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Delivery management platform, Scurri, announces strategic UK hires to accelerate expansion

Retail Focus

Following its launch in 2010, Scurri has grown to a business that processed over €10bn worth of global shipments in 2022, with €15.3million investment raised to date from private angel investors, institutional VC investors and the Irish Government development fund, Enterprise Ireland.

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Goop without Gwyneth: Ex-Hairhouse GM to launch online wellness platform

Inside Retail

Set to launch in February 2022, Youtime will offer a highly curated range of products, content and services across six verticals – beauty, wellness, epicure, home, style and experience – with the goal of building a community based on purpose. McKinsey recently estimated the global wellness market at more than US$1.5

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Asos ties exec pay to new environmental goals

Inside Retail

Online fashion retailer Asos set out plans to cut its environmental impact and improve worker rights on Thursday, tying its success in cutting waste and carbon levels to future management pay. But Beighton said he remained proud of the industry, because it brings people confidence and joy, and it employed millions.

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Fast fashion firms prepare for EU crackdown on waste mountain

Inside Retail

Within a year, the sorting centre run by garment re-use and recycling charity Moda Re plans to double the volume it handles to 40,000 metric tonnes annually. 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.

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The challenge of continually improving: Why Tinyme’s Ben Hare loves his job

Inside Retail

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing in-depth profiles of this year’s Top 10. The strategic genius A lot has changed since Ben Hare first entered the e-commerce industry to join Tinyme, a mass-customisation brand that makes personalised kids’ products, in 2010. “My

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Welcome home: Melbourne womenswear label Steele opens first physical store

Inside Retail

After 10 years operating as an e-commerce fashion brand, Melbourne womenswear brand Steele has just revealed its flagship store, located within a 1900s heritage-listed home in the suburb of Hawthorn. I founded Steele in 2010 after almost a decade in the industry as a fashion buyer.

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What’s the Guochao trend and what does it mean for global brands in China?

Inside Retail

This policy was established to shift China’s manufacturing-led economy to a more consumption-based economy due to the country’s falling GDP value between 2007 and 2010. Today, seeing young people wearing Hanfu has become a common sight in many cities, especially ancient Chinese capitals like Xi’an and Luoyang. billion yuan ($4.1