Missguided
This coverage explores Missguided’s strategy, challenges, and performance in the UK fast fashion market. Reporting covers financial results, administration proceedings, leadership changes, brand repositioning, and supply chain issues — offering insight for retail executives, buyers, and managers tracking trends, risks, and opportunities in fast fashion and online retail.
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Mar- 2021 -18 MarchHealth & Beauty
Superdrug launches Missguided beauty collection
Superdrug has announced the launch of a Missguided beauty range at its stores across the UK. Debuting this week, the range offers 27 trending beauty products at the exclusive bricks and mortar stockist. The collection represents a further expansion into the beauty industry for Superdrug, whose portfolio of brands already…
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1 MarchClothing & Shoes
GFG welcomes first profitable year
Global Fashion Group (GFG) has announced its first adjusted EBITDA positive year for FY20 at €16.4m (£14.1m), its first profitable year, and an increase from the previous year’s loss of €37.1m (£32m), which was attributed to a “strong” fourth quarter. The company also saw gross profit in Q4 increase to…
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Jan- 2021 -6 JanuaryComment
How retailers can build a strong digital presence
Despite the announcement of a COVID vaccine last week, it’s clear that consumers’ shopping habits won’t be returning to ‘normal’ anytime soon. Even before the crisis, the high street had been fighting a losing battle against Amazon and the wider shift towards e-commerce. This has only accelerated as lockdown restrictions…
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Dec- 2020 -9 DecemberComment
The building blocks of app commerce
As the UK Government brings in a new wave of regulations to try to limit the spread of the Covid-19 virus, retailers are entering their most competitive virtual holiday season yet. It is vital that retailers allocate enough focus and resource to their mobile apps as the channel that will…
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Jul- 2020 -20 JulyClothing & Shoes
UK retailers call for ‘urgent action’ to end labour exploitation
A number of fashion retailers including Asos, Missguided, River Island and M&S have called on the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to take “urgent action” to address exploitation in the UK’s fashion supply chain. Retailers including George at Asda, Joules, Matalan, Morrisons, Mountain Warehouse, N Brown, Next and The Very Group,…
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Mar- 2020 -27 MarchComment
Social shopping is all the rage – but at what cost for retailers?
In recent years, social commerce has become a lucrative way for retailers to easily access new and existing customers through solutions that are easily integrated into a variety of social media platforms. Social commerce has grown quickly, with platforms such as Facebook’s Marketplace and Instagram allowing for a seamless shopping…
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Feb- 2020 -25 FebruaryComment
The changing face of retail in the age of digitisation
Retail: the 2020 snapshot It’s no secret that high street retail in Britain has been struggling for the past decade. Since the collapse of Woolworths in 2009, it has been clear that something, somewhere, has been going very wrong on the Great British high street. In fact, currently it is…
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May- 2019 -30 MayClothing & Shoes
N Brown hires first chief brand officer from Missguided
Jacamo owner, N Brown has announced it has appointed Kenyatte Nelson from Missguided as its first ever chief brand officer. At Missguided, Nelson is currently chief customer officer and before that spent three years as group marketing director at Shop Direct. Nelson will begin his new role with N Brown…
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Apr- 2019 -15 AprilAdvice
An opportunity for fashion retailers to shine
Almost everywhere we turn there are proclamations of retail doom, high street downfall and talk that things have never been so tough. Just last month, the fashion retailer Select announced that it was preparing to call in the administrators, putting 2,000 jobs at risk. However, there has also been some…
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Mar- 2019 -13 MarchAdvice
Reimagining the retail bridge between online and offline shopping
The rise of retail giants like Amazon is a widely documented trend with many digital, built-in-the-cloud market entrants having overtaken and displaced the entrenched high street brands we’ve loved and are now losing. However, as more bricks-and-mortar retailers expand their e-commerce offerings and online giants increasingly begin to physically ‘set…
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