1. Wiki Presentation Maria Berens, Sara Bowring, Sanya Rehman and Hayley Briggs

2. Agenda About New Look Our roles Customer of New Look Comparative shop & competitors Improved brand identity Marketing SWOT for New Look Our teamwork

3. About New Look Founded in 1969 Has stores worldwide Online store Last year more than 355 million customers visited New Look Has won several accolades over the years Has many celebrity partnerships

4. Role Introduction Designer Sara Bowring Buyer Hayley Briggs Visual Merchandiser Maria Berens Marketing Manager Sanya Rehman

5. Demographics – Aged 9-35 – Teenagers, graduates, young people and families – C1 and C2 social groups – Mainly females Why New Look? – Value fashion and a bargain – Up to trend fashion – Quality – Choice – Convenience Customer

6. Competitors Our competitors for the comparative shop were H&M and Miss Selfridge.

7. Comparative shop Date undertaken : Thursday 13 th October 2011 Kings Gate shopping centre, Huddersfield

8. Improved Brand Identity Designer Merchandiser Buyer Marketing manager

9. Marketing Online shopping: All Products available online Most visited fashion websites in the UK. Mim online stores

10. Marketing Ways of marketing: Blogs Future Fab fashion New Look Daily Celebrity endorsements Kimberly Walsh Lilly Allen Taylor Momsen Girls Aloud Luke Worall Agyness Deyn Alexa Chung.

11. SWOT for New Look Strengths: Affordable fashion Good quality Current styles Strong, easy to use website Established brand Good customer base Weaknesses: Slower turn around than some of our competitors Our trend prediction can be weak at times Not enough ‘add on’ and encouragement to do so. Opportunities: We could have more promotion days The website blog could be expanded Improve our trend prediction through more in depth research Threats: What are our competitors doing? Should we be expanding? Should we be launching new ranges? Competitors being quicker at change sin trend.

12. Our teamwork Previous meeting dates : 4 th October 2011 13 th October 2011 14 th November 2011 28 th November 2011 19 th January 2012 26 th January 2012 3 rd February 2012 16 th February 2012

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