Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

Last November, international fashion resale platform Vestiare Collective shocked the apparel industry by banning the trade of ‘fast-fashion’ labels. Wone, who joined Vestiaire Collective in March 2020, said the ban underlines Vestiaire Collective’s founding mission – to drive collective change towards a circular fashion economy.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2023

The story so far The move into fashion rentals comes at a critical time for Asos. Jose Antonio Ramos Calamonte, Asos’ CEO, has said he is confident the company will be able to return to sustainable profit and cash generation in the second half of this year and beyond. million (A$165.7 million) , compared to a profit of £14.8

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A host of major fast fashion players, including Zara and Asos, are cracking down on serial returners who shop online by reducing promoted items or introducing fees for items sent back. The research was shown to fashion business leaders at a meeting last week held by the British Retail Consortium.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Key Goal: Extending the Product Lifecycle Goodwills operations allow it to take in and manage returns but also to identify items that can easily be resold. One Canadian retailer has Goodwill accept returns on its behalf, with customers then getting a voucher to shop for a new product with the retailer.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

UK-headquartered online fast-fashion retailer Missguided has collapsed after a last-minute rescue backed by rival Boohoo – and potential bids by Shein, JD Sports and Frasers Group – all fell through. The post Missguided, alas: UK fast-fashion label collapses owing millions appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

UK-headquartered online fast-fashion retailer Missguided has collapsed after a last-minute rescue backed by rival Boohoo – and potential bids by Shein, JD Sports and Frasers Group – all fell through. The post Missguided, alas: UK fast-fashion label collapses owing millions appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With Zara-owner Inditex and H&M set to disclose their most recent sales results, investors will be focused on one major question: how are the two fast-fashion pioneers responding to the current market leader, Shein? Shein accounted for nearly one-fifth of the global fast-fashion market in 2022, outpacing Zara and H&M.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“It’s brutal out there, it’s really hard,” said Erik Lautier, e-commerce expert at consultancy AlixPartners. “By definition, when you increase the cost per click, the return on your marketing investment decreases.

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Retail Times

MARCH 11, 2025

Following the news that theboohoo group has rebranded as the Debenhams group; Chloe Collins, head of apparel at GlobalData, offers her view: The boohoo groups rebrand to become the Debenhams group highlights how much its youth fast fashion brandsPrettyLittleThing,boohoo.com, and boohooMANcontinue to struggle.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 will add 14 new stores to its roster across the U.S. stores in August 2022 with the opening of a location at the Gran Plaza Outlets in Calexico, Calif. The retailer reentered China with a physical store at the Jingjiang Impression City shopping center in Taizhou in June 2022.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. Leaders in the industry understand they need to strategically address the post purchase journey and optimise for cost at each step while continuing to deliver a seamless customer experience.”

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. Leaders in the industry understand they need to strategically address the post purchase journey and optimise for cost at each step while continuing to deliver a seamless customer experience.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

This trend involves brands reselling previously owned products at a discount — and it’s caught on quickly. The resale market is growing 11 times faster than traditional retail and is expected to reach $84 billion by 2030, far eclipsing the predicted $40 billion market for fast fashion. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

This retail renaissance is not just a return to traditional shopping spaces but also signifies a shift in the shoppers’ culture, expectations and behaviors. At the core of this comeback, malls of today are responding to the evolving expectations of shoppers with sustainability, experience and personalization.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani is returning to the fast fashion retailer as he vows to make the brand special again. One of Kamani’s first actions will see the reintroduction of free returns to customers part of PrettyLittleThing’s loyalty programme just three months after the retailer scrapped the perk.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

They are already making sustainable and ethical supply chain decisions with regard to material sourcing and labor, and by layering in data they can also make intelligent decisions about pricing, discounting and future inventories so they can reduce unsold inventory at the end of a season.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Now in its next global growth phase after successfully entering the US Dessy Hairis, Bydee founder and creative director told Inside Retail , “We are expanding into new markets and have our eyes locked on the UK at the moment.” After five years in business, Hairis invested in a website capable of scaling.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This year saw the proposal of the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act. Here, we look at some of the initiatives — transparent sourcing, greater demand forecasting, recommerce and sustainable packaging — retailers are using to be more sustainable. Kimberly Morgan is VP Sales and Global Partner Channel Lead at K3.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 20, 2025

UK-based fast fashion retailer In The Style is understood to have been bought out of administration. Accounting firm FTS Recovery was taken on as administrator of the struggling fashion brand on 10 March. In March 2023, the company, which was once valued at 100m, was sold to Baaj Capital for just over 1m.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2021

