Retail/Brands
Retail/Brands
Data and analyses of the cotton textile retail sector, including fiber share by category.
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Amazon Rising
Once upon a time in retail, there were category killers -- stores so powerful in a particular type of offering, they knocked off their smaller competitors. Then along came an…
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An Active Opportunity
If you think activewear makers were excited when the athleisure boom took place in the U.S., imagine how interesting the Chinese market is to them.
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Gen Z
In an interesting interaction at a recent New York women's apparel trade show, a vendor was asked if she considers Gen Z part of her customer reach, and if so,…
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Fun & Games
You know what people do within minutes of waking up everyday? After sadly reconciling that they can't just turn over and go back to sleep and then kicking the pets…
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A Good Season Overall
Perhaps one of the most convoluted questions of the New Year is: how did retail do over the holidays?
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Active Retailing
They're baaa-aaack. And they're as scary as ever. It's that time of year when all the calories that were happily consumed over the holidays have come back to haunt us…
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All Eyes Ahead
It will be a few weeks before we know how things shook out for Holiday 2016. But industry experts already know what trends to anticipate for the coming year. Some…
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Putting Creativity to the Holiday Test
The big holidays are just days away, and retailers are in the final push to get their merchandise out of their stores and warehouses and into customers' homes. Drumming up…
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Modern Shopping
It's the holidays and let's face it: discounts and promos are the biggest retail driver of the season. Sure, certain things like Hatchimals and Snapchat Spectacles will whip up the…
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Getting Technical
Technology has come to fashion in a major way -- whether in wearables, high-tech fabrics or Internet of Things pieces that "talk" to the wearer.