Buying & Merchandising
How do we help?
With our team of trend experts and data scientists globally, we help our customers make confident, well-informed buying decisions.
– Understand your market and product position with analysis of competitor brands and retailers.
– The gain insight you can trust with early views on future trends.
– Save time to trawl through excessive content with reports that outline the exact key items you need.
– Build your range with confidence and access the data to back it up.
– Track best sellers, re-stocks and mark-downs.
– Support your buying decisions with trade show reporting from around the world and across all categories.
– Make your buying trips more efficient with our city guides and trip planning tools.
Industry Specific Features
Our subscription services and analytic products include in-depth reporting and data on the following:
– Buyers’ Briefings: The key messages & looks, fabric & details, colors & prints for the season.
– Buyers’ Picks: Discover what trends and collections top buyers from around the world are focusing on for the season.
– Brands To Watch: The season’s newest and most exciting brands across product categories including Accessories, Footwear, Intimates, Cut & Sew, Denim, Prints & Graphics, Active and more.
– Consumer Attitudes: Insight into consumer groups and their shopping behaviors, segmented by region and demographics.
– Future Retail Trends: Forward-looking trends that are shaping the marketplace.
– Category Merchandising: In-store design trend analysis and inspiration, across all product categories and regions.
– Trade Shows Coverage, analysis, and images from major industry trade shows, across all product categories including Accessories, Footwear, Apparel, Active, Denim, Materials, Prints & Graphics, Packaging, VM and more.
We also offer custom advisory services to help you understand and apply these trends to your business.