Sportswear retailer Puma has announced it will be welcoming a new shoebox designed as part of the label’s sustainability initiative that aims to make a positive environmental impact across the entirety of the company. Supposedly saving around 2800 tonnes of cardboard a year, the new shoeboxes are made of over 95 percent recycled material and are...
Sep. 14, 2021
A visit to a traditional department store often goes something like this: entering the building into a vast beauty hall, an emporium of brands selling makeup and fragrances behind counters, spritzing customers with their latest perfumes, pushy sales advisors at the ready. The adjacent aisles feature displays of handbags, accessories and gifts,...
Sep. 12, 2021
A small huddle of cobblestoned streets on the western edge of downtown Manhattan located about halfway between the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels symbolizes the fortunes of NYC, a city in which the only constant is change. The Meatpacking District was first a native American trading post, then a military fort, before it became the center of meat...
Jun. 11, 2021
Last week the UK Business Travel Association launched a weekly Business Travel Tracker in partnership with Travelogic Data. The tracker analyses the economic value of business travel and illustrates the huge impact of the government’s traffic light system on the UK GDP. The first data released shows how much the UK is losing in contributions...
Jun. 1, 2021
Jaclyn Smith was a pioneer in the world of celebrity clothing lines. She signed with Kmart in 1985 to create apparel and accessories and the line still resonates with consumers today, holding firm as one of the retailer’s most reliable brands. Meanwhile other celebrity lines have come and gone––Sarah Jessica Parker, Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne,...
May 11, 2021
AUMA: Reopening of German exhibitions could begin with model projects at regional level The exhibition industry in Europe is starting to get off the ground or at least gaining opening prospects, for example in Spain, Great Britain and the Netherlands - but not in Germany. In Spain, a first national trade fair has taken place in Madrid under...
Apr. 15, 2021
Since the pandemic started, hundreds of thousands of retail locations have closed; some temporarily, many for good. While this trend has had a visible, almost immediate effect on retailers’ financials and strategies, there is another group of stakeholders who are facing unexpected challenges: Small investors. Commercial real estate has...
Apr. 7, 2021
The second quarter of 2021 should have been a time for economies reopening, and all eyes are on the UK and Germany to give an indication of consumer sentiment and retail sales. The UK and Germany Spend Insight Report by Fable Data shows UK spending the week of 15 March was up 1 percent on 2020 and down 1 percent YoY on a rolling 28 day basis....
Mar. 29, 2021
Nike’s earliest basketball shoe, the Blazer Mid, has been transformed. The shoe features a deconstructed, DYI approach featuring a thinner, more prolonged, half-stitched swoosh taking inspiration from the logo’s 1971 version. The shoe captures Readymade founder Yuta Hosokawa’s core design values and philosophy of upcycling. The shoe’s rubber...
Feb. 15, 2021
Metropolitan centers such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City are losing market share, according to Stylus trend analysis, while the heartland has shed the hillbilly stereotype and become a hotspot for authentic grassroots culture. 43 percent of under 30s in the US believe Facebook and Instagram have too many people on the platforms,...
Dec. 9, 2020
"Retail chains seem to forget that their employees are under enormous pressure to stay healthy, to work and to provide exceptional service as well. Before Covid-19, we already saw an increase of customer entitlement, now there is an extra layer: they don't want to be forced to wear a facemask or to social distance," says Christopher Lacy, former...
Nov. 6, 2020
International B2B Exhibition of Footwear, Bags, Leather and Components MosShoes will be held from March 01 till March 04, 2021 in Crocus Expo, Moscow. We are pleased to invite you to the key event of the leather and footwear industry in 2021 - the international specialized B2B exhibition of footwear, bags, accessories, leather and components -...
Nov. 3, 2020
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