As we head into the over-analyzed, all-important Holiday retail season, I’m having flashbacks to “the land of the rising sun.” However, my image gave way to a deflating sun, as Japan withered from its strong and rising number two spot […]
Retail expert stresses that businesses will need to push goods ‘pre-emptively and perpetually’ By Ted Boscia – Cornell Chronicle Robin Lewis delivers Nixon Distinguished Speaker Series lecture at Cornell University. Consumer product retailers and wholesalers must rapidly transform their traditional
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Is the economy a case of “chickens coming home to roost” to a double-dip recession and a possible deflationary cycle, or a several- year-long “slog” that forces us to accept the fact that slow-to-no growth is our new economic reality,
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“There’s a chance that you get hit by a car. There’s a chance you get a disease. But, they are chances. But, there’s also a likelihood that the [financial] covenant will be worked out, as it has in the past;”
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The changes that have hit retailers and service merchants in the past two years have only intensified the foundational need to maximize revenues, improve operational efficiencies, and forge brands that continue to attract and retain customers. Making decisions in this
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We are right smack in the middle of a massive wave of exclusive merchandising. You can’t swing a dead hang tag these days in any decent sized store in the country and not find some brand or label (and they
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The only place where traditional advertising is prospering is in the Mad Men series on AMC. It showcases a bygone era when men wore suits to the office and drank alcoholic beverages at lunch, and few women occupied an executive
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Throughout the year, Kurt Salmon Associates has discussed numerous localization topics with the industry’s leading retailers. Not surprisingly, a few key themes emerged from nearly all the conversations we had with top executives. Regardless of industry segment or brand positioning,
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Where are retail’s hottest new CEOs coming from? We talked with Hal Reiter, Chairman and CEO of Herbert Mines Associates and the go-to man for C-Suite executive searches. His answers may surprise you. Our industry is in one of the
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So, what’s a retailer to do? If you are Chicken Little and believe the sky will fall again, you will need the staying power to manage the deflation of your business down to some unknown bottom, and in an unknown
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