Branding

ModCloth is taking a major step to be more inclusive by removing the word "Plus" from its website. The fashion brand has already removed the "Plus" section from the homepage of its website and is currently in beginning stages of removing the word from the site altogether.  

Ulta peppers suburban America with its beauty emporiums, offering a wide array of cosmetics and fragrances, from Urban Decay eye palettes to tiny bottles of Versace perfume. It’s the country’s biggest specialty beauty retailer by sales. Despite its aggressive national expansion in recent years, though, many women still have no idea what Ulta is ... and…

Good brands have personality, and frankly, The Kansas City Steak Company lacked one. That was the harsh assessment from John McKinven, president of The K.C. Steak Co.’s direct-to-consumer business, during a keynote presentation at the NEMOA directXchange Fall Conference in Schaumburg, Ill. last week. The purveyor of high-quality meats was suffering from a lack of…

Target is going on a health kick, aimed at both customers and its employees. The discount-store chain will push granola bars and healthy grab-and-go snacks over candy at the checkout and hand out free basic activity trackers from Fitbit Inc. to its more than 300,000 employees as part of the effort. Target will also give…

Apple Music is getting a little bit of luxury. Burberry, the high-end fashion retailer, said on Monday that it was starting a channel on Apple Music, the streaming music service. The channel will feature performances, songs and films that have come out of Burberry’s work with British artists. The deal is the first collaboration between the two…

Retailers are increasingly partnering with high-profile bloggers — i.e., those with thousands and sometimes millions of followers, and who wield a huge amount of influence over those followers and their purchasing decisions — to act as spokespeople or ambassadors for their brands.

If you stopped wearing your K-Swiss sometime around 2002, apparently you’re not alone. Late last year, the nearly-forgotten footwear brand started a campaign to reintroduce itself to the 21st century. The comeback was complete with a Kik campaign, a campaign called “The Board” that crowdsourced creative, and a little help from producer/DJ Diplo. Digiday talked…

American Eagle shares slid another 2.5 percent on Thursday, as the teen retailer's third-quarter outlook continued to spark concern among investors. But analysts were quick to call the selloff overdone, saying the company continues to steal share from its competitive set, even as it raises prices.

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Gazing over a spread of magazines on a side table in her New York office on Broadway, Federica Marchionni eagerly flips through the pages to find her advertisements inside. For the new Lands’ End chief executive officer, this is her big unveil, the first time she gets to show what she’s been working on since…