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fromTime Out London
6 days ago

Fortnum & Mason has revealed the biggest change in 20 years to its London flagship store

Fortnum & Mason’s Piccadilly flagship installed a hand-built three-storey double-helix staircase by Ben Pentreath Studio featuring over 3,000 hand-forged details.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Trump's tariffs have hurt tea exports to the US, says Fortnum & Mason boss

Tom Athron, the London-based retailer's chief executive, said Trump's stricter country of origin rules and the end of the de minimis cost exemption for parcels worth less than $800 (587) had hit customers across the Atlantic. The American authorities have told us this is the tea industry in its entirety that if you've got tea from China and India in your tea, then its country of origin [is] China or India, and therefore those enormous tariffs apply, he told the Financial Times.
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