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

Retail Focus

More recently, sustainability has also been reflected in how brands furnish their stores and the equipment they focus on making their stores more sustainable. Fashion brands investments are more concentrated towards creating value for customers, engaging them, and engaging with them.

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From Pop-Up Stores to Seamless Experiences

Retail Focus

True experiential retailing comes to life when brands skillfully utilize their physical spaces, props, and products to captivate and engage customers in a manner that culminates in a truly unforgettable event. Brands that fail to provide such experiences risk customer apathy and disengagement. A new retailing era?

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How Nike is tapping into the US$1.5 trillion wellness market

Inside Retail

“We’re a sports company, but I also see us as a movement and wellness company – this means embracing and celebrating all forms of movement and all health journeys, and being your authentic self,” said Liz Weldon, VP of Global Nike Women’s brand management. “We

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Managing retail touchpoints for a positive customer experience

Retail Focus

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. Brands are looking at ways to add value to the customer’s journey within their spheres. . Engaging the senses.

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Retail Spaces That Build Community

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And while both online and in-store transactions are part of the overall experience, it's the retail space that currently requires new ideas and layouts. Many of us recognize Lululemon as a stand out brand that. fully embrace the concept of a retail community in their spaces. Community Retail Brand Building.

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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 will be marketed to all genders, Morris said, as men demonstrate increasing engagement with the skincare category. “We

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Proximity retailing and current retail environmental paradoxes

Retail Focus

Making use of social media: Shop owners should regularly publish about their activity and products on social media to gain visibility, connect with customers and create potential engagement with their audiences. Torn between the need to develop and grow and the reality of doing so, small-town brands engage in an inevitable failure to launch.