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Jacobs: 12-to-18-month wholesale retail supply chains are an archaic model
“The tail was wagging the dog where the wholesale business and this long supply chain window was kind of ruling our company, and we already knew that that was an archaic model. All of America retail operates on it by and large. We knew that consumers want thing…”
Jacobs: Perfect inventory matters more than lower per-unit printing costs
“So it essentially is more expensive to print per unit, but if we're doing it right, you end up with perfect inventory and inventory is the thing that kills businesses.”
Bert Jacobs: Modern brands cannot be built without consumer co-authorship
“It's the 21st century, and anybody who thinks that they're a smart entrepreneur or a smart marketer, and they're gonna build their brand on their own, you're kidding yourself. You have to enable your consumers to co-author the story of your brand”
Bert Jacobs: Marks on t-shirts are ornamental unless proven as brand source
“And by definition, legally a trademark denotes the source of the goods. So there's, when you just put a mark on a t-shirt, that's called ornamental. But if people look at it and say that represents the source of the goods in some way, then it's a brand.”