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Can Premier replicate Smiggle’s UK success with pyjama brand Peter Alexander?

Inside Retail

The pyjama brand and its mascot Penny are set to touchdown in the United Kingdom with two bricks-and-mortar stores and a dedicated UK website just in time for the Christmas shopping period this year. This will be the first time Peter Alexander ventures outside of Australia and New Zealand since its failed entry into the US market in 2008.

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Aje sees the light: Why the Aussie brand is ramping up its global presence

Inside Retail

Australian fashion brand Aje has committed to further international expansion, potentially including a dedicated bricks-and-mortar presence in the United States, after spending the last year and half focusing heavily on its international retail partners.

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Ted’s grooming room makes the cut for the Sloane Stanley estate

Retail Focus

Since launching in 2008, Ted’s Grooming Room was conceived to provide a traditional barber shop experience, inspired by quintessential British style and Ted Baker’s very own global explorations.

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“Different journeys”: An inside look at Replay Jeans and Superdry

Inside Retail

Here, Davies chats to Inside Retail about the goals and objectives behind Superdry’s seventh store opening in Australia – in Doncaster’s Westfield shopping centre – and how Replay Jeans is getting off the ground with a partnership with Melbourne Victory. It’s been in the market since 2008, and is well established. IR: On to Superdry.

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New Look sets the trend with new flagship store at Liverpool ONE

Retail Focus

New Look first entered Liverpool ONE in 2008, launching its largest British store as part of the brand’s wider UK expansion, and the store has since gone from strength to strength.

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Trillions in revenue and a million jobs: Unpacking JD.com’s 20-year roadmap

Inside Retail

The company began offering general merchandise in 2008, transforming JD from an electronics retailer to a full-fledged e-commerce platform, and launched an online marketplace platform in 2010. JD’s first overseas expansion attempt JD.ID [the company’s offering in Indonesia] didn’t end so well due to intensive competition in the local market.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Obstacles The obstacles to significantly reducing clothing waste are formidable, despite the EU crackdown, industry sustainability commitments and initiatives like the Moda Re expansion. In France this system has already been in place since 2008 under an organisation called Refashion. A similar amount ends up as European landfill.

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