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		<title>The direction of retail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Italian bicycle manufacturer, Legend, is dual-purposing their showroom to sell other brands related to their core market.
This looks to be a viable trend for premium brands, as also seen at The Stronghold in LA.  They carry their own line, but support it with add-on sales of Filson, White&#8217;s boots, and other staple [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new Italian bicycle manufacturer, <a href="http://www.legendfactory.eu/home/">Legend</a>, is <a href="http://italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com/2009/12/legend-bikes-new-italian-custom.html">dual-purposing their showroom</a> to sell other brands related to their core market.</p>
<p>This looks to be a viable trend for premium brands, as also seen at <a href="http://www.thestronghold.com/">The Stronghold</a> in LA.  They carry their own line, but support it with add-on sales of Filson, White&#8217;s boots, and other staple heritage brands.</p>
<p>The same concept also plays out well on the web, sell your core product, but support with related items from other vendors. </p>
<p>As department stores suffer from decreased quality of merchandise, premium small retail has a good chance to make up the gap, and bolstering margins with add-on sales is the simplest way to succeed for brand-owned stores.</p>
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