RetailMinded

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Georganne Bender, a retail thought leader and consumer anthropologist, wasn’t quite as interested in technology when reflecting on what retail needs to see in the year ahead but rather the merchandising in stores. And not from off the floor, which is where I often see apparel these days. ” I couldn’t agree more.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Sustainable, direct-to-consumer fashion brand Allbirds promised to revolutionise the retail industry with stylish, comfortable, and environmentally-conscious footwear designs. To put this in perspective, the SG&A totaled up to just US$122.2 million in 2022, or 56 per cent of total revenue. million in 2021.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 22, 2022

Each store acts as an inspiring hub for like-minded UK active and wellness-focused consumers to come together. Covent Garden is the perfect location for Vuori in London for our first international store – a thriving destination for DTC brands, with a daily community of UK and international consumers.

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Retail Focus

MAY 11, 2022

ESW , the world’s leading global direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce company, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Scalefast, a Los Angeles–based, end-to-end ecommerce solution provider. Scalefast’s services are highly synergistic with ESW’s from a revenue generation perspective,” said Nicolas Stehle, CEO, Scalefast.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is known as pre-consumer waste and includes scraps, offcuts, and rejected garments that are discarded during the production stage. Meanwhile, sustainable fashion business models like resale, rental and repair only unravel the post-consumer garment waste problems.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Through our ethos of creating immersive store experiences, we’ve been able to captivate what we would classify as quite a progressive consumer base, not only through our sneaker release business, but also through our apparel brands. That has since led to us acquiring other apparel retailers, most recently Stylerunner and then Glue.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

What happens to clothing after it leaves consumers’ wardrobes — and whether there are more sustainable solutions — is what the Australian Fashion Council (AFC) hopes to discover over the next year and a half. Dr Clara Vuletich: “Apparel as a product is so complicated, there’s not going to be one answer for everything.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2022

What they discovered was “an incredible library” of exclusive prints and designs just waiting to be reinterpreted for a modern consumer. It plans to offer apparel, footwear and accessories and is currently seeking global partners with sourcing and design capabilities to licence the brand. We know consumers want it.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2023

Formula 1 and Puma recently inked a deal that will make Puma the official supplier at F1 races, granting the brand the right to produce F1-branded apparel, footwear and accessories for both F1 staff at the track and fans. Cumulative TV audiences have grown to 1.5 A new beginning “It’s very exciting for us.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2023

And one of the remaining three, Neiman Marcus, is basically an upscale apparel department store. To be sure, these department stores don’t pay a lot of rent but their purpose, from the mall owner’s perspective, is to attract pedestrian traffic, a job that in many cases they are falling down on.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2021

Fast forward four years and it’s undergone a major turnaround with a fresh re-brand, a successful apparel offering and international growth on the horizon. One of the big things that we did was diversify into apparel, which has now had two years in the business. But there have been no sacred cows. Sophie’s work has achieved that.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2023

Externally, brands are feeling pressure from consumers and regulation. First, consumer desire for traceable and ethical supply chains continue to grow. Consumer enquiries into supply chains are becoming more sophisticated, and consumer patience is wearing thin for brands that don’t appear to take traceability seriously.

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E Delevry

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The fate of the traditional high street remains uncertain in hardened economic times, with consumer shopping habits continuing to turn to ecommerce as a means of purchasing both necessary and luxury items. Data is saying inflation is tapering off , but consumers say eggs and milk still cost too much.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. While focusing on the US, we’re also looking to expand our direct-to-consumer model to break into the Asian market, specifically Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. While focusing on the US, we’re also looking to expand our direct-to-consumer model to break into the Asian market, specifically Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2023

As traditional bricks-and-mortar stores face new challenges and e-commerce continues to grow, retailers are looking for innovative ways to reach consumers and provide engaging shopping experiences. technology presents an entirely new way of interacting online, consumer experiences and a shift toward a democratised and traceable future.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2023

As PR and influencer manager at outdoor apparel brand Kathmandu, Gabrielle Godfrey is responsible for keeping the business top-of-mind with customers and superfans. It’s really about keeping perspective and understanding we’re not saving lives. It didn’t happen overnight, however. It’s PR, not ER.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2022

New services and technologies were not necessarily executed in the best way due to the fast-paced nature of the implementations and are now inefficient from a cost and resource perspective. Among retail decision-makers, 70 per cent hold this view; the idea is even more prevalent among those in the specialty non-apparel space.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2021

