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Peter England's Honest Moves !

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After years of play in the value segment the "Honest" shirt ie Peter England ,as a brand has established itself as a market leader in the Rs 400-800 price point shirt segment , the brand today does an annual business of 200 crores , as most strong brands Peter England has also seen a change in its market play , sometime towards last year they launched Peter England Elite which was meant to fit into the 800 - 1200 segment of pricing that the brand claimed was left unaddressed in the market ,as the next level was at , the premium segment which started at the Rs 1900 plus price point being catered too by the Louis Philphe ,Van Heusen and say Arrow . The brand wanted to upgrade its brand and its consumers too ,we believe ! This blog is not privy to the performance of the sub brand ,but of late hasn't seen any communication for this either . Talking about communication there has been some amount of visibility to their new initiative the all new" Peter England People ...

Levis Ka new Khiladi !

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News is abuzz about the latest brand ambassador for Levis in India , Akshay Kumar ,must say that as an avid Levis watcher this blog believes that there is buzz thats been bought back into the brand .For a legendary brand that has sadly seen its fortune only slipping down globally ,with its strongest market US ,beating it black and blue the only Bright spot continues to be India for their global operation ! Thus the need for creating this new buzz ,which surely must have cost them a bomb , this blogs estimate is nothing less than 10 crore paycheck to Akshay ( not bad rite ! ) Its surprising that they have used their oldest legendary product 501 as the product hero , the buttoned jeans for this campaign Will it work ? well thats a good question as there is no doubt that there is suddenly SOV for the brand , however the product is nothing new ,so Levis expects consumers to wakin to their stores just by the unbottoned campaign ,which according this blog wouldnt /mite not happen .The next s...

not SIGN OF GOOD TIMES !

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Reliance Retail goes on austerity mission- Retailing-Services-News ... Birlas appoint new CEO for retail venture- Retailing-Services-News ... Slowdown turns Ahmedabad into 'retail graveyard'- Retailing ... Retail industry going slow on recruitments- Jobs-News By Industry ... Retail firms thinking lean and mean to stay fit- Retailing ... Retail downturn: Senior execs receive pink slips- Retailing ...