Department Stores

How to get Quality into your Brand Growth Planning 2018

17th August 2017Guido SchildBrand StrategyDepartment Stores, Finance, Processes & Operations, Strategy, Turnaround

Key learnings of 30 years strategic planning. A plea for enhanced quality and tips how to improve your planning, today.

In January, Reuters reported that 38 % of 406 major US companies prepared for 2017 with a zero-based budget (ZBB) approach, and cites a respective 2016 Bain study. How lifestyle brands had planned for 2017 is unknown, but in the light of the US retail environment, many brands had to apply major cost cutting exercises to adjust earlier plans.

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Department Stores in Italy: on the Way to Global Best Practices

14th October 2016Isabell GuidastriExploring MarketsConcession, Department Stores, Distribution, Strategy, Wholesale

Department Stores in Italy went through structural changes and the perspective for brand distribution changed – we take a closer look at the current status.

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Italy: Attractive Retail Destination for International Brands

4th September 2016Isabell GuidastriExploring MarketsDepartment Stores, Distribution, Partner Retail, Strategy, Wholesale

It was ‘the’ topic during Milan Fashion Week this spring: Starbucks is going to open its first store in Italy next year. Italy – birthplace of coffee culture and until now a ‘Starbucks-free nation’ – will host the first coffee shop of the Seattle coffee chain, right in downtown Milan! Swiss giant Nestlé first entered Italy in 1999 and opened a Nespresso flagship store (out of 6 worldwide) in Milan last year, now another big player is daring to do the impossible – the equivalent of selling ice to the Eskimos. (more…)