A we were working with a client, it became more obvious that we should highlight in this blog 2 key points:

1. Networking benefits
2. Required skills for great networking

 Let's discover the benefits first.

1. Opportunities for Career Advancement
Networking can lead to new job opportunities, promotio...

GFM works alongside the Business owners, the Designer, the investors and Operations Team to build a global Brand profitably.

We bring over 25 years' experience in the business of Fashion to ensure you remain focused on the Design of your collection and we can help you on the rest.
We have the expert...

GFM supports Italian Retailers and please find below a summary of the article published in Intimo Piu Mare during covid time. 

Thierry Bayle is a coach, consultant, and CEO of Global Fashion Management with over 25 years of international experience (Europe, USA, Asia) helping retail businesses grow...

When you look at your B2B sales performance, what do you see?

• Are you really getting the trade buyers you want?
• Is your market shrinking and you are open to new ideas?
• Are you confident your team or partners are putting the right efforts to get results?
• Are they committed to ongoing improvemen
...

Are you serious about building your brand?

Do you agree that nobody knows it all? Often, we don't know what we don't know.

So what if you could have somebody by your side to help you to

1. Build a strong strategy
2. Implement the action plan WITHOUT making the mistakes that your competition has made
...

What will break or make your business succeed is time and priority management.
How do you rate yourself?
Do you regularly procrastinate tasks which are important in the business?
Do you just focus on the easy ones?
Do you only focus on the ones you love doing or those which are urgent but not important?...

As GFM Founder was invited to speak at a Port Harcourt, Nigeria Export Conference, it is the right time for Thierry Bayle to re-highlight the importance to be Export Ready and Export Focused!

Export is this season’s hottest move and it is certainly your future El Dorado!

You know the score: you need...

For his 58th Birthday, Tony Elumelu has shared 58 quotes to ignite entrepreneurship and leadership in Africa.

This continent has the power, the creativity and resilience to reach out to the many globally.

If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.

Read Tony's 58 quotes h...

If you can put your hand on your heart and say that you’re totally happy with the profit your retail business is making, then congratulations, you must be one in a million!

We regularly run Retail workshops at GFM and we have delivered one every season for many years at Who’s Next in Paris*. The que...

As a Young Designer or as a Fashion start-up Brand, you know you are facing 3 critical challenges:

1. Getting the product right

2. Building a business and not a hobby 

3. Making sales and generating a profit

After 25 years in the business of fashion, we understand and we know all the efforts and...

As we were invited for lunch by a client for Diwali, we celebrated the victory of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance.

Apart from eating delicious Indian food, we had the pleasure to enjoy many spices imorted directly from India.

As you know, we can easily have an experience in anythi...

Learning from our own mistakes and learning from the mistakes of others are both important ways to develop knowledge and skills. Here are some differences between the two approaches:

Timing: Learning from our own mistakes usually happens after the mistake has been made, whereas learning from the mi...