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Why Dutch-style bike brand Lekker is embracing e-bikes and retail partners

Inside Retail

Meet Lekker Lekker launched in Australia and Amsterdam in 2009, and despite the urban bike being a European-centric product the team focused on adapting and creating a product tailored to the Australian market from its Amsterdam headquarters, which grew into an additional Melbourne-based hub.

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Brits spent 4.1% more online in July as rain dampened High Street sales

Retail Times

Online sales soared while High Street spending slumped, as the wettest July since 2009 kept shoppers indoors. In contrast, non-store (predominantly online) volumes rose by 2.8%. Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides!

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What Stitch Fix signals about the future of personalised subscription boxes

Inside Retail

After launching in 2009, it was acquired by Nordstrom for US$350 million in 2014, before shutting down in 2022. This marks a sharp contrast from 2017 when Lake became the youngest woman to take a company public at 34, until Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble, went public with the business in 2021 at 31.

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Global luxury sales could return to pre-Covid levels this year, Bain says

Inside Retail

Luxury goods sales fell by 23 per cent to $264 billion last year, the largest-ever drop and the first decline since 2009, as the pandemic forced shop closures and brought international tourism to a virtual halt. By contrast, Europe is lagging behind, hampered by a slower vaccination campaign and restrictions on tourism.

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Bernard Dubois incorporates nightclub references into Courrèges' Paris store

Dezeen

ges store, Dubois deliberately exposed the raw concrete walls, creating a contrast with the softness of the fabric and the carpet. Only clothing displays provide a colourful contrast. Bernard Dubois set up his eponymous firm in 2014 after graduating as an architect from La Cambre in Brussels in 2009. In some areas of the Courre?ges

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“Doing nothing wasn’t an option”: M.J. Bale CEO Matt Jensen

Inside Retail

Bale in 2009, some of the challenges you faced from the outset, and how you got the business off the ground during those early stages? Matt Jensen: It was a difficult market environment when we launched back in September 2009, given it was the back end of the GFC. But I can’t remember it being too challenging.

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Studio Anne Holtrop creates gypsum walls that look like fabric for Maison Margiela store

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Holtrop , who founded Amsterdam-based Studio Anne Holtrop in 2009, installed items of "misfit" furniture throughout the space. In contrast to the rest of the store, the walls and ceilings of the fitting rooms are coated in layers of hand-brushed, high gloss paint reminiscent of Japanese lacquer cabinets.