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  • Mobile devices dominated US Black Friday sales, driving 79 percent of all website traffic
    Black Friday Shopping Credits: Unsplash A staggering amount of Black Friday shopping took place on mobile devices this year, accounting for 79 percent of all site traffic, according to the latest insights from Bluecore. For the seventh consecutive year, the retail technology company studied consumers' Black Friday shopping habits and purchases across 150 retail brands in seven retail categories, including apparel, footwear, sports and hobbies, home, jewelry and accessories, health and beauty, and department stores, […]
  • US Black Friday retail sales grow 3.4 percent this year
    Black Friday Credits: Photo by Romy Arroyo Fernandez / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP Black Friday is far from being over in the United States, as shoppers across the nation continue to indulge in the annual discount day. According to preliminary insights from Mastercard SpendingPulse, retail sales (excluding automotive) grew 3.4 percent year on year on November 29, compared to Black Friday in 2023. As more retailers spread out their seasonal Black Friday offers across […]
  • Brandnation becomes employee-owned
    Credits: Brandnation Marketing and communications agency Brandnation has become employee-owned after founder and managing director Mary Killingworth sold her majority stake in the company to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). Following the acquisition, the recently formed EOT will acquire a 75 percent majority stake in the business. Killingworth and minority stakeholders, including deputy managing director Eva Ringwood and creative director Joe Murgatroyd, will retain the 25 percent stake in the agency. Killingworth, Ringwood, and Murgatroyd […]
  • The RealReal opens new store in Miami's Design District
    The RealReal store in Newport Beach Credits: The RealReal The RealReal, the biggest online marketplace for secondhand luxury goods, has opened a new store in the Design District in Miami, Florida. The second store to open in Florida, the opening marks TheRealReal’s fourteenth physical store across the United States. Featuring a custom concept that reflects the city’s iconic art deco influence and bright color palette, the new Miami store’s interior also sits in line with […]
  • German retailer About You opens Fabletics brand store
    Fabletics recently presented itself with a pop-up store in the Nuremberg branch of Wöhrl Credits: Fabletics At the beginning of the month, the Hamburg-based online fashion retailer About You opened its own brand store for the US sportswear label Fabletics on its platform. The launch will be accompanied by "an extensive marketing campaign that includes large-scale placements in the About You shop as well as influencer collaborations, photo productions and other activations with the Californian […]
  • New Upstream Circularity Playbook Presents a Blueprint for Scaling Textile Recycling in Manufacturing Countries
    Credits: Global Fashion Agenda Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), with support from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the H&M Foundation, has launched the Upstream Circularity Playbook, now available in six languages. This comprehensive resource draws on extensive case studies across multiple countries to provide a globally accessible, step-by-step guide specifically tailored for garment manufacturing regions. Designed to help stakeholders scale circular business models by valorising post-industrial textile waste, the Playbook equips manufacturing hubs with […]