All Yours Clothing articles
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Data
Data: Aldi tops ranking of most productive retailers
Aldi leads the top 30 most productive multichannel retailers with a product offer that appeals to cash-strapped consumers and its focus on efficiency, a Retail Week report launched today reveals.
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News
Exclusive: Plus-size brand dominates fastest-growing fashion retailers
Yours Clothing has ranked higher than fashion giants including Inditex, Primark and Next to be named the fastest-growing fashion retailer in the UK, Retail Week can reveal.
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Data
Ranking: The 30 fastest-growing fashion retailers revealed
It has been a tough few years for fashion, and retailers have been battling to lead on style, value and quality despite skyrocketing return rates, competition for customer loyalty and bold sustainability targets.
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News
Remaining M&Co stores to close this spring
Another raft of M&Co stores have closed their doors this month, with the rest set to follow this spring, following confirmation of AK Retail Holdings’ acquisition of the fashion retailer in February this year.
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News
M&Co snapped up by Yours Clothing owner AK Retail Holdings
M&Co has been bought out of administration by the Peterborough-based business AK Retail Holdings, which owns Yours Clothing, Long Tall Sally, BadRhino and maternity brand Bump It Up.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Yours Clothing (Overview)
Yours Clothing is a rapidly growing, plus-size omnichannel clothing specialist, with an increasing international presence.
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Yours Clothing (Financials)
Sales grew by more than a third (+34.2%) for the 2022 financial year to 29 January 2023 (FY2022), having surged 73.9% to £174.2m the previous year as stores recovered from temporary closures during the pandemic. Material sourcing and increased transport costs continued to prove challenging in FY2022 but the retailer maintained tight cost control around stock purchases and other areas of company expenditure.
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Yours Clothing (SWOT)
With a strong message that fashion is for everybody, Yours Clothing is in tune with a surge in support for realness and diversity in relation to body image, which has really gained momentum over the past couple of years. Encouraging a sense of inclusivity among plus-size shoppers and engaging with a vibrant online community, the brand’s upbeat and proactive social media voice is proving to be an effective marketing tool.
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Yours Clothing (Strategy)
The UK-based, plus-size fashion retailer has been reviewing the performance of its stores, which has led to a raft of closures. It continues to invest in its omnichannel model, including wholesale operations, as well as maintaining tight cost controls both in stock purchases and other expenditure.
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Yours Clothing (People)
CEO Andrew Killingsworth founded Yours Clothing in the early 90s and remains on board as its hands-on CEO.
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Ecommerce at Yours Clothing
Ecommerce sales are a significant part of Yours Clothing’s success with the company making constant improvements to its platform and website content.
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Customer and marketing at Yours Clothing
Yours Clothing is a lifestyle brand, actively engaging with the plus-size community.
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Stores at Yours Clothing
Yours had been building up its UK store network to enable it to develop along fully multichannel lines but in recent years it has been reviewing the performance of its stores, which has led to a raft of closures.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Technology strategy at Yours Clothing
Rapid expansion at home and abroad has come hand in hand with technological investment at Yours Clothing.
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Supply chain at Yours Clothing
Yours Clothing’s investment of more than £4m into a 142,000 sq ft headquarters in Peterborough is part of the company’s commitment to improving its infrastructure and supporting growth.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
Yours Clothing (Outlook)
Although it had been rapidly expanding its store estate, while investing online at home and abroad, Yours Clothing has more recently been reining in its physical expansion, with a raft of closures of under performing stores over the past couple of financial years.
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Indicator
Revealed: How the UK’s top retailers rank on digital
Amazon has topped Indicator, Retail Week’s benchmarking of the UK’s top retailers’ digital prowess.
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Indicator
Fashion ranking 2019
Retail Week Indicator has reviewed all areas of a customer’s digital shopping journey. How do the fashion retailers size up?