The Visionaries
You need a great idea, an audience to serve, an amazing product to sell. You need an authentic and ideally, unique experience, and the ability to connect it all with technology. And somehow you have to do this quickly, at […]
Marvin Ellison: “The Stores Guy,” A Better Mousetrap for CEOs?
I was fortunate enough to steal an hour of Marvin Ellison\’s time last week to be able to drill down a little further into his strategic thinking, now that almost a year has passed under his role as CEO of
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Insights: Jane Elfers, CEO, The Children’s Place
The retail industry is currently navigating a profound transformation as it races to respond to growing consumer power and ongoing technological breakthroughs. America@250, a multiyear research initiative and national dialogue launched by A.T. Kearney, looks ahead to what America may
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Millennials Lead the Marketing Messaging
Millennials permeated many of the conversations on the Shoptalk main stage and in the Shoptalk track sessions. It stands to reason, as they are the most desirable consumer group, outnumbering their boomer parents with a staggering headcount of 95 million.
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The View Into 2026: America’s 250th Birthday
A Revolutionary Shift Surprisingly, 2016 actually looks a lot like 1776. And many of us never saw it coming. Consumers are seeking out unique and small scale businesses that make their own pickles, brew their own beer, and use local
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Tobe Says: Get Set On New-Gen Feminism
Ask a person, “Are you a feminist?” and they may say “No.” That angry activist reputation still lingers. Ask them, “Do you believe all people should have the same opportunities, be paid the same for doing equal work, have the
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Speed to Market
Straight talk from Ed Gribbin, President, Alvanon Speed to market, for apparel retailers and brands, has been a topic of interest for only about four to five years, but today, it has become one of the top priorities, if not
Big Brands vs. Little Me : I Win
Brands today are at a crossroads. All Brands: retailers, fashion, food, medical, technology, automotive. No industry is impervious to the Siren’s call towards two equally compelling and mutually contradictory roads. Urbanization takes us to ever more populated, crowded spaces, chock-a-block
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At Coach, It’s a New Day
The brand transformation at Coach announced by Victor Luis on June 19, 2014 is gaining traction. We are six quarters into its new modern luxury positioning, replete with new full price and outlet store formats, new accessories and lifestyle product,
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Crisis Management
The history of the world is a study of crisis—natural and manmade. How well we deal with it, if at all, is what sets us apart as a species—not to mention bankruptcy. Fire, flood, product adulteration, oil spills, airline crashes,
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