Retail Focus

JUNE 21, 2023

Supermarkets have led the way in cutting costs with Tesco announcing plans to reduce its headcount by 2,000 in a restructure. For example, Pret a Manger announced that its shop staff were to receive a third pay rise in a year. Starbucks has also revealed plans to open 100 new stores across the UK in 2023.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Here, we speak with CEO Craig King about the business’ revitalisation under General Pants, its in-store experience, plans for expansion in Australia, the UK and US, and the magic behind the number 23. A group called Bleach stepped in and picked up their debt and ran the business until 2014.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2023

According to Volley’s partnership manager Renee Jaeger, the NGA approached the brand after seeing Volley’s Wear it with Pride campaign. Volley’s content and marketing manager Anna Geason told Inside Retail that the best collaborations happen when there is an authentic connection between partner brands.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

The brand was co-founded in 2014 by best friends Sarah Miller and Jessie Gargan, who were 23 and 26, respectively, at the time. Expansion plans will be supported by the opening of a second boutique in Victoria and a third in New South Wales by the year’s end.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The structural aspect of the Australia retail sector has been substantially shaped by town planning schemes, a handful of dominant local retailers and relatively concentrated ownership of shopping centres and major retail properties.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For Australian property group Mirvac, this isn’t just a strategic investment but also a partnership it hopes will help shape the future of its retail business through shopping centre activations. Stylists in Residence at Toombul Shopping Centre, QLD. Image: Supplied. It’s just a really wonderful shared set of values that we loved.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2023

Many blame the rise of online shopping as the main factor behind the decline of this yearly event. Brien Chua, founder of Sheldon Global, Singapore’s leading home and living company, believes the key is offering hyper-personalised physical shopping experiences. So how can bricks-and-mortar experiences survive in this climate?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Williams names retail general manager. Williams has appointed Steven Woolley as its new general manager for retail. Daniel Grieder, the new CEO of Hugo Boss, is now officially on board and will be joining the brand’s managing board. He was appointed CEO and president of Tommy Hilfiger Global and PVH Europe in 2014.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2022

Prior to that, she was general manager of Esther & Co, which she scaled more than five-fold in a single year, bringing profit levels to all new heights. Here is how she built a successful e-commerce career, despite having no industry connections, and what she has planned for Tigerlily.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2024

For example, according to data collected by management consulting company McKinsey & Company, while 11 per cent of all beauty consumers in the US are Black, Black-owned brands account for only 2.5 So let’s imagine you’re shopping online and you are at the product page and you’re ready to buy the product,” she said.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2014, it formed a strategic partnership with Tencent, giving JD exclusive access to the tech giant’s WeChat and Mobile QQ platforms, and became China’s first major e-commerce company to list on the NASDAQ stock exchange. It’s a 20-year plan, which is likely to cover multiple economic cycles.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

“Items are returned to Amazon for many reasons – sometimes a product is just not what a customer is looking for, or perhaps there’s a cosmetic defect or the packaging is damaged,” said Matt Furlong, Amazon Australia country manager. Meanwhile, in just the past week, Etsy has announced plans to acquire resale marketplace Depop for $US 1.62

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Despite the difficulties the retail industry has faced throughout the past few years, electronics giant JB Hi-Fi has managed to stay largely unaffected. Until recently, the business hadn’t seen a drop in sales figures, and had significantly grown its online sales as more customers shopped from home.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Here, we chat with Missfresh about how the DMWs operate, how it’s digitalising fresh markets and its plans for the future. Can you explain a bit about how Missfresh has grown in popularity since launching in 2014? In China, fresh markets are where most neighborhood retail and shopping still take place.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

The expansion of the health aisle comes as ‘Sports & Diet’ was identified as the fastest growing segment of Coles’ health foods aisle between 2014 and 2019, and customer demand is continuing to grow. Coles is also planning to extend the range to include smaller sports products such as dumbbells and yoga mats in the future.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

The expansion of the health aisle comes as ‘Sports & Diet’ was identified as the fastest growing segment of Coles’ health foods aisle between 2014 and 2019, and customer demand is continuing to grow. Coles is also planning to extend the range to include smaller sports products such as dumbbells and yoga mats in the future.

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Barber Design

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Regular blog readers may remember back in August we told you how we had been appointed to redesign the new food court at the Sovereign Shopping Centre in Weston-super-Mare. Sovereign Centre manager, Nick Cooke expects the new food court to be a big draw: “The Galley will definitely draw in more visitors to the Sovereign Centre.

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CAAD

APRIL 27, 2022

It is one of the most powerful strategies in good marketing planning: telling stories that create an impact on the consumer’s mind and connect directly with them. . What’s behind our shop designs and visual merchandising ? What is storytelling? The art of storytelling. Visual storytelling in the retail sector.

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Retail Insider

MAY 28, 2021

The Place: Dotted around the UK so far with over 20 stores but another 14 listed as coming soon and with big further expansion plans…. The vast majority of the Holloway shop is given over to the gaming space where free-to-read comics are provided along with some free-to-play games. Brought to you by Retail Insider and Flooid.

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