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Most apparel retailers are losing 15–30 margin points they can't fully account for.
Markdowns destroy nearly half of it. Stockouts, returns, and shrinkage take the rest. Brandstak makes the gap visible — down to the SKU, the store, the week.
$70M+
identified in one engagement
€75M
in annual savings in another
£10M+
in missed sales uncovered
The margin gap is structural — not seasonal.
Apparel retailers price for 65–80% initial markup. They realize 38–42%. That gap — 15 to 30 points — isn't a mystery. It's markdowns, stockouts, returns, and shrinkage, compounding across hundreds of categories and thousands of SKUs.
The problem isn't that margin is eroding. It's that most teams can't see where, how fast, or what's driving it — until the quarter is already closed.
See the gap. Understand why. Recover the margin.
See everything
Every transaction, every markdown, every stockout — connected with competitor pricing, consumer signals, and market context in one intelligence layer. No more reconciling six tools to find the answer.
Ask anything
Natural language across your entire business. "Which categories lost the most margin last month?" "Where are we stocking out in the Southeast?" No reports. No SQL. Just answers.
Know what to do
Quantified recommendations, not dashboards. Which SKUs to promote, which stores to replenish, which markdowns to hold — this week. The platform learns from every decision and gets sharper over time.
Proven across specialty apparel, intimate apparel, and sporting goods.
$70M+
in incremental profit
A ~$700M US specialty apparel retailer. Geo-spatial analysis of 149 stores revealed that optimizing the store footprint from 149 to 107 locations would turn $50M in annual losses into $23M in EBITDA — a 19.3% margin on a leaner network.
€75M
in annual savings
A €560M European intimate apparel retailer. Analysis of store network, loyalty data (80% card penetration), and cannibalization patterns showed that 109–111 store closures would preserve network revenue while dramatically reducing costs.
£10M+
in missed sales
A mid-market UK sporting goods retailer. Consolidated fragmented data from third-party systems into a single intelligence layer. Uncovered a £1.2B adjacent market opportunity in clothing that the business was underserving.
Live in 4–6 weeks. No rip-and-replace.
Standard ingestion from all major retailer systems. Your existing infrastructure stays. Brandstak sits on top.
Start with the Margin Recovery Roadmap.
A 4–6 week diagnostic that shows you exactly where margin is eroding and how much is recoverable. 100% of the investment is credited to your Year 1 contract.