In this interview, Cortini talks about the changes in consumer spending during Covid and the innovation that will drive Zalora’s success in this region in the years ahead. That is very aligned with our vision to create a platform that connects consumers in Southeast Asia to the limitless world of fashion and lifestyle.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2022

We have customers who dress modestly but also want to be able to tap into trends whilst maintaining and adhering to their own style, working with Sameera also gave a great perspective on what she as a Boohoo customer wanted to see from our offering,” she said. A stylist’s perspective. The market snapshot.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From a tourist shopping perspective though, Fukaya is destined to be overshadowed by another Mitsubishi-Simon project, Gotemba Premium Outlets, about 200km to the south and within spitting distance of the famous Mt Fuji. . Of course it also sports your typical mid-end brands, such as the athletic apparel and footwear stores.

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VMS

JANUARY 20, 2023

Today’s consumers may be inspired by in-store environments that appeal to their senses, which in most cases, haven’t been addressed by designers and retailers alike. To learn more about the effects of in-store experiences on the senses and behaviors of specialty retail shoppers, BHDP (Cincinnati) initiated its fifth shopper study since 2020.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

The 2021 State of Fashion report published by McKinsey showed that data captured in the past 18 months indicates fashion moved “five years forward in consumer and business adoption of digital in a matter of months”. Starting with Chanel, Farfetch aims to enhance interactions between consumers and sales associates.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

Retailers can no longer wait for consumers to shop more consciously. From a shopper’s perspective, they’ll be able to scan the NFC chip with their smartphone and be prompted to open a browser link. Their technology is more secure than QR codes and they can co-deploy NFC chips to use in apparel, shoes, accessories and beauty products.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2022

We’d had this adventure through India, seeing all these practices that we had never experienced, coming from a dairy-farming country like New Zealand, and then through London, where there was a strong conscious consumer market. That created a bridge between supply and consumer that informed the rest of our business.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Before the foundation of the partnership, Song and Love, Bonito’s co-founder Rachel Lim met several times with the Butter co-founders and discovered “great synergy” in their perspectives. “At Further international expansion is on the agenda for the Love, Bonito brand, with eyes on the world’s largest apparel markets.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Here, she discusses adjusting to changing consumer sensibilities, the brand’s sustainability efforts and the role young parents on staff have played in expanding the label’s range. With travel, weddings and other celebrations also resuming, we expect this will continue to influence an increase in spend across apparel.

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CRP

JANUARY 27, 2023

Consumers have understandably grown skeptical about brands indulging in self-promotion. Back when we were all busy taking pictures of fries and cheeseburgers, she was using the platform to share her style perspectives. Sustainable Packaging: Sustainability is a primary concern for influencers and consumers alike.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Capgemini research shows consumers are willing to pay a premium for products they deem sustainable, and prefer to purchase from businesses that place sustainability at the core. Consumer demand shapes retail perspective . Predictive analytics, for example, adjust supply to consumer demand and mitigate waste.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Pop-up stores quickly gained popularity for creating a sense of urgency and exclusivity among consumers, appealing to their desire for novel experiences and unique offerings. These ephemeral spaces offer a canvas for luxury brands to narrate their story, infusing tangible embodiment into the essence of their brand identity.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2023

According to the report – which used data from seven million Commonwealth Bank customers – younger adult consumers appear to be most significantly affected by rising interest and inflation rates, and are cutting spending accordingly. Spending among 35+ year old consumers had increased by 3.1 per cent on apparel, and by 9.7

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consumers are increasingly turning to trusted brands, a trend we expect to see continue. As a recent report from Deloitte found, “In a time of so much uncertainty, when daily decisions about personal safety and financial wellbeing are made, most consumers are reaching for brands they trust. per cent in 2021 alone.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2023

If you look at the stock price of a lot of retail companies and direct-to-consumer businesses that had their beginnings during the past three, four or five years with IPOs, they are at very low valuations.” The program teaches you to take a look at a business problem from a different perspective.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

Our Designer Dozen winners are working hard to further innovation in retail design and visual merchandising and to help rethink retail at a time when fresh perspectives are needed most. Working on more projects that can enliven a brand and engage the senses, while enriching the lives of the consumers, would be my dream job.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2022

We are also integrating blockchain technology and traceability to ensure we can deliver our promise to consumers,” she said. From her perspective, brands have always historically outsourced their production lines and not owned their means of supply. It’s all about scale. We are talking about scale. A tough nut to crack.

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