In the 1990s I used to edit hair and beauty magazines. Back then, two things happened: the dominant hair trend became long and straight, and cover stars moved from being models to celebrities. “It’s a trend cycle,” I told myself, giving it 10 years to work through and 15 years to completely fade. What a…
Instagram, the fashion and beauty sector’s favourite social media channel, is taking a leaf out of parent Facebook’s advertising book with reports that it’s building specific profiles for businesses (just like Facebook’s Brand Pages), data on the performance of brand posts, and extra functionality to boost advertising through mobile devices.
“Get a move on” was the message from Argos chief John Walden yesterday as potential buyers of the business J Sainsbury and Steinhoff continued to do… well, not a lot, ahead of what could be a bumper payday for HRG shareholders next Friday. Actually, that’s not true. The two retail giants who want to buy…
The news flow is coming thick and fast today with clarification about those burberry takeover rumours, plus 2015 results from struggling Hugo Boss and not-struggling Yoox Net-A-Porter. Maria Sharapova is still trying to rescue her brand. And we’ve heard about Vera Bradley’s resurgence and how the Russian e-tail market is getting bigger but still has…
E-commerce is growing fast worldwide with some markets having the potential to be massive. Cue India. A new report from Forrester reckons the country’s e-tail market will grow from $12bn last year to $75bn in 2020, with a CAGR of 44%. That’s fast. The number of people buying online will also grow, but only by…
Competition in the purely fashion e-tail sector is heating up but omnichannel retailers are also upping their game. Which means today’s news from Zalando (pureplay) and Target Corp (omnichannel) makes interesting reading. Basically, Zalando is powering ahead, investing in expansion, and has the rise of m-commerce to thank, while Target is going for hell-for-leather into…
This is it. The moment when consumers (in the UK at least) bought more products online using mobile devices than ‘regular’ computers for the first time ever. From November to January, m-commerce made up 51% of e-sales (up from 45% in the previous three months and up from 40% a year ago), the IMRG Capgemini…
If a tepid holiday season had made any of us think that January sales would be weak, then the latest figures for e-tail in the UK have proved us wrong. IMRG Capgemini’s e-Retail Sales Index showed sales surging 15% online last month, so much better than the 7% they’d risen by in January 2015. The…
For anyone who’s a regular user of the ShopStyle fashion search platform (and I’m one), there’s an interesting development due in Q2 as it transforms into a fashion marketplace with the launch of new shopping cart service ShopStyle Checkout. Parent company Popsugar said the aim is to enable consumers to purchase products from multiple retail…
The Chinese luxury consumer is changing with a number of factors coming together to drive this, according to the Bain & Company’s 2015 China Luxury Market Study. Last year, Chinese consumers from the mainland continued to buy luxury products but they bought them abroad as currency issues in places like Japan and Europe made travel very…
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