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. It also launched its Next Total Platform, offering an online, tech and logistics solution that can be licensed by smaller fashion brands to give them an online presence. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about Next and the fashion sector.
Budget-conscious Brits are keen to cut down on discretionary spending in the new year and the number one target for cutting down on budgets is fashion purchases, according to new data from Barclays.
The 150-year-old shoe retailer Russell & Bromley may lose its store estate as part of a breakup deal.
The company’s group sales, marketing and HR director joined the retailer as a sales assistant in 1985. She will retire from the company and step down from its executive board in May.
Fashion power Next traded strongly over Christmas, and flagged the benefit of its move onto the Zeos platform as a contributor to success.
Next has raised its full-year profit outlook once again after reporting a better-than-expected Christmas trading.
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