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How Shein’s social media tactics have won over ‘eco-conscious’ Gen Z

Inside Retail

The company expanded into general womenswear and rebranded to Shein in 2015, a name it expected customers would more easily remember. Whoever can successfully build a faster and more flexible supply chain at even more affordable prices and harness the power of next generation social media can very well be the next Shein.”.

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Message in a bottle: How social media has disrupted the fragrance sector

Inside Retail

This can be attributed in large part to the introduction of image-focused social media platforms like Instagram in 2010 and TikTok in 2016, which have made it easier for memes and fads to go viral and – just as rapidly – fade into obscurity. But try to assign a singular term to the culture of today and you quickly come up short.

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How retail left the Baby Boomer generation and its “silver economy” on the table

Inside Retail

Whether marketers are subconsciously ageist or they’ve gotten distracted riding the Millennial branding and Gen Z social media wave all the way to the bank is still up for debate. Retailers have failed to understand and represent a large consumer demographic that could be lucrative to their business.

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Papier’s Taymoor Atighetchi talks omnichannel retail and global expansion

Inside Retail

Papier is a British online stationery brand founded in 2015 that has since taken the world by storm. That search led to the US$200 billion stationery market, which was just so ripe for disruption and ready for a brand that was relevant to modern consumers. For consumers, it’s rarely ‘either-or’ but more about finding balance.

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Achieving Business Goals: Media Marketing

Retailing Insight

It includes media relations, identifying correct advertising and media platforms, content creation, media management, event coordination, campaign planning, analysis and measurement, and more. You can hire people like an advertising agency, PR agent, social media marketers, SEO expert, videographer, graphic artist, etc.,

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Is Jim’s Beauty set to flop like Harley-Davidson perfume – or could it be branding genius?

Inside Retail

It isn’t a joke, although it has been greeted on social media as one, and was once the plot of a TV comedy sketch. This has allowed them to undercut other brands and get more margin – a strategy that is paying off as consumers become more stretched, allowing Coles to increase home brand sales 9.4 per cent and Woolworths 7.8

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Meet Sugar: The “anti-establishment” beauty retailer Indian consumers crave

Inside Retail

Consumers are at the heart of all we do. While multinational brands had always dominated the Indian market, their beauty products were not really suited to the skin complexion of the typical Indian consumer. We invest in customer analytics technology, which allows us to segment buyers into groups based on behaviour,” Singh noted.

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