by Linda Ward | Jul 15, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Irish Retail, Retail trading
To say that the current retail environment is challenging is a huge understatement. Having been closed for nearly three months, most bricks and mortar fashion retailers only reopened a few weeks ago. Many non-essential retailers were closed for 12 weeks during the...
by Linda Ward | Jun 24, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Sustainability
The media have been reporting about the demise of bricks and mortar retail and the retail apocalypse for the last couple of years. The long anticipated retail apocalypse is definitely here now, it’s galloped up on us and has overtaken a lot of retailers. The global...
by Linda Ward | May 21, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, General, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Top Tips
Restarting Retail is a small phrase but has really big implications. As restrictions begin to lift over the next few weeks retailers are putting together their plans for reopening their shops and stores. There is a lot of talk about a “new normal” and that is what we...
by Linda Ward | Jan 24, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Sustainability, sustainablefashion
In November I attended the Westminster Business Forum on Sustainability, Ethics and the UK Fashion Industry. It was a really thought provoking morning. After the event I tweeted that my takeaway in three words are: Transparency Scalability Collaboration I’ll be...
by Linda Ward | Dec 4, 2019 | Consumers, General, Retail trading, Sustainability
Fashion Revolution started their campaigning in 2015 with the slogan #whomademyclothes? That is an important question but there is a long and complex supply chain before it gets to the point of making your clothes. An equally important question is, who made the...
by Linda Ward | Oct 23, 2019 | Branding, My Green Business, Retail trading, Sustainability
At some stage every business owner comes to a crossroad and faces decisions about the future of their business. Business gurus talk about “pivoting” businesses but for me the decision was less about a complete change of direction and more about following my instincts....
