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Spinexpo Paris: Better Yarns Find a Strong Market in Europe

Not surprisingly, Europe is the top market for better yarn suppliers, with buyers valuing quality and innovation (and are willing to pay more to get i...

Souyute: The Unique Advantage of Starting Small

How Fashion Frontier built a massively successful brand portfolio by focusing only on lower tier cities Souyute is a very rare case among success...

New York is About Niches

New brands are starting to fill in void that is being left as big buyers reduce orders. Mills came to New York this summer hoping to connect with...

Paris Mode City: ‘Better’ is Back in Style

The thrill of buying cheap products is starting to fade – which has meant better business for EU brands.It was refreshing to visit a trade fair ...

Blossom PV: High End Mills See an Improving Market

Blossom Premiere Vision (Paris, July 4-5, 2017) kicked off the AW’18/19 fabric season with a positive vibe as mills said that they were optimist...

Why Retailers are Finding That Talk is Cheap, and Effective

Sales staff are proving to be more of an asset than an expense. Everyone talks about how customer loyalty no longer exists. Most brands and...

Tamalet: Creative Designs, Built to Last

Quality is usually not the first characteristic that comes to mind when you think of the critical aspects of fashion jewelry. This is a category...

eShop Talk Asia: Why Offline Retail Remains Crucial in the Digital Age

The non-stop buzz about the exponential growth of online sales (as well as a general fascination with the platform itself) has made it seem like onlin...

How Better Back End Systems Can Drive Better Profits

Shortening lead times is becoming increasingly critical, the challenge is how to do this – particularly when there’s a very complex and well entrenc...

Why Physical Store are Critical

For the past decade conventional wisdom was that online is going to replace offline retail. Companies have spent millions of dollars building websites...

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