23rd October 2018
Confusion over Amazon’s share of US clothing market
Estimating how Amazon ranks in the US clothing market is tricky - and often leads to real overstatements. With their Q3 results about to be announced, it's worth looking at...
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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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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...
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18th May 2011
Major retailers report excellent 2010
adidas €mn 11,990.0 10,381.0 15.5% 567 131.4% Aeropostale $mn 2,400.4 2,222.6 8.0% 231.3 0.8% Cato Corp $mn 913.9 870.4 5.0% 90.8 31.8% Charming Shoppes $mn 2,061.8 2,064.8 -0.1% -53 -32.0%...
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18th May 2011
US March sales very massively between retailers
US garment retailers showed enormous variation in their 2010 Apparel sales ($bn) March 11 total sales yoy change total total same-store Gap 14.7 -8.0% -10.0% Macy's 14.5 1.6% 0.9% TJX...
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9th January 2009
US sales stop getting worse – for now at least
The Clothesource US Clothing Sales Index got 27% better in December – though most media tried their best to keep it secret. Like for like sales at the 16 largest...
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