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Business Strategies That Make J.Crew A Successful Business J. Crew has successfully carried designer quality merchandise that has brought substantial growth to the company. With 334 stores carrying women’s men’s and children’s clothing they have seen significant success in their E-commerce and catalogue shopping alternatives. They recently called their catalogue “The J.Crew, Style Guide”. Anna Wintour claimed the J. Crew catalogue to be like “Shopping with your best friend whose style you admire”. One of their business strategies was to not partnership with department stores and keep exclusivity to their retail stores. In the last year, J. Crew has seen an increase of 170% in their revenues. The method of exclusivity has made their brand unique and has targeted their ideal consumers. …show more content…
Formal CEO of Gap, Millard Drexler, has found the way to meld the merchandise from stores and catalogues into one consistent product. In previous years, one of the main issues J Crew had was that their catalogue merchandise was not consistent with those they had in retail stores. Furthermore, another business strategy they have utilized is the importance they give to their quality, value, and design, but also taking into consideration that they need to be loyal to their opening price points. Differentiating themselves from stores such as Zara, where they offer not only in trend fashion merchandise, but also offer a long lasting quality. In other words, it is not fashion for the moment, but fashion for a