Retail Focus

APRIL 6, 2021

A host of retailers have confirmed reopening plans for April 12 as shoppers look forward to a return to bricks and mortar shopping after more than three months. John Lewis outlined its plans for April 12 for its remaining 32 shops in England (John Lewis/PA). Its Glasgow store will open on April 26 and its Edinburgh site on May 14.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Not only did the troubles of 2020-22 feel well and truly behind us, with retail and travel booming, but we got our first taste of ChatGPT and spent the holidays putting it to the test by writing greeting card messages, composing music and, more recently, creating new artwork. The 2024 Australian Retail Outlook is out now.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

While there’s no doubt that 2020 was a tough year for all retailers, Australian denim brand Jeanswest had a steeper hill to climb than most, starting out the year under voluntary administration with the closure of 37 stores, the loss of 263 staff and owing $50 million to creditors. Yeung said there will be store growth in all states.

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Pipp Mobile

MARCH 24, 2020

Shelving accessories like shelf dividers, dry erase boards and pegboard panels help organize your stockroom to make items accessible and easy to locate. Pipp Mobile provides a free floor plan design , which is a great way to get started! Submit Your Specs Here To Get Started!

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Haynes, who started in Australia as territory manager in 2006, has previously held roles including chief business development officer and interim CEO. Joshi was previously IT support manager for the Retail Apparel Group. Malhotra, who took on the role in January 2020, is to leave the company at the end of this year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since entering Southeast Asia in 2020, GMG has opened 31 stores in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. GMG plans to open 11 SSS stores – and 100 new stores overall – in Southeast Asia by 2025. Singapore’s strategic location in Southeast Asia, stable business environment, and robust infrastructure were instrumental in our choice.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite a slight dip in 2020, the global apparel market is set to grow to about US$2 trillion by 2028, from US$1.79 Growing the team for global expansion Currently, Nakedvice sells products online and in-store through its Melbourne Flagship in Abbotsford, which serves as a destination location for customers.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Bart Dubbeld has been appointed as the new vice president and general manager for travel retail in Southeast Asia. Jart + skincare brand since 2020. Hearts on Fire appoints head of product management in a newly created role. Luxury jewellery brand Hearts on Fire has appointed executive Barbara Ng as head of product management.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2021

With its stores closed during the pandemic and e-commerce sales skyrocketing, Salvos Stores put a plan in place to dramatically scale its online footprint. In 2020, Salvos Stores launched Australia’s first online op shop, listing thousands of unique second-hand items online from hundreds of its stores across Australia.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

The business briefly considered rebranding all its Kmart locations to Target stores due to the retailer’s long-standing heritage. Wesfarmers ultimately didn’t move forward with that plan, and instead decided to double down and invest in Kmart and Target independently. We’ve done a lot of listening to customers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 13, 2021

times the valuation of their last private funding round in 2020,” he said. As per the FSANZ [preliminary] December 2020 approval report, they outline that their initial plan is to import their products, thereby expediting their launch into Australia and New Zealand,” he said. Rapid expansion in Asia.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The American Book Association (ABA) measured 2,185 bookstore businesses, 2,599 locations, and over 300 more members in 2023 than it had in 2019, making its highest membership levels in over 20 years. Not only are independent bookstores becoming a regular neighborhood fixture again, but they are thriving in online sales as well.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Launched in 2020 with a glass soap bottle that can be refilled using dissolvable hand-wash tablets, Single Use Ain’t Sexyhas grown rapidly in the years following. Founded by clinical pharmacist Lisa Nguyen in 2020, Astrid has built up a community of over 10,000 patients in under two years.

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All Work

DECEMBER 9, 2021

With 87% of large companies adopting hybrid work models and moving toward more distributed workplaces per recent CBRE research , businesses are grappling with critical questions about how much space they need, how to design those spaces to best support employees’ needs, and how to manage shared spaces.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2024

McDonald’s mobile app; its human-less, order-taking kiosks; its digitised menus that change based on trends, the weather and more; and even its generative AI — together, these enable McDonald’s to eke out additional sales and efficiencies worth billions of dollars to the company, which has 40,000 locations in roughly 100 countries.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The transformation of the family-run jewellers’ existing boutique at St David’s forms an integral part of Laings’ UK-wide expansion plan, with a £3 million investment into its presence in Cardiff. This follows the celebration of the brand’s 180 th year of trading in 2020. Cushman & Wakefield?advised?the

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Matthews first joined the business in December 2020. Scentre Group’s inaugural CEO and managing director, Peter Allen, will step down after eight years in the role. Allen will pass the title over to current CFO Elliott Rusanow on 1 October 2022, as part of a succession plan, before retiring in 2023.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2022

Volume limits, like those imposed by national carriers in 2020, paralysed retailers who had no Plan B. The role of order management. Order management plays a vital function in a multi-carrier strategy. A retailer’s Order Management System (OMS) is the HQ for its sourcing.

