The fashion industry’s stubborn reliance on outdated supply chain practices is bleeding profits and destroying consumer trust. Traditional approaches to sizing, inventory management, and trend forecasting are creating failures across the entire value chain, from excess inventory that decimates sustainability goals to astronomical return rates that crush margins.
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Primark’s strategic U.S. expansion started 10 years ago and is a master plan in calculated retail growth that could fundamentally reshape America’s affordable fashion landscape. Primark has 450 stores worldwide and 33 in the States.
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For U.S. brands, soft power is a valuable asset to be leveraged more effectively than competitors. U.S. brands may not be able to recreate centuries of heritage, but they can compete with cultural resonance and American-made authenticity.
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WK Kellogg founder Will Keith Kellogg invented his cornflakes in 1894, with the cereal group growing to become arguably the best-known cereal empire in the world. On the other side of the Atlantic, Ferrero was founded in 1946 by Italian confectioner Pietro Ferrero, and the company remains under family ownership, with Ferrero’s grandson Giovanni serving as Executive Chair.
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Space NK is still growing at pace. Last year, its earnings increased 34 percent to $265 million, powered by growth in its under-25 consumer cohort, the retailer’s fastest-growing demographic. Even with the return of Sephora in the U.K., and the growth of Boots, the domestic Walgreens-owned chain, which has also pivoted hard into beauty, Space NK has retained customers with its loyalty program and differentiated offer.
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Retail doesn’t get to choose the larger policy environment, but it can shape its own brand integrity. In today’s fractured regulatory landscape, where politics drive science and messaging matters, early adoption of PFAS-free solutions will come out as a leading strategy.
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They say necessity is the mother of invention, but that goes for calamity too. Bloomberg recently reported that Robert Keely, who runs a guitar pedal company called Keely Electronics, was hit with an $11,000 tariff bill for a load of imported merchandise. With no other options, he cashed in 1.83 million American Express rewards points to pay for it.
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Malaysian consumers are remarkably optimistic in these gloomy times—even by Asian standards. Can it last long enough for global brands to make use of it?
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Hotel Chocolat’s Thirlwell described the acquisition of the 250-acre Rabot Estate in Saint Lucia and transforming it into a boutique hotel as “destiny.” After a customer sent Thirwell a 1920s book about chocolate making while he was visiting his father in the Caribbean, he was inspired to fulfill his dream to create a place where luxury, wellbeing and style could come together with, naturally, cocoa and chocolate.
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Tariffs for Vietnam threaten its export-led growth, exposing issues like overreliance on cheap labor, weak innovation, and strict digital controls.
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