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. market, although the company is a major force in the rest of the world with more than 2,300 stores globally. The first four U.S.

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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.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The results have highlighted the different strategies fashion retailers are deploying to stay ahead in a fragmented and challenging market. From agile inventory models to premium positioning, each retailer has its own distinctive plan to drive growth amid shifting consumer behaviours, economic pressures, and rising competition.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

secondhand market is projected to double in the next five years, reaching $82 billion by 2026, according to ThredUP ’s 10 th annual Resale Report , conducted in partnership with GlobalData. A whopping 81% of first-time thrifters said they plan to spend the same amount or more on secondhand in the next five years.

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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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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. market,” said Paul Marchant, CEO of Primark in a statement.

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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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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 retailer refers to its model as a “Nationalized Boutique,” with each store featuring its own assortment unique to its market.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

Resale platform ThredUP has appointed Noelle Sadler as the company’s first dedicated Chief Marketing Officer in five years. She will report to ThredUP President Anthony Marino, who previously oversaw marketing.

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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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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. before rolling out to other global markets. Shein has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the U.S. Shein still holds the No.

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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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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. Valued at US$11.85

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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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Consumers are also pushing for brands to step away from “fast fashion” trends and promote sustainability in both product development and manufacturing, making efforts to reduce or offset their carbon footprints. Entering the Market of Eco-Friendly Clothing Manufacturers, Designers and Sellers. Green goals are a moving target.

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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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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 Gazette

JUNE 13, 2024

Shein’s average price hikes surpassed those of fellow fashion rivals H&M and Zara , according to data from London-based research firm Edited, which compared prices on 1 June with those from a year earlier. The Singaporean-based fast fashion retailer is understood to have chosen London after it faced political pushback from New York.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Brands that take a strategic customer-centric approach can benefit from what funds customers do have and with ‘Euro summer’ heating up – Bydee is investing in meeting market demand with a localised approach. This was achieved by tapping into the travel-inspired swimwear niche and pivoting the expansion to markets that resonated.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 9, 2023

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein and its newer rival Temu are in a race to win shoppers’ attention for their inexpensive China-made goods. If Temu loses, Temu could be forced to curtail what so far has been a key marketing strategy. Shein said it does not currently have plans for an IPO and declined to comment further.

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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. Sanjay Tugnait is the Chief Market Maker and Global Managing Partner – Sustainability Practice for IBM Consulting.

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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

JUNE 9, 2021

Fast-growing Australian online retailer Canningvale plans to relaunch the iconic Singaporean department store Robinsons as an online-only business this month after acquiring the company’s digital assets for an undisclosed sum. Eventually, Prainito plans to roll out exclusive ranges and collections with key brands and suppliers. .

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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. The brand floated on London’s junior AIM market back in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

While Urban Outfitters ’ assortment is designed for consumers in their teens and early 20s, Anthropologie provides a destination for consumers’ “next generation of life,” when they’re starting careers and families, according to Chief Marketing Officer Elizabeth Preis.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2021

The brand plans to expand the Refurbished program to more US stores throughout 2021 and beyond. According to ThredUp, a digital platform in the US that enables consumers to buy and sell secondhand clothing, the resale market grew 21 times faster than the retail market overall in 2016-2019, and is expected to be worth US$51 billion by 2023.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The site will be the fast fashion company’s second in the UK. Positions are believed to be focussed on clothing buyers and designers for the UK and European market. It has a London office, which employs roughly 40 workers. The retailer already sources some of its clothing from Leicester and Manchester.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 11, 2022

Fast-fashion chain Primark has no plans to enable online ordering with delivery. The chain plans to launch a new website in the UK and 13 other markets by the end of the month. It may, however add a buy online and pickup in-store service in response to changes in consumer shopping behavior.

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Retalon

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In todays fast-moving retail landscape, outdated assortment planning methods lead to lost revenue, frustrated customers, and inefficient operations. Retailers using AI-based assortment planning have seen a 36% SKU reduction while increasing sales by 1-2% ( McKinsey ). Why Is Assortment Planning in Retail So Challenging?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Media and Advertising Became More Contextual (and Measurable) Marketing teams are feeling more pressure to perform. Kohl’s and Nine West launched an adaptive apparel line, and QVC leveraged some star power by launching an accessible fashion line in partnership with Selma Blair and Isaac Mizrahi. Nicole Silberstein 2. Adam Blair 5.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Sharing the news , Beverley said: “I think if I told 22-year-old Grace who was fed up with the activewear on the market, that shed be opening a store on one of the most iconic shopping streets in the world, she would simply pass away, and to be honest 28 year old me is close to doing the same.”

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

Uniqueness is one of the most coveted elements of fashion for many style-conscious shoppers, and in a world drowning in new brands, buying vintage or resale is the best option to find something truly special. “To Even e-commerce giant Amazon is entering the resale market. The future of secondhand fashion.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

BG: What we ultimately offer retailers is seamless entry into the recommerce market. We give the brand seamless entry to the recommerce market but with no heavy lifting. IR: If you looked at the circular fashion industry locally and globally, where do you think things are at right now?

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2025

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. In The Style Fast fashion retailer In The Style slashed at least 17 roles at the end of February ahead of its collapse this month.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2022

Incredibly, the second-hand clothing sector is expected to grow faster than fast fashion in 2022 and the resale market is expected to grow 11 times faster than the broader clothing sector by 2025. We are confident there will be many more members in this group in the coming months as we progress our retail climate action plan. .

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Shein is considering changing its initial public offering to London as it’s hit with obstacles to its planned New York IPO. Jeremy Hunt held talks with the boss of fast fashion giant in a bid to persuade the business to commit to what would be one of London’s biggest corporate flotations, Sky News reports.

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