Do you want the good news or the bad news? OK, here’s the good news. Visa Europe’s latest data on UK retail sales showed January clothing and footwear turnover up 5% on the year. That’s good after a worrying 1.2% fall in December. Visa said the cold weather that finally arrived was the cause as…
Ralph Lauren beat analyst expectations for Q3 profit with earnings of $131m on revenue of $1.95bn. That was the good news, and good news was needed because the company saw its shares crashing over 22% yesterday. Ouch! In fact, that profit figure may have beaten expectations but it was 39% down year-on-year and and the…
Mango has unveiled the complete collection for its Tribal Spirit microseasonal collection with a full set of pictures featuring collection star Kendall Jenner. The clothes are inspired by the African savannah and there has been a certain amount of criticism of the retailer for not using anyone African in the campaign.
If you thought denim was set to have its day any time soon, the amount of effort retailers and brands are putting into their denim campaigns would dissuade you. The latest is Topshop whose SS16 campaign sees the return of the brand’s stellar Christmas line-up, with new addition Steffy Argelich joining the gang.
OK, this is big news. That’s B.I.G. Sainsbury’s is just about there with its plan to buy Home Retail Group (HRG) – or Argos as we should now call it since HRG has already reached a deal to sell the Homebase chain to Wesfarmers. The “possible” deal doesn’t quite hit the £1.4bn HRG wanted but…
Will the Chinese economic slowdown at home translate into slower spending among Chinese shoppers abroad? That’s a question lots of companies (especially in the luxury space in the UK) are asking. And the answer? Well the indications are good, according to the retail tourism intelligence specialists at Global Blue. Spending is expected to hold up…
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…
The world of e-shopping is now global and it’s also mobile. That’s the conclusion of a new report from the British Retail Consortium and Google looking at the last quarter of 2015. In fact, UK retailers are benefitting from a surge in international shoppers browsing their sites on their smartphones in particular. BRC chief Helen…
A new global survey has found that all of us are becoming increasingly m-commerce-friendly as our phones get bigger and more powerful, and as shopping apps and responsive websites make small screen shopping a breeze. But consumers in which country are the most obsessed with buying stuff on their mobiles?
Karlie Kloss has landed yet another campaign for SS16. This time it’s shoe specialist Kurt Geiger in a campaign named Everything But The Dress that may have a can’t-miss-it sports theme but it’s pushing shoes (and bags) that aren’t necessarily particularly sporty.
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