In the world of U.K. retail, few names are as prominent as Arcadia Group, the parent company of Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge and Wallis, among others. Arcadia’s apparel brands have long been mainstays of the British “high street,” a descriptor for the shops that populate U.K. towns’ main shopping drags, roughly the equivalent of…
The Lisa Frank aesthetic–dolphins, unicorns and lots of hearts and rainbows–is coming to a Los Angeles penthouse apartment available to rent from booking site Hotels.com and hospitality firm Barsala. Reservations for the Lisa Frank Flat will open Oct. 11–the annual Day of the Girl, incidentally–on Hotels.com. Stays are available from Oct. 11-27 for $199 per…
Assault weapons are for soldiers. This is not another decision being handed down by a hapless and corrupt government. And it’s not a debate. It’s action being taken by conscious CEOs like Ed Stack of Dick’s Sporting Goods. According to the local CBS station in Pittsburgh, it was just after the Sandy Hook attack that […]
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Japanese beauty and personal care brand Shiseido has acquired clean beauty company Drunk Elephant. According to Bloomberg, the $845 million deal will allow Drunk Elephant to use Shiseido’s infrastructure to expand into Europe and Asia, as well continuing to reach more markets in the U.S. Drunk Elephant is set to bring in more than $100…
Six months after raising $100 million, landing unicorn status (valued at $1.4 billion), the digitally native brand Away is looking to dominate the soft-side luggage market in the same way it became a household name in hard luggage. For the past four years, Away has built out a market for hard-side luggage with heavy content…
September is a time typically synonymous with shopping. Back-to-school deals run rampant, and the promise of a new season–and all the clothes that come with it–urge shoppers to visit stores and refresh their fall wardrobes. But the usual draws failed to lure in customers in the U.K. this past September. High street stores–an area packed…
As the CBD industry continues to grow and become more established, bigger players are starting to throw their hats into the ring. Shopify and BigCommerce both announced different ways in which their ecommerce platforms would begin offering support to CBD merchants. Now Square is joining, but it’s upping the stakes by making it easier to…
You may not know what you’re going to be for Halloween yet, but the National Retail Federation (NRF) knows roughly how much you’re going to spend during the upcoming holiday season. The retail trade association released its holiday sales forecast for 2019, which predicts an increase of 3.8%-4.2% over 2018, for a total of $727.9…
Erin Andrews thought it would be a nice, fresh change from the sportswear that’s out there. The sports broadcaster has a new line of clothing out in partnership with the National Football League. The new line, dubbed WEAR–a play on Andrews’ initials–is available online on NFL team shops and in some NFL team shops today….
Shoppers in the United Kingdom may be increasingly comfortable with personalization in retail, but they still have reservations, a new study reveals. Personalization is playing a larger role in ecommerce, mainly due to the growing amount of data available to retailers to use to create more specific experiences tailored to consumers. In the study, Floris…
Marie Gulin-Merle currently wears two hats at fashion house Calvin Klein, as global CMO of the brand and chief digital officer of parent company PVH Corp. One of her first orders of business since taking on the latter role in May was to bring marketing functions under one roof. That’s easier said than done. On…
While some may believe that millennials and Gen Z might prefer shopping digitally, the contrary actually appears to be true. When Walmart recently stopped selling handguns and handgun ammunition, the move was in reaction to the mass shooting at its El Paso, Texas, store last month. But it also probably had to do with the…
Unlike the usual direct-to-consumer narrative of starting with just an online audience, Versed–which first rolled out in Target stores–is now pushing into ecommerce. The beauty line, a new skincare line only five months old, filled shelves in 1,850 Target stores. Then, the brand arrived at Revolve, Riley Rose and Dermastore shops in July. Now, after…
Stop & Shop may be a mainstay in the northeast part of the United States, with nearly 400 locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island–but the grocery store’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize, is located far from its American locations, in the city of Zaandam in the Netherlands, just across a canal…
This story is part of a weeklong series on climate change and sustainability. It’s in partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global journalism initiative to cover climate change in the week leading up to the U.N. summit on climate change in New York on Sept. 23. Click here to learn more about the initiative and…
From Rent the Runway to Adorn, rental companies are all over Instagram feeds. But why are consumers renting instead of buying, and who is part of this trend? According to new data from market research firm Lab42, most renters are Gen Zers and millennials looking to make practical choices. The most common reason for renting…
There’s plenty of data pointing to the growing need for plus-size fashion, whether it’s Plunkett Research’s findings that 68% of American women are wearing a size 14 or above, or that, according to market research firm NPD, one-third of women consumers believe they’re plus-size. Companies like Modcloth, Target and Reformation are attempting to fill that…
As many direct-to-consumer brands can attest, advertising today is a completely different game than in years past, with rising customer acquisition costs and a crowded field of companies all trying to reach the same millennial audience. Even the social landscape is different from just a couple years ago, and a new Facebook report points out…
With the CBD market expected to become a $22 billion industry by 2022, it was only a matter of time before the U.S.’s third largest shopping site, Shopify, allowed hemp and hemp-derived CBD products onto its platform. Shopify announced that, starting today, CBD sellers can now join the platform’s more than 800,000 global merchants and…
Despite the overabundance of meal kits and the resources to turn any cooked dish into an Instagram masterpiece, millennials are eating out more compared to other generations. And yet, direct-to-consumer startups from Great Jones to Potluck are swooping in to change up the habits of a generation that’s supposedly used to tapping their way to…
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