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Inside Ikea’s innovation strategy: Stores, AI and supply chain
Oct 12, 2023 · Retail Week and WRC’s Global Innovation Report explores how retailers across 18 markets – from Carrefour in France to Alibaba in China – are investing to future-proof their businesses. We take you inside Ikea’s plan of action.
What makes Lululemon’s supply chain strategy so great?
Jul 16, 2023 · The retailer has been a long-term advocate of product lifecycle management (PLM) software. This tech helps retailers ensure that the journey products take from idea stage to creation and development is tracked in one central place across different territories and departments, optimising supply chains as a result.
Ranking: The UK’s biggest fashion retailers and where they’ll be in ...
Thanks to exclusive data from Retail Week’s sister brand Retail Navigator by Lumina Intelligence, we can reveal how the landscape for fashion retail is going to change over the next few years – and which brands are set to dominate our high streets and wardrobes.
What can retailers learn from Aldi’s supply chain strategy?
Aug 13, 2023 · Aldi’s business model is based on driving down costs and creating efficiencies throughout the supply chain. From a technology perspective, huge advancements are in the pipeline – with the grocery chain receiving approval in 2021 for a 1.3 million sq ft site in Leicestershire that will include a semi-automated distribution centre and office space just 20 miles from the company’s head ...
Zara: latest news, analysis and trading updates | Retail Week
Jun 18, 2024 · Zara. Zara is a Spanish fashion retailer founded in 1975. It is the largest company in the Inditex group, which includes Bershka, Pull & Bear and Stradivarius.
Cider: What you need to know about the fast-fashion brand …
As the fast fashion sphere becomes more competitive than ever, Retail Week sheds light on rapidly rising fast-fashion brand Cider and why it’s giving Shein a run for its money.
Next: latest news, analysis and trading updates - Retail Week
Oct 31, 2024 · Next. FTSE 100-listed Next is the largest clothing retailer by sales in the UK, As well as stores, it has a growing marketplace platform selling brands such as Calvin Klein, Reiss, Fat Face, Joules, Dorothy Perkins, Warehouse and Ralph Lauren.
The secrets of Gymshark’s customer-centred success
Jul 14, 2020 · With businesses fighting hard to re-engage their customers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Gymshark is one company that retailers could learn some lessons from, says Daniela Cicoria, senior customer success manager at Vision Critical.
Analysis: Why Ken Murphy believes Tesco will thrive in its ‘next ...
Oct 6, 2021 · Buoyed by a strong first-half performance, chief executive Ken Murphy today unveiled what he called “the next chapter for Tesco”. Four new strategic priorities: ‘magnetic value for customers’; ‘I love my Tesco Clubcard’; ‘easily the most convenient; and ‘save to invest’.