Posts under ‘Business Strategy’

Don’t get me wrong. Everyone at WGSN is crazy about what they do, it’s part and parcel of working in this business. And then there’s Jen Sherrin.
Jen  is National Sales Manager for  Australia and New Zealand and she is particularly passionate about what she does, who she meets and what she can do to help [...]

Burberry’s web 2.0 project, The Art of The Trench is now settling down to business as usual and it’s easier to see the true power of the project. For those of you who haven’t seen or read about it yet – and I am assuming you must have because boy has the Burberry press department [...]

Last week I met one of my heroes, Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, the people behind Blackberry. Hero is a big word, and here’s why - he’s a Canadian (me too) with a big, big vision. Mike is a physicist first and it is his passion - so when he talks [...]

Amanda Carr, our Senior Editor of Visual Merchandising has come in this morning buzzing about creativity on a budget. Plywood and vinyl are the materials du jour she says: “Let’s face it, visual merchandising budgets were never that big in the first place, so VM staff are well used to being creative on a budget, [...]

Tough market, tired customers, changeable weather, it’s a retailers nightmare out there right now. These days the increasingly savvy customer – and yes this is a global phenomenon - shops the web first, knows to wait for the ‘secret’ discounts that are increasingly prevalent, and if worst comes to worst is willing to wait until [...]

While the shows kick off in New York, London saw the soft launch of Katie Grand’s new Love on Saturday. Official publication date of the launch issue of Conde Nast’s new baby is Feb 19, but those reading Love’s blog knew that the title would be available for sale at Dover Street Market in London [...]

The role of creativity in business is one of those topics that everyone, on all sides of the debate, find tricky. Merchandisers, buyers, ceos and cfos all understand its importance and what it brings to their businesses. What they hate, whether they like to admit it or not, is that it isn’t quantifiable. It drives [...]

Who said that there were no more deals to be made? Hotel Costes was hopping on Friday afternoon with fashionistas. Usually it’s press who perch on their ruby velvet banquettes trading quotes for gossip. This time it was a consultant with at least two backers in her pocket romancing the owner of a well regarded [...]