Clothing and fashion are very vulnerable to high street decline because online clothing sales only amount to 15% of total apparel sales, compared to perhaps half of all sales for books and consumer electronics. When the High Street ...
Almost 70 per cent of Australians would pay more for their clothes if they knew overseas workers were paid a decent wage and that garment factories had safe working conditions, according to a new Oxfam Australia survey. The survey, which ...
Buying clothes online but getting it wrong triggers a complex series of emotions that closely resemble the grief cycle, new research has found. While most unlikely to be as intense as mourning, the cycle of emotions that afflict a ...
Tags: United Kingdom, Textile, shopping online
The most recent million visits to Fits.me Virtual Fitting Rooms have contributed to sales of £6m, Fits.me reported. 75,000 customers use a Fits.me Virtual Fitting Room every month, with visitors recorded from 181 of the 190 sovereign ...
Tags: Virtual Fitting, Textile
With the rapidly increasing competition from e-commerce, several clothing retailers have started adopting high-end technologies, including easy-to-use apps with self-control facilities, to attract the customers and to reduce the cost of the ...
Tags: Virtual Dressing Room, Textile
With increasing challenges being faced from the rapidly increasing e-commerce portals, several clothing retailers have begun introducing online sales to compliment their brick and mortar stores. The brands which have introduced e-stores ...
Tags: Clothing Retailers, Clothing
Four more online clothing retailers – Henri Lloyd, John Smedley, Avenue32 (all UK) and Mexx (Netherlands) – have signed contracts to add Fits.me’s virtual fitting room solutions to their online stores, while Boden ...
Tags: clothing retailers, Textile
Fits.me announced total Series A investment in the company of close to £5 million. Series A investment has been subscribed by existing investor SmartCap, with new participation from Conor Venture Partners, Fostergate Holdings Limited ...
Tags: Textile, Textile Industry
With increasing competition from e-commerce, several clothing retailers are adopting high-end technologies to attract customers and to compete with online retailers. Seattle, US-based Hointer is an example of high-tech clothing ...
Retailers, franchisors and exporters of apparels from Philippines can consider Indonesia as a potentially lucrative market for their products, the Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (PHILEXPORT) said in its weekly news bulletin. Alma ...
Tags: Philippine clothing, clothing, apparels
Supermarket retailer Morrisons has selected Retail Assist’s supply chain solution Merret to support the launch of its new childrenswear brand, Nutmeg. The range will initially be launched in 100 Morrisons stores from 21st March 2013, ...
Tags: Morrisons, Retail Assist, Merret
Solving the ‘online fit’ problem became easier for clothing retailers with the launch of Fits.me’s all-new virtual fitting room and its brand new Fit Advisor size recommendation engine. The new version of the Fits.me ...
US-based apparel retailers have began 2013 on a positive note with most of them registering ‘better-than-expected’ sales in January, owing to the rising stock market, and growth in employment. The better sales have come ...
Tags: apparel retailers, 2013, sales
The latest research from KPMG and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) shows online shopping is still growing, despite a slowdown in the industry overall. Figures from the annual sales monitor study by the two organisations, published ...
Tags: Computer Products, Online Sales, UK Retail
Is the PE backed, Indian apparel retail industry growth story falling apart or turning sour? Considering the increasing number of garment retailers who are suffering from growing debt pressures, more so those funded by Private Equity (PE) ...
Tags: PE backed, Indian apparel retail industry, apparel retailers