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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 cult brand Nasty Gal is continuing to ride the vintage wave

Inside Retail

The talent will edit these suggestions down to their top pieces and that is how the collaborative ‘edits’ are formed. KB: For Nasty Gal we began our journey in a tiny San Francisco apartment selling vintage on eBay, back in 2006. IR: What are some of Nasty Gal’s other plans for the coming 12-18 months?

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

Inside Retail

Here, she discusses the challenges of a sustainable supply chain, how sticking to your established values helps you stand out, the hidden advantage in not having a strategy at first, and what the business has planned for the next 10 years. IR: What are some of the key aspects of your 10-year plan?

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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. William Stuart: “At fuseproject we all sit together in the same open-plan area. At fuseproject we all sit together in the same open-plan area. 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. High inflation corrodes the basic machinery of the economy, unsettling consumers, troubling companies, and preventing everyone from making sturdy plans for the future. Eventually it will pop your drywall.

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A Legendary VC Has a Plan for Solving Climate Change

Robinson Meyer

He has just published an interesting and unusual new book about it— Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now. 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.