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Retail sales hit $96.4 million last November — a 4.9 per cent increase on the $91.9 million for same month in 2015. All sectors in the Retail Sales Index survey experienced increases, with the exception of clothing stores, where sales revenue decline...

Long-time fishing tackle store owner Bobby Rego is to retire — and he’s put his 40-year-old business up for sale. Mr Rego, a prize-winning fisherman, said at the age of 72, it was time to cut bait and sell off his Flybridge Tackle. He added: “After 4...

Having weathered the economic downturn, Polished nail boutique on Reid Street is coming back strong. A year ago it opened a second outlet, The Waxing Room, in Washington Mall. Now, with the America’s Cup on the horizon and positive signs in the econo...

A new name has joined 30-year Bermuda veteran Swiss Timing. For the Front Street business has opened Jordan Roberts in Walker Arcade — specialising in personal and online shopping for the millennial generation. Debbie Jordan, who will run Jordan Robe...

Department store AS Cooper & Sons is closing its women’s plus size section due to changes in the North American market. The department was on the second floor of the main store on Front Street, that space will now used for its juniors and teens cloth...

Globetrotting photographer Scott Stallard has designed a new travel belt — inspired by travel to some of world’s most remote regions. Mr Stallard, who has been on photoshoots ranging from the North Pole to Papua New Guinea in the south-western Pacifi...

Retailers were yesterday upbeat after festive sales were up on last Christmas — while shippers bringing in online purchases also reported gains on last year. Paula Clarke, chief executive officer of Gibbons Company, said: “Christmas was very good. De...

Peter Cooper, one of Bermuda’s best-known retailers and the head of A.S. Cooper and Sons, has died, aged 82. Mr Cooper was regarded as the last man standing of Front Street, when his department store fought on despite the demise of Trimingham’s and S...

Retail sales in October fell 3.8 per cent compared with the same month in the previous year. In 2015, retailers received a boost during October from the island’s hosting of a Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event, while this year the month w...

A long-running Hamilton boutique is to close its doors for good at the end of the month. Guilty Pleasures in Washington Mall is to call it a day after rising overheads and the economic slump took its toll on the business. Owner Jamela Daniels, and ex...

A new online store selling premium sailing kit has launched a new website. And Mary Geraghty, business development manager of Lir Bermuda, said that, although the island was on the crest of an America’s Cup wave, demand for quality gear would always ...

Husband-and-wife team Peter Lapsley and Andrea Sundt will tomorrow launch a new store — with a stunning array of designer takes on everyday items. The couple are to open &Partners, in the former Otto Wurtz storage area at the bottom of Par la Ville R...