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Reshaping the Apparel Business

This paper focuses briefly on the recent trends which are followed in Apparel retailing. Retail business in India has transformed from traditional mom and pop stores to big retail chains. We can...

India comes under Global Spotlight among Emerging Retail Markets

Despite the shooting pain of recession, current economy has proved favorable to the retail sector of India, making the country to top the Retail Index at a global level. Among 30 emerging countries...

Retailing: A Buzz of Flourishing Business

Retailing in India has expanded its horizons in last few years offering ample amount of opportunities to Indian business Diasporas. Reasons are simple; India has the youngest population in the world. ...

Brands That Have the Power to Change the Retail World

Of all the market categories, retail offers the broadest canvas for any brand to show its true colours. From the understanding of a market that gives birth to a strategy. From the creation of...

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

During a recession, retailers should focus on retaining current customers, adjusting pricing strategies, and maintaining advertising to gain market share. Offering additional services and...

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

Globalisation has intensified competition in the apparel and footwear industry, with companies now managing design, sourcing, and distribution. Shorter product lifecycles, increased SKUs, and complex ...

Imagine a cricketer, once an exciting player but now aged 45, having put on oodles of weight, too...
Posted by
Rahul Mehta
Effective quality management starts with a quality policy. Effectiveness is the extent to which...
Posted by
Pradip Mehta
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey concluded that a majority of US companies are having...
Posted by
Bill D’Arienzo
Indians are too enamoured of Hollywood. We can’t help it. We have been conditioned this way. The...
Posted by
Anurag Batra
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
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
A few years later, the same process is now taking place in textile printing, and this has never...
Posted by
Gabi Seligsohn
Luxury is a lifestyle, and fashion is just a minuscule part of it. Businesswise-the most visible or ...
Posted by
Abhay Gupta
The focus in research and development (R&D) is now more and more set on new sustainable products...
Posted by
Fanny Vermandel