Buying and Beyond
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Welcome to the Buying & Beyond podcast, the podcast for all things Retail Buying...and more!
Join us, Kate & Lyns, buyers and best friends, each week for industry insights, stories and expertise from real people in retail.
Enjoy honest stories and conversations, retail therapy and learn bite-sized tips from us and our guests from across the industry.
- Season 1 starts with Becoming a Buyer - the background to how we started in the industry, what exactly is a Buyer, working your way up the ladder and the main meetings and tasks working in Buying
- Season 2 is all about Being a Buyer - leading a team, coordinating trips, working with suppliers, product & personal development and sustainability
- Season 3 takes us beyond just the direct Buying team - we introduce merchandisers, talk about designers and new trends, burnout & life coaching.
- Season 4 is where we are joined by more Retail Buyers and have also invited Retail Businesses to tell us their stories
- Season 5 continues with a fantastic assortment of Retail Buyers and Retail Businesses. We find out how they got started and what inspires & excites them about retail - plus we lift the lid on what Brands need and Buyers expect!
We are your modern day mentors; prepping Buyers of the future and empowering current Buyers. Our insights for retail businesses and entrepreneurs will shine a light on how to to build, grow, scale and pitch like a pro!
If you like listening to this podcast, please rate, follow and share - you can also find us on instagram @buyingandbeyond
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S10 E8 Putting People First Creates Bestselling Products with Alex Dimitriu
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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S10 E7: Why Everyone Thinks Their Product Needs More Space With Retail Analyst Nayaa Owusu
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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S10 E6 Why ADHD Can Be a Superpower in Buying with Talia Winetroube
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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S10 E5 The Stories Shaping Retail with Gabriele Dirvanauskas, Drapers Deputy Editor
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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S10 E4 Why Consistency Is The Silver Bullet with Fran Pittaway, CEO at Biscuiteers
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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S10 E3 How Weather Quietly Reshapes Buying Strategy, Sales and Shopper Behaviour
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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S10 E2 Why The Best Buyers Can Buy Anything with Natasha Caller, Head of Category at Halfords
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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S10 E1 The Secret Tool: Inside the World of Trend Forecasting with Jane Kellock
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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S9 E10 Jo Ingham & Jo Ward: How Fashion can be more sustainable and still be profitable?
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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S9 E9 From Manchester to Japan: The Buyer's Guide to Trend Spotting
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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S9 E8: From Lockdown Idea to Luxury Brand with Elena London
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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S9 E7: From Buyer to Bangladesh with Nadya at NEXT
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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S9 E6:What Really Went Wrong With Debenhams with Retail Strategist Lucy Horden
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May 26, 2026 |
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S9 E5: Katie Williams: Burnout, Boundaries, and Life After Retail
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May 20, 2026 |
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S9 E4: Why the Best Buyers Watch More Than Just Their Category
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May 13, 2026 |
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S9 E3: The Career Tool Most Buyers Never Think to Use with Levanah Gates, The Buyer's Coach
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May 06, 2026 |
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S9 E2: Navigating a Non-Linear Career in Fashion with Lynsey Scoins
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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S9 E1: From the Supplier Side: Holly Stafford Smith on Buying, Business & Building for the Future
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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S8 E10: Building Brands That Stand the Test of Time with Jodie Blake CMO at Manolo Blahnik
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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S8 E9: From Buyer to Supplier: A Journey Through the World of Food with Claire McIlroy
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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S8 E8: Ginny & Me- Pre-Order Power & The Rise of Social-First Brands
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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S8 E7: Introducing... The Buyers Club
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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S8 E6: What It Really Takes to Scale a Rental Fashion Business with Lyndsay Mason
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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S8 E5 Burnout Isn’t a Badge of Honour with Janine McManus
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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S8 E4: From Fashion Buying to Building Club Mera with Amy Rollings
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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S8 E3: Podcast LIVE at Top Drawer - Getting started in AI with Hannah Adams
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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S8 E2: From shop floor lessons to commercial confidence in FMCG with Dahlia Stroud
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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S8 E1: Behind every great product, is a product tech with Claire Ward, Senior Product Technologist at Mint Velvet
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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S7 E10: Progress Over Perfection: Making Circular Fashion Work at Scale with Nick Lambert, Head of Circularity at Primark
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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S7 E9: Why we fell in love with retail buying - and why so many are leaving
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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S7 E8: Building beauty brands with Harry Zalk CEO of Arkive Headcare
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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S7 E7: Burnout & building confidence in Buying & Design with The W-Collective
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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S7 E6 - Expertise That Grows: Buying Plants with Claire Bishop, Senior Buyer at Dobbies Garden Centres
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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S7 E5: What Buyers Need to Know About Creativity, Collaboration, and Commercial Design with Everly Studios
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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S7 E4: How a former M&S and Amazon Buyer turned her fashion career into a personal styling business, with Alex Stanley
