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Crystal Gazing: Trends for Apparel Retailers

Global, apparel market place is now going through a paradigm shift moving towards increased product differentiation, and customers becoming more diverse, and demanding. What are the changing...

Digital Signage-Useful Technology

All manner of industry and trade can and do use Digital signage to attract attention to themselves. Take the classic case of the retail industry for example. They set up in-store digital media...

CFM-Customer Focused Merchandising

'Top Ten Tips for being a CFM Merchandiser' In today's extremely competitive apparel industry, CFM-Customer Focused Merchandising is the single most important factor that can differentiate you...

Fashion Turns to IT as the Smart Way to Combat Hard Times

Whilst retail in general is bearing the brunt of the downturn, fashion is feeling more pain than most. Here, Retail Assist's Product Director, Nigel Illingworth, describes ways in which fashion...

Selling Apparels through Recession

Financial problems are growing in an alarming rate even for big retailers and suppliers. Small and medium sized retailers see their cash flows drying up. Businesses are scrambling, to make sales, and ...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) From Right Brain to Retail: Cutting Time-to-Market with PLM

Globalization has made the apparel and footwear industry more challenging than ever. Many companies that used to manufacture, today also design, source and distribute. There is greater competition,...

Retailer's Strategies to Cope Up Economic Crisis

In this study, the author has tried to explore the complementary effects of economic crisis on Indian retail sector. In this concern, I explain the concept of retailing, economic crisis and proposed...

Giant Retail Stores vs. Small Street Stores

Fight to grab a market pie between big and small is very base of nature and history. However; who paramount who, shall always depend upon the legal, economic, social, environmental, political, and...

Costing and Negotiation Skills for Merchants in Apparel Supply Chain

It's that time of the year again. The beginning of a new season, proto sampling deadlines, endless coordination with fabric suppliers and garment vendors to stick to the dates to make sure the...

Tail of Retail

Gone are the days, when consumers were the underdog upon the mercy of thankless Sellers. When prices were the strings of moving the puppet (Consumer) as per their desires, Monopoly was the key...

Effective quality management starts with a quality policy. Effectiveness is the extent to which...
Posted by
Pradip Mehta
A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
Posted by
Gabi Seligsohn
Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
It was not very long ago that people who shopped online in India were considered 'ahead of time'....
Posted by
Arun Sirdeshmukh
Is your business ready for Textiles 4.0? Before you can say, 'Yes', 'No', 'May be' or 'I don't...
Posted by
Aseem Prakash
Why do I ask if India can afford to miss the bus again? Because whether we like it or not, whether...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
Posted by
Bill D’Arienzo
The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
Posted by
Fanny Vermandel
Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
Posted by
Anurag Batra
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
Posted by
Abhay Gupta