All Missguided articles
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NewsAsda to partner with In The Style as it rules out George sale
Asda’s new owners the Issa brothers have committed to keeping the retailer’s George brand and unveiled plans to partner with third parties to attract younger customers.
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Analysis
The Big Question: Do fashion retailers need stores any more?
As online-only businesses such as Boohoo and Asos snap up struggling fashion players who have suffered tumbling store sales during the pandemic, Retail Week asks whether fashion still needs a bricks-and-mortar footprint in 2021.
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Analysis
Black Friday 2020 deal tracker: What promotions retailers are running
Deals are already under way for Black Friday 2020, which is predicted to be a bumper event for online retailers. Retail Week tracks the promotions being run by the UK’s biggest retailers this year.
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Analysis
Life in lockdown: How retailers can manage an ecommerce Christmas
In the latest instalment of our Golden Quarter content series, where Retail Week delves into the trends and challenges of a very different Christmas trading period, we look at what retailers can do to deliver an ecommerce Christmas at a time when non-essential stores are forced to close.
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Deep dive
Deep dive: A Covid Christmas – how consumers will spend, shop and celebrate
Much like the rest of 2020, this Christmas will be like none in recent memory. With the country now in recession and the coronavirus pandemic still restricting many aspects of people’s lives, Retail Week asks how, where and on what shoppers are likely to spend this Golden Quarter, along with insights and predictions from leading retailers and industry analysts.
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Analysis
Analysis: How fashion retailers can offload £15bn of old stock without huge Sales
With non-essential retail stores just weeks away from reopening their doors, many retailers now have to contend with the excess out-of-season stock that has piled up in both stores and warehouses.
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Gallery
Gallery: The head-turning stores designed for Instagram
From oversized lollipops to millennial pink, Retail Week explores how retailers are winning in the social media space.
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Analysis
Analysis: Chief strategy officer? Isn’t that the CEO’s job?
Strategy directors are de rigueur, with Asos, JLP and M&S all making big hires. But are they “a fashion accessory”, as one chief executive claims, or a necessary exec role in today’s fast-changing climate?
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Analysis
Interview: What Missguided’s boss learnt from ‘self-inflicted’ mistakes
After a difficult two years, Missguided is starting to see progress as its EBITDA swings back into the black. Boss Nitin Passi talks to Retail Week about the tough year Missguided has been through, the lessons he learnt and why stores in the UK are a no-go
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News
Missguided teams up with holiday comparison site
Missguided has joined forces with online holiday comparison site Icelolly.com to offer customers the chance to compare holidays alongside shopping for fashion items.
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News
Retailers make ‘significant progress’ to cut carbon emissions
Several leading retailers have reduced their impact on the environment as part of the BRC’s ‘Better Retail Better World’ initiative.
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Analysis
Analysis: Will Instagram be your biggest sales channel?
As Instagram sets out its plans to move from social to shopping, we ask if the platform can be retail’s next big sales channel?
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Opinion
Missguided supply boss: Don’t demonise fashion’s democratisation
The retail sector’s issues around sustainability and ethics go much deeper than sounding off about a £1 bikini, says Missguided head of product quality and supply base Paul Smith
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Opinion
Opinion: Government rejection of fashion 1p tax is a cop-out
The government has rejected an additional tax on retail, news that might normally be welcomed, so overburdened with levies is this industry.
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Analysis
Five ways retailers are solving the returns problem
As retailers continue to battle with serial returners and ‘wardrobers’ – people who wear something once then send it back – Retail Week looks at five ways retailers are trying to solve the returns problem
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Data
Online search ranking: House of Fraser bounces back online in Q4
Updated quarterly, our online search ranking – in association with Pi Datametrics – charts the top 20 clothing and accessory websites by product search terms.
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News
Missguided rejigs digital team as Wall departs
Missguided’s chief digital officer Jonathan Wall has been appointed as UK general manager at home security business Simplisafe.
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Analysis
Retail resolutions 2019: Rob Collins, Nitin Passi and Mark Bourgeois
As the new year nears, retail leaders share their resolutions for 2019 with Retail Week.
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Analysis
Analysis: Retail's biggest hires, fires and feuds in 2018
There have been many entrances and exits in the retail sector in the past year. Here is a snapshot of 2018’s most important hires and fires.
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Analysis
Comeback kid: Missguided's Nitin Passi on a difficult year
Missguided founder Nitin Passi has had a challenging year but is, he insists, “energised” for a fightback in 2019.
