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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Haynes, who started in Australia as territory manager in 2006, has previously held roles including chief business development officer and interim CEO. As part of the shakeup, Mike Kehoe, who was EMEA president, will return to the US as part of the newly formed chief development officer role.

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How ‘ugly’ orthopaedic shoe company Birkenstock created a brand worth billions

Inside Retail

billion in 2006. Wearers are avoiding overt displays of wealth, instead communicating their taste via subtle branding, and knowledge about materials, form and function. Other examples of mainstream fashion successfully borrowing from and reinterpreting subcultures and original use include Doctor Martens and Crocs.

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“It’s about doing less”: Kowtow MD talks sustainable growth

Inside Retail

Emma Wallace is the managing director of New Zealand-based fashion label Kowtow. EW: When Gosia decided to use organic cotton, she looked to where organic cotton was produced, and from day one, she formed a partnership with Fairtrade ANZ, which is part of Fairtrade International. And how does the cost compare with synthetic fibres?

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A Legendary VC Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change

Robinson Meyer

It is an airport business book about climate change in the form of a global checklist for climate action. In 2006, he held a private screening of An Inconvenient Truth for his family and friends. (Much of the book is free to read on its website.) Where other climate books are exhortative or doom-laden, Doerr’s is straightforward.

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“Understand the WHY before you figure out the HOW” – Interview with William Stuart from fuseproject

Design Wanted

William has been practicing as an industrial designer since 2006, first in London, before moving to San Francisco to join fuseproject in 2014. Working with strategy and UX design, brand, program management, and the client, there is more of a management component. and Paypal.

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The Rise of Greenflation

Robinson Meyer

The McMansions of the mid-2000s might be the most American form of housing, but they were not, in general, grown in America. Yet if the climate scars on supply continue to grow, does the Federal Reserve have the right tools to manage? Eventually it will pop your drywall. The price would never get over $500.”

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

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He believed that merchandise presentation was an art form. The display director Joseph Rouse said the store relied on a multiplicity of elegances such as satin covered dress forms, to create the overall feeling of luxury. department stores were soon feeling the effects of this new form of “shop” shopping. Hansen Mfg.