Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

Announced in 2019 , the 34,000sqm store will be located at Sylvia Park in Auckland. Ikea Group’s expansion manager Fabian Winterbine told Inside Retail that New Zealand has been considered something of a “missing piece” for many years. “The

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2024

A statement released by Rowing Blazers confirmed that the brand has plans to significantly expand upon its women’s offering, enhance its core offering, and expand its distribution channels, which includes opening a new bricks-and-mortar flagship.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Founded amidst the opulent settings of Marrakech’s Dar el Bacha palace in 1910, this Moroccan coffee brand has recently made waves with its ambitious expansion into new territories. Unique formats The Taipei location is unique in the sense that it offers a retail space, coffee bar and takeaway counter in the same area.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2023

Following a successful push into Singapore two years ago, Chinese collectible toy brand Pop Mart’s international expansion is continuing at pace, driven by experiential retail stores and high-profile collaborations with global artists and brands. Why Pavilion KL?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Global fashion label Calvin Klein has launched its first multi-brand lifestyle store in Brisbane, as part of its expansion plan in Australia. Calvin Klein opened its first multi-brand store at Queensland’s Sunshine Plaza in 2019, spanning over 310sqm.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Led by founder Steve Grocutt, after a year like no other, sales at The Cornish Bakery are in impressive double-digit growth as the ‘independent chain’ prepares to take over £20 million through its tills in 48 UK-wide locations, and meet a target of ten new openings across the UK in 2021/22.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world’s largest retailer shared expansive plans for the future of retail at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), focusing on adaptive retail strategies that encompass realms of customers, workforce and society. Walmart is not resting on its laurels.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The 900sqm store is the first Lego store in Australia to have a street frontage, rather than being placed in a shopping centre, and signifies the culmination of years of bricks-and-mortar expansion in the market. Rather, the brand was looking for a suitable flagship location, and when the Pitt Street Mall site came up, it ticked both boxes.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Macy’s has been stepping up to the plate with a series of new moves, from the expansion of its smaller-footprint stores, to a new digital fashion platform targeting younger shoppers. Can an old dog learn new tricks? The first Macy’s opened in October 1858. Will Macy’s efforts help revive the classic department store chain?

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APRIL 8, 2022

The Co-op is planning further logistics investment as it grows its business and ecommerce operations, despite being hit hard by supply chain challenges this year. The company also has plans to construct a new facility alongside its Newhouse depot in North Lanarkshire this year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2021

Eyewear retailer Oscar Wylee has hit 100 stores across Australia and New Zealand, and is planning a further expansion across the region. Ford also said the business is “always” looking for new locations to launch stores in throughout Australia and New Zealand. The eyewear chain was fined $3.5

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2024

trillion in 2022, an increase of nearly 14 per cent from 2019, the growing demand for antioxidant-rich products like acai and matcha is not surprising, especially given the rise in chronic disease and overall importance placed on healthcare in the wake of Covid.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Vincom’s leasing revenue has now edged up above the level of 2019, a key benchmark, and in the first nine months of 2022 is up 29 per cent from the January-September period of 2021. With many retailers still only committed to the more high-profile locations with greater consumer spending power, it isn’t surprising that the Vincom+ format (72.4

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VMS

JANUARY 8, 2023

Some of this elevated foot traffic can be attributed to the chain’s impressive expansion, going from 900 stores at the end of the 2019 fiscal year to 1,190 at the end of the 2021 fiscal year. Recognizing the strength of the brand, BDT Capital Partners purchased the chain in 2019 with the intention of expanding Whataburger’s footprint.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dr Vranjes Firenze’s launch in the Australian market last December through a partnership with David Jones could be a sign of further global expansion to come, following L’Occitane Group’s recent acquisition of the luxury Italian home fragrance brand. So for us, it was kind of natural to partner with David Jones,” expressed Rebollini.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The retailer, famous for its dog and gramophone trademark, left the site in 2019 when Canadian music entrepreneur Doug Putman struck a deal to save the bankrupt firm, shutting 27 prime locations and keeping 100 stores open. It opened a store in Dublin in June, one in Antwerp on Thursday and plans further European expansion.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2024

Parade was founded by Columbia University dropout Cami Téllez in 2019, with a purpose to disrupt the market and champion inclusivity, body positivity and sustainable manufacturing. It has five locations across Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne and offers on-trend styles of intimate apparel that aren’t typically designed for bigger busts.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Here, we speak with CEO Craig King about the business’ revitalisation under General Pants, its in-store experience, plans for expansion in Australia, the UK and US, and the magic behind the number 23. I was CEO of General Pants at the time, and in 2019, we took the business independent. IR: What was the reason for that?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2024

More details Emil Fazira, food insight manager in Asia at Euromonitor International, said street stalls and kiosks buoyed overall industry growth during the 2019 to 2024 period with a 4 per cent CAGR in terms of value sales. The share of eat-in is expected to stick at around 60 per cent, with 66 per cent in 2023 and 67 per cent in 2028.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As the creators of a startup family business in Brisbane now focusing on international expansion, Katrina and Brenden Kehoe know all about the challenges – and satisfaction – of developing a brand and product range for multiple markets. Katrina – a proud Wiradjuri descendant – says Queensland will always will home.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