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Compliantia

MARCH 31, 2022

Also known as cooperatives, co-ops are stores that are owned and managed by community members. A 2020 report by the National Co+op Grocers (NCG) found that co-ops are “leading the way in sales of organic, fair trade, B Corp and cooperatively produced products.” Keep your members engaged.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whilst 2020 was about dealing with the outcomes of the acceleration of e-commerce and omnichannel, in 2021, retailers were trying to cope with a perfect storm of demand and supply issues, including international shipping uncertainty, loss of capacity, increased costs – even a lack of containers and pallets.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

per cent in 2020. Giving back, sustainability, and local sourcing Pfeiffer-Smith said Dan Murphy’s is focused on working with local suppliers, meaning the shelf mix differs depending on where the store is located. It also has a significant online presence, claiming 50 per cent of all online Australian liquor sales. Download here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Here, we chat with Missfresh about how the DMWs operate, how it’s digitalising fresh markets and its plans for the future. In 2020, our market share of China’s on-demand DMW retail industry in terms of GMV was 28 per cent, ranked first in North China, according to iResearch. In June, the brand went public on the NASDAQ.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2021

Yim said the decision to build a diverse workforce was not about pursuing an agenda or hitting a demographic target, but rather having team members who can offer different perspectives in response to certain changes, such as the coronavirus outbreak of 2020. million participated in our digital events in 2020.”.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2022

Located at The Galeries on George Street, the store features a ‘coastal meets urban’ style, and was created through collaboration between P.E. However, the team had been exploring the idea of launching a physical space for some time, and when the location on George Street popped up, they “knew this was it”. Inside P.E. Inside P.E.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Tell me about what Camper is doing in that space and its plans for direct-to-consumer e-commerce. IR: Tell me about Camper’s physical store network plans. The partnerships with architects are very collaborative and combine the designer’s background, the store location, and Camper’s vision.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Covid-19 has decimated luggage sales since 2020. million loss during the first half of 2020, while start-up Away reported sales declined by 90 per cent, which forced the company to go through two rounds of furloughs. Last year was one of the toughest periods ever for the category, as travel came to a halt. A cautious comeback begins.

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VMS

MAY 13, 2021

Penney executive Stacy Shively as its senior VP and general merchandise manager, a role in which she’ll help realize the retailer’s three-year turnaround plan announced last fall. As part of the plan, company will: Launch more than 10 private labels over the next 18 months. Close approximately 200 locations in 2021.

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Retail Focus

JULY 20, 2021

The plans will culminate in Merry Hill setting a new benchmark for how shopping centres can evolve to the changing needs of both occupiers and customers, post-Covid. Our plans will ensure that by 2025 Merry Hill will be the West Midland’s most vibrant family lifestyle destination, embedded at the heart of the local community.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2021

Woolworths’ key areas of focus going forward will include deepening its relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, investing significantly in its risk management capability across all operations and introducing more diverse thoughts and opinions into the business. Clouded judgement .

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2021

The 13,500-square-metre warehouse is located on the corner of Plummer and Graham Streets in Port Melbourne Industrial Estate and according to property developer Goodman, it is one of Australia’s “largest inner city urban renewal projects”. Woolies to unveil new Sydney FC.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2021

It’s a gamechanger for the brand,” said Lee Devon, vice president and general manager at Athlocity for Under Armour. Selfridges has unveiled a unique non-traditional wedding service after lockdown restrictions disrupted more than 150,000 weddings in the UK in 2020. Selfridges says ‘I do’ to wedding ceremonies.

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2021

Toys ‘R’ Us is planning to open a first-of-its-kind experience centre at a new headquarters and logistics hub it is building in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton, as the strategic review and restructure of the business comes to an end. Babies ‘R’ Us is set to relaunch online in the coming days. State-of-the-art logistics hub.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2022

Innovation, adaptability and swift implementation were the bywords for surviving 2020 and continue to be drivers for the sector. James Sinclair is CEO and managing director of Signature Hospitality Group, which operates The Sporting Globe and TGI Fridays. What’s happening in your business regarding locations and rent?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2021

Dubbed Australia’s first luxury bubble tea brand, Gotcha Tea already has more than 200 stores in eight countries, but it has big plans to grow its presence locally and globally in 2021. As a brand, Gotcha is highly attractive and highly addictive,” Christy Chen, assisting managing director of Gotcha Fresh Tea, told Inside Retail.

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JUNE 25, 2019

And the pickup site is often strategically placed in a merchandise-rich location. Whitney Burns, senior manager/corporate communications, Hines. As you plan your marketing strategy for holiday shopping 2019, look to the feel of your brick-and-mortar store, from outside and within. Less is More: Urban Experiences. Set the stage.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2023

As it turns out, the world had different plans for me! MW : In 2020 and 2021, we saw extreme growth; with 2022 slowing slightly as we focused more on investing in our brand, products, brand stores and infrastructure. Next to that, the location of the store is extremely important for the amount of foot traffic you are generating.

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