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Luxury brands are employing social values, sustainability and limited-run collaborations to enhance their brand positioning and attract new luxury consumers.
Pop-up stores represent a way for luxury brands to engage with customers, showcase limited edition products, offer personalized experiences and demonstrate brand identity with a low-cost, physical presence. This report uses luxury brands’ pop-up stores in China as examples.
The Coresight Research team attended Milan Design Week during the weekend of April 12–14, 2019. In this report, we feature key insights from our visits to retail-tech-related events organized around the city.
In this first of our quarterly US Retail Inventory Tracker reports we analyze inventory trends among our Coresight 100 US retailers.
Revenues at Fashion & Leather Goods Group rose 15% in constant currency, 20% on a reported basis, to €5.1 billion, setting the pace at LVMH. Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior had an exceptional 1Q19, outperforming the Fashion & Leather Goods Group brand portfolio.
Tiffany & Co. is a US luxury jewelry retailer headquartered in New York and founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young. The company generates 91% of its revenues from jewelry sales. E-commerce, catalog and phone orders represented 7% of total sales in FY15-18.
This report discusses notable US retail bankruptcies in 2017-2018 and examines key factors that led retailers to collapse.
Tiffany reported adjusted EPS of $1.67 for 4Q18, beating the consensus estimate of $1.60. Total revenue for the quarter declined 1% to $1.32 billion, or up 1% at constant foreign exchange rates, and missing the consensus estimate of $1.33 billion.
Prada is in the midst of a multiyear strategic transformation that should result in increased brand relevancy.
Dufry reported 2018 revenues slightly ahead of expectations, with organic growth of 2.7% versus consensus of 2.4%. Gross profit climbed 4.4% resulting in a 40-bps gain in the gross margin.
Each of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. This report focuses on e-commerce.
All regions posted sales and traffic declines in January compared to the same period last year. The Midwest registered the largest year-over-year decline in traffic of all regions at 17.5%, owing to severe weather conditions. With warmer and wetter conditions, the South experienced the lowest decline, at 5.8%. The Midwest also recorded the largest year-over-year in-store sales decline among all regions, down 16.8%, whereas the West, which enjoyed warmer and drier conditions, reported the smallest decline, down 1.4%.
As store closures resume in earnest in 2019, dollar stores are bucking the trend, expanding rapidly. Look for technology to be a deciding factor in the coming years as brick and mortar companies integrate online and offline offerings.
Our measure of core retail sales is non-seasonally-adjusted sales excluding gasoline and automobiles. This metric increased by just 1.0% year over year in December, slowing dramatically from the growth in preceding months, including a 5.2% uplift in November. This resulted in total holiday-period sales coming in at $693 billion, up by just 2.9% year over year.
Rapidly changing consumer attitudes, sophistication and expectations have shaken the status quo in luxury, pushing purveyors into the tech-savvy 21st century. Those that don't keep pace with the new luxury consumers will be left behind.
