RE: #PLTLifestyle trending on Twitter UK8 Jan 2021 10:20
@rag - all waffle again! none of it is backed up or substantiated it's all annotates. I'm not an accountant. I'm an investor. I professionally buy businesses. I got my grounding as an accountant - i understand the numbers and how what the business does turns into cash and profit but do i do any double entry etc - haven't in years! You shift boxes. Have done and still doing. Ever spoke to an end customers? no. Spoke to a designer? no. Spoke to the proposition or marketing teams? no. You're B2B logistics. you're job could be sending the flakes for the 99's
"you being out of your comfort zone after this." - you're stating this as though its my inability to understand boo or fashion as why. When actually when I made the reasoned point that the competitor landscape will change you said "it's always been competitive". That's a huge amateur understanding up until now our competition was bricks and we were online. Someone who "lives and breaths" it would clearly make that distinction! you didn't! That's poor
"this Brand was born out of what was seen coming around the corner and a strong back story, all clothing brands are, it wasn't built on a graph or spread sheet it was built on the passion for seeing that they could do something different, that hasn't changed." - amateur hour again and this time i'll use Carol Kane to put you down as "she doesn't listen to the accountants" so two points
1) you haven't addressed price elasticity - why aren't all our products 40% higher?
2) look at what boo did with KM, oasis, warehouse (pg 39 of Sep-20 pres) we purposefully moved the pricing and positioning of brands to better fit our product matrix ie if we move the price down we think we can sell more - "we think the price elasticity needs to be adjusted". This isn't "accountant speak" it's business acumen.
LV would sell millions more if their bags were half price but they don't do that as they balance the maximum of the price elasticity with the brand power. If an LV bag were to go up 10% they would sell less volume (as price elasticity kicks in). Very simple concept but you just do B2B shipping
"JL and AR i know personally i knew when AR was bought in things would settle, no graph or stat is gonna tell you that, this share could plummet tomorrow on another scandal, its the risk you take with the guys from this block, again no graph helping" we all consider strong management. And AR is a good hire but he isn't going to help if three next entrants undercut our pricing by 50%. And no that's not a graph telling me that's its understanding the industry. There are now more fast fashion operators (you're just blind to them) and you don't understand how this impacts your shares
If three new fast fashion companies undercut boo, UK and abroad, by 10% tomorrow how should we react? Give us a real business strategy answer
"AW21 being successful" you haven't a clue either you don't design it market it or price it you just make it! A CO