Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The e-commerce giant booked a net income of $9.9 The post In ‘stellar’ quarter, Amazon books 244 per cent surge in net income appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. billion during the third quarter of FY23. Amazon reported a 13 per cent increase in net sales to $143.1 billion, as sales grew 11 per cent to $87.9

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I got into book publishing because… my mother was an author and I was always a huge reader. My role is usually to be the book and product expert in the room – whether to analyse market trends, talk about publisher/supplier relationships or discuss the specifics of a particular bestselling book or author.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Adairs brand booked sales of $199.9 The post Adairs books lower net profit as customer count falls appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. million, down 9.3 The company opened two new Adairs stores, upsized three, and closed three smaller stores during the period. Focus on Furniture’s sales fell 15.8 per cent to $66.2

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2021

Online book retailer Booktopia has also entered into a partnership with the student portal Zookal, extending its exposure to the lucrative and growing educational book market. The deal allows Booktopia to source, supply and distribute all of Zookal’s physical book orders from a range of around 185,000 titles.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Premium fashion shopping app, Her Black Book, has bagged $1.6 The equity round, joined by Afterpay-backed Touch Venture, raised Her Black Book’s value by 50 per cent compared to its pre-launch capital raise. Her Black Book also features a digital magazine, which offers styling tips across fashion, beauty, lifestyle, business.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2023

Premium tea retailer T2 Tea has teamed up with publishing house Penguin Books Australia to launch limited edition gift packs that combine T2’s blends with timeless classics. Complementing the tea set is a genuine paperback book with a bespoke T2 cover, and a fine bone China mug designed to match the theme.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2021

Amazon Australia last week launched its own on-demand paperback printing facility in Australia, buoying its presence in the growing book market in Australia. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic Australians have increasingly turned to books for entertainment, fostering strong results in book retailers such as Booktopia and Dymocks.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Close to two years on from the closure of Australia’s borders with the rest of the world, airlines are preparing to resume flights from certain states next week and Australians are excitedly booking overseas trips. We had our busiest week of bookings in our history,” Schwab said. Australians seek to relax in luxury .

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Inside Retail

APRIL 19, 2023

The closure of Book Depository will have a ripple effect across the bookstore and bookselling industry in Australia, with experts and insiders suggesting that it will affect both bricks-and-mortar and online bookstores. We sell over eight million items per year and see a big opportunity to scale further,” Booktopia told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2023

But, he says that every day essentials – including (but not limited to) pencil cases, exercise books, scrapbooks, erasers, glue, display folders and stationary are still top selling items. The post Hitting the books: the importance of back-to-school for Aussie retailers appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2022

We were having dinner at his house, and he asked me to grab another bottle of wine from a room, and it was full of books, so I asked him, “What’s with all the books?”. I sat down and looked at all the areas where I had weaknesses, and I started reading a book a week. I was competing against guys that were 50.

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Retail Design Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Canada’s leading book retailer approached Dalziel & Pow to create a concept for a key new opening in Toronto.

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2022

Qantas now owns a controlling interest in online travel booking platform TripADeal which will open the way for Frequent Flyer program members to use points for travel packages. There is a huge shift to booking online,” he said. The post Qantas takes majority stake in online booking platform TripADeal appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Evoke has designed an “open book brand symbol” as part of a new identity for trade book publisher Bonnier Books UK, in an effort to emphasise the inclusive culture to which the company aspires.

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Design Week

JULY 26, 2021

Phaidon’s upcoming book brings the work of Great Women Designers from around the world to the fore and covers many disciplines. The aim of the book, the publisher says, is to “record and illuminate” the stories of these women, who have been overlooked in their field. Power of Play, by Paul Pethick.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Missed your chance to submit to VMSD ‘s January/February “Look Book” issue or our annual holiday windows recap? The new deadline for VMSD ‘s January/February “Look Book” is Friday, Dec. This annual comprehensive guide features a range of retail products from around the world.

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Trade Show Booth Companies - Trade Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The importance of networking must be noticed; we will dive deep into the ten MUST READ BOOKS that correlate with trade show networking success, and, truthfully, these pieces of literature are a must-read for any brand builder regardless of the industry. There are many reasons why this book is incredibly popular in general.

