ABOUT
The Robin Report provides insights and opinion on major topics in the retail apparel and related consumer product industries. It delivers provocative, unbiased analysis on retail, brands and consumer products, and covers industry-wide issues, trends and consumer behavior throughout the retail-related industries. TRR is delivered exclusively on TheRobinReport.com. Additionally, TRR produces executive briefings and industry events.
The Robin Report Platform
The Robin Report platform is a knowledge-based information and consulting platform driving strategic growth and vision at the intersection between new-world and legacy retail sectors and related consumer product industries.
The Robin Report
Provocative, outspoken, opinionated and unbiased, our daily content feed is the trusted source of knowledge, insight and analysis to provide retail and related industry leaders the context they need to help guide their businesses.
Events
Our thought leadership forums identify key trends and analyze critical marketplace indicators, offering relevant idea-exchange and thought about trends and strategies in retailing and other consumer-facing businesses – plus introduce nextgen leaders shaping the future of retail.
The Radicals Awards
The Robin Report Retail Radicals Awards focuses on identifying the radical thinkers and doers exclusively in the legacy retail industry sectors. These radicals are driving the major transformations within their respective retail brands with challenges much larger and more complex than those of often-celebrated tech-driven startups. The Robin Report Index identifies quantitatively and qualitatively outperforming retailers and their innovators within five industry sectors.
Robin Lewis –Best-Selling Books
Robin Lewis is noted co-author with Michael Dart of Retail’s Seismic Shift: How to Shift Faster, Respond Better, and Win Customer Loyalty. This playbook identifies the major trends in our economy that will shape the future of retail and determine who wins. We are approaching the time in which distribution begins and ends with the consumer, mass markets give way to fragmented markets, and the necessity of entirely new business models is paramount. And now, with the emergence of the technology-empowered young consumer culture, retailers will be forced to transform their offerings.
Robin Lewis – Thought Leader Speaker
Robin Lewis is the founder and CEO of The Robin Report. He is an author, speaker, and consultant for the retail and consumer products industries. Book him now for your next meeting. He is frequently requested by C-level management for advice, consultation and strategic presentations: among them are Bloomingdale’s, JC Penney, Macy’s, VF Corp, Kohl’s, Charming Shoppes, Estee Lauder, Iconix, Footlocker, and Ralph Lauren, as well as financial firms such as The Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs and others. He is the co-author of The New Rules of Retail, published by Palgrave-McMillan, and is often quoted in leading trade and consumer publications.
Advisory Board
The Robin Report Advisory Board is comprised of the most influential and well-respected leaders and shapers of the retail industry, past and present.
Robin Report Team
ROBIN LEWIS
CEO, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
Robin Lewis is the founder and CEO of The Robin Report. He is an author, speaker, and consultant for the retail and consumer products industries.
Previously, he was Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he developed and launched a global retail consulting practice. Prior to Goldman Sachs, as Vice President and Executive Editor of Women’s Wear Daily. Earlier in his career he held executive positions in strategic planning, business development, and brand and marketing management at DuPont, VF Corporation and Grey Advertising.
He is frequently requested by C-level management for advice, consultation and strategic presentations: among them are Bloomingdale’s, JC Penney, Macy’s, VF Corp, Kohl’s, Charming Shoppes, Estee Lauder, Iconix, Footlocker, and Ralph Lauren, as well as financial firms such as The Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs and others.
He is the co-author of The New Rules of Retail, published by Palgrave-McMillan, and is often quoted in various trade and consumer publications such as Women’s Wear Daily, Time Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Brand Week, and Advertising Age, as well as appearing on CNBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News.
He served on the Board of Directors for the Fashion Group International, and on the Advisory Board of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, and has served on the Board of Governors for the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parson’s School of Design. His also an adjunct Professor for FIT’s Global Fashion Management Program.
