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Selfridges: Why the best department store in the world is up for sale

Inside Retail

Why would the owners of Selfridges, generally considered to be the world’s best department store, decide to sell the business? To a far greater extent than most other department stores, Selfridges has embraced an experiential retail strategy that many industry leaders see as key to the sector’s survival. billion (AU$3.72

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Inside Mosaic’s pivot from specialty fashion to digital department store

Inside Retail

Mosaic Brands is seeing positive results from the implementation of a digital department store strategy across several of its core apparel brands, including Noni B, Rivers, Millers and Katies. Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry. Keeping costs down with drop-ship.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. In the 2000s the internet met fast fashion, and a slew of new competitors began to emerge.

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Art, community and creativity: Three shopping centres setting new standards

Inside Retail

Major department store, tick. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. These include Sweetgreen test kitchen, Van Leeuwen’s homemade ice-creamery, rooftop restaurant Margot with sweeping views of the city and the beautiful Bianca bakery at the base of the car park. Supermarket giant, tick. Cinema, tick.

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‘An exciting way to test a new market’: More fashion brands turn to rental

Inside Retail

Fulfilment by GlamCorner now sees the platform handling the logistics of clothing rental on behalf of fashion brands, including warehousing, cleaning, shipping and returns, and giving brands their own rental stores, which they can embed in their e-commerce sites and promote to customers.

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Gen Z: Merchants of cool or brand killers?

Inside Retail

My Gucci Marmont bag from Vestiaire Collective has shipped. Bagged a pre-loved bargain, supported circular fashion and didn’t even set foot in a store. I wrack my brains to remember when I last bought new clothes in-store. A generation that sees shopping as binary: “I want brand X, therefore I need to shop at store Y”.

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Frasers vs Next: How big are their growing retail empires?

Retail Gazette

As the pair continue to build their empires, Retail Gazette looks at what businesses the two groups own and their timeline of acquisitions. Former-JD Sports fashion brands Acquired: February 2023 At the start of the year JD Sports formally completed the divestment of non-core UK fashion brands to Frasers Group.

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