For the buyers, the value this year sat in discovery rather than volume.

Gary Bigeni, Van Brussell and Viceta Wang discuss their market insights with ragtrader.com.au.

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Margin, not sales, decide reporting round

Ragtrader analyses what the reporting round says about where Australian fashion retail heads into Black Friday.

Demand is not the constraint. What has narrowed is the brief.

Australian retailers battle weak mid-year demand

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Channel performance revealed a surprising reversal of recent trends.

JD Sports flags "softening" ANZ sentiment as APAC outperforms

The company's APAC region is managed by Australian apparel and retail veteran Hilton Seskin.

KMD faces stark recovery test, analysts reveal

UBS research shows the Rip Curl and Kathmandu parent is "getting back on track", but the road ahead won't be easy.

Victorian stores face 263 crimes a day, figures reveal

The figures include a record 37,398 steal-from-a-retail-store offences, equivalent to 102 every day.

Canali expands Australia footprint into Victoria

This will add to over 190 Canali boutique stores globally.

Realism to give away $100k worth of product

Tomorrow in Sydney, the brand will hand out 601 hoodies, pants and other styles from the back of a truck.

Lew’s Premier Retail fields sales and earnings slips

"We remained focused on executing our growth strategies," Premier chairman Solomon Lew says.

Retail body targets ultra-cheap platform safety gaps 

"Product safety cannot stop at the border," ARC CEO Chris Rodwell says.

Country Road Group rejects sell-off rumours

This comes amid tough trading conditions and heightened M&A activity in the fashion sector in recent weeks.

KMD Brands FY26 statutory losses hit NZ$414.4 million

This was driven by a post-tax impairment charge of NZ$394 million.

Myer Group logs $280m impairment, bottom line sinks further

The non-cash impairment charge comes amid volatile trading, impacting sales growth and profitability.