As the Holiday shopping calendar moves into prime time, it seems only appropriate to provide a preview of what’s in store for the next three months as we count down to that most sacred, most important event in retailing: the […]
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Last week, the fiber, textile and apparel industry lost one of its most revered leaders and a dear friend of all. Bruce Roberts was a central figure in the industry during its most explosive growth years between the mid-50s through
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Q&A with Andy Mantis, EVP of NPD’s Checkout Tracking℠ Anyone who’s anyone in retail is familiar with NPD’s market research prowess, backed by the firm’s powerful consumer panel and point-of-sale data. But less well known is the firm’s legacy of
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Investor Headline: Slowing topline growth in tandem with increased marketing and IT spend leads to margin contraction and a disappointing bottom line. This is a sad assessment for many retailers in the omnichannel world of 2015. And the second half
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Just like consumers staggering into stores post-Thanksgiving dinner, many retailers will be overly full this holiday season. While customers can blame that extra slice of pumpkin pie, retailers can blame West Coast port disruptions in late 2014 and early 2015,
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Charade is a nice way of describing what I believe to be the biggest issue in mainstream retailing today. The charade? “Spinmeistering,” including many of the top executives across all retail sectors — Nordstrom’s, HBC, (Saks Off Fifth and Lord
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A.T. Kearney is pleased to announce its annual Digital Business Forum taking place in New York City this November. The Digital Business Forum is a unique opportunity for senior business leaders and innovators to engage in dialogue and debate on
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A pop-up shop in the chicer-than-chic 16th arrondisement in Paris. Multi-page ad layouts in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Alliances with Net-A-Porter and buzzy New York skin doc Dendy Engelman to get the word out about Superstart, its new skincare “booster.”
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When you’re under assault, build a bigger fortress. That’s what supermarkets in the U.S. are doing now as they come under siege from deep-discount stores, membership clubs and mass marketers on one front and upscale specialty stores on the other
Here is one more glaring example of the absurd and frankly, stupid “short-termism” of Wall Street and the investment community. Doug McMillon, Walmart’s relatively new CEO, its youngest ever at age 49 and its first merchant-chief since Sam Walton, recently
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