20th November 2018
Primark establishes new record for UK clothes retailing profit
With an opening programme in its last quarter that included its second New York City store, Primark set a new record of £843 millon ($1.14 billion) in profit for a...
Read Story
6th November 2018
What’s really made Primark the most profitable British clothing retailer ever?
With an opening programme in its last quarter that included its second New York City store, Primark today announced a new record of £843 millon ($1.14 billion) in profit for...
Read Story
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...
Read Story
5th September 2018
Credit Suisse confirm: for clothes retailers “not being online is an advantage”
Credit Suisse confirmed (download CS analysis 5 Sep) on September 5 that for clothes retailers thinking of online selling "not being online is an advantage". Their argument is that it...
Read Story
17th May 2018
UK Prime Minister uses Royal Wedding to disguise Single Market confirmation
Theresa May confirmed on May 16 that Britain would remain in Europe's Single Market - using the news chaos around the Royal Wedding to ensure media would overlook it. The...
Read Story
17th April 2018
Primark becomes first British retailer to make over $1bn from selling clothes
Primark's H1 results, announced on April 17, make it the first British retailer to achieve over a billion dollars' annual profit from selling clothes. A disappointing performance from its parent...
Read Story
9th November 2016
Post Trump and Brexit: there’s more than one way to skin the international retailing cat
While American voters were confounding practically all observers on November 8, on the other side of the Atlantic Britain’s Marks & Spencer unveiled a strategy that may be designed for...
Read Story
26th February 2016
Is Primark pioneering a new wave of retail efficiency?
Has Primark identified the direction apparel retailers should be looking – or are US commentators right to claim the business is fundamentally flawed? Earlier this month, I stressed the importance of...
Read Story
15th January 2015
2014’s Next Big Things that weren’t.1. Internet dominance
We're now twenty years from the launch of internet retailing. But it's had nothing like the effect on apparel buying the big 20th century revolutions did. Accident, problem - or...
Read Story
29th October 2014
“Modern slavery”: Activists want tougher UK duty of disclosure on slavery-free supply chains
The UK government announced on October 13 that larger businesses will have to state publicly each year what action they have taken to ensure their supply chains are slavery free. The...
Read Story
26th September 2014
Cambodian government gets subtly different pressures from foreign buyers and unions over minimum wages
In separate mid-September letters to the Cambodian government, a group of European buyers and the major international union federations pushed for surprisingly similar, but still different, approaches to setting Cambodia's...
Read Story
15th January 2014
Greenpeace childrenswear focus tries to shame more brands into Detox campaign
Greenpeace launched a "Little Monsters" fairy tale, detailing hazardous chemicals in children's clothes, as its latest weapon to shame more brands into signing the Detox Challenge. A survey, describing 82...
Read Story