UK : Marchpole opens first luxury fashion JCC store in Feb

Marchpole Holdings plc, the fast growing fashion brand management group is pleased to announce that it has signed the leasehold on its first UK flagship store for its wholly owned subsidiary, Jean Charles de Castelbajac (JCC).

The store, which will be opened in February 2008 is at 50-51 Conduit Street in the heart of the luxury fashion shopping district of London's West End. The store, which will have approximately 2,500 square foot of retail space, will feature collections from the entire JCC fashion and lifestyle portfolio.

Marchpole Holdings Executive Deputy Chairman Michael Morris, commented: “We are delighted to have secured such a prime location for our first UK flagship store. This area of the West End is synonymous with luxury brands and is absolutely the right place for our JCC shop to be located.”

“Since the acquisition of the Castelbajac brand by Marchpole in 2004, both sales and licensing income have shown very encouraging growth and in the last twelve months, on a like-for-like basis sales of JCC have increased by 5 per cent and royalty income has increased by 50 per cent on the back of the new licensing agreements put in place. We look forward to a successful launch of this first UK standalone store in February 2008.”

The store will be designed by Christian Ghion, who also designed the celebrated Castelbajac Paris flagship. Ghion is a designer, set designer and interior designer His work can be seen in Paris at the V.I.A, Cartier foundation, Museum of Decorative Arts, and Georges Pompidou Museum, as well as in the permanent collections of major Japanese and American museums.

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