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.

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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

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 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?

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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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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. Blanchardstown Centre is Dublin’s largest retail and leisure destination, covering over 1.1 million sq ft.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This means adopting new-generation technologies such as digital signage, powered by a robust operating system, enabling remote management, personalisation and interactivity with in-store signage. “As We offer them a sort of digital canvas: retailers have their own strategy and we give them the digital medium to execute inside their stores.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In 2019, third-party sellers generated roughly 60 per cent of Amazon’s product sales, double the percentage they represented a decade ago, Marketplace Pulse found. Sellers often have a deep understanding of their market and target customers and bring ideas for new product launches and an overarching brand strategy. “It

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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. L’Oreal Korea names Samuel de Retail as its new CEO.

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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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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2022

The Australian e-commerce marketplace was acquired by Wesfarmers in 2019 for $230 million. The company said more detail on Wesfarmers OneDigital will be disclosed at the Strategy Briefing Day this June. At the same time, the gross transaction value increased by 1 per cent. OneDigital has declined further comment until then.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 4, 2022

Domino’s appoints New Zealand general manager. Meanwhile, Schats was the executive director of Fung Retailing Limited, responsible for managing and developing the group’s portfolio of children’s retail businesses across Asia, including Toys ‘R’ Us. Tapestry, Inc COO steps down.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We have doubled our turnover, and our bottom line has performed much better than how it was in 2019,” Anders Peter Juel Sauerberg, CEO and co-founder of Norbreeze Group, told Inside Retail. The acquisition of Daniel Wellington in Singapore and Malaysia is part of Cocomi’s business strategy through 2025.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2023

Franchising systems have underpinned aggressive and successful growth strategies for many well-known and highly regarded retail brands. Legislation regulating franchising was most recently amended in July 2021, following a Senate Committee inquiry into the operation and effectiveness of the Franchising Code of Conduct in 2019.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2019, after raising an additional $100 million with a Series D round of funding led by venture capital company Sequoia Capital, the brand’s valuation was estimated to be worth $1.2 Currently, the beauty company sees an average of 944.2 thousand searches per month on Google, up from 802.4

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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

APRIL 29, 2021

They are now so big and so powerful that Amazon is the default,” Nathan Bush, director of e-commerce strategy at eSuite, told Inside Retail. To us, Whole Foods reveals the Achilles’ heel of Amazon,” Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData, said, referring to the US supermarket chain acquired by Amazon for US$13.7

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2023

We pride ourselves in our training strategy which has a special focus on customer service. 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. Sacoor Group COO for Southeast Asia Hugo Carriço.

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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? That’s how we have found Flo. SW: As a matter of fact, we do!

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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

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. What’s the overarching strategy behind that?

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2023

million crowdfunding raise to fuel its retail expansion and launch into overseas markets. Ami Bateman: In late 2019, I was suffering from chronic headaches daily, which were really debilitating. You can have healthy conflict, and you can manage diversity, if you make it really inclusive.

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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. Pop Mart commenced its global foray only in 2019 and its first permanent overseas store opened in South Korea in September 2020. Better expansion, step by step.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2021

It is interesting to see how some of the mystery surrounding its financial performance and strategy has lifted following its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange last year. Its logo pays more than a passing resemblance to that of Uniqlo, while its pricing strategy is very much in line with Japanese variety giant Daiso.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 13, 2023

“In the past, digital signage has very much been ‘let’s put a TV here and some LED here’ but those days are over,” adds Natalie Layton, Entwined’s key account manager. “It’s It’s all about strategy, innovation and giving the customer a journey that’s going to create an emotive reaction for a customer.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

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

MAY 30, 2021

Currently, RFG is fighting a case brought by the ACCC in December 2020 over its alleged unconscionable conduct and false or misleading representations in its dealings with franchisees between 2015 and 2019. . The post Revamped Retail Food Group sets sights on digital, drive-thrus appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

McClean had managed to reduce the cost of loading and unloading cargo from $5.83 In 2022, Reuters reported that “Investors managing over $130 trillion in assets have written to more than 10,000 companies calling on them to supply environmental data to non-profit disclosure platform CDP.” per ton to just 16 cents.

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Creative Displays Now

JUNE 30, 2021

As a marketing manager, your main goal is to remain profitable and competitive while satisfying your customers. According to a NielsenIQ survey in 2019, 51% of global shoppers and consumers said they would use AR and VR to look at product offerings, if available. However, COVID-19 made AR in retail even more crucial.

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