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Dan , platform platform platform , just words, JL is this the guy you drooled over for months on end and quoted every word he spoke, you believed in him like the mesiah. Yeah i listen and also know JL well, hence why along with additional knowledge im still invested in BH.
When u buying back in at 2.20 with TCM , your in good company fella.
Again why even bother coming on here.

Sorry PP i meant ur right Dan has share anxiety issues, very flighty.

PP right your anxious , Dan slso way to fixated on words not the dynamics that make up the word.
Your out; fair play not for you seeing what you write i can see why , i simply disagree as i see what i see every single day, each to their own, you've gone your way , i go mine with 100% conviction because i work in this trade every day and as a bonus made a ton of cash out of shares in it which a year ago wasnt even contemplating.

Kallumma , point is that if Amazon are struggling on fashion with an office here and UK buying team then it shows how hard it really is to break through and get the credibility and build up a returning customer base.
I'm not Indian but i have worked out of there for 30 years and i know the market really well , we supply Myntra and also Koovs, i'm not saying they can't try and break in but its so difficult, they are busting their back sides to remain relevant with competition within there own Country let alone branch out, Koovs has nearly run out of cash a couple of times. The absolute key to this game is strong ranges and strong marketing, now days you need a pin sharp idea of what and who you are trying to attract, once you have identified this then you need to throw a load of cash at it. Kamani's saw a gap and went for it, they had strong identity and back story, they also were not short of cash, they had made money already doing what we do supplying the multiples for years and used that money to market on mediums that were quite new at the time, the young identified not just with the product but with the social media sites and it really started to resonate and give them traction within the demo they had targeted.
Guess my point is that not every tom dick and harry can come up with strong ranges, strong brand identity and strong accurately focussed marketing to gain a foot hold. None of the people you mentioned have anything original and if L/D has shown one thing it's that originality is the key to survival, most of the value retailers who only had price to offer in the race to the bottom have gone. BH have now many in house Brands to target who ever they chose to and use the appropriate social media to do so, these are in house ranges so margins will be good, they can also attract and migrate customers over to these ranges by using well known brands, same as Next , with the latter and it's appeal to North, South, East, West and Middle BH can now with these Brands now make inroads into taking share, they have all the tools at there disposal to do so., before Debs and Arcadia they simply didn't, the people you mention have nothing at there disposal, only a website and price, this is simply no where near enough and lets also not forget as much as these sites can land on our shores, BH can also land on other shores and that's were it gets really interesting because this Country happens to be the best in the Western World at young Streetwear, hence why Nordstrom are so keen on tying in closely with Asos.

Kallumama i'm one of the Indian Ftys that you talk about, If you think any tom dick and harry get set up then i can tell you it is so incredibly difficult. No1 they need to u/s the market and more importantly what demo they will target and no2 you need very very very very very very very deep pockets, the burn rate of cash to get the message across is horrific, to impact on existing players you will need min 2mill to burn just to even get out of the blocks, if it really was that easy Amazon would be smashing everyone out of the park, there not. I know the Buying Director they bought in to set up their clothing offer, he was at Burtons and before that Primark, he has great knowledge but Amazon is jack of all trades and master of none, if you want a white T Shirt fine, but if you want the latest Tie Dye drop shoulder 80's oversize hoody, forget it. Big mistake in Fashion industry is that anyone thinks they can just design a range throw it on a website and people will flock, soooooooo very very wrong.

One to watch, again spreading the demographic, as Webba says no choice, unlike floor space a website gives you so much width its silly not too offer other Brands especially if yours are faultering . What really stands out is Jack Jones , its a young fashion Brand of which M& S has never seen the like before. Next, BH, M&S, Very all going head to head , the swiftest most decisive decision maker will rise, with current management teams BH got my money , not much to lose but tons to gain, let battle commence, ok perhaps not properly till Q4, Christmas statements for 21 will be fascinating.

M & S to offer guest” clothing brands on to its website, as part of its third-party push.

BY ISABELLA FISH
11 MARCH 2021
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The brands will be marketed and sold under the “Brands at M&S” banner.

Coming online through March, April and May, to be sold alongside M&S’s core range and in-house brands Autograph, Goodmove and Per Una, will be:

Hobbs (womenswear)
Jack & Jones (menswear)
Joules (womenswear)
Phase Eight (womenswear)
Seasalt (womenswear)
Selected Femme/Selected Homme (men's and women's wear)
Sloggi (lingerie)
Sosandar (womenswear)
Triumph (lingerie)
White Stuff (womenswear)
AS (womenswear)
In January M&S completed its purchase of Jaeger out of administration.

In October womenswear brand Nobody’s Child launched on M&S’s website, as exclusively revealed by Drapers at the time. In the same month, the retailer also teamed up with Ghost London to create a capsule women’s and children's wear collection for autumn/winter 20.

