Apparel and Footwear

In the fiscal year 2018, Spanish apparel manufacturer Inditex, Industria de Diseño Textil SA continued to report robust sales growth, leading apparel globally despite a weak presence in the key US market. The fast fashion behemoth boasts an ...

H&M is the fourth largest player in the apparel and footwear market. After years of strong growth, the company has recently gone through more challenging times, as it was relatively late to develop its digital strategy and competition had arisen from...

Victoria’s Secret is struggling, particularly in its core business of women’s underwear. In addition to declining mall traffic and increasing competition from online players, changing consumer attitudes surrounding female empowerment and body ...

With Africa on the rise, consumer opportunities have typically been looked at through socioeconomic metrics. With the challenges the continent faces, opportunities can be developed by turning challenges into concepts and turning those concepts into ...

Headquartered in Japan, Fast Retailing Co Ltd is the parent company of a group of companies engaged mainly in womenswear, menswear and childrenswear. Although still reliant on its main brand Uniqlo in its home market Japan, the business has recently ...

Apparel and footwear is the second largest consumer goods industry globally. Despite its maturity and sheer size, the industry expects a positive outlook, thanks to strong growth in China and India. These two Asian powerhouses are expected to be top ...

The growing number of travellers worldwide has unlocked additional revenues for fashion players beyond their domestic core customers. Primarily driven by favourable pricing, shopping for fashion remains high on traveller’s agenda. Yet, deployment and...

Latin America remains a relatively small and slow-growing market for sportswear, affected by the recent economic crises in Argentina and Brazil. However, as the global health and wellness trend and the casualisation of dress codes encourage Latin ...

Womenswear in Western Europe is still dominated by fast fashion, which continues to create intense price competition for retailers. This competition for lower prices and on-trend collections is further intensified by the growth of internet retailing ...

Apparel and footwear distribution is heading towards a harmonised retail strategy, where offline and online boundaries are disappearing: one brand, many channels. Specialist retailers remains the most important retail channel, boosted mainly by the ...

In contrast to the industry as a whole, Nike Inc’s footwear sales far exceed those of its apparel. Already the global leader in apparel and footwear, the company is now in the midst of an ambitious growth initiative. As global trends continue to lift...

Supported by more casual dress codes and the spread of sport as a status symbol, sportswear in Western Europe is seeing significant value growth, despite fierce price competition. Rising per capita spending on versatile trainers and leggings is ...

Gap Inc, the sixth largest fashion player globally, decided in early 2019 to close 230 of its eponymous stores and break its business into two entities, with Old Navy on the one hand, and its other brands on the other. This move follows years of Old ...

The apparel and footwear industry was on the road to recovery in 2018, recording stronger value growth than in 2017. Sportswear was the star performer in terms of the strongest growth, and womenswear retained its position as the largest category in ...

Asia Pacific is the largest and fastest growing region for childrenswear in the world. The large population and a growing middle class underpins good demand for childrenswear in the region. Also, rising income levels, urbanisation and adoption of ...

The ascension of apparel and footwear in 2018 reflected the market’s healthy momentum, in line with the steady pace of the economy. Childrenswear continues to accelerate, supported by the country’s 2-child policy and the significant number of ...

Apparel and footwear underwent notable changes in 2018. The change in government brought with it an improvement in consumer expectations that was reflected in the performance of apparel and footwear during the year, which was generally better than ...

South Africa’s economy remained under a cloud in 2018 with high unemployment and only slow growth in GDP. With disposable income shrinking and the cost of living rising many consumers restricted their non-essential spending. This continued to have a ...

The floatation of the Egyptian pound in November 2016 continued to impact sales of apparel and footwear in Egypt in 2018. In this year, the prices of most products saw some stabilisation, as would normally be expected in the aftermath of such a major...

In 2018, apparel and footwear in Vietnam recorded double-digit current value growth, mainly due to higher living standards, a gradual increase in average incomes and strong development of social networks. According to the General Statistic Office, ...