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The Daily Retail News Digest for brands and media – 10/3/22
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The latest retail news from John Lewis, Hugo Boss, Boohoo, Natura, Bonds, B&Q, H&M plus articles on why you need an SEO audit, why free returns are encouraging refunds, how to spot influential influencers and much more.
PRShots Digest with news from Pandora, Cadbury, Soho House, Lululemon, Ted Baker, and Huel & more, plus articles on how M&S developed its cross-channel experience, is retail back to normal, and why brands can no longer justify trading in Russia & more
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PRShots Digest with news from Pandora, Cadbury, Soho House, Lululemon, Ted Baker, and Huel & more, plus articles on how M&S developed its cross-channel experience, is retail back to normal, and why brands can no longer justify trading in Russia & more https://www.prshots.com/pressnews
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THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
John Lewis Partnership celebrates record full-year sales and reinstates bonus
John Lewis saw record sales of £4.93bn up 8% on the previous year, and profits pre-exceptional items jumped 38% year on year to £181m despite having 16 fewer stores and lockdown forcing closures.
Boohoo full-year sales jump 14% but high returns impact golden quarter
Boohoo sales rose 14% in the year to 28 Feb and it expects adjusted EBITDA to be around £125m, but higher return rates in Q4 saw sales growth slow - excluding returns growth in Q4 was up 26%
Hugo Boss sees powerful recovery, brimming with confidence for 2022
Hugo Boss final 2021 figures show group sales up 43% to €2.786bn, back to pre-pandemic levels and is upbeat on 2022 sales and intends to open its first new-concept global anchor store in London in Q2.
Natura profits grow despite some sales drops, takes action on Russia
Body Shop, Avon and Aesop owner Natura turned in mixed results for Q4 and 2021, but net income for the year saw net profits reach £151m.
Fashinnovation launches directory for ethical and sustainable brands
Fashinnovation has launched a new online Brand Directory to support ethical, sustainable and innovative brands centring on those that are looking to bring “change to the world”.
TRENDS, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Search engine optimization (SEO) allows brands to focus on what matters when improving their presence on search engines such as Google. And this is where an SEO audit comes into play.
Why free returns are encouraging serial refunders
The demand for brands to meet expectations of satisfactory customer experience has immeasurable hidden costs and has created the serial refunder.
How to spot the influencers who are actually influential
How do you find the right influencers for your brand? How do you know if they’ll be influential? Why did the influencers you worked with before drive great results? Or even worse – why didn’t they?
How to run a value-driven influencer marketing campaign
A powerful way of understanding audiences and influencers is by first understanding what they value. But once you’ve identified influencers that match your values, how should you engage with them?
Twitter accelerates ecommerce push with Twitter Shops
Twitter is beta testing a new feature which it calls Twitter Shops which will allow merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their profiles.
BRAND NEWS
B&Q launches marketplace to expand online range to over 1 million products
B&Q has launched an online marketplace including over one million home, DIY and garden products as it expands its online division and is adding small domestic appliances and children’s outdoor play
Carrefour uses voice picking to speed through 5000 orders a day
Carrefour has opened a new Belgian distribution centre to support its growing ecommerce activities and is using voice picking to help it speed through up to 5000 orders per day.
Australian underwear giant Bonds to go genderless
Australian underwear manufacturer Bonds has revealed that they will be working with the LGBTQI+ community to make all of its products and stores non-gendered by 2023.
H&M to launch new collection with Iris Apfel
H&M has collaborated with style icon Iris Apfel on a new fashion collection which celebrates her 100th birthday.
AND FINALLY
Metaverse Fashion Week designers to sell physical products as NFTs
Metaverse Fashion Week taking place in Decentraland’s Fashion District Mar 24-27 will feature a number of brands selling physical products as redeemable NFTs within its metaverse marketplace.
Adidas bare breast tweet pushes sports bras to women of all shapes and sizes
Adidas is celebrating its re-engineered sports bras line following a redesign by an all-female team to improve fit and function. The ads on Twitter are somewhat lacking in the bra department, however.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots week-ending March 4th 2022?
1/ SS22
2/ Easter
3/ Garden
4/ Mini Skirt
5/ Kitchen
6/ Jubilee
7/ International Women’s Day
8/ Cushion
9/ Soft Pastel
10/ Green
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NEW BRANDS TO PRSHOTS
Bryony Bel was born out of a desire for aspirational, contemporary and wearable jewellery without the designer price tag. With over 15 years industry experience at a number of jewellery brands, they bring a curated edit of contemporary and affordable sterling silver and 18kt gold vermeil jewellery.
Gold Collagen was started by Tony Sanguinetti whilst on a trip to Japan where he noticed that taking collagen drinks to supplement their diet was key to Japanese women’s youthful appearance and their daily beauty regimes.
DoTerra was founded in 2008, after the health-care and business professional founders discovered the benefits of natural essential oils and decided to bring those benefits to wider audience – doTERRA is the Latin for “Gift of the Earth.”
