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The key to better boards? More women with hands-on retail experience

Inside Retail

In an industry with a very high percentage of female employees and, positively, strong representation in management ranks, there is still room at the top for many more women in leadership roles as CEO and company directors in major retailers. The retail industry accounts for 9.8 million employees.

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How Dubai sportswear giant GMG aims to crack the Southeast Asia market

Inside Retail

GMG is a Dubai-based company with distribution rights for more than 120 global brands in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and a portfolio of multi-brand retail chains across sports, food and beauty. He noted that creating a fun and engaging customer experience is central to its strategy in the Southeast Asian market. “We

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Here’s why Mosaic Brands’ CEO believes retail training drives success

Inside Retail

Mosaic Brands, the business behind some of Australia’s biggest womenswear retail chains — Noni B, Millers, Rivers, Katies, Autograph, Rockmans, beme, W.Lane and Crossroads — is giving frontline retail staff the opportunity to gain a Certificate III or Certificate IV in Retail through a new online training program.

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Training retail sales teams? Here’s why face-to-face won’t cut it anymore

Inside Retail

Training your team with a Learning Management System means that you can push training out to your team in just a matter of clicks. Case Study: How this Fashion Retail Chain Improved Mystery Shopper Results with RedSeed Training. CASE STUDY: How Revlon Increased Training Reach By Moving Their Face-To-Face Training Online.

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Why a major rent reset didn’t occur following the Covid-19 pandemic

Inside Retail

We truly believed that this time it was going to be different, that landlords and tenants would engage in more meaningful risk-sharing: mainstream media was trumpeting it, governments were shaming landlords into it and even legislating rent abatements. Retail faces no such issue, or at least no fresh issues that weren’t present before.

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A Guide on How to Approach Retail Stores to Sell Your Product

Retail Bound

Head office meetings: For larger retail chains, you may need to approach the head office directly. This may require putting up a professional proposal and presentation to the management. Foot traffic can help understand the effect of external factors such as weather or promotions, determine busy days, and manage staff schedules.

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Collaborating as One Team with a Fully Connected Frontline?

Theatro

Without risking significant upfront capital to purchase expensive handhelds, this case study demonstrates how one retail chain leveraged Theatro to fully connect their frontline and enable them to collaborate as OneTeam to achieve business success. A large pharmaceutical store chain, with approximately 9,000 domestic stores and $2.5