Simultaneously, Liberty has a shop-within-shop at Corso Como 10 in Milan, Seoul and Tokyo.
Mr. Johnson said the company would open 20 new shops-within-shops in spring 2013, focusing on the home department.
When the bet is settled – shareholders are not told when – Sports Direct's commercial relationship with Tesco, which amounts to a few shops-within-shops, won't change one jot.
And HMV particularly has some very large stores – and obviously over 60% of their stores sit within shopping centres.
This will give One2One a countrywide chain of retail outlets in addition to the "shops within shops" it operates in large stores, airports and railway stations.
Other unusual spaces have been used as exhibition venues too: in spring, the gallery Camp (Contemporary Art Meeting Point) produced Back to Athens, a festival in the city centre where artwork was installed within shops, offices and restaurants.
Ahmed Rashid (not his real name) contracted with Google last year to work on Expedite, a project meant to help with indoor mapping within shopping centers.
I am told the new owners want to develop food sales and expand the range of concessions (those are the "shops within shops" like Miss Selfridge operating inside BHS), which are at the moment dominated by Arcadia's brands.
Manila is where the startup houses its artificial intelligence and data analysis team, which perfects the systems behind its OCR (optical character recognition) technology that identifies line items within shopping receipts.
Initially, however, the focus is on more affordable devices like Google's Cardboard project, but Graphic India is actively exploring the possibility for higher-end devices, which are becoming popular as 'VR arcades' within shopping malls and other public places.
