Richard Hayne
Richard Hayne
Richard Hayne is the president and CEO of Urban Outfitters, an American chain of clothing retailers. He has been the chairman and president since 1976 and the CEO since the retirement of Glen Senk in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth26 May 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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The suburb in the 1950s was a bedroom community. The father worked in the city, and the mother stayed home. Now people live and work in the suburbs, and businesses have grown up or moved from cities to certain pockets of what was once the suburbs and created these places that are like cities.
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The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.
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Each brand leader is focused on ensuring that the brand relationship with its customer is strong and differentiated. To accomplish this differentiation, we plan to offer her even more unique product and talk with her in new and exciting ways.
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Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.
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Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.
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Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry.
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Terrain has seen a strong uptick in brand awareness and direct-to-consumer traffic from their inclusion in the Anthropologie Group.
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We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.
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We believe there is no fundamental structural changes in the young-adult market. There are, of course, fashion changes, and the success of each brand depends on the accuracy with which it predicts those changes.
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We have built brands that resonate deeply with our customers. Our strategy to grow these brands is clear, and we have strong teams in place to execute this strategy. That is our formula for success.
I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.
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The Anthropologie brand continues to succeed in emotionally engaging its customers while delivering strong financial results.
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If we go and see hundreds of different market resources, you are seeing hundreds of different points of view, and once in a while, my experience is, you will come across one or two that are just outstanding, and you never would have thought of them.
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Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing.