Tobe is an international fashion and retail consulting service. Our clients depend on us for reality-based strategies and utilize us as an indispensable senior-level management tool. Consumer behavior is at the heart of our research and analysis; our eye on the future always shaping our point of view.

Tobe clients include top line department and specialty stores, mass merchants, chain stores, fashion press as well as colleges and universities.

Tobe provides in-depth fashion and retail analysis, trend forecasting, product and brand development, merchandising and strategic planning and market news. For over 75 years, Tobe’s experienced, respected retail consultants have monitored the global marketplace with an unbiased eye. 

Tobe publishes The Tobe Report, the fashion industry’s leading and most respected fashion consulting publication for retailers. The Tobe team analyzes markets and businesses including women’s, children’s, men’s apparel, accessories, home, lifestyle, textiles, colors, e-commerce and multi-channel retailing.

Tobe Insights, a consulting division, focuses on in-depth projects for high visibility retailers and industry leaders. Our seasoned team of analysts provides strategic solutions to critical issues affecting a wide-range of businesses. These confidential analyses are developed to improve company performance and profitability.

TOBE MISSION STATEMENT

Tobe is the sole unbiased clearinghouse for fashion analysis.

Tobe’s mission is to maintain the highest possible standards and ethics. This has allowed us to focus on the retail community, and has established us as the only organization within our sector to service nearly every fashion retail leader in the United States.

Tobe’s ability to function as an impartial brain trust, gathering selling information from a broad spectrum of retailers and manufacturers, allows us to anticipate and assess future consumer needs.