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Retail Times

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Visual Book founded by Aisha Ndayako has officially launched into Selfridges. An innovative brand that is taking traditional photo books to different levels. The photo albums are linen- made video books that display memories new and young.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 24, 2021

From shops that display books on tree trunk columns to stores that reflect books all over the walls, we've rounded up ten bookshops in China that exhibit books in non-traditional ways. Floor to ceiling arched bookshelves and a black mirrored floor create a tunnel of books inside this store. Find out more about Harbook›.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Buchman explains in his new book, uncertainty is a deeply creative state to be in. Know for fusing his irreverent comic book-style illustrations with “heavily researched history”, Brian Blomerth’s upcoming book explores the popularisation of psychedelic mushroom use in the US. Make to Know, by Lorne M.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2024

The positive cash flow came despite what is traditionally a relatively lean trading period in line with the softer performance of the book market at the start of the calendar year and a quieter season for consumer goods retailers, following the Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas sales events.

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VMS

OCTOBER 29, 2021

VMSD is now accepting submissions to its annual January/February 2022 “Look Book” issue, featuring a range of the latest and greatest retail products – from lighting to materials to mannequins to signage/graphics, and much more. Look Book is a FREE editorial opportunity. You can submit your information by clicking here.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Her Black Book is a new mobile shopping app that aims to attract price-focused Gen Z and Millennial shoppers with cashback offers, coupon codes and flash sales for premium brands across fashion, sport, accessories, beauty, homewares, kids and travel. It’s not not always on brand for a lot of partners,” Stevanja admitted.

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Dezeen

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Marylebone store features piles of green books The team took "material references" from the British Library on Euston Road and attempted to emulate the layout of traditional bookshops by choosing warm timbers and towering piles of pale green books to decorate the interior. The photography is by Alixe Lay.

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Design Wanted

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Innovatively salvaging second-hand books and utilizing them to craft a furniture collection – Design student Willem Zwiers introduces Transformed Remnants. Made from books including several Bibles […] The post From salvaging precious second-hand books to crafting marbled furniture appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Design Week

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You might look at the title of graphic designer Michael Arndt’s most recent book and wonder how snails and monkey tails have anything to do with punctuation. The main title is “curious enough so that most people won’t get it”, says Arndt, which is why he included the subtitle, A Visual Guide to Punctuation and Symbols.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 20, 2022

To celebrate the Year of the Tiger, streetwear brand Superdry is unveiling its annual Lunar New Year collection via social media platforms Weibo, WeChat and Little Red Book (LRB). The post How Superdry is using WeChat, Weibo and Little Red Book this Lunar New Year appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2021

Successful launch of a digital book club. Another project that Lululemon came up with during the height of the pandemic was launching a monthly digital book club in partnership with Penguin Random House. The book club was introduced on Lululemon’s Instagram channel, which has 3.3

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Mindful Design

MAY 2, 2023

Having been given this happy opportunity to look back at everything that we had created along the years, we decided to capture some of our best project in our new interior design book Small Store […] The post Our New Interior Design Book Is Here appeared first on Mindful Design Consulting.

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RetailMinded

MAY 7, 2023

If you’ve decided to start your own business in ecommerce or maybe you want to learn more about it, there are lots of ecommerce books to read that can greatly help you improve even more. What are the most popular ecommerce books that people read in 2023? 5 Ecommerce Books with Technical Stuff The E-Myth by Michael E.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 3, 2023

The brand has created a free digital recipe book to inspire the nation with healthy, affordable meals and snacks for breakfast and beyond. This story continues at Weetabix offers free recipe book with affordable around the clock dishes. Demand for affordable meal solutions, and advice on how to make household budgets.

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VMS

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The French government has introduced new legislation that could impose a minimum shipping fee for new books in a move to protect its book industry from Amazon (Seattle) and the online behemoth’s shipping discounts, according to Reuters. As of now there is no set date for the legislation to be enacted.

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Retail Design Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Bookstore – Juanzong Books is located at the Anaya Art Center in Qinhuangdao. It was originally a coffee shop with.

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Design Week

MARCH 10, 2022

Manchester-based designer Craig Oldham has revealed a new book titled The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting, which explores in depth the cult classic horror film that has captivated audiences around the world since its release in 1980.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The post The new rule book on performance reviews in a pandemic appeared first on Inside Retail. It always has and always will. The most important thing is to ensure the feedback is meaningful, relevant and actionable, and it is delivered with care, empathy and perspective.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2024

According to the report, Realside purchased the asset in an off-market trade at a premium to the $97 million book value. per cent premium to book value. Vicinity Centres has agreed to sell the Maddington Central shopping centre in suburban Perth to property investor Realside for $107 million, the Australian Financial Review reported.

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Design Week

JUNE 23, 2022

FCB’S work for Penguin Books which aims to reclaim past symbols of repression claimed the top design award at the 2022 Cannes Lions festival. Returning this year to a physical format, the annual awards programme celebrates work in the creative industries, from brand experience to print and publishing.

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