Press Releases
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GNFR: Unlock hidden value in your P&L
Nobody ever got fired for spending too much on stationery… Or did they? We have written a white paper in collaboration with Kurt Salmon (GNFR: Unlock hidden value in your P&L), exploring an often-neglected dimension of costs: goods not for resale. Retail P&Ls are under pressure as never...
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Mitigating Post-Brexit Price Increases
Figures released by the ONS make worrying reading for those within industry who are responsible for protecting profit margins and controlling costs. The price of goods bought and sold by UK manufacturers, as estimated by the Producer Price Index (PPI), rose in the year to July 2016 following 2 years...
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Spend on Trend? Bringing Cost Control Back into Fashion
Overview As fashion retailers are busy keeping up with the evolution of e-commerce, the growth of omni-channel and overall market volatility, climbing costs often go unnoticed. Tightened budgets are requiring internal procurement teams to achieve more with less and when it comes to overall cost management...
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Big Data: From Virtual to Reality. Ivo explains how to find actionable insight and unlock opportunities in big data.
Over recent years the amount of data collected and stored by businesses has grown exponentially. Whether it be sales data, loyalty card data, financial data or online booking data there is certainly no shortage of information out there. This raises the question of what to do with it all? Theoretically,...
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From Fashion Conscious to Cost Conscious: Ivo explains how businesses can balance creative and commercial demands
“We know we could save money and be more efficient but we choose not to because we’re in fashion…” This view from the Financial Director of a leading UK fashion retailer may seem surprising but is not unique. Fashion businesses major on style, aesthetics and design to keep ahead and build brand...