Fashion & Apparel

U.G.A. works with companies in the wholesale fashion and apparel industry by providing expert management consulting and strategic advisory services. Our Fashion & Apparel division brings highly qualified resources together that help develop operational best practices, reduce cost, and improve overall performance. Our Fashion & Apparel division works with your company’s key management to help determine the most effective and efficient course of action to help improve profitability. From inbound and outbound logistics to sales process development, U.G.A. works closely with clients to help identify, procure, and manage relationship with qualified intermediaries to help improve overall operations, reduce costs, and increase sales and profitability.

Fashion & Apparel Services:

  • Design & Product Development
  • Pattern Making & First Samples
  • Manufacturing (USA & Overseas)
  • Costing
  • Sourcing
  • Private Label
  • Vendor Compliance Manuals
  • Import & Export
  • Supply Chain Management & Logistics
  • Enterprise Software Solutions
  • Sales Process Development
  • Sales Force Training & Development

Retail Services

U.G.A. Retail Services division works in all the world with mall-based  and  retailers, and overseas companies planning to enter the U.S. retail market, by providing strategic and tactical guidance on real estate planning and retail store operations and marketing to help build consumer loyalty and improve sales. U.G.A. provides proven retail operational and marketing strategies combined with our proprietary consumer research methodologies to assist single-store, multi-store, and national chain stores achieve maximum profitability while helping to discover opportunities for growth.

Retail Planning:

  • Retail Concept Development
  • Real Estate Planning & Contract Negotiation
  • Trade Radius Demographics Analysis
  • On-Site Location Surveys
  • Temporary & Permanent Lease Agreements
  • Expansion & Roll Out Strategy
  • Store Design
  • Construction & Build Out

Retail Operations:

  • Inventory Planning
  • Merchandise Allocation
  • Open to Buy & Vendor Compliance Agreements
  • Floor Planning & Planograms
  • Music Licensing & Programming
  • Seasonal Sales & Holiday Promotions Planning
  • POS & Merchant Services
  • Sales Team Training & Customer Service
  • Internal Controls & Loss Prevention

Retail Marketing:

  • Consumer Experience Marketing
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • In-Store Marketing & Displays
  • Visual Merchandising
  • Window Displays
  • Bag Marketing
  • Promotions & Print Advertising
  • Pricing Strategy
  • Gift Card Programs

Online Retail Sales:

  • E-Commerce Site Development
  • Mobile Commerce
  • Social Media Marketing
  • SEO & PPC Marketing
  • Content Development
  • Email Marketing
  • Analytics & Performance Analysis

Business Strategy

U.G.A. Business Strategy division offers strategic-level management consulting on complex business fundamentals combined with hands-on execution to assist companies achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.Our Business Strategy division works with your company’s executive leadership to determine your company’s strengths and weaknesses, provide management insight, and develop an executable business plan that is in line with internal capabilities and management expectations.

Business Strategy Services:

  • Strategy Formulation
  • Corporate-Level Strategy
  • Business-Unit Strategy
  • Value-Chain Development
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Business Plans (Venture Investors)
  • Business Plans (Banks and SBA Loans)
  • Financial Modeling
  • Investor Relations
  • Exit Strategy

Branding & Marketing

U.G.A. Branding & Marketing division combines business with this sector and the Hotel advisory sector. Our Branding & Marketing division works with companies to formulate a long-term brand strategy and assists in the tactical implementation of marketing activities to help communicate your brand’s key values to consumers.

Branding Services:

  • Brand Audit
  • Brand Strategy
  • Brand Architecture
  • Identity Branding
  • Brand Extensions
  • Brand Management
  • Corporate-Level Branding
  • Product-Level Branding

Marketing Services:

  • Casting & Photo Shoots
  • Advertising Campaigns
  • Catalog & Look Books
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Fashion Shows
  • Trade Shows
  • Event Planning
  • Press Releases & Media Relations

FASHION & ACCESSORIES

The Fashion & Accessories Practice

Fashion & Accessories world is an incredible business Eco system, a real world, where Companies,  Brands, People, and Media have to be creative and business profit minded at the same time.

Our knowledge of  the fashion world are grounded in the identification of key issues that our clients face as well as first hand experience gained from serving Brands and Business in the industry. We help our client navigate in this world.

We can work with Creative director, PR, advertising, Image, Brand & Product Management, Marketing & Sales, Retail, Merchandising, Media  that are key strategic components to the success.

Our Positioning

At THE LUXURY CONSULTING COMPANY,

With our fashion business partners we  know Women’s & Men’s Ready-to-Wear Collections, but also travel items, shoes, glasses, accessories- leather bags, hand bags,  jewelry, watches, ties, scarves, lingeries, Eyewear,  table ware and home furnishings beauty products, cosmetics and fragrance bedding.

Our fashion business partners have a great experience for business case and briefcases, hand bags, leather bags, small leather goods, duffles and travel bags,  including soft and rigid luggage and trunks . We know how to master the shape, create the hit Bag, play with the details, make a leather accessories line successful and we have very good connections and network in that field, in Italy, France, India and China with a network of suppliers and subcontractors.

We  work for couture and haute couture Brands, but also for premium. Brands, and Ready to Wear, and Sport Wear.

We work with Brands of very large international Luxury Groups but also with family owned brands,  and appreciate small independents brands with new talented designers and new creators that are coming also to the industry.

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