THE INSIDE EDGE

Around 95% of the country's retail market is informal, with a large demand for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) and agro-industrial products. Supply chain management remains a challenge: wholesalers and importers typically provide goods to independent and informal retailers.

Function as fun in Fremantle

These are practical times, well at least according to the four shows running at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Structured loosely around themes of fashion and design, Fashioning Now, Nairn Scott's Glomesh Project, Mark Parfitt's Dream Bore and Vera Moller's Darkrooming take a pragmatic approach to examining the intersection of value and function.

Fashion's Night Out coming to Ala Moana

Fashion's Night Out was conceived by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and designer and Council of Fashion Designers President Diane von Furstenberg, as a way for retailers, designers and all involved in the fashion world to come together to save their industry after the economy collapsed and it became clear people were too cash-strapped to shop.

GUESS® Accessories opens at Miromar Outlets

GUESS Accessories has opened its first Southwest Florida Factory Outlet store in Miromar Outlets.

Fossil's 2Q profit soars 230 percent

Fossil Inc.'s second-quarter profit tripled on the strength of its core watch business as retailers replenished stores and consumers worldwide are buying watches again.