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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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Meet Bo & Luca, the Australian couture bridal brand with a global presence

Inside Retail

Building a bridal business without losing the luxe boho essence Bo & Luca officially launched in 2012, but the idea was born in 2010 when Pittman was living in Dubai. Initially, the collection was launched in 2017 with 10 dresses, but it wasn’t until 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic that it began to really resonate with the market.

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Lane Crawford CEO Jennifer Woo talks how to truly cater to customers

Inside Retail

The luxury market invested with new brand and pop-up concepts, driving all merchandise in China. We were able to maximise that over the pandemic and now that the market has recovered and opened up, China is very different to pre-pandemic [times]. Our role as a curator is more important going forward. That’s not good.

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Asos ties exec pay to new environmental goals

Inside Retail

Asos sells over 85,000 products in 200 markets. Asos, which launched an original plan in 2010, said that while the updated programme could lead to modest increases in costs it was confident that technology would offset this. By Kate Holton and Sachin Ravikumar. and David Evans.

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Storytelling is key: Formula 1 drives push into the metaverse

Inside Retail

Digital branded goods ( usually in the form of NFTs ), online fashion shows, and a new wave of e-commerce using interactable digital models to showcase products are some of the ways businesses are already getting on board.

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Five modular fashion brands that are poised to transform the industry

Inside Retail

Modular, or transformable, fashion has appeared in various forms over the past 50 years. Garratt is often credited as heralding mass-market adoption of the concept through her brand Multiples in the 1980s. It employs a variety of fastenings, including zips, press studs, buttons, and Velcro.

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‘Gen Z wants to see change’: Princess Polly’s journey towards diversity and inclusion

Inside Retail

Kim Zorn: Princess Polly’s story started around 2010 from a beachside apartment on Australia’s Gold Coast. KZ: In Australia, we already have a [large] share of the retail market, but the US is a huge market and opportunity for us. We just launched our UK page, so we’re tackling the European market, too.