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THE LATEST RETAIL INDUSTRY NEWS
Zalando warns on profits as customer demand wanes
Online retailer Zalando has issued a profit warning after a worse-than-expected second quarter and expects full-year figures to show merchandise volume growing by 3% to 7%.
June UK retail sales dip again, July looks flat – CBI
The latest Confederation of British Industry (CBI) retail report shows retail sales volumes fell slightly in the year to June, this is the third successive fall and July could well see a fourth fall.
Very warns on delays as delivery partner hit by cyber-attack
Very has said its delivery partner Yodel has been subject to a cyber-attack that caused disruption and delays to operations but only a small number of customers would be affected.
UK consumers rein in spending as inflation bites
Rising costs are being noticed by both higher and lower earners alike with 34% of higher earners and 47% of people in lower-wage brackets saying they’re cutting back on spending.
Mark Zuckerberg envisages billions of people spending in the metaverse
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping for a billion people in the metaverse doing hundreds of dollars of commerce each by the second half of the decade
Barclays asks retailers to help put a stop to BNPL debt
Barclays has called on the retail sector to come together to halt rising levels of buy now, pay later (BNPL) debt.
Retailers are failing to adapt to consumers’ digital needs
Almost a quarter (24%) of retailers admit to only using basic customer data (name or location) to personalise their customer communications.
Consumer confidence hits record low in June
GfK’s Consumer Confidence Index has fallen to its lowest level on record for a second month in a row and has dropped by one point to -41 this month.
Only 16% of people understand what the metaverse is
The metaverse may be a new technological – and social – phenomenon, but are marketers and the public keeping up?
TRENDS, STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Five things you need to know about value giant B&M
As Alex Russo gets set to take over the leadership of B&M from co-founder Simon Arora, here are five things you should know about the discount powerhouse from our Prospect analysts.
How to find blog topic ideas that improve your SEO
Not enough companies dedicate time and effort to blogging, which is a great way of promoting services and connecting with users – new and old.
How to design for a climate crisis
From sub-zero temperatures to forest fires and droughts, performance wear brands are designing for the climate of tomorrow with sustainable materials that function in extreme weather.
Five ways the cost-of-living crisis is changing shopper behaviour
Many shoppers are being forced to change their shopping habits to make ends meet. Retail Gazette looks at five ways consumers have changed the way they shop over the past few months.
Recycling old cotton into new clothes: The major innovation finally coming
Swedish alternative materials company Renewcell is one step closer to bringing its Circulose recycled cotton material to mainstream fashion.
Where top retailers are targeting their tech spend
Retail’s tech elite are heavily investing in personalisation and digital payment technologies, a new Retail Week report launched today reveals.
What do shoppers want from stores post-pandemic?
How some of the innovators in both the retail and food and drink sectors are experimenting with form and function as they strive for relevance and purpose in a confusing world.
How to improve your market research
The questions you ask in surveys on attitudes may well be easy questions to put into a survey, but they are surprisingly poor predictors of what people do in real life.
TikTok explores gamification in e-commerce push
TikTok is using gamification to help boost e-commerce by encouraging users to complete tasks, such as watching a video, or following a TikTok live host to win ‘lives’ and see exclusive content.
BRAND NEWS
Polo Ralph Lauren unveils 2022 Wimbledon uniforms
Polo Ralph Lauren, which has been dressing Wimbledon’s on-court officials including chair umpires, line umpires, ball boys and girls for the past 17 years, has unveiled the new 2022 uniforms.
Barbour partners with the National Trust for restoration programme
Barbour has linked up with the National Trust to work on “the clean-up and restoration work at Wallington, Cragside and Hadrian’s Wall in the North-East of England, following Storm Arwen.
Watches of Switzerland begins preliminary expansion in Europe
Watches of Switzerland Group is beginning its expansion in Europe with a Breitling store in Stockholm this week and a Breitling store in Stockholm and an Omega store in Copenhagen.