A branded kidswear offer from Brand Machine Group launched last week with Elle Junior, Russell Athletic, Ben Sherman and Original Penguin. Brands at M&S will also offer exclusive product including from Finery and Ghost.

Apologies for my spelling grammar tonight , no glasses and working off phone !

PP mist if not all Arcadia Brands sold more on Asos website than tgey did there own , actually it was also same for River and Newlook. Dan keeps saying platform i think he is putting whole service under one name , anyway simple fact why Asos sold more was they delivered far quicker than actual Brands own website , its way Arcadia set up a new state of art DC but it was all too little too late.

Dan platform in my eyes us website .

Asos sold more of Arcadia Brands than Arcadia did because, Asos delivered next day and Arcadia took up to a week , Arcadia had littke money for Marketing they relied too heavily on stores , platform is a word its not the service, teams , marketing, product and budgets that surround it, these are what make a platform (website) work, no shock in this. Again your fixating on words , you appear to be mixing up what we understand as a platform (website and landing pages)) with the various parts of the offer that surround it and calling it one thing , a platform.
I could sell at 2.95 and still made substantial profit across Asos and BH. Last ciuple of weeks Bh has been shadowing its peers and the market , my belief is and has been a L/ T share for sometime latec Q3 it will move towards 4.50 this time next year it will be over 5, ill be gone by then tho as i deserveca bit of fun. Been a very tricky year for us but with trade consolidation turning out how it has all our numbers have cond in at once. Somd of this is luck some judgement everyone is taking Q1 & 2 with caution, i dont think numbrrs will look great fir anyone but intake for AW has been bought forward to July and currentvfwd order demand is massive.

Cant walk past a website re below

Dan , notcsure why yourxso wrapoed up in thecwhole platform thing. I calll it website, all players had websites for many years, easy navigation shud be a given, speed of delivery obvs a key as is easy return , all s given for quite few years now.
Whats becoming key forcall players is footfall , yiu can walk past a website , marketing with Brands to offer and target each Demographic in each unique way is key. The teams at Next are by and large born and bred Leics , London and Manc types come and go , timecand time agai n anyone with an edge leaves , BH i think had same issue with Cheshire set wannabes employees, thats all change with the Group . Next is slow to move and short on dynamics, BH Group is not. Asos at mo trumps the lot but BH is not competing as much now , Next market share is rioe for the taking only there was not really anyone to challenge it, M & S possibly but there even worse at playing safe. Simon Wolfson has gone from sleeping well to waking up in a cold sweat and BH have not just tools but multi tools to do it.

Dan Next is a dinosaur, management is weak but Simon Wolfson clever guy , Christos who was at Next but went to Abercrombie n F but ended up at Reiss, he is the only decent.Director of clothing that Next has had in last few year, its no coincidence that Next has bought into Reiss. Jl is pin sharp , Next need to be worried not vice versa.

Dsn Google Jsckie Wheeler.
I got 38,600 shares in BH , switched all my investment and profit in blocks from Asos to BH on bad news dips.
Im just playing for profit , started trading in lockdown as i had money sitting in bank and was bored lesstihs and know the rag trade enough to see pxs were a joke.
Could never really justify buying a supercar due to skool fees, skiing summer hols , bigger hol home , yeah im flexing, who cares.
Anyway made a ton of money surprisingly easily on Asos and half decent on switch to BH even on todays px , i can get a 2k mileage New shape V8 Vantage no bother if a sell tmrw, if it gets to 4.30 above a DBS Superleggea , all guilt free, unmarked funds made on instinct and some bo**ocks.
Oddly also got money in ITV , Standard Life and Barclays that weirdly i invested in when i was in my early 30s as accountant saud it was a goid idea, i barely look at them , no idea how much tthey are worth or even how much i paid without digging out paper work, cant even exactly remember the number i have, just occasionally notice ive had a div payment.
Asos and BH i consider the only real shares i have because i bought on my knowledge and gut instinct, looked at Next but at time major headwinds , still think so, based on what i know Asos BH total no brainer, ill bail at 4.50 ish as lifes too short , for me at least, not to enjoy my calculated risk but BH current px will be considered in 5 years an absolute steal it will be well into fouble figs , Asos heading towards 70 in nextt max 2 years. I give my views not to point score but to anyone on here who wants an inside point of understanding , really past caring if u dont agree, i given up trying to explain in minute detail to you. If you think thers no value here for your investment fine so why even bother coz it just appears you want to engage in an endless pulling apart of every sentence. I just go with gut , knowledge and balls.

Jesus BBS no i write to much as it is, especially to Danl90 aka Jackie Wheeler, its cut paste from Drapers.

Danl90 or these days my new alias for you, Jackie Wheeler, seems like you got your rod out again, i'll humour you. As always you mis-interpret, everyone needs a platform, it's just a tool but i know you'll disagree and come up with a a load of cliches and words that are meaningless in the real World.

