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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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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. Meanwhile, with traditional dropshipping, the goods will ship blind, without any marketing material that reveals the identity of the supplier.

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

Retail Gazette

Frasers Group stated that at the time of the acquisition, that the online fast fashion retailer owed £13m to its shareholders. The brand needed the loan while it sold through excess stock it was left with after shipping issues peak last year caused delivery delays. pre-pack administration deal in August 2019.

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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. In particular, Louis Vuitton’s 2000sqm outdoor installation honouring late artistic director Virgil Abloh is an absolute showstopper, featuring oversized sculptures, custom LV-branded shipping containers and giant technicolour murals. Cinema, tick.

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