Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

For decades, there have been continued debates surrounding sustainability and the fashion industry’s position in implementing and maintaining a sustainable value chain, where renewable resources from the environment can be continually used and human rights are protected. An Eco-Conscious Journey. Shifting Attitudes Across the Industry.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

This week, France announced legislation to “limit the excesses of ultra-fast fashion”. With fast fashion off the table for many, shoppers – and retail brands – are getting creative like locally owned, fashion re-sell business, a new favourite of mine, Love it Longer, on leafy Rathdowne Street in Carlton North, Victoria.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Retail has introduced an app in India to sell Sheins fashion products through a licensing agreement, marking the Chinese brand’s return after a five-year ban due to diplomatic tensions. This stand-alone app will be expected to compete with other fashion retailers like Walmart-owned Myntra.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 26, 2021

Fast fashion retailer Windsor Fashions is planning to open 150 new stores over the next two years, adding to its current fleet of 230 locations across 42 states in the U.S. The rapid increase in our store expansion plan is an exciting next chapter.”.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

With the marketplace model now driving Debenhams’ growth, Boohoo hopes this fresh approach can turn around not just Debenhams, but its other brands, including the host of struggling fast fashion brands which once were the group’s driving force Boohoo, PrettyLittleThing, and Boohoo Man. Will it work?

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Over the last week there has been a raft of updates from fashion retailers, from Primark to M&S. The results have highlighted the different strategies fashion retailers are deploying to stay ahead in a fragmented and challenging market. For the year ending 1 September, it posted a full-year loss of £379m, up from a £296.7m

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Retail Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Fast-fashion brand SHEIN's confidential filing to go public has drawn the attention of lawmakers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As prices continue rising, consumers rely on a combination of their wallets and consciences when deciding which fashion industry trends to buy into. Shoppers have been so eager to applaud sustainable apparel production that the eco-fashion industry faces concerns both in terms of greenwashing and stiff competition verging on saturation.

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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. In addition to this Southern California store, the retailer has new shops planned for Illinois, Rhode Island, Nevada, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico. through June 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

and Canada in 2024, including debuts in new markets for the fast fashion retailer. In May 2023 , Uniqlo, which opened its first North American location in 2005, revealed its plans to reach 200 North American locations by 2027. Uniqlo will open more than 20 stores in the U.S. Tacoma Mall, Tacoma, Wash.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2023

Uniqlo reportedly plans to expand its North American footprint by 10% by opening 20 to 30 stores annually to reach 200 locations by 2027, Daisuke Tsukagoshi, CEO of Uniqlo North America told Reuters. The Japanese retailer currently has 47 stores in the U.S. The Japanese retailer currently has 47 stores in the U.S. The first four U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

A whopping 81% of first-time thrifters said they plan to spend the same amount or more on secondhand in the next five years. At the same time, the rental and fast fashion sectors are expected to remain relatively flat, and department stores, value chains and mid-priced specialty retail will lose ground.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2025

Here, we speak with #6, Babyboo co-owner and managing director Will Conditsis, about balancing rapid growth and profitability and repositioning the brand from ‘fast-fashion’ to ‘premium’ He also shares the top profession al skill he would still like to develop.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Ireland-based fast fashion retailer Primark is continuing its steady expansion in the U.S., with plans for three new stores in the New York region next year and a total of approximately 60 stores set to open within the next five years. The retailer opened its first U.S. store six years ago in Boston.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2023

The fashion industry has long found itself in a race to be the fastest. The latest brand to capitalise on this trend is luxury fashion house Incu, which, in a partnership with Uber Direct, can now deliver its products to customers in under two hours. But for customers that have been in Incu stores, it’s missing a few things.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

A new study demonstrates how AI can revolutionise fast fashion by improving supply chain efficiencies and in turn reducing the industry’s carbon footprint. The fast fashion industry is valued at US$2.5 Now, Inditex is planning to invest €2.7 billion into improving its online capabilities and technology upgrades.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Melbourne-based e-commerce platform Airrobe launched three years ago with the mission to bring the circular economy into mainstream fashion. If you think about what the peer-to-peer re-commerce marketplace looks like today for fashion, largely, it hasn’t changed since eBay launched.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Digital fast fashion retailer Shein has acquired UK women’s retailer Missguided from Frasers Group. fast fashion brand Forever 21 ; those two brands recently announced plans for a co-branded line of men’s and women’s apparel that will be sold exclusively on Shein.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2023

