• Nextail has been awarded in the categories of Innovation, Product Launches, and Research & Development
• The Just Style Excellence Awards are a true benchmark for excellence and innovation in the industry

Nextail is proud to announce a triple-award win at the 2025 Just Style Excellence Awards—Innovation (Merchandising Optimization), Product Launches (Inventory Optimization), and Research and Development (Fashion Inventory Engine). The Just Style Excellence Awards, powered by GlobalData’s business intelligence, are among the most prestigious and widely recognized honors in the apparel and textile industry, celebrating companies that drive positive change and set new standards for excellence.

This recognition is a testament to the impact that Nextail technology is having on the global fashion retail landscape. At Nextail, we are committed to empowering retailers with advanced AI and machine learning solutions that address the industry’s most complex challenges, from merchandising and inventory management to end-to-end operational optimization.

Our journey has been defined by close collaboration with leading fashion brands and a relentless focus on delivering measurable business results. By embedding deep industry expertise into every solution, we have enabled our partners to move beyond manual, reactive processes and embrace a data-driven, demand-first approach.

Key Achievements Recognized by the Just Style Excellence Awards:

Innovation in Merchandising Optimization:

• Transformed traditional merchandising with a demand-first, AI-powered platform that enables SKU, store, and day-level optimization.
• Helped retailers such as Guess and Gina Tricot achieve up to a 39.9% increase in sales units, a 12.6 percentage point improvement in sell-through, and a 20% reduction in stockouts.
• Delivered rapid, seamless integration and full adoption across our customer base.

Product Launches – Inventory Optimization:

• Launched an automated inventory optimization solution that manages end-of-season stock transfers, ensuring products reach high-demand locations before markdowns.
• Reduced manual workload for merchandising teams by up to 80% and enabled real-time, hyperlocal inventory management.
• Supported sustainability by consolidating 86.5% of leftovers for resale and reducing waste.
• Enabled retailers like Merkal and Style Union to achieve a 3% increase in sell-through and significant reductions in stockouts.

Research and Development – Fashion Inventory Engine:

• Developed a universal inventory engine that unifies allocation, replenishment, and transfers using advanced mathematical optimization.
• Engineered to process millions of SKU-store combinations, accommodating fashion-specific constraints such as size curves, seasonality, and visual merchandising rules.
• Delivered up to a 3% improvement in sell-through and an 80% reduction in manual planning time for clients, including Hackett London.

The Just Style Excellence Awards are powered by GlobalData’s rigorous analysis of over 1 billion datasets annually, making them a true benchmark for excellence and innovation in the industry. “We’re honored to receive this recognition, which reflects over a decade of working alongside fashion retailers to rethink how inventory and merchandising decisions are made. This recognition is a true testament to our drive to spark real, transformational change in the fashion industry, helping teams make faster, data-informed decisions and operate more successfully and with greater agility and responsibility,” said Carlos Miragall, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder.

For more information about Nextail’s award-winning solutions and our impact on the industry, please visit www.nextail.co.

About GlobalData:

The Just Style Excellence Awards is an independent recognition programme powered by the business intelligence of GlobalData. This means that our team of researchers and journalists, along with Artificial Intelligence, analyse over 1 billion datasets during the year to recognise, endorse and rank top-tier companies and their achievements in 200+ counties. The Just Style Excellence Awards is one of the largest, most prestigious, and widely recognised programmes throughout the industry. It is a valuable part of our platform which is the voice of authority in the industry. Our objective is to recognise forward-thinking, innovative companies that drive positive change in the industry. The focus of the programme is the following Areas of Excellence: Business Expansion, Diversity, Environmental, Financing, Innovation, Investments, M&A, Marketing, Product Launches, Research and Development, Safety and Social.