Archive | January, 2018

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9 Failing Fashion Retailers in Intensive Care

Despite the dire threats of a retail apocalypse, retailers pulled it out last year. The retail sector, excluding automobiles and parts, saw a 4.4% increase in 2018 over 2017, with nonstore, including ecommerce retailers setting the pace, up 10.4%. But last year, not all retail segments were so fortunate. While shoppers were busy furnishing and updating […]

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Amazon’s Customer Loyalty Is Amazing: Time to Become a Third-Party Seller?

Amazon’s results over the past holiday season are mind-blowing. While the company holds some data close to its vest, like the number of customers that ordered and the dollar amounts those orders represented, it reported that this past Cyber Monday was the single biggest shopping day in Amazon’s history, surpassing Prime Day 2017, which until […]

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Luxury Kitchens Sell the Home: Design Trends

Recently some 60,000+ people gathered in Orlando, FL at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) hosted by the National Kitchen and Bath Association. It’s where companies that supply the kitchen and bath trade showcase their wares to interior designers, retailers and dealers, architects, builders, and remodelers. KBIS is part of Design and Construction Week […]

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Hallmark Is Paying the Price from Abandoning What Made It Great

A recent study of US consumer companies’ brand reputations placed the venerable Hallmark brand in its top ten list. With a score of 82.4 points it ranked as the #4 brand behind Rolex, Sony and Lego, according to the 2017 Consumer RepTrak report from the Reputation Institute, which surveys on more than 5,000 companies across 22 countries […]

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Luxury Industry Insiders Predict Growth for the Industry, and their Companies, in 2018

The industry’s biggest challenges and opportunities for luxury brands revealed A new survey among 600 luxury industry executives and companies that support the luxury industry in marketing, advertising and technology strategies found that the industry’s biggest challenges and opportunities for growth revolve around the same trend: the rise of the digital economy. “The digital revolution […]

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