Vinted announces management changes, launches shipping service business
Second-hand fashion site Vinted has unveiled a new shipping services business for its market called Vinted Go and has reshaped its group structure to support its growth strategy.
AND FINALLY x2
Amazon’s Alexa will recreate the voices of dead relatives
Amazon's Alexa will soon be able to recreate the voices of user's dead relatives by using a one minute or more recording of their voice.
ITV to air two Love Island shows in 2023
ITV and Lifted Entertainment have announced that two new series of Love Island will air on ITV2 and ITVX next year.
PRSHOTS TOP 10 SEARCHES
What were our users searching for on PRShots week-ending June 17th 2022?
1/ SS22
2/ AW22
3/ Garden
4/ Summer
5/ Father’s Day
6/ Picnic
7/ Gingham
8/ Yellow
9/ Pink
10/ Tropical
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NEW BRANDS TO PRSHOTS
Teva produced the original sport sandal on the shores of the Grand Canyon back in 1984. Born out of necessity to prevent sandals from floating downstream, a resourceful river guide strapped two Velcro watchbands to a pair of old flip-flops. And just like that, Teva was born.
Chinakwe is a contemporary, Afro Lux, art and lifestyle brand. Founded by artist, stylist and designer, Caroline Chinakwe and is rooted in the artist’s African heritage and European upbringing and embodies bold colours to depict her cultural influences.
Cutter & Squidge is a family-run, all-natural bakery created by two food-obsessed sisters. Playfulness is their passion, they love to create exciting, experimental flavours and artisan designs. Their bakes and gifts are lovingly handcrafted to taste delicious and look exquisite on any occasion.
Peacocks was founded by Albert Frank Peacock in Warrington, in 1884 with the principle of value for money and that still holds today with its good value clothing ranges for men, women and children. The latest Weekend range features brand ambassador Louise Redknapp.
Bonmarché returns to PRShots with its Spring Summer 2022 range if women’s clothing. The range features long, midi and short dresses as well as jackets, swimsuits, shirts and t-shirts
KMI Brands Noughty is a British-born, cruelty-free, vegan and naturals brand on a mission to exceed the performance of premium conventional hair and body care with natural alternatives that won’t cost the earth - literally.
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.
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BRANDS WITH NEW IMAGES
Clothing, beauty and accessories
M&Co has new summer clothes and accessories for kids and adults
Pink House Mustique has new summer and Lotty B designs
Freemans has new Mark Heyes summer outfits including Julien Macdonald ranges
Primark has a new Material Girl and Into the West ranges as well as new beauty products and men and women’s beach and summer wear
Matalan has back to school clothes and shoes
George at Asda has new womenswear
New Look has new women’s summer and beach outfits
Cotton Traders has new AW22 ranges
Lemuel MC has a new Linen for Life range
PrettyLittleThing has new summer edit from Molly Mae
Very has new summer outfits for men and women and back to school outfits
Joe Browns has new AW22 ranges
Seol + Gold has new jewellery
Shoe Zone Has new shoe collections
From My Mothers Garden has new summer wear
Cocoove has new ranges
Roman Originals has more new SS22 outfits
Cath Kidston have kids and adult accessories
Dune London has new occasion wear and summer sandals
River Island has accessories and new summer clothing imagery for kids and adults and a Sofia Richie, Charlie Howard and Danny Lomas collabs
Monsoon has new vintage inspired womenswear and accessories
See more new clothing and accessories images from the last two weeks from
Hotter Barbour Lipsy Feel Unique F&F Radley NoLoGo Crew Clothing Fatface Hope Fashion TK Maxx Dancing Leopard Dune London Mens Marks & Spencer Wilko Oliver Bonas
Home and food
Cambridge Imprint makes very newsworthy cards
Abstract House has new canvasses for all tastes
Matalan has hundreds of new home ranges for AW22
Dobbies Garden Centres has new home goods, pet accessories and Christmas decorations
George Home has new dog clothes and toys and homeware
Designers Guild has new AW22 ranges
Cult Furniture has new rugs, garden furniture and homeware
