Tag: Topic

Retail Round-up: VF Corp Down but Vans is Up; Abercrombie & Fitch Re-Bounds; Hot Topic’s”Twilight” Merch Sinking; Sad Good-bye to Alexander McQueen

This roller coaster round-up indicates what new strategies and brands are working in youth culture, and what’s not.

Music Tour 2010 Update: Lilith Fair Returns; Vans Warped Posts Tour Dates, Logo; Hot Topic Heads-up Sub City Take Action Tour; Country Throwdown Gains Momentum

Marketing through music is the way to go for brands looking to launch effective grassroots campaigns. Here’s a quick look at what’s going on for 2010 so far.

The Decline of the Action Sports Lifestyle -A Wake-up Call to an Industry That Still Thinks Its Hot

Comparing youth consumer insights over 9 years, Label Networks reveal which demographics, brands, and retailers are in decline and why, plus which sports and lifestyles are poised to pop.

Retail Round-Up: Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister Strategies to Sell So-Cal Lifestyle; Uniqlo’s J Collection with Jil Sanders; Zumiez and Hot Topic Drop; K-Swiss Launches Skate Division

Different strategies from various brands and retailers shed light on how some directions are better than others in reaching youth culture today and why.

Urban Outfitters Goes M-Commerce, Setting Standards for the Wave of the Future of Retail

Things are headed in this direction with the colliding of youth culture’s digital lifestyle including mobile habits, content, and shopping patterns. Now it’s not just the Japanese that are on it.

Retail Round-Up: Uniqlo Shines with 19.2% Increase; Hot Topic Shares Drop Despite 3.1% Increase; Zumiez Sales Down; Plus Other Top Youth Retail Reports

April financials for same-store sales provides excellent indicators of the retail landscape. Quick round-up of top stores/chains to watch.

Retailer Round-up: Hot Topic Grows; American Apparel Gets Cash Infusion; Quiksilver Gets Loan Extension and B-; American Eagle Hits Hard Times Along with Abercrombie & Fitch, J. Crew, and Others

The wide range of successes and slumps in the youth culture marketplace among retailers indicates vast changes for the industry and new direction for survivors.

American Apparel Continues to Blaze Trails as the Brand to Watch -Label Networks Reveals Other Insights and Top T-shirt Brand Preferences Among 13-25-year-olds in North America and Europe

Label Networks’ Profile Report on American Apparel illustrates data analysis from our North American and European Youth Culture Studies on trends and what youth culture consumers think

Brand Profile: Hot Topic -Tracking Youth Culture Consumer Data, Changes in Trends, and the Retailer’s Formula for Success

Hot Topic has always been a hot topic when it comes to analysts trying to understand this retailer’s appeal to youth culture. Label Networks delivers the inside data, analysis, and trends from a consumer perspective that quantify what makes things work and why.

The Rise of Band Merch as Important Fashion Component in Youth Culture Lifestyles

Data, images, style trends, top online retail from Label Networks’ Music Youth Culture Profile Report 2009 indicate where things are headed in the world of merch, key influences, and market opportunities within global youth culture lifestyles.