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The Spanish fast fashion retailer continues capitalizing on its eco strategy and has been ranked first in the list, which also includes rival groups H&M and Gap Inc., two of the largest clothing distributors worldwide.

In recent weeks, several international companies such as Walmart and Richemont have announced the launch of new labels to raise their appeal among young consumers, from whose purchases depends the future of their financial performance.

Although its turnover in the country is much lower than the ecommerce group, the Irish low-cost fashion company tops the list Hot 100 retailers, elaborated by Kantar Consulting.

The company will finish its operations after eighteen months of turbulences with various retailers that refused to sell the label collections due to her father’s political statements. Ivanka Trump currently employs twenty people.

Ignacio Sierra is corporate managing director of Tendam (formerly Grupo Cortefiel), a Spanish retailer that opened its first store abroad in the fifties and currently operates with more than 2,000 points of sale in ninety countries.

The cofounder of Italy’s largest bridal wear brand, acquired earlier this week by Spanish group Pronovias, shares his thoughts on the importance of size, venture capital pressure and taking the business overseas.

The Chinese ecommerce group is opening a new pop up store in Hong Kong where consumers will get personalised recommendations of clothes thanks to a technology based on data collected through the Taobao and Tmall platforms.

The Treviso-based company is facing a business transformation in the digital age driven by its founder and with a 5,000-store network, mostly franchises in a one-hundred countries.

Hogue, responsible of the sustainability strategy of the company and board member in the C&A Foundation ensures that there’s no other industry paying such an attention to what happens in supplier factories as fashion.

The Nobel Peace Prize and former Secretary General of the United Nations is joining the ethics and sustainable development committee of the Italian footwear group.

The fashion and sporting goods company, founded in 1990, aims to win back the consumer both in China and abroad by gaining appeal among fashionistas, in a move similar to that of Nike, Adidas and Puma.

The team director of the Agency & Tenant Representation Spain of Cushman & Wakefield reviews the evolution of the retail landscape in recent months.

The brand steps forward in the country under the name Supreme Spain, after losing a lawsuit against the eponymous New York streetwear label for counterfeiting.

The German sportswear group has reached an agreement with the American rapper to boost its basketball operations. Besides, the company has inked deals with three college students who will become NBA players next season.

The high-end sector will rely on Chinese consumers, team-ups with streetwear fashion brands to attract new clients and the rise of social media among younger generations to deliver growth.

He was born to do business. Juan Roig started from a very young age to work in food distribution. However, the entrepreneur has also bet on other projects through Lanzadera, the start-up accelerator that he launched in 2013 and has backed so far 200 companies.

Nike, Adidas and Puma, the main equipment suppliers for the 32 national teams participating in this year’s competition, plan to accelerate their growth in 2018, boosted by the sale of football category items, as happened in 2014.

International groups like H&M, Primark, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Levi’s have launched capsule collections coinciding with the proximity of pride marches. LGTB consumers spends more on leisure and fashion than straight ones, according to a Nielsen study.

The LVMH-owned luxury brand and the sportswear juggernaut are the labels with the highest grade, holding the 26 and 29 position out of one hundred, according to the report BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2018, elaborated by Kantar and WWP.

Pier Paolo Righi is chief executive officer at Karl Lagerfeld, the brand that the German designer, who also leads Chanel’s creative direction, prompted in 2011.

Mass market fashion players leave behind a turbulent fiscal year with several moves in the ranking of the major groups worldwide.

Hong Kong continues leading the ranking of the most attractive cities to open a store in the world, according to real estate services firm Cbre. Dubai and Taipei occupy the second and third position, respectively.

The international fashion business shows symptoms of an illness: a halted global evolution, sales’ fall in mature markets and a downgraded position in consumer priorities. The giants are reinventing themselves to attract a consumer who has fallen out of love with clothes.

Tsutomu Okuda, chairman and CEO of Japanese group J. Front Retailing, owner of department store chains Daimaru and Parco, assures that there is only room for one store for every million consumers.

Ahrendts worked the miracle on the British brand, joined Apple and now enters Ralph Lauren’s board to give back the brand its old splendour after years of restructuring.

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