Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2025

In addition to rapid advances in AI that have brought the technology into the mainstream, Stitch Fix also has struggled to maintain its first-mover advantage in the world of subscription fashion, with a host of new entrants pulling away clients and market share. But share prices continued to slide and they remain low.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

Australian fashion tech business Azura Fashion Group is banking on the booming circular economy for growth. Azura Fashion Group was born out of the uproar caused by Burberry’s revelation in 2018 that it had destroyed millions of dollars worth of excess stock, rather than sell it at a discounted price, to protect its brand image.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2025

To date, only three UK retailers have ever made it into the 1bn profit club – and fashion giant Next has just become the fourth member. In fact, the retail boss seems to downplay that Next is only one of two fashion retailers to ever hit the prestigious 1bn threshold. growth in sales. Fluke or form?

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2022

Inside Retail : Cue is one of Australia’s longest-standing fashion brands and it has such a rich history. Upon arriving home and sensing a gap for youth-driven fashion in the market, he decided to capitalise on that and started printing The Beatles t-shirts for the group’s fan club in Australia.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In a warehouse on the outskirts of Barcelona, women stand at conveyor belts, manually sorting T-shirts, jeans and dresses from large bales of used clothing – a small step towards tackling Europe’s towering problem of discarded fashion. It did not respond to a request for comment on the suggestion it needed to do more.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2023

Cargo Crew specialises in custom-made uniforms designed for hospitality, retail, corporate and a range of other brands, and stands out in a competitive field by fusing fashion with functionality. Felicity Rodgers told Inside Retail that Cargo Crew developed out of a fashion label she co-created straight from university.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The ‘secret sauce’ for Sheet Society is bringing the look, feel and shopping experience of clothes fashion to manchester and bedding. We saw a gap in the market for bedding that was an extension of your personal style, just like fashion. IR: What are your plans for Sheet Society in the coming 12-18 months?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chinese fashion retailer Shein is reviving plans to list in New York this year and its founder is considering a citizenship change to bypass proposed tougher rules for offshore IPOs in China, two people familiar with the matter said. Both sources declined to be named as the plans are confidential. Valuation jump.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, a fashion store may sell winter clothing in the Northern Hemisphere while offering summer apparel to customers in the South. They want seamless experiencesfrom clear product information and localised payment options to transparent shipping costs and easy returns. However, these challenges are not insurmountable.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

Then, as part of our longer-term plan, we will look to expand to other locations. The concept stores will provide us with the ability to ship from store, and ship to door. The plan is to support the concepts with outlets in similar areas.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

thanks to on-trend discount offerings enabled by its real-time fast fashion model. The company has been able to cut the time from product design to shipping from three weeks to five days, allowing it to offer an evolving slate of the latest of-the-moment trends. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S. 1 shopping app in America.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2023

The plans were revealed along with the group’s annual result which saw a $33.5 million items shipped. The new ones in planning will be located largely in regional areas. The post Mosaic plans 40 new mega stores after network cull spurs profit turnaround appeared first on Inside Retail. million last year to EBITA of $17.1

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Customer experience LSKD has ‘audacious’ growth plans for the next few years and Shaughnessy is expected to play a key role in helping the brand create a unique in-store experience and ensuring the right products are stocked in each store. LSKD was recently named ‘Business of the Year’ in the 2024 Telstra Best of Business Awards.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As the resale market continues to grow, leading fashion and sneaker reseller StockX is taking steps to improve the process of buying and selling authenticated, pre-owned products online. Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

A few days before reporting Q2 earnings, Wish also announced plans to cut approximately 34% of its workforce, or about 255 employees, in order to “refocus the company’s operations.” The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve. Reducing shopping and shipping friction.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Farfetch was a sector leader with roughly $4 billion in annual transaction volume and a global brand in luxury fashion. Having acquired UK-based luxury fashion retailer Farfetch for $500 million in early 2024, Coupang has implemented significant operational changes.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dutch fashion brand Scotch & Soda has selected Nedap Retail as a strategic RFID partner for Europe and North America. It allows us to increase our online sellable stock, as we do not necessarily need to ship from our distribution centers anymore. Scotch & Soda will deploy Nedap’s !D

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When Decjuba was born in 2008, it was with a mission to make effortless fashion accessible. In the ensuing 16 years, it has opened 150 stores in Australia and New Zealand and now ships its clothing internationally through its burgeoning e-commerce presence. As it grew, it was essential to never lose sight of its mission.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Prior to that role, he led NMG’s digital and in-store retail operations as Chief Retail Officer, where he drove enhancements to the customer experience through the creation of personalized and memorable experiences for customers in-store and online, including style advisor matching, virtual appointments, in-store pickup and virtual fashion events.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Fashion Retail’s Looming Cash Crunch. Across the industry, nearly half of global fashion brands do not commit to paying for finished orders, which causes a huge liquidity problem for suppliers. The high probability of a second wave of infections this fall only adds to the uncertainty and risk.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2022

