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Esprit back in the red as troubled fashion brand bets on licensing (opens the original)
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Flailing apparel brand Esprit is back in the red again, reporting a net loss for the first half-year of HKD87.735 million (US$11.2 million). The company in 2024 began its exit from the business it had been engaged in since its founding in 1968 – designing, producing and retailing apparel – in favour of becoming a brand rights management company, licensing the Esprit name to third parties to take their own chances on its popularity and relevance. A year ago, there were brief signs the strategy mi
Retail’s ant-to-elephant problem: When growth breaks the supply chain model (opens the original)
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Supply chains rarely break overnight. Typically, warning signs begin with creeping inventory costs, harder-to-control warehouse labour, transport bills that exceed budget, or customers complaining about delayed or incorrect orders. Peter Jones, MD and founder of Prological Consulting, explains that those factors are often symptoms of a bigger problem: The business has grown beyond the operating model that helped make it successful. “The business that starts out small, nimble, and flexible can do
Balancing heritage and relevance: How Carmen Chiu builds brands in Asia (opens the original)
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For Carmen Chiu, building global brands in Asian markets starts with a simple question: What makes a brand meaningful to consumers who may not know its history? The director of branded products at Hong Kong-headquartered Maxim’s Food Group has spent much of her career answering that question, with previous roles at Ferrero, Godiva, Fortnum & Mason and Shanghai Tang. Speaking with Inside Retail’s Amie Larter in the latest edition of the video series Retail Transformers, Chiu’s approach is clearly
Why AI may make retail’s frontline employees more valuable, not less (opens the original)
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Within retail, there is much debate around whether unmanned stores and AI can potentially replace frontline labour. But the experience of Alex Ng, co-founder and CEO of Intellify, has led him to a different conclusion: AI may be more useful in removing routine interactions from human employees so they have more time for the customers that matter most. Ng’s own thinking changed when Intellify attempted to apply the model it had developed for unmanned convenience retail stores to Singapore’s Mint
The next supply chain advantage is connected decision-making. Here’s why (opens the original)
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Retailers have largely solved the challenge of producing better forecasts. The next challenge is making thousands of planning decisions faster and more consistently across organisations where supply chain, pricing, promotions and merchandising still operate in silos. Mike Taylor, director of solution strategy at Relex Solutions, argues that the next competitive advantage is not so much around predicting demand, but more about connecting every planning decision that follows. Much of the past inve
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