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Strategy

A strategy is brand’s master plan how to evolve its business successfully. A strategy can be worked out one or several functional areas of a business. Common functional strategies are a marketing strategy, a sourcing strategy or a retail strategy.Global lifestyle brands easily distribute to 80 markets, with each up to 10 different distribution channels. That provides many opportunities to grow and add complexity. While jumping on each market may prove lucky, growth can easily go very wrong. For that matter, it is good to have a well-planed brand growth strategy.In this section of our blog we share strategy views and best practice examples of key brands, and analyse what you can learn for your own brand strategy.

Multichannel Growth: Wholesale is our Favourite

Multichannel growth is the brand growth strategy of the century. We are creating a scenario where wholesale will experience a revival in 2020.

Multichannel growth has been the daily business of brands since the 1990s. In fact, multichannel competence was the key success factor for many best-practice growing lifestyle brands. But the term ‘multichannel’ became common when internet distribution entered the scene.

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