Off-price retailing is growing, with high street and luxury fashion retailers launching spin-off brands to access this channel.
Notions of convenience have significantly sharpened in the last few years .
"Pile it high, sell it cheap" is typically what comes to mind when people think of value retailers, but in recent years some value operators have been modernising their propositions with clever innovations.
Christina Roseler of Pragma is interviewed in DFNI on the RPI of pop ups in travel retail.
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Ralph Fernando’s first book, Agile Strategy, will be published by Pearson/Financial Times Publishing in June 2019. Here he talks about writing the book.
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The value sector has grown considerably over the past ten years, with three trends in particular catching our eye.
For April 2019 we analyse performance and news and assess retailer births and deaths.
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Gardening is enjoying a resurgence in the UK. Worth £4.6bn in 2018, up 5% from 2017, this market is forecast to increase by 14% to 2022. Gardening is enjoying a resurgence in the UK.
The laundry and surface care sector is a sizeable market with interesting opportunities.
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As published in Professional Jeweller, Pragma’s top 10 tips for engaging with millennials and Gen Z consumers.
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Pragma is delighted to announce its partnership with Barclays Market and Customer Insights, a collaboration that will provide a greater understanding of customer behaviour and requirements.
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The 2019 Global Consumer Report created by Pragma and The Ebeltoft Group studies consumers in select markets to uncover their behaviors and attitudes and shares the insights across the world. This report links the four key trends to the innovation cases in Global Retail Trends & Innovations 2019.
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The emergence of the furniture rental market, worth an estimated $742m in the US market alone last year, can be attributed as much to modern-day economic necessity as to shifting consumer attitudes.
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Recently there has been a proliferation of fast fashion retailers launching homewares ranges through private labels.
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This month we look at the Retail 100, analyse performance and news and assess retailer births and deaths.
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Single-product brands selling direct to consumers (D2C) is not a new phenomenon in the home and furniture market. But is it a sustainable business model?
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Alex Avery explores how airport retail needs to adapt, moving from commoditised, functional retail towards one invested in sensory engagement and emotion.
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Among avid consumers in the luxury space, a brand can be akin to a sport or religion, engendering a fierce sense of personal attachment and loyal following.
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The recent tide of activity around women's empowerment and the rise of the #metoo and Time's Up movements which came to prominence in the film industry is now penetrating the fashion industry.
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This week we consider the increase in demand for clothing which delivers a winning blend of style and cutting edge functionality – a trend particularly resonant among active, male apparel consumers.
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