Author
Marie Driscoll
Marie is a retail analyst, consultant and thought leader. Her career spans equity analysis on Wall Street where she won Best on the Street three times; industry analysis where she is considered one of RETHINK Retails top analyst Influencers for the last five years (2021-2025); and academia where she teaches retail, entrepreneurship, and equity analysis at Baruch, FIT and The New School. Marie also is President of the Retail Marketing Society (RMS) and sits on the RMS board and NRF’s IPC (Industry Partnership Council) board, and is X-Coresight, X-S&P/CapIQ
Youth Retailers Rebounding in 2015…or Not?
What’s happening in the tumultuous youth market? The way youth retailers are faring reflects the typically fickle trend-sensitive nature of this market. Based on recent ...
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Making Athletes Better, Socially
On the heels of a strong close to 2014 and annual sales and profits growth of 32% and 28% respectively, Under Armour hosted a meeting ...
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Luxury A 2014 Recap and 2015 Outlook
It isn’t only consumer product goods companies targeted at the middle class that fared poorly in 2014. Regardless of what the confidence readings or the ...
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Widening the Gap
Having followed Gap and Gap Inc. for 25 some years, I’m intrigued with the many growth opportunities the $16+ billion company still provides. As an ...
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Goldman Sachs 21st Annual Global Retail Conference Key Takeaways
The traditional September back-to-work event for investors, marking the end of the summer lull (after a hectic wrap up to Q2 earnings in August and ...
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A Hopeful Look at the US Department Store in 2014
Creative destruction, change management, business transformation —call it what you will, but something’s underfoot in the department store channel. After decades of ceding market share ...
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Fashion or Fitness – What’s a Portfolio Manager To Do?
Apparel is considered a discretionary purchase. Really? Most would agree we have little choice as to whether or not we purchase and wear clothing, and ...
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Globalization and Democratization Impact Fashion, Too
Just as globalization and information combined to create what Thomas Friedman aptly coined the ‘flat world,’ these transformational forces are driving the democratization of luxury. ...
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