After announcing plans to open in Vietnam three years ago, Japanese premium coffee chain % Arabica finally landed there this month. It has been a long wait for fans, with % Arabica’s foray into Vietnam announced back in 2019 shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived. In Egypt, it will launch inside a pyramid complex.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Kids fashion and occasion-wear brand Bardot Junior has launched its standalone website in the US, as part of its international expansion and growth. He added that the brand plans to open dual stores – representing Bardot and Bardot Junior in the one place – in Melbourne and in Sydney, so the brand has a bricks-and-mortar representation.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Inside Retail spoke with the husband-and-wife duo behind the apparel company based in Italy to learn more about how they are working to promote sustainability within the retail industry and their upcoming plans for Nuttch. As we move into the next year, the sustainable apparel industry is ripe for expansion.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

At the end of last year, the company became the only health and beauty chain to survive the pandemic, after its main competitors, Lalavla (previously Watsons) and Lohb’s shuttered most of their bricks-and-mortar locations. Expansion outside of Asia Olive Young’s next big mission is to bring K-beauty to the forefront of the world.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2021

There are currently 12 drive-thru Gloria Jean’s locations in Australia. We’d always had plans for drive-thru to be a big part of our future growth, but following Covid, that programme will be accelerated.”. Covid made us accelerate our longer term plans,” George said about the company’s focus on digital. “We

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2023

We have now exceeded the number of employees we had in 2019 and we will continue in the next coming years to streamline our operations in order to keep up with our demands,” Carriço said. There are currently two Sacoor Blue stores in Malaysia, located in Pavilion Kuala Lumpur and IOI City Mall,” Carriço explained. “In Future outlook.

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Design Retail Space

AUGUST 15, 2020

And Primark made plans for further expansion. The chain plans development to Krakow, Wroclaw in Poland and then in Prague, Check Republic. Debuting Primark’s store is located in Galeria Mlociny, a new shopping centre opened in 2019. And there’s always the first time. And many others. mln capital city.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Here Salena Watanabe, CEO of Tanaka Optical‘s newly created FLO Optics entity in Singapore, discusses the business’ global expansion, its omnichannel strategy — and how it survived the World War II bombing of Hiroshima. IR: Do you have expansion plans in the pipeline? What has the company planned post Covid-19?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2022

That UK story has led to more and more successful expansion – East and West – that has helped turn a retailer of various personal items into a global toy empire. Typically, these collections are planned a year in advance of launch and take 10 months to develop. We plan to expand these collaborations globally,” Moon said. “I

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Figures from Euromonitor show that the number of convenience stores in Vietnam increased from just 565 in 2014 to 1289 by 2019 when revenues reached US$103 billion. Since the beginning of this year, the chain has opened 300 Winmart+ stores, with 800 more planned by the end of this year. A new Nova Market store: 450 planned initially.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2022

Located on level two of Westfield Newmarket, Aje Athletica Newmarket store features the brand’s signature earth tones and curved forms inspired by the sculptures of Richard Serra. Australian fashion label, Aje, has opened the first New Zealand store of its activewear spinoff brand, Aje Athletica, at Newmarket.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The move marks the end of the company’s ambitious expansion plan in Asia, shifting focus to the Australian market for the foreseeable future. CY: We opened a restaurant in Singapore in September of 2019, and we opened the second restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, KLCC Centre, in February of 2020.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 25, 2022

The new flagship store will be located in Plaza District, one of the most exclusive shopping areas of Fifth Avenue. The firm plans to open the store, which will stock the Woman, Man and Kids lines, during the first half of 2022. “ Mango is preparing to open a store on New York’s Fifth Avenue, one of the city’s busiest streets.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

Never more so than now, when the industry emerges from two years of Covid restrictions that almost crippled it, and hungry competitors are proceeding with plans to bang up malls everywhere in the region. Vincom, notwithstanding, Vietnam’s large population and juicy demographics make it a key country in Aeon’s Asian expansion strategy.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2022

It takes years to get a new one up and running from the time the idea enters the mind of a developer: you have to identify the site, acquire the land, design the centre, get your financing in place, obtain all of your planning approvals, pre-lease the space and build the damn thing.

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CTM Design

APRIL 15, 2020

From a design perspective, installing self-ordering kiosks and self-serve pickup units takes a bit of planning as it will impact cueing and customer traffic within the restaurant. This technology was showcased at the 2019 National Restaurant Association Show. Patterson anticipates the goal is to have 100+ locations across Canada.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The e-commerce boom, frequent discounting, and the increase in digital pureplay brands has triggered new category competitors, along with a continuous expansion of ‘insta-brands’ that have a seemingly single-minded approach. The battle for attention has become relentless. Risk of losing the core. This can get you only so far.

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