27th June 2018
Targetting the wrong customers? Misunderstanding the internet? Spending too much on the wrong things?
Is retail really collapsing? Management’s just getting misguided
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View AllB&Q slash “old” people’s discounts
UK home improvements chain B&Q announced the near-abolition of its discounts for older people from September 3
Brands push Nicaraguan President to “respect rule of law”
Major clothing and textile brands demand from Nicaragua’s President an end to State “repression”
Philip Green: “life undone by abject greed”
A biography published today of Arcadia owner, Philip Green, describes his life as “ambition undone by abject greed”.
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28th June 2018
New foreign clothing and textiles investment collapses in Vietnam
Foreign textile-related investment in Vietnam has fallen this year to “several” new projects from the 129 projects worth $600 mn approved in 2016. 2017 itself saw a 30% fall in new projects...
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19th September 2018
Are we really facing total retail collapse? Or have too many retailers just been misguided?
An awful lot of people are telling us retail's collapsing - or at least fleeing to the internet. Among recent front-page horrors have been Sears in the US hinting it’s...
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Read how retailers need to rely on their own customer insights, recapture their self-confidence, and rediscover their native frugality to avoid being the next front page horror story.
