Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2023

This collapse follows the demise of Australian furniture brand Brosa late last year – which cited declining sales and cash flow pressures – as well as heightened challenges faced by small-to-medium sized retailers that are struggling to cope with rising costs, and a slowdown in foot traffic and consumer activity.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2024

The prediction was pretty much on the mark with sluggish economic growth and stuttering consumer spending a factor in a slew of retail failures. That level of business closures was the highest for any year since the global financial crisis in 2008. The Covid days of largesse and leniency are well over.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I actually remember doing my homework in the staff canteen above the Boots store in Guilford in the UK, and having all these people walk past talking about space optimisation and sales per square foot, and that was all much more fascinating than my biology homework. As a side note, it also gave me a good introduction to the world of retail.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But when you’re growing a business, particularly an international fashion business, it’s particularly heavy on resources and cash flow. In 2008, they actually went into administration. The direct-to-consumer part of the business is the strongest and the fastest-growing now. They were a victim of their own success.

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Robinson Meyer

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

So the security perspective is, I’m not consuming more gas, but I’m importing more because my production is declining. You don’t need too much imagination to assume that if a major conflict happens in and around Ukraine, like, the flow of gas could be interrupted through Ukraine. That’s why the U.S. That also is kind of stupid, right?

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