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Mastercard faces court over anti-competitive deals with major retailers

Inside Retail

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the financial services giant has been engaging in anticompetitive conduct since 2017 in the supply of debit card acceptance services, with the purpose of substantially lessening competition.

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Game on: Why Tommy Hilfiger has joined Roblox

Inside Retail

Regular changes to the game ensures Tommy Play offers something new to its fans while nurturing engagement and community. We’re excited to meet Roblox users on their own terms and enrich their experiences within the platform, in engaging ways that we can’t do with traditional social platforms.

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Sport and retail: How brands can leverage the buzz around the Matilda’s

Inside Retail

Sporting events have also proven to be invaluable for brands as a means of aligning themselves with and engaging the public. According to 2010 World Bank data, total household expenditure by emerging economies on sport amounted to over $38 billion.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Precise data on the growth of clothing waste is scarce but collection for recycling and reuse increased gradually in several European countries from around 2010, a 2021 EU report said. Despite such efforts, less than a quarter of Europe’s 5.2

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What is Guerilla Marketing?

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Guerrilla marketing is a creative, unconventional, and minimal-cost marketing technique that uses imaginative tactics to promote a product or service. For example, during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a Dutch beer company set up an advertising billboard outside the stadium where the final was being played. What is Guerilla Marketing?

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The Verse control kit helps kids immerse themselves in the metaverse

Design Wanted

South Korean designers Ha-Yeon Yoo and Ye-Jin Kim have come up with a concept set of tools aimed at engaging young children with the metaverse. Called Vers, the collection was designed specifically for Generation Alpha, so for those born from 2010 onwards and who have grown up in a fully digital world.

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Celebrating World Industrial Design Day with Srini Srinivasan, president of the World Design Organisation

Design Wanted

World Design Organization is promoting the profession of industrial design and its impact on our quality of life. Since 2007, the 29th of June has been observed as World Industrial Design Day to celebrate the merits of industrial designers and to actively engage design professionals and design enthusiasts to explore their creativity.

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