The very best footwear retailers, brands and suppliers in the UK and Ireland will battle it out to be crowned the winners at this year’s Drapers Footwear Awards. bit.ly/2GchyEj
Breaking news: Rebecca Feng, who runs LK Bennett’s Chinese franchises, has bought the UK, Ireland and wholesale business of the premium womenswear retailer, Drapers can reveal. bit.ly/2G7m9rh
Drapers’ secret shopper kicks off this season’s Hit or Miss series by testing the high street’s menswear offer at Intu Watford. Find out who impressed and who disappointed with our in-depth store reviews. bit.ly/2FW2NFD
Nick Beighton @ASOS_NickB@ASOS explains the business mentality to keep innovating and moving forward “One day we’ll be a great business, until then we’ll keep getting better. We stay restless.” #RWL19
. @wgsn’s @CarlaBuzasi says generation Alpha (born since 2010) are learning innovation through tools that previous generations didn’t have & are already influencing how their parents shop #RWL19
Henry Birch @ShopDirect group CEO says “We are never going to move away from call centres but we are looking at how we can harness voice technology in the future” #RWL19
Henry Birch, group CEO @ShopDirect says “Black Friday has morphed into something very big, very quickly. However, new customers that we get from Black Friday promotions turn out to be valuable to us so it’s an important part of our calendar.” #RWL19
Judith McKenna, CEO, International Walmart kicks off #RWL19 saying “Technological innovation will create more jobs than it displaces. Many of those jobs will be those we haven’t even imagined yet. The biggest challenge is managing the transition.”