Liverpool ONE has reported its most successful festive shopping season since 2019, once again bucking national retail trends.

Printworks has unveiled record-breaking footfall numbers following its spectacular Christmas lights switch-on, held last weekend.

Liverpool ONE is set to have its busiest Christmas in five years, with record numbers of visitors predicted during the festive period.  Europe’s leading retail and entertainment destination is expecting over four million visitors in the run up to Christmas, with the boost in visitors anticipated to top records since before the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Entertainment District and Outlet Shopping at The O2, which are owned and operated by Waterfront Limited Partnership, a joint venture between AEG and Crosstree Real Estate Partners, are celebrating a record-breaking year of trade in 2023, reaffirming The O2’s position as the world’s most popular live entertainment, leisure and retail destination.

Peel L&P has announced that Gloucester Quays, the premier South West outlet and dining destination, enjoyed a record breaking sales period in 2022, surpassing both 2021 and 2019 by 6% and 9% respectively.

Longmartin Properties Ltd, a joint venture between Shaftesbury and the Mercers’ Company, has launched its festive activation, 12 Drops of Christmas at The Yards, Covent Garden, using pioneering geo-located technology for the first time in a UK retail setting. Cementing Longmartin Properties as a landlord with a difference, this latest activation accentuates their continual investment into The Yards and innovative approach, as well as their active management style with continual tenant engagement and support.

LabTech, owner of Camden Market, and London’s first eco market, Buck Street Market, has announced the launch of its latest initiative, Camden Market’s Big Winter Thank You. This Christmas, LabTech has focused its financial resources on thanking the community, customers, and retailers for their ongoing support during the pandemic.

The latest movement of people data from CACI and its data partner, Location Sciences, has identified that increased compliance and pent-up demand to shop for Christmas have led to the second lockdown having much less of an impact on consumer movements than its predecessor.

According to a recent study commissioned by centre:mk, one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, almost a quarter of adults plan to buy a present for themselves as many feel that they simply deserve a treat this year; while 29 per cent are not expecting many gifts from others after an extraordinary year.

Liverpool ONE is celebrating the close of a successful festive period, with figures showing a 5% increase in sales during the period compared to 2018, defying widespread industry declines.

Seven Dials has unveiled an array of creative and festive retail storefront displays for Christmas, tying in with the destination’s wider 2019 ‘Starry Night’ theme, which incorporates a light installation in aid of homelessness charity Shelter.

Opening in time to benefit from centre:mk’s significant Christmas trading period, during which footfall is anticipated to exceed seven million visits, Lush, the handmade bath art and cosmetics brand, has launched a 2,793 sq ft store in centre:mk this week. The vegetarian, vegan and cruelty-free retailer has relocated and doubled in size from Intu Milton Keynes to create the new centre:mk experience-led store. 

A range of festive activities have begun at Elephant Park in south London where a four-week pop-up titled ‘Merry Elephant’ is transforming the recently opened Sayer Street and Deacon Street into a mini Winter Wonderland, at the £2.3 billion regeneration project led by Lendlease and Southwark Council. 

Seven Dials welcomed thousands of visitors yesterday evening, 14th November, to celebrate the atmospheric West End village’s annual Christmas lights switch on, and officially inaugurate the festive season. Both the lights and the evening’s Christmas activities were based around the theme a ‘Starry Night’, held in aid of the housing and homelessness charity Shelter. 

Thousands of visitors enjoyed the illumination of a specially-commissioned light spectacular in Liverpool ONE’s Chavasse Park as the finale of a city centre-wide celebration on November 16 to officially begin Christmas in Liverpool.

Shaftesbury celebrated the success of the Seven Dials’ Christmas event on November 16, and the much-anticipated Christmas light switch on.