Holiday season campaigns are starting to come through thick and fast and so far they seem to be dividing into two types – touchy-feely animations that are big on digital and touchy-feely non-animations that are big on digital. American Eagle Outfitters is going for the latter and is extending its #WeAllCan Fall 2016 campaign into…
It’s that time of year again. Furniture ads start telling us we can take delivery by Christmas, every evening in the suburbs is punctuated by idiots setting off fireworks, and you start to think you must visit Selfridges’ Christmas shop rather than tutting and mumbling “how ridiculous”. Plus we get deluged with reports about how…
New Look had a tough Christmas trading period (didn’t almost everyone?) but it doesn’t seem to be worried. The company said sales grew 5.6% in the nine months to December 26 as its standalone menswear stores proved to be a hit and its web sales surged. Comparable sales rose 4.5%, with a 4.3% rise in…
As with Apple, so it is with Amazon. The problem with giant, dominant-in-their-fields companies that grow year after year, is that expectations are high, VERY high. Investors can be disappointed even after storming results. For Apple this week, it was all about the blind panic that iPhone sales might slow down. For Amazon yesterday, it…
Beware the Ides of March! Or in this case, the Ides of December. You know, there used to be a comedy show in the UK called Up Pompeii, in which a soothsayer (played funnily enough by an ex-Doctor Who) would wander on in every episode and cackle “beware the Ides of March!” I only mention…
Was it a tale of weather woes at House of Fraser this Christmas? Not a bit of it. The department store chain that’s now owned by China’s Nanjing Cenbest had a grrrreat six-week Christmas trading period with comparable sales excluding VAT up 5.3%. OK, that didn’t match the 8% rise of a year ago but…
The dust is settling on Christmas 2015 so how was the season overall? Not bad, it seems, even if fashion had a pretty tough time. UK spending in the all-important festive shopping period grew 2.1% year-on-year, MasterCard SpendingPulse said today, adding that despite deflation and discounting, this retail spending growth shows the strength of UK…
Was the holiday season the washout for US retailers that many had feared? Yes, and no. Some retailers did just fine thanks while others… well, let’s look at Gap Inc.
I’ve been a journalist for… well, more years than I care to own up to. And I’ve been a specifically online fashion-meets-retail journalist since 1999. At that point I seem to remember reporting on M&S and Gap turning in record profits, riding high, expanding fast, could-do-no-wrong etc. Not long after though it all seemed to…
It wasn’t only UK retailers that had a tough Christmas. In the US, retail giant Macy’s has announced almost 5,000 job cuts and almost 40 store closures so it can make savings of around $400m after the holiday season was, well… miserable.
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