Having funding for your business is the life and blood of your Fashion Brand.

When it comes to searching for funding and investment, we have seen the good, the bad and the ugly. So let's share some basic principles and questions you need to ask yourself.

The investor will be investing his own...

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 improvement...

Let's discuss how we can help you elevate your retail strategy with our expert buying & merchandising solutions.

It is applicable even if you have a store doing or planning to do $200 000 in total sales per year.
It is applicable whether you are running a brick and mortar, pop up or online...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We regularly go to the Doctor's office or visit the dentist. We often send our paperwork to the accountant to finalise the balance sheet and profit and loss account.

However, let us ask you a few questions:

1. When did you last visit Doctor Fashion?
2. Who did a diagnostic on your Fashion Brand and...