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Interview
Jody Plows: The CEO transforming Nobody’s Child into more than ‘just a dress brand’
As Nobody’s Child, the fashion brand backed by retail giant M&S, continues to go from strength to strength, chief executive Jody Plows reflects on the journey so far and her plans to make it into a global lifestyle brand.
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Interview
Doorstep stylist: Harper founder Liam Young on reinventing online try-on
Founder and chief executive Liam Young talks to Retail Week about his business Harper, which swaps delivery drivers for a style concierge.
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Opinion
‘Even by its own measures, Boohoo faces a long path to recovery’
Boohoo’s KPIs did not tell a happy story when the retailer posted its annual results this week, and achieving sustainable and profitable success will be a challenge as competitors such as Shein grow, writes George MacDonald
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Analysis
Matches: Is there a future for the bust luxury retailer?
Following Frasers’ acquisition of certain intellectual property assets of Matches, Retail Week takes a look at what’s next for the luxury specialist and if there’s any light at the end of the tunnel
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Analysis
When counterfeits got cool: how can retail tackle the rise of the dupe?
If cheap imitations have grown cooler than the real thing, what does that mean for retailers who have built their business off the original? How much damage could this do? And what steps can they take to combat the trend?
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Innovation of the Week
Walmart trials ecommerce in the metaverse on Roblox
Innovation of the Week is a subscriber-only series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our team.
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Data
Ranking: The top 15 most productive fashion retailers
We’ve teamed up with our sister brand Retail Navigator to give you a rundown of the fashion retailers that have the lowest cost of staff to sales ratio, and are therefore the most productive players in the sector.
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Interview
Q&A: Online Home Shop CEO Moshe Cohen on its explosive growth
After featuring in the Times 100 ranking of the fastest-growing private UK companies two years in a row, OHS chief executive Moshe Cohen sat down with Retail Week to discuss its new board, managing rapid growth and keeping ahead of the competition.
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Opinion
‘As Vinted dominates pre-loved fashion, are retailers missing a trick?’
Earlier this month, eBay scrapped seller fees on consumer-to-consumer fashion and it’s no wonder – the secondhand market for clothing is soaring. But there is one problem for established players such as eBay and Depop: the exodus of customers switching to Vinted
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Data
Revealed: The most-popular value retailers online
With the value sector remaining popular with UK shoppers, Retail Week teamed up with SimilarWeb to track which discount retailers have been seeing the most traffic to their websites over the past two years
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Opinion
‘Asos and Superdry will remain fashion victims unless they win back customers’
While Asos and Superdry can tinker with things behind the scenes as much as they like, neither brand seems able to articulate how they plan to go about attracting new customers or winning old ones back.
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Data
Ranking: The fastest-growing retail brands in the UK
Retail Week can reveal the brands that have found impressive growth despite some of the toughest operating conditions.
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Data
What makes Screwfix’s enviable ecommerce strategy stand out?
Screwfix is among the top 30 UK retailers recognised by analysts for leading ecommerce performance in the new Top 30 Ecommerce Retailers report. Here we deep-dive into the DIY brand’s digital model
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Analysis
What does the future hold for The Very Group under a new CEO?
The Very Group has just promoted its retail managing director Robbie Feather to group CEO with current chief executive Lionel Desclée departing on April 26 to “pursue new opportunities”.
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Opinion
‘As Shein leads global fashion, there’s opportunity to differentiate on what it cannot do’
Shein became the world’s biggest fashion retailer in 2023. Retail Week data and insights director Lisa Byfield-Green considers the implications of Shein’s rise and identifies winning strategies its competitors can adopt in response
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Innovation of the Week
From next-gen AI to Apple Vision Pro: 13 global retail innovations shaking up the industry
Here we bring you the latest quarterly roundup of 13 innovations that caught our attention over the past three months, from ways to protect store staff to Apple’s latest device and an explosion of new AI tools.
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Data
Data: Sosandar and Superdrug smash ecommerce growth – find out how
The UK retailers winning at ecommerce, with the highest online sales growth for FY22, have been revealed in a new Retail Week report
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Analysis
Shein vs Temu: battle of the ecommerce beasts
Two online behemoths, one fierce fight. Shein and Temu have dominated headlines as they lock horns to win popularity, market share and customers. These rivals are changing the retail landscape as we know it, but which one will come out on top?
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Analysis
Kingfisher: Four ways the B&Q owner plans to patch up growth in 2024
With low confidence and poor weather raining on shoppers’ grand home improvement plans, how is Kingfisher planning to patch things up over the next 12 months or so?
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Interview
Listen to World Retail Congress’ new podcast
World Retail Congress has launched its first podcast to take its world-class content beyond the conference stage to give you year-round insight from retail leaders across the globe.