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Inside Designworks’ four-pronged expansion strategy

Inside Retail

And it supplies to department stores, such as David Jones, Myer, Kmart and Big W. Designworks’ divisional general manager Brooke Norton told Inside Retail that the brand sells about 15 million units each year and is heading towards $200 million in wholesale sales. per cent, year-on-year retail sales growth in August 2022.

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Australia’s retail sales growth can’t last. Here’s how to prepare for it

Inside Retail

The latest retail sales figures are really quite incredible. According to the Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales rose by 0.6 per cent) and department stores (down 0.4 My tip is that retail sales figures in the next couple of months will start to reflect this. per cent bump.

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Retail expert on China’s department store dilemma and potential growth drivers

Inside Retail

The latest forecasts predict that China’s GDP and total retail sales of consumer goods will hit growth rates of 4.8 per cent) of surveyed department store operators expect their sales to grow in 2024, a significant decrease from last year’s 85.7 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Two thirds (66.3

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Harvey Nichols’ closure highlights shifting luxury landscape in Hong Kong

Inside Retail

Hong Kong’s luxury retailers are adapting to fewer wealthy Chinese shoppers visiting the city and a shift towards tourists flocking to Instagram-coveted spots in trendy districts rather than splashing out on pricey branded gear. British luxury department store Harvey Nichols is at the forefront of the changes.

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Why short-term data alone won’t cut it for retailers in 2024

Inside Retail

But 10 years later, advertisers are falling back into old habits ditching long-term brand-building efforts to purely focus on activation campaigns that deliver sales in the short term. And that applies equally to retail sales data. It’s all too easy to get stuck dissecting the monthly ABS retail data.

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Can Singapore’s CapitaLand maintain its momentum as the economy slows?

Inside Retail

For some time now, the growth of e-commerce in the Lion City has been falling back in line with the growth rate of retail sales as a whole. 2023: the year of normalisation Retail sales per square foot (or per square metre according to your taste) for CapitaLand’s malls increased 10.2 per cent versus 4.1 million, up 14.4

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Analysis: a perfect retail storm is brewing

Inside Retail

Inflationary pressure on consumer discretionary spending, supply chain disruptions and elevated inventory levels, which tie up a retailers’ net working capital, are set to create the perfect storm for retailers that do not have a strategy in place to ensure they are well positioned for the choppy market conditions ahead.

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