So you think Next is getting well ahead of BH Group ? You mean it wasn't already ???? As i keep saying this is no longer BH, i know your struggling with that, probably one of the reasons you bailed for a second time.
BH Group is miles behind Next, unlike yourself Next see what's coming down the road, as i have mentioned in past BH Group with all its Brands is a serious threat to Next's dominance and Next needed to do something. With Reiss it actually takes it more upmarket to compete with some of BH Groups W/W London Brands arguably Reiss is even higher in px pitch, what Next is lacking is a Young Fashion Brand to steal market share from BH and Asos, it still doesn't have one. BH can pivot any of the Debs Brands into a Reiss but more importantly with the Brands it now has it can gun for Next's core market. As i've said before the platform is just a basic tool, it's nothing without the marketing and more importantly the Brands to market, BH now has this in spades. once again i'll repeat to you, they need to work very hard and put in buying structure etc etc and have much to achieve with all these Brands it will not happen overnight, you of course defaulted and disagreed saying with Marketplace that's the beauty its up and running oven ready yadda yadda yadda, then you bail at the whiff of a down turn again despite you saying you were in it till summer £5.00 etc etc. As for Beauty, they have a captive audience being kept alive on BH /PLT to spread there wings into and a absolute ton of email id's from Debs and Arcadia, not to mention the current Debs 3rd party Brands that have all customer info and that are gladly working with a solvent company going places. Not sure why your even on here, shouldn't you be on Mining and Cards, there's nothing you don't already profess to know about BH and yet you sold , like an old boyfriend who keeps ringing up and knocking on door saying i made a big mistake,

Inditex profits as online sales soar
Spanish retail group Inditex generated a profit of €1.1bn (£940m) in its 2020 financial year, with the figures attributed to a leap in online sales.
Online sales at the group, which owns brands including Zara, Pull & Bear and Massimo Dutti, soared by 77% in local currencies to €6.6bn (£5.65bn), in the year from 1 February 2020 - 31 January 2021.
Inditex generated net sales of €20.4bn (£17.46bn), reducing the year-on-year sales decline to 28%, or 25% excluding the foreign exchange impact. This was despite all of its stores being mandated to close or operate with reduced trading at some stage for differing periods of the year.
In 2019, Inditex generated sales worth €28.2bn (£24.14bn).
During 2020, Inditex opened 29 new stores and launched its online sales platform in 25 new international markets.

Inditex had generated €7.6bn (£6.5bn) in cash by the close of its financial year.

As part of the agreement, Reiss will transition its online platform, warehouse, distribution and logistics to the Next "Total Platform", the retailer's digital platform, which hosts third-party brands and launched in 2020. Next said this will enable Reiss to benefit from its extensive infrastructure capabilities, and will serve as a “launch pad for Reiss’s growth plans, both in the UK and overseas”.
Reiss will retain management autonomy and creative independence, and will continue to have its own independent board of directors based at its London headquarters. The business will continue to be led by CEO Christos Angelides and his creative team.
Upon completion of the deal, which is subject to regulatory clearance, Next will make an equity investment of £33m and a debt investment of £10m, financed from Next’s own cash resources.
Next also has an option to acquire an additional 26% interest at pre-agreed terms which would take Next’s holding to 51%. The option falls away after July 2022.
Next CEO Lord Wolfson said: “Reiss is an outstanding brand with enormous potential and a first-class management team. We are excited to see what can be achieved through the combination of Reiss’s exceptional product, marketing and brand-building skills with Next’s 'Total Platform' infrastructure.”
Christos Angelides, Reiss CEO, added: “I believe the partnership with Next will be transformational for Reiss’s operational effectiveness. Next’s infrastructure will ensure Reiss is not only more efficient as a business but more effective at serving its customers directly through Reiss stores, at reiss.com and through its worldwide partners.
"While we will continue to focus on creating authentic and timeless collections, today’s announcement provides a great opportunity for Reiss to realise the brand’s global potential as a modern fashion house.”
In the year to 1 February 2020, turnover at Reiss grew 22% to £227.4m year on year.

The company currently operates in 14 countries from 79 stores, 104 concessions and via wholesale and franchises.

Splice, yep this advert was from 1985, it was a game changer for the denim Industry and especially Levis, Button Fly Jeans and not least Boxer Shorts and Marvin Gaye who got back into the top ten i think.
Hope links works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56M5OZS1A8&t=4s

Great posts Zebudee , my view re BH at the mo is that because they are so high profile then anyone with a grievance for whatever reason / with or without merit can have a go to make headlines and give them and there cause publicity, the truth can be stretched to make a better narrative and words like Slavery will dominate the headlines, failings of ESG yes definitely but knowingly breaking the law and Enslaving workers, nope, but then that doesn't create headlines. Investors i do believe are starting to warm up a bit in their sentiment towards BH and when you look at the landscape apres CV the market cannot fail to start to see that the pure play etailers, are, i think, set fair for the next 5 years bare min.