{"id":2393,"date":"2020-04-10T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:12:07","slug":"fashion-industry-reels-coronavirus-shuts-shops-cancels-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/fashion-industry-reels-coronavirus-shuts-shops-cancels-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion industry reels as coronavirus shuts shops and cancels orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Report warns 80% of firms face a highly uncertain future if stores close for two months.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2394\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2394 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5628.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5628.jpg 620w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5628-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/5628-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global fashion sales are predicted to fall by up to 30% in 2020, with the luxury end of the market even harder hit. Photograph: David Gannon\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the $2.5tn (\u00a32tn) global fashion industry into crisis with a \u201csignificant number\u201d of firms expected to go bust in the next 18 months, putting millions of jobs at risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Global fashion sales are predicted to fall by up to 30% in 2020 and the luxury end of the market will be even harder hit, with sales slumping by up to 40%, according to a bleak\u00a0report by the Business of Fashion (BoF) and consultants McKinsey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If stores remain shut for two months, McKinsey projects that 80% of listed fashion companies in Europe and North America will be in financial distress. The discretionary nature of spending on fashion means investors have taken a dim view of the sector with the average market value of fashion and luxury companies dropping by almost 40% in the first three months of 2020 \u2013 a steeper decline than that of the overall stock market.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even before the outbreak began, stiff competition meant that more than half of the companies in McKinsey\u2019s benchmark global fashion index were described as \u201cvalue destroyers\u201d \u2013 meaning the profit made by a company did not exceed its cost of capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe pandemic spells more trouble for this group, which includes department store giants, high street brands and venture-backed startups,\u201d the report states. \u201cWe expect a large number of global fashion companies to go bankrupt in the next 12 to 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a global workforce of more than 300m people the virus has triggered a terrible domino effect. The forced closure of high street stores and shopping centres has shed retail jobs and\u00a0cancelled orders for new season stock\u00a0have ricocheted around the globe putting millions of garment workers in\u00a0sourcing markets such as Bangladesh, India and Cambodia out of work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From high-end to high street fashion there are already visible signs of distress.\u00a0Burberry\u00a0sits on a long list of suffering luxury goods companies, which also includes Coach-owner Tapestry, as wealthy consumers stop travelling and shopping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the UK alone analysts think around \u00a310bn worth of high street fashion is piling up in warehouses as major firms including Primark, Peacocks, Arcadia and Next stop taking new deliveries because they have run out of space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: Theguardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report warns 80% of firms face a highly uncertain future if stores close for two months. The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the $2.5tn (\u00a32tn) global fashion industry into crisis with a \u201csignificant number\u201d of firms expected to go bust in the next 18 months, putting millions of jobs at risk. 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