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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S7 E3: What’s Next for Retail? AI, Innovation & Big Career Support with Julia Darlington (Part 2)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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S7 E2 Inside Julia Darlington’s Retail Career: Buying, Reinvention & Confidence in a Changing Industry (Part 1)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 21st November 2025; Fast Paint, Knitted Scarves & Marketplace Madness
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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S7 E1: What it really takes to thrive in fashion buying today with Stevie, Head of Buying at Hobbs
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Retail Reflection 14th November 2025
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 7th Nov: Ethics, Experience, and Christmas Cheer
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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S6 E10: The Countdown to Christmas: we unwrap the chaos and charm of the Christmas retail season
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 31st October: Beauty, Brands, and Black Friday
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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S6 E9: From High Street to Wholesale: How Rebecca Hawkes Reinvented Her Buying Career
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 24th October 2025: Brands, Bans, and Bingham’s
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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S6 E8: 'Just Buy Nice Things!' with Glenn Gallagher Scott Ex Arcadia, Next & Primark Buyer and founder of DEN Loungewear
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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S6 E7: Podcast LIVE: with Rosie Head of Range and E-commerce at Not On The High Street
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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S6 E6: Why wine buying is the dream job with Emma Robinson
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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S6 E5: Retail runways and trade shows
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 26th September: Power Moves, Price Wars & Green Dreams
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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S6 E4: Inside Fashion retail training with Louis from the Fashion Retail Academy
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 19th September: New Trends, New Stores, New Energy
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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S6 E3: From Fashion to Fencing with Rebecca Thompson, Category Manager for Jewsons
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Retail reflections 12th September 2025: TV Channels, Loyalty, Marketplaces & Collaborations
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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S6 E2: Finding a Path in Fashion Buying with Yasmin Parkin, Buying & Merchandising Degree student at The Fashion Retail Academy
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 5th September: Second-hand Spotlight & Brand Evolutions
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Season 6 Episode 1: Sewing, Style & Slow Fashion with Christine Lindebak founder of Sewing and the City and Lindy Lindy
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 29th August 2025: Thrifted trends, M&S moves, and robot dog deliveries
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 22nd August 2025 - Comebacks, Collaborations & Controversies
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 15th August 2025 - Loyalty, Legacy Brands & The Endless Runway
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 8th August 2025 - Manchester Rising: Retail’s New Hotspot & Industry Shakeups
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Retail Reflections 1st August 2025 - Experiential retail, brand strategies and AI developments
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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S5 E10: Building a career in Buying with Lucy Smith, Senior Buyer for Womenswear and Accessories for Jigsaw
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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S5 Ep9: Secrets to social media success
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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S5 Ep8: 'Sprinkling that Merchandising magic' with over 20 years of experience for major UK fashion retailers Anna provides valuable insights into merchandising and business strategy
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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S5 Ep7: Retail doing the right thing - We discuss circularity, re-sale & big shifts ahead with more brands stepping up to do the right thing
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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S5 Ep6: Orange and Green should always be seen! We talk with the designers at The Outdoor Edit, a bold new Scottish brand reimagining how we design and enjoy our outdoor spaces.
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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S5 Ep5: Comp Shop, not Copy Shop! It's essential for staying inspired, spotting trends, and growing creatively in retail
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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S5 Ep4: 'Always striving for what's next!' Rosie Platt, Head of E-commerce & Range, shares how moving retailers can really help you find whats really important to you. From carefully created collections to fast fashion trading floors
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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S5 Ep3: 'The best ideas are organic' Ally Mitchell and Anna Campbell-Jones chat to us about their incredible collaboration ‘Ocean Swallows’
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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S5 Ep2: So, your moving to Denim…. On Monday! Shani shares it all, from Arcadia to Superdry
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May 27, 2025 |
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S5 Ep1: We ‘chat’ to the creator of the amazing instagram account ‘Life of a Buyer’
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May 20, 2025 |
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S4 Ep10: Collaboration is kindness with inspirational brand owner Becs founder of the Jewellery brand Boho Betty
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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S4 E9 Turning plastic waste into Candyfloss: The Polyfloss Factory co-founder Audrey Gaulard has an incredibly creative mind, which has taken her from haute couture fashion to engineering for the creation of circular economies
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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S4 Ep8: To fit and flatter - The Founder of Fairlie Curved, Jayne Lasley, is an incredibly inspiring CEO, creating a business that empowers women by providing a solution to a fit size that is missing in the market
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 7: The Better Trends co-founder Louise Healy joins us to discuss how trends can be used for the better and the importance of collaboration in this challenging retail landscape
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 6: Taking leaps of faith with Ex Schuh, Dune, M&S, Dobbies Buyer turned brand owner and podcaster Claire Gray
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 5: Buyers of the Future. Ex M&S, BHS, White Company and QVC Buyer Sarah Hansford talks to us about her buying journey and how rewarding it is to be teaching “buyers of the future” at the Fashion Retail Academy
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 4: Get retail ready as this week we talk about Buyers AND Brands. What are our top tips for connecting with the Buyers you need to get in front of in order to get your product stocked in a retailer
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 3: A full circle moment. Ex NEXT Buyer and founder of Mardy Bum Active Club Anna joins us to tell us her incredible and emotional story of how events in life have taken her from Fashion Retail Buying to Founder of an activewear brand.
