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From product to practices: how fashion “sustainability” is finding its natural place in brand management practices.

Retail Focus

Having been washed down on consumer practices, they have become more demanding in understanding anything that goes beyond the simple term “sustainable” Customers paid more attention to the brand’s rhetoric and all the claims they made about their sustainable offer, and how it impacted them and the planet. If so, what?

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Taylor Swift offers a masterclass in marketing. Here’s what retailers can learn

Inside Retail

You don’t have to be a marketing expert to know that Taylor Swift is a bulletproof brand that consistently improves, regardless of the challenges she faces or the challenges she sets for herself. There are countless examples of brands leveraging their success stories through various PR strategies.

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Luxury Retail Phygitalisation: Blending Tradition and Technology in the Digital Age

Retail Focus

Luxury retail has undergone a significant transformation driven by digital technology and changing consumer expectations. Luxury brands have been forced to innovate quickly to meet changing consumer preferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has accelerated the adoption of these technologies.

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Can Gen Z intimates brand Parade maintain its cult status post-acquisition?

Inside Retail

Founded by then-21-year-old Cami Téllez in 2019, Parade was initially created to fill a gap in the market for stylish and size-inclusive bras and underwear for Gen Z consumers. Its campaigns featured a wide range of models across the gender spectrum with different skin tones, body types, and aesthetics.

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Expanding the Boundaries of Luxury: Navigating Experiences Beyond Traditional Retail

Retail Focus

Luxury brands are progressively expanding their horizons by venturing into unconventional spaces such as hotels, coffee kiosks, bakeries, restaurants, spas, and gyms. This shift in strategy is reshaping the perception of luxury and raising intriguing questions about its impact on the brand.

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Managing retail touchpoints for a positive customer experience

Retail Focus

If experience has become an integral part of brand strategy, it is because brands are more customer-focused than ever. As consumption is becoming less focused on the product and more focused on the experience of accessing the product, new brand management practices are being shaped, whether at luxury or mass industry levels.

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All about Viviology, Adore Beauty’s long awaited move into private label

Inside Retail

Our private-label strategy is one of identifying gaps or opportunities in categories that we know well, and is based on data collected from our deeply engaged community.”. Viviology is run as a standalone brand, with its own brand manager. It marks the company’s first foray into private label.