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How Denim Continues to Win Market Share

In a hyper competitive market, jeans are finding new ways to remain on consumers’ shopping lists. Although jeans remain a fashion favorite,...

A Fast Growing Market That's Being Seriously Overlooked

Nearly 1 billion consumers worldwide wear plus-sizes. Why aren’t brands listening to their cry for better fashion options? The fashio...

5 Steps to Begin a Sucessful Customer Experience Program

Customer Experience or CX is a hot initiative at many companies and many more companies, from Fortune 500 to 5-10 person start-ups, are looking how to...

Liverpool Dept Store: Leaner & Faster

How a new sourcing strategy helped Liverpool Department Stores outperform the market. “We met our retail targets for 2017, thanks to the ve...

Fast Retaling Sees Opportunities Where Others See Obstacles

Ambitious Uniqlo is looking to beat out rivals H&M and Inditex as the biggest fast fashion retailer. It’s a tough challenge. Bot...

Knitwear Moves Up the Value Chain

Higher materials prices and more demanding consumers are starting to move the market in a new direction. Materials prices have hit new highs, the...

Asian Retail Markets See a Retail Rebound

After several sluggish years, bricks n’ mortar retail in the region’s major cities is starting to recover. Just when retailers were ...

Plug & Play Software Gives A Granular View of Each Order

Swivel makes the supply chain more transparent without the need for complicated systems. Tighter inventory management is becoming the newest focus as ...

Credit Helps Fuels Russian Consumer Spending Rebound

As the nation makes its way back from a 2-year recession, shoppers are eager to start spending, even if they have to borrow to do so.Russia’s ec...

Recycled Polyester Sees Steady Growth, but Apparel is Not the Key Driver

From a slow start, this eco-friendly material is gaining consumer acceptance, and moving into new categories. Within a decade, sustainable produc...

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