 Arcadia, the fashion retailer, is to sell its 51% stake in the Consumer Access marketing company to Consodata of France for £7m. 23-Jun-1999 Arcadia has offered to buy a number of retail chains from Sears, including Richards, Wallis and Warehouse, for £170m. 18-Jun-1999 Arcadia, the fashion retailer, is launching a cyber mall that will enable internet users to buy products from a number of high street retailers. 12-Jun-1999 Arcadia is to cut 300 jobs as part of a cost-cutting campaign, in response to disappointing sales at its Top Shop, Burtons and Dorothy Perkins shops. 21-Jan-1999 Arcadia is acquiring Wade Smith, the Liverpool-based designer clothing retailer, for £17m, and will use the brand to launch a chain of 30 designer children's wear stores. 01-Jul-1998 Burton Group is to be renamed Arcadia Group next spring after the demerger of its Debenhams department stores, but the Burtons brand will still be used for its high street stores. 13-Oct-1997
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