The Range has new outdoor and indoor furniture as well as camping and festival gear
Homesense has new summer picnic and BBQ ware
Cuckooland has new garden and outdoor items
Wilko has new outdoor summer wares
Marks & Spencer has new homeware
Parker Knoll has new sofa and chair ranges
Hotel Chocolat has new chocolate ranges
Furniture Village has new Ercol bedroom and lounge furniture
Daisy Park has new decorations and light for outside and in
Primark has new home accessories
Cambridge Imprint has new stationery and printing sets
See more new home images from the last two weeks from
Nest TK Maxx Cartwright & Butler Very George Home Oliver Bonas Dunelm Lights4fun Cath Kidston Oak Furnitureland DFS NoLoGo National Trust Shop M&Co Pink House Mustique Fritz Fryer Sofology Joe Browns Next Paperchase Fatface Next
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How to get your brand on the June Editorial Calendars
Summer is here - and hopefully the weather will improve – so add anything summery including summer clothing, swimwear, and push anything to do with outside so garden furniture, anything for a garden party, or a picnic or barbecue, and don’t forget to add all of the other spellings BBQ, Bar-B-Que etc and we’re also at the start of the festival season, so make sure you add festival, Glastonbury, to your keyword lists.
Media are starting to ramp up the summer holiday features so swimwear, suitcases, travel bags, travel accessories etc are all images and keywords that you should be adding. Some people are still staying at home, so it’s probably a good idea to think of holidays closer to home, so add in keywords and phrases like “staycation” “holistay” “holiday at home” to your keywords and why not suggest clothing like hoodies, and cardigans for the colder UK evenings.
Also look at sports, particularly anything tennis-related for Wimbledon.
June Diary - Weeks/Months
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, National Smile Month, it’s also Wimbledon (27th-10thJuly) and Royal Ascot (14th-18th), and the return of the Glastonbury festival (22nd-26th).
June - Days
24th – Take your dog to work Day
24th – Midsummer’s Day
27th – Wimbledon fortnight starts
30th – International Asteroid Day
How to make your products attractive to the media in July
Summer is here so keep on adding anything summery to your keywords and descriptions eg summer clothing, swimwear, and push anything to do with outside so garden furniture, anything for a garden party, or a picnic or barbecue, and don’t forget to add all of the other spellings BBQ, Bar-B-Que etc and other related keywords like picnic.
As we’re now free to go where we like and the festivals are back up and running the mags and websites influencers are all looking for festival wear, beachwear (bikinis, shorts, trunks etc are all being searched for), and the latest trends in summer clothing with gingham, ditzy, Y2K and retro all seeing more traffic
But not everyone is going abroad, the cost-of-living crisis is cutting the money in everyone’s wallets so shoppers are looking at holidays closer to home, so add in keywords and phrases like “staycation” “holistay” “holiday at home” to your keywords and why not suggest clothing like raincoats, coats, hoodies, and cardigans and if you have them then firepits and chimineas for the colder UK evenings would be good.
July Diary - Weeks/Months
July is Independent retailer month, and National Ice Cream month in the US, it’s also sees the conclusion of Wimbledon (27th-10thJul) the start of the Commonwealth games in Birmingham (28th Jul - 8th Aug), plus the UEFA Women’s Euros (6th-31st July), and Cowes Week (30th Jul - 5th Aug).
July - Days
2nd – Pride London parade
3rd – British Grand Prix
4th - US Independence Day
5th – National Bikini Day
7th – World Chocolate Day
9th-13th - Eid al-Adha
11th – World Population Day
12th – Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)
14th - Bastille Day (France)
17th – National Ice Cream Day (US Third sundae in July 😉)
18th - Nelson Mandela International day
22nd – Start of the school holidays
24th – National Tequila Day (US)
24th – National Parents Day (US 4th Sunday in July)
25th – Christmas in July (5 months until Christmas)
28th – Commonwealth games Birmingham opening ceremony
29th - Muharram/Islamic New Year
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