Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2023

This collapse follows the demise of Australian furniture brand Brosa late last year – which cited declining sales and cash flow pressures – as well as heightened challenges faced by small-to-medium sized retailers that are struggling to cope with rising costs, and a slowdown in foot traffic and consumer activity. The jury is out.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2024

The prediction was pretty much on the mark with sluggish economic growth and stuttering consumer spending a factor in a slew of retail failures. That level of business closures was the highest for any year since the global financial crisis in 2008.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Of course, two more rate rises would follow in 2008 with the cash rate peaking at 7.25 Discounts were the order of the day, and consumers with any cash left in their wallets got a pre-Christmas treat at the shops. It’s probably too late now to adjust orders, but you can replan with pragmatism and keep that cash flow strong.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What I enjoy doing is identifying what’s unique about a business almost irrespective of the category, and working out how we can own that USP and make it best-in-class for the consumer. I taught myself cash flows; I taught myself everything there is to know about retail leasing, and some of those British leases are 35 years long.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

And below is part two, featuring advice from Greenlit Brands CEO Michael Ford, former Target Australia CEO Launa Inman and Camilla CEO Jane McNally about the lessons they learned during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and how they apply to the current environment. Experience: I clearly remember the 2008 GFC. Michael Ford.

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Robinson Meyer

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

So the security perspective is, I’m not consuming more gas, but I’m importing more because my production is declining. You don’t need too much imagination to assume that if a major conflict happens in and around Ukraine, like, the flow of gas could be interrupted through Ukraine. That’s why the U.S. That also is kind of stupid, right?

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Robinson Meyer

MARCH 19, 2022

should produce as much oil and natural gas as it consumes. Bush said in 2008. “In In 2019, the country actually produced more oil than it consumed for the first time in 62 years. That almost invariably has meant asking Saudi Arabia, which geology has blessed with the world’s most agile oil reserves and which the U.S.

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