Challenges of fashion buying and merchandising

Fashion Marketing Contemporary Issues, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 54-73

  Bruce, Margaret ^a   Daly, Lucy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85158968311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780080468174-3     Document Type: Chapter

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