We’ve heard many stories in recent days from brands advising us their buyers are not able to attend market due to coronavirus. They have shared the success they are having with JOOR’s virtual showrooms, allowing them to continue uninterrupted business, albeit remotely.

“There is often an assumption that ‘sustainable’ can’t live in mainstream fashion. JOOR helped us break into the wholesale space in such a way that we can compete with ‘normal’ brands and truly go mainstream. That’s a good thing for Tribe Alive--and a good sign for fashion in general.” -- Hannah Paul, Brand Development Associate, Sales and Ethics, Tribe Alive.

JOOR Payments plays a key role in optimizing your business and its needs, enabling users to take advantage of JOOR’s industry-leading all-in-one wholesale platform. The result: your brand can now capture orders, send invoices and receive payments, all in one place. Setup is a breeze. It’s just another way that we’re making wholesale smooth, smart and simple. Log in and set up JOOR Payments today.

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2020! It is going to be an exciting one for JOOR and our industry. I'm kicking off with some exciting news about a new member of our leadership team - Chris Akrimi. He has joined JOOR as Senior Vice President, Global Sales. 

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A digital transformation has taken hold of the retail industry, making use of technology table stakes and access to data critical. And digital business-to-business wholesale management platform businesses, like JOOR, are
initiating that transformation by creating solutions for brands and retailers that provide immediate insights for smarter, informed business decisions. 

50% of brands’ style changes are caused by drops/cancellations. With JOOR’s Cancel/Replace Styles tool, you can easily cancel, replace and notify buyers of changes to ordered styles. Using the JOOR Cancel Style functionality, you can easily drop styles from any or all of your orders. Using the Replace Style functionality, you can recoup potentially lost revenue by replacing cancelled styles.

PREMIUM PREMIUM GROUP’s powerful event portfolio includes the international fashion trade shows PREMIUM and SEEK as well as the FASHIONTECH Berlin conference and masterclasses on innovation topics – all happening twice a year in Berlin.

Brands and retailers are similar in nature when it comes to the role upselling plays.  While providing outstanding customer service and producing quality products is certainly important, it’s the sometimes-forgotten art of the upsell that remains a key priority for any and all wholesalers.

With the new "Self Serve" feature, lite brands will have the long-awaited ability to upload styles and create linesheets instantly by uploading a .csv template to your style data. 

The industry’s current growth story isn’t sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat. The macro view suggests stable or slowed growth in both emerging and mature apparel markets for 2018-2019. Global JOOR ecosystem data1, however, fills in some details--and adds some spills and thrills. In fact, for the same time period, certain developing and recovering regions show a spike in GMV.