V.Gan started in 2018 with the aim of providing animal-friendly fashion and has quickly established ourselves as one of the most progressive in the vegan community and is available worldwide.
The Jacket Bar was born in the streets of Notting Hill by two long-time friends Diane and Sara, who shared a passion for iconic vintage pieces from the early ‘90s with the retro look and style of the era.
Delightfull is a Portuguese interiors business with offices in the UK that specialises in high-end furniture and lighting solutions. Their products are handmade and combine a long heritage of skilled crafts and have an eye for the emerging needs of the future.
Designer Angelika Józefczyk was inspired by the expression of artists like William Morris, Gustav Klimt, and the architecture of Antonio Gaudi. The collection uses embroidered and patterned soft fabrics like chiffon, satin and crepe.
The MorphBag by GSK is an award-winning London-based luxury vegan handbag brand. Designed by Italian born award-winning luxury handbag designer Giovanna Sessi-Knott the sustainable bags have a timeless and versatile design and come in three colour-coordinated options.
Night Store combines a girl’s night glamour and dreamy levels of comfort, all pieces are designed with a relaxed fit. Best served with a glass of your favourite on a chilled night in or catching up with friends.
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BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES
Clothing and accessories
Primark has new swimwear and activewear baby and toddler clothing and leisure wear
F&F has new leisurewear and spring clothing
M&Co has new summer and family ranges
From My Mothers Garden has new SS22 ranges
Marks & Spencer has new Mother’s Day outfits
Matalan has SS22 outfits for men and women and Mother’s day ranges
Lipsy has new Friends Like These SS22 outfits
George at Asda has new clothing and jewellery
Sonder Studio has a new range of statement pieces
Very has new accessories, shoes and clothing ranges
New Look has women and kids SS22 ranges
TKMaxx has new spring summer ranges
Hope Fashion has new dresses
See more new clothing and accessories images from the last two weeks from
Dune London Barbour Freemans Feelunique Dune London Mens Oliver Bonas River Island Pink House Mustique Regatta Fatface Crew Clothing Tu Clothing Radley Aspiga Pretty Little Thing Seol + Gold Cath Kidston
Home and food
Hotel Chocolat has new Mother’s Day gifts
Wilko has new Easter, DIY, storage, garden and home wear
George Home has new home and garden ware
Dobbies Garden Centres has new home goods and things for outdoor summer entertaining and Mother’s Day
Primark has new Goosey Gander nursery furniture
George Home has new things for the garden
Furniture Village has new outdoor furniture and sofa ranges
Abstract House has new canvases
Next has new homeware outdoor furniture and picnic dining
DFS launched new furniture ranges including a vegan range
Habitat has new home furniture and bedding and kids bedroom ranges
Cartwright & Butler has new Mother’s day gift boxes
National Trust Shop has new books, gifts for easter and SS22 collections
Nest has new home ranges and prints
Cult Furniture has new home furniture
Parker Knoll has new furniture ranges
Collins & Hayes has new sofa ranges
Oliver Bonas has new March release home products
See more new home images from the last two weeks from
Paperchase Biscuiteers Baking Sofology Homesense Fatface B&M Cambridge Imprint Dunelm Lights4fun Baa Stool Homesense Fritz Fryer The Range Very TKMaxx Avalana John Lewis Designers Guild Marks & Spencer
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March Diary
How to get your brand on the March Editorial Calendars
March is mostly about preparing for the big Easter holidays in April so make sure you are starting to include relevant Easter keywords, plus it’s also the time people make their first big getaway abroad so any keywords and clothes for warmer climes, loungewear, going-out wear, swimsuits, bikinis etc should be added.
At the end of the month, there’s Mothers’ Day. If you have any relevant gifts, cards etc then get them uploaded and get Mother’s Day in your keywords and on anything appropriate. Also, if you have anything green then add that for St Patrick’s day in the middle of the month.
Plus, as we’re now definitely in Spring, so carry on adding those spring summer related images and adding keywords relating to summer outfits, swimwear, the garden, garden parties and Barbecues (don’t forget to add all of the other spellings BBQ, Bar-B-Que etc).
March Diary - Weeks/Months
In the UK it’s National Bed Month - Introduced by The Sleep Council and The National Bed Federation, it aims to raise awareness of the importance of sleep so push anything sleep-related. it’s also the British Heart Foundations Dechox month which encourages people to give up chocolate – cakes and biscuits - for the month! So, any chocolate, biscuit or cake alternatives should be pushed.
Other events include;
Fairtrade Fortnight (Feb 21st – Mar 6th)
British Pie Week (7th-13th)
British Science Week (11th-20th)
Butchers Week (7th-13th)
March - Days
14th – Commonwealth Day
17th – St Patrick’s Day
18th – Global Recycling Day
18th – Red Nose Day for Comic Relief
28th – Holi Hindu Festival
20th – First Day of Spring
21st – International Day of Forests
22nd – World Water Day
22nd -23rd - The London Textile Fair - Business Design Centre in Islington, North London
25th – National Bridesmaids Day
27th - Mother’s Day UK
27th – The Oscars
27th – British Summertime Begins
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