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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Feb- 2019 -13 FebruaryAdvice
Sustaining success: Luxury fashion and the environment in 2019
Environmental concern is high on the agenda for retailers of all sectors, shapes and sizes at present, and as we look ahead to a new year the signs are that luxury fashion players are going to need to prove their eco-credentials if they are to maintain their brand equity in…
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Jan- 2019 -8 JanuaryOnline & Digital
Missguided posts £46.7m loss
Online fashion retailer Missguided has posted a £46.7m loss in its financial results for the 53 weeks ending 1 April 2018 in what it described as an “extremely challenging” year. This is compared with a loss of £1.6m in the 2017. The company said its profitability was “severely impacted” by…
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3 JanuaryClothing & Shoes
Moss Bros appoints former Missguided boss
Gareth Jones, former online chief executive of Missguided, has joined menswear retailer Moss Bros as a non-executive director. Jones left his role at Missguided after eight months in May last year having joined the online fashion store from his post as deputy chief executive at Shop Direct in December 2016.…
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Nov- 2018 -28 NovemberClothing & Shoes
Primark, Topshop and ASOS defend practices in Parliament
Primark, Arcadia, ASOS were among some of the retailers who had executives and representatives appear before the Environmental Audit Committee to answer questions on sustainability in their businesses. This was part of the Environmental Audit Committee’s ongoing inquiry into the sustainability of the fashion industry. Representatives from Marks and Spencer,…
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28 NovemberClothing & Shoes
Missguided inspectors ‘chased out’ of factory by workers
Clothing retailer, Missguided’s head of product quality Paul Smith, has said the company’s inspectors were “chased out” of a supplier’s factory by workers after asking questions about their sourcing. Smith also claimed his staff had been threatened and assaulted by workers at the Leicester factory. He said: “These were people…
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27 NovemberComment
Retail footfall: How to improve your store in 2019
Geaves Surfaces has looked into the UK retail industry to find the answers. Highlighting the market’s facts and figures, they’ve taken examples from leading stores around the world that are changing physical retail for the good, bringing customers back to their stores and offering something they cannot find online. What’s…
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26 NovemberClothing & Shoes
Missguided boss slammed by MPs for Parliamentary no-show
Nitin Passi, the CEO and founder of online retailer Missguided, has been criticised by MPs for refusing to appear in the Houses of Parliament as part of an investigation into fast fashion. In a letter to Passi, MP Mary Creagh chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, said she was “disappointed”…
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12 NovemberAdvice
How high street retailers can make it as ‘bricks and clicks’ companies
Next year Amazon is set to celebrate its 25th birthday, although much of the high street won’t be joining the party, with an estimated 38,900 UK retail jobs being lost or affected this year alone. The roll call of businesses that have entered administration, from House of Fraser to Poundworld…
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9 NovemberClothing & Shoes
Fast fashion brands called before Parliament
A number of online only fashion retailers have been asked to give evidence as part of the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the sustainability of the fashion industry. The chair of the committee has written letters to ASOS, Boohoo, PrettyLittleThing, Amazon and Missguided, published today (9 November), to the online…
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Jun- 2018 -12 JuneComment
Fast Fashion: The global battle
The fast fashion landscape is a crowded space. Spend a couple of minutes on a train platform, browsing Instagram, scrolling through Twitter or watching YouTube and the vast array of adverts, celebrity endorsers, vloggers and other assorted brand affiliates makes it clear that a fierce battle for the wallets of…
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