Williams shared plans to expand its Adelaide workshop following the launch of its ‘Crafted in Australia’ collection. Onshore attraction Sustainability and circularity are no longer mere buzzwords in the fashion community, and are increasingly seen as mandatory for business success. per cent of fashion shoppers look for Australian made.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

thanks to on-trend discount offerings enabled by its real-time fast fashion model. Shein tested the marketplace waters first in Brazil, beginning last month, and now plans to launch it in the U.S. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S. 1 shopping app in America. Shein still holds the No.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

ThredUP plans to tap into Sadler’s past experience at retailers such as Lulus — where she was also CMO — and MAC Cosmetics as it looks to sharpen its focus on “capturing the mindshare of younger consumers.” “ThredUP is undeniably changing the way the world shops, and I’m eager to further the company’s mission,” said Sadler in a statement. “My

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

A new bill has been introduced in the state of New York that, if it becomes law, would require major global fashion brands to map their supply chains and take steps to reduce their environmental impact. . What the Fashion Act entails. Past November, for example, the EU proposed a?ground-breaking?new ground-breaking?new

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2023

To what extent can fast fashion brands make inroads in their sustainable practices and reduce their textile waste without fundamentally changing their business and operating model? This further fuel[s] their hyper-fast fashion model.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Shein, the China-founded fast-fashion retailer, has bought the Missguided brand from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, the e-commerce giant’s first purchase of a British brand. Frasers also owns the “I Saw it First” and “Missy Empire” brands in women’s online fashion.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 9, 2024

Shein will miss out on a place on London’s FTSE 100 as the soon-to-list fashion retailer will not sell enough shares to qualify. Companies need to have a minimum free float of 25% to be included in the FTSE index, and c ity sources told The Sunday Times that the fast fashion behemoth will not sell enough shares.

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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. However, the fashion retailer has struggled in recent years.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2024

Moves by authorities in the European Union and elsewhere to end tax breaks for low-value parcels threaten Shein’s profitability and risk denting the fast fashion retailer’s long-term attractiveness ahead of its planned stock market debut, investors who focus on the sector said. per cent of sales.

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Retail Wire

MAY 15, 2023

expansion plans, but the fast-fashion retailer is now set on growing its store count from 13 to 60 by 2026. The novel coronavirus pandemic put a crimp in Primark’s U.S. “There is nobody who is doing what we’re doing around price, quality and value,” said Kevin Tulip, Primark’s U.S. president.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

From acquiring an engagement ring to buying a wedding dress, few life events are as rife with retail opportunities as planning and hosting a wedding. In 2019, that number was US$28,000, reports The Knot, a global technology company that provides content, tools, products and services for couples planning weddings. It has it all.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These struggles to improve manufacturing processes are most visible in the textiles industry given the “fast fashion” trend — rapidly producing large volumes of inexpensive garments designed to capitalize on style trends. Notably, textiles can take more than 200 years to decompose in landfills.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

Boohoo Group boss Dan Finley has unveiled his turnaround plan for the fashion giant as he looks to shift the entire business to a marketplace model. As part of the wider strategic change, the fashion giant – which also operates Boohoo, Man, PrettyLittleThing , Karen Millen – will now be known as Debenhams Group.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Moda Re, a garment re-use and recycling charity, plans to double the volume of clothing it handles at its sorting centre in Barcelona to 40,000 metric tonnes per year. The expansion is part of efforts to tackle Europe’s clothing waste problem, with less than a quarter of the continent’s 5.2 million tonnes of clothing waste.

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Retail Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A new study from Accenture points to the paradoxical nature of shopper behavior and how that often sends false messages to brands and retailers making merchandising plans for the year ahead. Consumers, according to Accenture, prioritize convenience above all else, whereas retailers and brands place convenience at #4 on their list.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 12, 2024

Shein is stepping up its plans for a record-breaking £53bn float on the London Stock Exchange. The Chinese fast-fashion giant retailer is reported to have picked London for a listing, after facing regulatory hurdles between China and the US, and pushback from lawmakers across the pond.

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2024

Fast Retailing, the parent company of Japan apparel retailer Uniqlo , has announced the locations for 11 new stores in the US, on its way to a target of 20 openings in North America this year, which in turn is the first instalment on its plan to reach 200 stores in 2027. The 11 openings so far announced are all in malls.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fast-fashion retailer H& M announced plans to close approximately 250 stores next year as it seeks to step up the pace of its transformation via digital investments, store portfolio optimization and increasingly integrated channels. H&M has not yet identified which stores will be shuttered.

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