Breaking the Information Barrier Insights from MasterCard Advisors Merchant Solutions – New Data, New Perspectives While over the past several years there has been a huge upsurge of merchants collecting and using customer data to drive retail business performance, the […]
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We talked with Neil Cole, CEO of Iconix Brand Group. The brand management company licenses its 27 (and growing) brands in exclusive deals with big retailers and wholesalers, allowing them national brand distribution with private label exclusivity and economics. Here’s
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Nothing and Everything Nothing is new and yet, everything is new. Is this more blah, blah nonsense? Absolutely not. Whatever is new now, in a nanosecond will be old. So, in that nanosecond what you think is new, is, but,
In a very famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin, learns the importance of one word from his neighbor, Mr. McGuire: Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you – just one
Check out our interview with Steve Sadove, CEO of Saks, Inc. as he speaks on the Saks turnaround, Globalization, Luxury Brands, and more. (3 Parts) [tubepress video=\”j9rqykHGMF4\”]
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Economic exuberance is all over the place of late. Economists are falling all over themselves predicting expansion this year at 2003 rates, expecting GDP to come in at an annual rate of 3.6% this quarter, up from 3.2% in Q4
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He’s baaaaaack!! Edward “Eddie” Lampert that is. Yes, once again the storied chief of Sears Holdings (SHLD) provided me, and therefore you, with yet another perspective on how or how not to run a retail business. Actually, when all is
Murky, Scary and Uncharted Waters Ho! Ho! Ho! and Happy New Year! And, now that we’ve said cheers to a more than merry Holiday season and put the cork back on the bubbly, it’s time for yours truly to bring
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In case you were wondering, I have not yet given up following the illusive, opaque and often strange meanderings of Sears (SHLD) chief, Edward “Eddie” Lampert, as he continues what I often referred to as an “abracadabra” strategy: now you
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Steve Sadove, CEO of Saks, Inc., answers some questions about customers, competitors, vendors, the impact of the great recession on high-end retailing, and some of the strategies he and his team are implementing to turn around the great American luxury
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