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 2: Retail resolutions & revolutions. What is the future of Retail? Are we really on the ‘cusp of the most dramatic transformation yet?' We talk about our new year's resolutions and a new industrial revolution.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Season 4 Episode 1: Trading in Jan- Help! Sometimes it need a miracle in January to turn the sales around. We talk top tips and the drama that goes on behind the scenes.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Season 3 Episode 10: Let's talk Christmas - what's it like buying, trading and promoting Christmas products
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 9: The Buyers Coach Levanah Gates shares her journey from Buyer to Life Coach and how her insight into the industry helps to support fellow Buyers
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 8: Finding the balance between work and personal life; how to manage your stress levels and not lead to burnout.
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 7: One of our trauma friends joins us to reminisce our time as Buying Assistants, tells us why working in Buying has set the scene for the rest of her career and how transferable Buying skills are for any job
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 6: How to feel confident leaving a job and taking on a new role
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 5: The importance of product PR to boost your business with PR expert Laura Quick, founder of LQPR
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 4: The reality of retail. We look back at the golden years, the pandemic & the golden quarter!
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 3: Trends and Trade Shows. We discuss how trade shows have evolved and report on some key trends we are loving for SS25!
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 2: What exactly is Merchandising? Our fave merchie joins to tell us all about it! We discuss how important a buyer/merch relationship is to the success of the department.
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Season 3 Episode 1: All roads lead to a Buyer. A buyer is at the heart of every company. We discuss how to manage all those internal department relationships.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 10: Signing off for summer. Thats a wrap on season 2, we talk about all the summer trends we have seen and whats in store for season 3!
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 9: Sustainability. The impact of retail on the world is huge so we talk about companies doing good, the greenwashing and why we feel strongly about quality over quantity,
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 8: Personal development is key in buying! We talk all about how to drive your own development and the importance of leaning on those trauma friends along the way!
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 7: We talk to Emma about her career in buying and share her experience. Emma's bought a whole array of categories and tells us first hand how she learnt to transfer those skills from one product range to another!
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 6: Inspirational trips & trends - fabulous destinations and quick turn around from festival to factory to shop floor!
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 5: Optimise, not rationalise! How many suppliers should you have? We discuss what is the right amount to have and how to manage them all amongst the rest of the day job!
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 4: Our partners in product. Our supply base is so important, we talk all about our experience of finding suppliers and how to collaborate to build a long lasting relationship!
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 3: It's not a holiday! The phrase we have all said whilst heading out the office door about to board an 13 hour flight half way round the world. We talk about our experiences on development trips and how to handle that jet lag!
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 2: Factories are fascinating. We have travelled all around the world and experienced how products are made from standing on that factory floor. Join us as we discuss product development trips and how to get the most out of them!
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May 28, 2024 |
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Season 2 Episode 1: Finally I’m a BUYER! You've made it, your now in charge of a team and making all those important decisions. We celebrate the highs of this new position but with it comes a huge amount of responsibility! !
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May 21, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 10: Why we think being a Buyer is the best! Why we love our jobs in retail, its tough but the rewards make it all worth it in the end!
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 9: Be that manager: firm but fair! We talk about our preferred management styles and how to manage both up and down!
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 8: Staying relevant, identifying trends and finding inspiration everywhere
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 7: "This is my stage and this is my show" as Buyers are centre stage for Sign Offs
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 6: It's all so last season when we're planning ahead with a Critical Path
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 5: Let's talk trade. Tbh it's all a show - in a really sh*t theatre!
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 4: Own brand or Branded - Buyers are responsible for everything!
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 3: Climbing the Buying Ladder - It's a long way up!
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 2: It's not you, It's me; starting our careers, our first jobs and the daunting experience of a buying interview!
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Season 1 Episode 1: Let's start at the very beginning; studying & work experience
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Pilot: Why are we doing this?!
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Jan 17, 2024 |