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Why Dutch-style bike brand Lekker is embracing e-bikes and retail partners

Inside Retail

Meet Lekker Lekker launched in Australia and Amsterdam in 2009, and despite the urban bike being a European-centric product the team focused on adapting and creating a product tailored to the Australian market from its Amsterdam headquarters, which grew into an additional Melbourne-based hub.

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“Doing nothing wasn’t an option”: M.J. Bale CEO Matt Jensen

Inside Retail

Bale in 2009, some of the challenges you faced from the outset, and how you got the business off the ground during those early stages? Matt Jensen: It was a difficult market environment when we launched back in September 2009, given it was the back end of the GFC. But I can’t remember it being too challenging.

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What Stitch Fix signals about the future of personalised subscription boxes

Inside Retail

After launching in 2009, it was acquired by Nordstrom for US$350 million in 2014, before shutting down in 2022. Founded by Katrina Lake in 2011, Stitch Fix is a personal style service catering to all genders and tailors its recommendations to consumers’ needs, tastes and lifestyles. What and who is Stitch Fix?

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