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Challenges: Why a host of luxury retailers are feeling the chill during this Winter

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The post-Christmas retail reporting season is well underway, and the City has observed two clear trends. There are grocers cheering solid festive growth with sales warmed by huge appetite for pigs in blankets, turkeys and party food, and then there are some luxury brands that have given updates- during the same month that Britain has experienced freezing temperatures- about signs of cooling demand.

Since the start of the year various London-listed high end retailers have highlighted challenges that have impacted

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