DEBORAH PATTON
COO, EDITOR
Deborah Patton is an innovator in strategic marketing and communications, including marketing planning, advertising, brand positioning, event production, creative services and communications. She also develops and produces unique executive meetings and thought leadership conferences on global trends and sustainability as well as top-level industry-specific awards shows and summits. She has had in-depth experience in the luxury, entertainment, media & marketing, teen, menswear, shelter, bridal, packaged goods, finance and pop culture markets. In addition to COO of The Robin Report, she is Founder and Executive Director of Applied Brilliance, LLC, a thought leadership advisory consortium that explores and presents emerging trends and cultural paradigm shifts.
SHELLEY E. KOHAN
CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER
Retail expert Shelley E. Kohan is a highly accomplished and driven senior retail executive and consultant with more than 25 years of success in the retail industry. She has worked throughout the industry and across many functions including general management, marketing, operations, merchandising, buying, and human resources.
As a retail pundit, Shelley had been recognized as a top retail influencer four years in a row and a featured spokesperson across many publications and media including NBC Nightly News, Wall St. Journal, New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, Reuters, The Washington Post, Fortune, Chain Store Age, The Robin Report, and Forbes.
In addition to CSO of The Robin Report, Shelley is CEO/Founder Shelmark Consulting, working with companies on strategic management, market growth and retail store operations. She is an associate professor for the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York in the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology and an adjunct instructor at Syracuse University in the Whitman School of Management.
The Robin Report Advisory Board
Founder & CEO, Personatech
Richard Baker
CEO, HBG
Jon Beck
CEO, Columbus Consulting
Noam Ben-Zvi
CEO, Placer.ai
Rick Caruso
CEO, Caruso Group
Paul Charron
Former CEO, Liz Claiborne
Mark A. Cohen
Director of Retail Studies, Columbia’s Business School
Jane Elfers
CEO, Children’s Place
Gary Friedman
CEO, RH
Noah Gellman
Co-Founder & CEO, The Lead
Jeff Gennette
CEO, Macy’s
Melissa Gonzalez
CEO, MG2
Michael Gould
Former CEO, Bloomingdale’s
Joe Gromek
Former CEO, Warnaco
Mindy Grossman
Partner Consello Group
Gil Harrison
Former CEO, Financo
Ken Hicks
CEO, Academy Sports
Brendan Hoffman
CEO, Wolverine
Jane Hudis
Brand President, Brand President, Estee Lauder
Denise Incandela
EVP, Apparel Division and Private Brands, Walmart US
Dick Johnson
Former CEO, Foot Locker
David Kimbell
CEO, Ulta
Kim Kitchings
Senior VP Consumer Marketing, Cotton Incorporated
William Lauder
Executive Chairman, Estée Lauder
Terry Lundgren
Former CEO, Macy’s
Hal Lawton Andy Mantis Marc Mastronardi Ian McGarrigle Pete Nordstrom Allen Questrom Matt Rubel Steve Sadove Yehuda Shmidman Nadia Shouraboura Stacey Shulman George Shaw David Simon Tony Spring Diane Sullivan Burt Tansky Bill Taubman Bill Toney Mike Ullman Paco Underhill Janice Wang Eric Wiseman Berrye Worsham
CEO Tractor Supply Co.
CEO, Commerce Signals
Chief Stores Officer, Macy’s
CEO, World Retail Congress
President/Chief Brand Officer, Nordstrom
Former CEO, JCP, Federated, Neiman-Marcus, Barney’s
Chairman, Executive Board, MidOcean Partners
Former CEO, Saks Inc.
CEO, WHP
Board Member, Ocado
Chief Innovation Officer, IOTG, Retail, Intel
CEO, Pathr
CEO, Simon Property Group
CEO, Bloomingdale’s
CEO, Caleres Inc.
Former CEO, Neiman-Marcus
Former CEO, Taubman
Vice President, Global RFID Market Development, Avery Dennison
Former CEO, JCPenney
CEO, Envirosell
CEO, Alvanon
Former CEO VF
CEO, Cotton Incorporated