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. Accompanied by an e-commerce platform, it is set to open its doors to the public in 2025.

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Inside Retail

MAY 28, 2024

Australian waste technology company RecycleSmart has reported that it managed to raise $1.15 million from 1014 investors, allowing it to accelerate its national expansion plans as demand increases for its responsible recycling services. We make sure every item has a second life.”

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Inside Retail

MAY 14, 2024

The world’s largest jewellery brand Pandora is placing sustainability at the cornerstone of its ‘Phoenix’ growth strategy and even tying bonuses for top management to environmental targets to incentivise progress. Focusing on that, we launched into this big plan to transition to exclusively using recycled silver and gold,” Twomey-Madsen said.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 1, 2021

The largest Danish retailer operating globally, JYSK , is set to open two new stores within the Greater Manchester region as part of its ambitious UK expansion plans. Our head office operations are also based in Stockport, so we have a strong affinity for the area and continue to see it prosper.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Secondlifeasia, Malaysia’s foremost smart device repair company, has announced its ambitious expansion into Thailand, marking a significant milestone in its journey towards mitigating the environmental impact of electronic consumption. At the heart of the company’s ethos lies a steadfast commitment to environmental stewardship.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2022

Asia Pacific travel retailer Heinemann has named George Tsoukalas as the new managing director of Heinemann Australia. Tsoukalas has been with Heinemann Australia since 2019 and is currently head of marketing and category management. Kathmandu hires international team to lead expansion. Walmart to hire over 3000 drivers.

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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. As a result we’ve got a lot of global attention from the Lego community and the senior management team in Denmark.”

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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. Moon said details will be revealed once the plan is firmed up.

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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. In 1962 their manager Brian Epstein took a tape of the group to its in-store recording studio.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2022

7-Eleven names new general manager of channel. Fiona Hayes (pictured) has been appointed 7-Eleven’s general manager of channel, following almost three decades at Telstra. In 2019 Drennan returned to The Iconic as marketing director of growth and strategy. Melissa Drennan trades The Iconic for Catch.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Before joining Cos, she oversaw the rebranding and expansion of Arket as part of her 10-year term as a brand leader with the H&M Group. In the interim, Johnson will be replaced by Dave Nielsen, who has been Beyond’s president since 2019, while the search for a permanent CEO has begun, the company added.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Wesfarmers CFO Anthony Gianotti acknowledged that poor range selection and execution issues in the expansion of the first-party business also contributed to the online retailer’s poor performance, but said the restructuring will enable Catch to move forward and develop as a profitable business. They basically self-sabotaged,” they said.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2023

Centre occupancy currently stands at 98% and footfall 10% up on 2019 levels with current trends suggest a record year in 2023, outperforming the already positive performance for physical retail more broadly across Ireland. This investment has succeeded in increasing appeal for new international and local brands.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2023

Anticipating that the cost of doing business will remain elevated in financial year 2024, Bunnings has invested heavily in its in-store technology and stock management systems to drive productivity. billion in earnings for the year reflected a “remarkable period of growth” for the brand, up 42 per cent since 2019.

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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. L’Occitane also acquired a 50 per cent stake in Singaporean skincare brand Erborian in 2012.

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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.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inside Retail : Why did you decide to join BCF in 2019? When I got the opportunity to join the Super Retail Group back in 2019, I essentially had no choice but to say yes to joining this great brand. Customers were asking for a much broader range than what we were stocking in 2019. What was the appeal? PB: Absolutely.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It’s been a long-awaited arrival for the brand and the first step in a 33-store expansion plan for the next 18 months. It launched in Melbourne in 2019 as a delivery-only fast food concept. Western Australian chain Chicken Treat has flown in to the eastern seaboard, opening its first stores in Sydney.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The number of Godfrey retail outlets has fallen by 16 per cent since the 2018 takeover – from 210 outlets to 175, according to The Australian Financial Review – but the management team has placed a focus on three key pillars of the business: its product line, property holdings and people. Flexible expansion plans.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

Having dominated the local beauty market, Olive Young is now setting its eyes on an overseas expansion and a new potential product category that could bring in over US$60.5 Expansion outside of Asia Olive Young’s next big mission is to bring K-beauty to the forefront of the world. star rating on Amazon UAE.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 4, 2022

I have strived to build a company that leads in sustainability, preventing millions of single-use disposables being thrown into landfill, and putting the plans in place to be a carbon-negative business,” Chong wrote on Linkedin. “I Domino’s appoints New Zealand general manager. Tapestry, Inc COO steps down.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Last week, Coles announced an expansion of its health aisle with the addition of 150 new sports performance and health ingredients, welcoming major brands such as Muscle Nation, Amazonia Raw and Botanika Blends, as well as its new own-brand sports nutrition range, Coles PerForm, featuring 16 protein powders and bars.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Last week, Coles announced an expansion of its health aisle with the addition of 150 new sports performance and health ingredients, welcoming major brands such as Muscle Nation, Amazonia Raw and Botanika Blends, as well as its new own-brand sports nutrition range, Coles PerForm, featuring 16 protein powders and bars.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Launched in 2019, Baresop is an Australian e-commerce business that offers refillable soap bottles and sachets of soap powder via subscription. Each litre of water we conserve, we plan to make accessible to communities that are running out of safe and clean water. Because without water there is no life. Watch this space.

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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

MAY 11, 2023

H&M recently revealed plans to revamp the shopping experience at its flagship store in Orchard Building, Singapore, along with the launch of a new lifestyle brand in the market in the third quarter of 2023. Therefore, we are focusing our expansion efforts on optimising our omnichannel efforts.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2023

Acting CEO Darin Hoekman said that the business is moving to focus on lowering its cost of doing business and managing its working capital to better align with the difficult trading environment it sees ahead for FY24. That wasn’t there when you were in online retail in 2019, but now there’s three or four times the number of competitors.

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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

MAY 30, 2021

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Here, we talk to VF Corporation’s senior manager of global workers rights Maria Lassen about what the business is doing to support its supply chain workers, and why ensuring workers have ethical conditions is important for its business. Inside Retail: Firstly, can you tell me about how VF is tackling responsible recruitment?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

“Items are returned to Amazon for many reasons – sometimes a product is just not what a customer is looking for, or perhaps there’s a cosmetic defect or the packaging is damaged,” said Matt Furlong, Amazon Australia country manager. Meanwhile, in just the past week, Etsy has announced plans to acquire resale marketplace Depop for $US 1.62

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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. Although we have a global strategy in regard to expansion, we tend to act locally. Sacoor Group COO for Southeast Asia Hugo Carriço. Future outlook.

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2023

million crowdfunding raise to fuel its retail expansion and launch into overseas markets. Here, we speak with Bateman and Murray about why they went into business together, the importance of their subscription model, and what they’ve got planned next. How did you manage to get those first 1500 people on board?

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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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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. The result was a huge portfolio of malls that were professionally managed and which attracted a strong tenant base of high-profile brands.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Those brands that have fared well have managed to evolve but have not lost sight of what they are in essence; they have stayed true to their brand foundations. We’ve seen luxury house brands such as Gucci, Prada, and Balenciaga manage this well. The battle for attention has become relentless. This can get you only so far.

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