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In 2017, this segment produced 453 billion euros all around the world, and it is expected that, in 2021, the figure will escalate up to 510 billion euros, according to the report Luxury and cosmetics financial factbook, by EY.

The travel retail market has tripled its size since 2002. However, the expenses of passengers have reduced in their figure during the last five years, according to report Why Travel Retail Needs an Upgrade, carried out by Boston Consulting Group.

Gustavo García Brusilovsky is Klikin&Waylet’s CEO. The executive, founder of BuyVIP, reflects on the transformation of e-commerce’s fashion sector in a situation of change.

The taxation changes induced by e-commerce has made Brussels ultimately define a legal framework that ensures a fair and competitive game for all its players.

Executives from Tendam, McKinsey, C&A or Adolfo Domínguez are some of the confirmed assistants included in the biggest professional meeting of fashion business in Spain, which will take place next February the 5th at Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC).

H&M backs down from traditional channel after Cheap Monday’s closure, but there are other giants in the sector who are comfortably swimming in it such as PHV, VF Corporation or Bestseller, to name a few.

In less than five years, the reputation crisis of brands has gone up and everything seems to indicate that they will be even more stressed ahead of the hyper transparency demanded by consumers and, more concretely, the younger ones.

The Association for Sustainable Fashion in Barcelona (Msbcn in its Spanish abbreviation) and the accelerator Seed&Click are putting the final touches to the release of an international event on sustainable and ethical fashion that goes by the name ReBarcelona.

Logistics players are getting ready in advance for the biggest sales event of the year with different sized warehouses located in strategic areas of the Spanish geography.

The managing director of the fair group’s fashion division claims that multibrand trade in the United Kingdom is going through a good time embraced by differentiation and experience.

With a long trajectory on his back as area manager for several retail companies, Álvarez has worked for many years now as retail consultant. He defines himself as storeologist and has recently published his book ‘Retail thinking’.

Consumption evolves towards a more digitalised, online and technological environment. Nevertheless, besides adding these new tools, points of sale will have to be reshaped in order to answer to the demands of consumers.

The shift to luxury runways of athleisure’s top article anticipates the end of the phenomenon, reconverted into an object of worship for collectors.

Amazon, L’Óreal and LVMH are some of the companies that appear too in FutureBrand’s last ranking, occupying the positions number 21, 56 and 70 respectively.

Atwood ensures that the future of industry is based on sustainability, expected both by consumers and investors.

The general manager of Spanish luxury hub Puerto Banús sustains that there is still room for a bigger development of luxury market in the country.

The Spanish port, one of the districts with a higher purchasing ticket in the country, has created the first sales department to attract more brands.

With Desigual’s collaboration, Modaes.es analyses for a third consecutive year the ten global trends that transform fashion business in the report Global Fashion Drivers, presented yesterday in Barcelona.

Digitalisation advancements will allow companies to offer new sales opportunities, according to a new report by market research firm Euromonitor.

Fast Retailing’s chairman explained that this region, home to four billion people, “is the engine of the world and I’m assuming this is the biggest trend.”

The French group, owner of brands like Gucci and Balenciaga, takes a step forward in sustainability and will control the cotton supply chain used by all its brands for product manufacturing.

The chief innovation officer of this Spanish institution, which is a business school, a headhunter and a coworking space, believes that to be innovative, companies can’t just appoint a digital director.

Fast fashion has reduced the industry timings. In just two weeks, mass market retailers are able to design a collection, manufacture and distribute it without going through intermediaries.

The largest encounter for fashion industry professionals in Southern Europe will be held once again in Barcelona’s Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Last year, the event gathered over 850 people from across the industry.

The group has introduced this morning in Barcelona the five finalists to join Tenkan-Ten, the company’s accelerator program for growth stage startups, which was announced last March.

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