121 posts | Last entry Jun 07, 2018
At the Global Department Store Summit in London, Neil Clifford, CEO of Kurt Geiger, the world’s leading global luxury footwear retailer debated on whether the sneaker had reached peak sales.
Jun 07, 2018 | By Alice Gividen
After pouring over transcripts, interviewing dozens more teens, and locking themselves away for days, the experts at WGSN Insight proposed the “Gen Z equation”, a WGSN white paper that breaks down this deeply divided generation.
Jun 05, 2018 | By Emily Spiegel
Thinking about their future consumer priorities, Gen Z behaviour and how to build a strong brand, our WGSN experts are heading to the French Riviera to inspire creatives.
Jun 04, 2018 | By Catarina Lambranho
Embracing the importance of new voices, inter-generational perspectives, and a world where our emotional needs cannot be fulfilled by a smartphone, we will move away from tired marketing, traditional corporate structures, and mass consumption.
May 17, 2018 | By Lisa White
In the wake of Burberry’s results (revenue stayed broadly flat at 2%, but profits edged up 4% as CEO Marco Gobetti’s strategy started to show promising early signs), we evaluate the British brand’s strategy in context of the wider luxury market.
May 16, 2018 | By Nivindya Sharma
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has effectively reached and changed every corner of our lives, both personally and professionally, and chatbots are leaders of the pack. Josephine Perry reports for WGSN on the ways chatbots for business are revolutionising the world of work.
May 15, 2018 | By WGSN Insider
With Next’s latest financial results released this week, we look at ways in which the retailer is adjusting to the competitive mid-market space. WGSN Instock reports.
May 11, 2018 | By Emma Griffin
By bringing in regular but low volumes of products (compared to peers), Zara not only maintains regular levels of newness but creates ‘perceived scarcity’, thereby creating demand for its newness.
May 03, 2018 | By Nivindya Sharma
With its triumphant conversion from a catalogue to a digital retailer, the N Brown group provides a blueprint for success in a struggling mid-market, …
Apr 26, 2018 | By Emma Griffin
As Boohoo releases a stellar set of results, we look at how online pureplays have fundamentally transformed consumers’ expectations of the online shopping experience.
Apr 25, 2018 | By Nivindya Sharma
Inditex defies analysts’ expectations releasing strong sales for both in store and online channels - WGSN Barometer uses data to look at the reasoning.
Mar 14, 2018 | By Ilaria Pasquinelli
For the launch of the Barometer Menswear Survey in the UK, our proprietary consumer brand tracker, we interview influencers in the menswear space to better understand menswear consumers and trends.
Mar 10, 2018 | By Ilaria Pasquinelli