Nike will start collecting and cleaning some of the sneakers that are returned by customers and reselling them at a discount in stores as part of its Nike Refurbished program, which launched on Monday. . Secondhand shoes will initially be available in up to 15 stores in the US, according to Nike. ” How Nike Refurbished works.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

Amid the rise of fast fashion and social media platforms accelerating consumptive behaviour, it appears that many Australians aren’t wearing or re-wearing the clothes they purchase. This was highlighted by the Fashion Resale Report from online retailer Reluv and Monash University. Consumer behaviours will also inevitably change.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

Fast fashion has normalised using garments for short periods of time, and throwing them away when trends change, driving an unsustainable pattern of overproduction and overconsumption. It envisions that fast fashion will be out of fashion, and that economically profitable re-use and repair services will be widely available.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

It speculated that future fashion collections could be made with a creative director and an AI program to bring clothes and accessories to market faster, more efficiently and improve the CX factor as well. According to Sarah Neill, CEO and founder of Mys Tyler , the world of fashion has been ripe for disruption for a long time now.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fast-fashion giant H&M recently unveiled the autumn/winter 2024 collection from its atelier spinoff H&M Studio. The limited-edition fashion drop signals the brand is “returning to its roots and reconnecting with its community through a global ‘re-ignition’,” H&M’s head of design Eliana Masgalo told Vogue Scandinavia.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It’s not the first time the embattled fast fashion retailer has made such a u-turn. Earlier this year, it revealed it would close its Daventry warehouse in the UK less than three years after it opened, putting 400 jobs at risk. Kamani also vowed to review “some of the more drastic changes made in recent times”.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 22, 2022

Alder & Green , the ethical menswear brand, has unveiled its new flagship London store at a ribbon-cutting event hosted by Olympic rower and brand ambassador, Tom George. Quality is at the heart of all Alder & Green products. We had a pop-up before Christmas directly opposite our new store so we already feel at home.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2021

Much of the growth in resale, also referred to as “recommerce,” is driven by fashion at the moment, although other categories such as electronics , homewares and furniture also are making huge gains. Coresight expects fashion resale to grow at twice the rate of the total U.S. fashion market this year alone.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2022

At the moment, Taper is in beta mode and has just launched in 17 stories with a major North American apparel business. At the moment, the team is targeting potential clients in the US and Europe. For retailers offering custom options, returns are also less than 2 per cent, compared with over 30 per cent at traditional brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

25, Geronimo Chala, Chief Client Officer at luxury handbag reseller Rebag , discussed the multiple ways the circular concept of “resale” is addressing the demands of a changing consumer — and in doing so, reshaping retail as a whole, particularly the luxury sector. Look at brands Sandro and Maje.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Our desire to return to the sportswear industry made sense under these brand values, and we are already finding that it resonates across multiple sporting codes, athletes, and organisations. AC: Everyone can benefit at some point from medical grade compression. We sought to armour the risk takers.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2025

Retail Gazette takes a look at the retailers that have made job cuts in recent weeks. Aldi It emerged at the end of last month that Aldi was consulting over plans to restructure some of its head office divisions in a move that could see 350 roles at risk of redundancy. The business narrowed its pre-tax losses to 374.5m

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2020

However, there are some indicators that point to light at the end of the tunnel. As consumer behavior changes due to rules that dictate “shelter in place” and social distancing, retailers can adapt and meet customers where they are right now: most likely, at home. Loyal customers are returning and increasing average order values (AOV).

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2024

Increased Competition Over the past few years, small- and medium-sized fashion and footwear retailers have faced intense competition from all sides. Additionally, they have had to contend with the growth of fast fashion and discount retailers like T.J.Maxx and Marshalls.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 21, 2024

PrettyLittleThing founder Umar Kamani is thought to be considering throwing his hat in the ring for the vacant CEO position at Boohoo Group, Retail Gazette has learnt. It comes after the fast fashion giant revealed its chief executive John Lyttle would be stepping down from the business after five years late last week.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The Chinese fast fashion giant may be one of the most downloaded fashion apps around the world, but it continues to maintain a low corporate profile. Ask any consumer to name a fast fashion retailer and they probably think of H&M, Zara or Gap. Fast fashion, but slow deliveries. Inclusive fashion.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The former Arcadia brands and Debenhams, which were snapped up by Boohoo in 2021, have narrowed its losses after two years under the fast fashion group’s ownership. Women’s fashion retailer Wallis was the only brand to return to profitability, posting a pre-tax profit of £1.2m, up from a loss of £4m.

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