Disruption drives differentiation in fashion sector

Fashion businesses are successfully adapting their models in myriad ways as Covid-19 has accelerated the industry’s key underlying trends including the increased embrace of digital channels, the rise of sustainability, and a greater focus on the supply chain. These were some of the major themes discussed at a ‘Fuelling Innovation in Fashion’ roundtable hosted at…

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2021 Transforming Retail Awards – winners announced!

The winners of the Retail Insider ‘Transforming Retail Awards 2021 have been announced during an online ceremony on Zoom – with Patrick Berghaeger from award sponsors Talkdesk unveiling the winning entries. The Awards always aims at highlighting some of the most exciting innovations to happen in the retail sector over the past year and there…

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Transforming Retail Awards: Q&A with Patrick Berghaeger, industry account director at Awards sponsor Talkdesk

1.     What attracted you and Talkdesk to being involved with these Awards? Having worked with Glynn to sponsor these events in the past, I knew our paths would cross again. Sponsoring these events always brought fruitful conversations with fellow technologists, allowing sponsors to network and connect without imposing attendees with a strong sales pitch, which puts…

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Supply chain problems could have positive impact on F&B industry

The chickens appear to be coming home to roost. Sadly, they don’t seem to have been roosting at Nando’s, McDonald’s and other foodservice companies, where shortages of the birds have at times prompted the temporary closure of certain units and resulted in menu changes. It’s not only the chickens that have been problematic though, because…

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Sustainable Fashion: Give Youth A Chance

Welcome to this column within our broader sustainability section which focuses on what fashion retailing is doing to address the issues in its industry. This month’s column wonders if the youngsters need to be brought in to achieve real change in fashion. Brought to you by Retail Insider with Clipper and Give Back Box. A large amount of…

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Innovative Retailer: Tillingham Wines

The Name: Tillingham Wines The Place: Nestled in a farmstead on the hills around Rye, Sussex since 2017, and selling domestically both online and through distributors as well as exporting internationally. The Story: Wine. Simple innit? Just buy a few acres, grow the things and then get the expert in to make the stuff. Bottle…

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Delivery Pains

We used to have chief executives but they have been gradually replaced by CEOs and many of the items we bought from retailers previously fell under the umbrella term FMCG but this has almost been superseded by the US equivalent CPG. Whether we like it or not we invariably end up adopting an endless stream…

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Poor stock visibility is unfashionable and increasingly unsustainable

Trends and themes for London Fashion Week are always going to be closely guarded secrets until the models actually walk down the catwalks but this year we can be pretty safe in predicting sustainability will be evident in many collections.  Despite the industry increasingly recognising the need to address this issue the fact is fashion…

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Retail Insider’s Transforming Retail Awards 2021: Shortlist announced

Retail Insider is delighted to reveal the shortlist for its fifth annual ‘Transforming Retail’ Awards of 2021 kindly supported by Talkdesk. The aim of the awards is to showcase the very best examples of innovation across the sector as decided by our independent panel of judges. This year’s panel comprised: Clodagh Moriarty, digital director at Sainsbury’s;…

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Acquirers of top-selling Amazon brands find going tough

One of the pioneering firms who built a business around acquiring top-selling brands on Amazon and rapidly scaling them is now driving growth from other areas having found the market becoming increasingly saturated with competitors. Thrasio has achieved great success with its novel strategy of buying out the independent owners of some of the most…

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