In just two years, the adaptive fashion brand Christina Stephens has grown retail revenue fourfold by tapping an underserved market for stylish clothes that meet the unique needs of people with disabilities. Yet, the proportion of beautiful, quality, and on-trend fashion available was vastly lacking.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S. in the next five years and also has its sights set on international expansion, with plans to launch omnichannel operations in key markets in Western Europe and Asia Pacific next year as well as an innovation center in Taiwan.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

From household name brands declaring bankruptcy, to Amazon consolidating its ecommerce dominance, to curbside delivery options becoming a coveted competitive differentiator across categories ranging from electronics to grocery to fashion, the landscape for retailers looks radically different than it did 12 months ago.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The stores opening represents more than a milestone in Staxs physical retail expansion; it is the culmination of years of strategic planning, innovation and adaptability. Less of the DIY screen printing and more of the fashion elements and what I think women were looking for and what was lacking in the brand, Matilda said.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

IR : What strategies is the brand planning to tap into in the next one to two years to promote growth and brand awareness? On the retail front, were entering the college market with a University of Texas at Austin pop-up this fall and plan to scale that strategy into 2026. Now, we see retail as a critical piece of our growth strategy.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2024

Chinese fashion company Shein is significantly ramping up its marketing efforts in South Korea to capitalise on the country’s burgeoning e-commerce sector. It’s impossible to ignore Shein’s entry, and fashion marketplaces which also make money from hosting third-party sellers will probably be affected first,” Kustosz-Lee said.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Unlike fashion, the technology industry doesn’t often look to trends and ideas from the past to define its future. For customers, looking up inventory online before driving to the store, reserving an item for pickup, ordering on the same day, curbside delivery or receiving orders shipped from the stores has become the norm.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

I studied a Bachelor of fashion and textiles and from there I started doing market stalls and that’s the first iteration of the formal business side of things,” she said. Whilst we’ve always shipped to the UK, it wasn’t optimised for the customer.” “If

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

For years, fashion retailers have faced mounting pressures from both customers and employees to evolve. More recently, there’s been a strong urgency expressed for automation and robotics by fashion retailers for better throughput of parcels from warehouses to parcel carriers. By 2025, the value is said to reach well over $1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

The biggest corporate push has been in fashion, and it’s working: 75% of its private label brands are in fashion, and according to Amazon (see exhibit below), fashion private label sales account for 9% of its total fashion first-party (meaning direct or 1P) sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

In an effort to reduce sizing-related return rates, some fashion brands are working with Fit:Match.ai, a ‘digital twin’ matching platform that uses AR body-scanning technology designed to help shoppers select their size more accurately. This is just one example of how companies are utilizing technology innovations to prevent returns up front.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Now, NMG has acquired a minority stake in Fashionphile and plans to open Fashionphile Selling Studios in an additional nine stores over the next nine months. Customer who sell their luxury products to Fashionphile have the option of receiving payment in the form of a Neiman Marcus gift card and receive a 10% discount on the gift card value.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Express’ ability to avoid bankruptcy hinges on whether its lenders will agree to provide more liquidity or loosen repayment options, and whether the company’s vendors will continue shipping goods without tightening payment schedules, the sources told WSJ.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2023

But while Temu and Wish both operate as manufacturer-to-consumer marketplaces and offer a wide range of merchandise, from homewares to apparel, Shein operates more like a traditional retailer and focuses solely on fashion. For the latest round of funding, Shein reportedly cut its valuation by one-third from a year ago, to $64 billion.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fresh off its biggest capital raise to date, peer-to-peer fashion rental platform Designerex is gearing up for a period of rapid growth that will see it launch one-hour delivery in Australia, enter the UK and Europe and start working more closely with brands to reach new customers. That’s more than David Jones or The Iconic.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

When Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss started Rent the Runway , they wanted to disrupt the fashion industry. Now, as the company’s 15th birthday nears, Hyman has unveiled her plans to “reinvigorate” the business heading into 2025 and beyond.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

At a time when renowned athleisure brands like Lululemon are struggling , Vuori is continuing to ride its rocket ship to growth. When thinking about our vision for the future of the business, our plan is to grow our community through bringing our retail experience to as many international markets as we can.

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