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MAY 12, 2024

Yep, Google has once again pushed back its plan to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. Google first announced its plan to deprecate cookies in January 2020, aiming for a phase-out within two years. Prioritise your own data collection and management. Sorry, what are third-party cookies again? What’s behind the delay?

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Chinese fashion retailer Shein is reviving plans to list in New York this year and its founder is considering a citizenship change to bypass proposed tougher rules for offshore IPOs in China, two people familiar with the matter said. Both sources declined to be named as the plans are confidential. The US is its biggest market.

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MAY 14, 2024

The world’s largest jewellery brand Pandora is placing sustainability at the cornerstone of its ‘Phoenix’ growth strategy and even tying bonuses for top management to environmental targets to incentivise progress. If you rewind to 2020/21, the company was in the middle of overhauling the business strategy and setting out a growth strategy.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Interstore | Schweitzer has created and implemented the new 2000 m² BRIDGE market Flexstore concept in Zurich for the largest Swiss retail company, Migros. BRIDGE market has been conceived as the connector between a diverse fresh food market, creative catering with products from local partners and a wide range of events.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

And, with three new stores planned to open in Australia as well as its first in New Zealand later this year, Costco is working on expanding its reach both offline and online. This has been difficult for Costco as, being an international retailer, it often brings items it believes are ‘best in market’ from other countries.

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JUNE 26, 2022

Adelaide-based Australian boot maker Rossi Boots plans expansion into international markets, under new owners and with fresh investment. In 2020, Propel Group and GP Securities acquired the brand with Arthur’s great-grandson, Paul Rossiter maintaining a shareholding and a seat on the board.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But in the past, it was a lot harder to market to A.P.C. IR: When do you plan to launch the new websites? IR: Were those stores planned and delayed due to Covid, or has there been a recent increase in demand? We’re also expanding our [Incu] men’s store in The Galeries, which we only just completed in November 2020.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Italian denim brand Replay is gearing up to enter the New Zealand market, as it looks to capitalise on the brand awareness it has built from sponsoring the All Blacks rugby team for the past two years. In Australia alone, the luxury fashion market is estimated to be worth US$2.6 Leveraging high-profile sponsorships.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Managing director Simon Schofield discusses the new bricks-and-mortar experience and the brand’s revitalised product range. Simon Schofield : Despite the impact 2020 had on the retail sector, it certainly was a special year for Witchery. SS: The market trends are consistent with what Witchery has experienced in the past 12 months.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Woolworths Group has pulled the plug on plans to open a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin after an independent panel ruled that the development should not go ahead. Bowden said the ferocity of purchase in grocery is, unsurprisingly, “just not what it was” in March 2020. “As

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APRIL 28, 2022

Earlier this month, it announced a new, multi-year partnership with licensing management experts IMG to relaunch Laura Ashley as a standalone fashion brand. It plans to offer apparel, footwear and accessories and is currently seeking global partners with sourcing and design capabilities to licence the brand. We know consumers want it.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Fast-growing Australian online retailer Canningvale plans to relaunch the iconic Singaporean department store Robinsons as an online-only business this month after acquiring the company’s digital assets for an undisclosed sum. The online marketplace model is a key part of Prainito’s plan to take Robinsons back to its roots as a value player.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

Backed by an impressive lineup of investors, including Who Gives A Crap founder and CEO Simon Griffiths, Athletic Ventures managing partner Matt de Boer and Tripple executive director Bec Milgrom, the business is under pressure to reach the next level. We’ve got some really exciting plans in that space,” Miller said.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Inside Retail : I understand Sheike is planning to expand to South Australia. Sandra Kennedy: We’re planning on opening the store in the middle of this year, and we’re very excited because it’s actually our first SA store in the portfolio, and it will also be our first strip store, so our first store outside of a centre.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Last week, Providoor announced the appointment of eBay Australia’s managing director Tim MacKinnon as its CEO, and over the next few months, the start-up plans to raise funds from external investors to support its growth. The post How Tim MacKinnon plans to keep Providoor cooking beyond lockdown appeared first on Inside Retail.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

Despite more than quadrupling its gross sales in Q4 FY20, MyDeal still managed to deliver 12.4 MyDeal is also working on a brand refresh that it plans to roll out in the coming months with its first above-the-line marketing campaigns, and a loyalty program set to launch later this year. million in FY21, a 111.1 Currently, 5.2

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APRIL 6, 2021

A host of retailers have confirmed reopening plans for April 12 as shoppers look forward to a return to bricks and mortar shopping after more than three months. John Lewis outlined its plans for April 12 for its remaining 32 shops in England (John Lewis/PA). Its Glasgow store will open on April 26 and its Edinburgh site on May 14.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. Are there plans for expansion beyond this partnership? IR: How significant will Pavement’s presence be across Big W?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Back when THG was first publicly listed in September of 2020, it floated with a valuation of US$7 billion. Fast forward to November 2023, and THG has a market cap of US$1.31 billion, according to Companies Marketcap. billion in 2023, according to Statista.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

As Restaurant Brands International accelerates its store roll-out program across Asia Pacific, the company is focusing on enhancing the customer experience, including market-specific menu adaptations, building its own delivery network and introducing a new brand to the region. South Korea’s challenging sophistication.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Haynes, who started in Australia as territory manager in 2006, has previously held roles including chief business development officer and interim CEO. Joshi was previously IT support manager for the Retail Apparel Group. Malhotra, who took on the role in January 2020, is to leave the company at the end of this year.

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JUNE 22, 2022

The business revealed in its half-year results it was on track for nine to 12 new restaurants in FY22, with at least 55 new restaurants planned by 2028. Also in Australia, 19 corporate stores were refranchised to existing store managers and franchisees. KFC Australia master franchisee Collins Foods reported FY22 half-year revenue up 4.4

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JULY 25, 2023

Compared to its sister brand Kmart, which has seen its market share grow exponentially in the past decade, Target has been suffering a slow decline, with its position in the middle of the market – not quite as value-based as Kmart, and not quite as high-end as Myer – making matters worse.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2021

Businesses continued to experience a rush of online orders during 2020 as employees worked from home [and] as this trend continues into 2021 it’s important to have a solution,” said Pitney Bowes Japan, Australia and New Zealand country manager and vice president Stephen Darracott.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inside Retail was the first to report earlier this month that Wesfarmers has cut 100 jobs at Catch , with the redundancies impacting key departments including marketing, product and technology, and finance. Many of the category managers have also left, taking jobs at MyDeal, Kogan and MySale. They basically self-sabotaged,” they said.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Julie Therond is the general manager of Longchamp Australia and New Zealand and has worked with the fashion brand since 2012. With an extensive career in marketing and retail, having previously worked in Paris, China and Hong Kong, where she was a sales director, before coming to Australia to head Longchamp’s ANZ operations from Sydney.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Steele has worked with Krispy Kreme since 2006, rising through the ranks from crew member to store manager and area manager. Currently the general manager for travel retail worldwide, Boinay started as a marketing trainee for L’Oreal in 1992 and has served in his current role since 2014.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

But the business’ advertising manager Damian Lucas told Inside Retail that sleep has never been as important as today. “The As a result, the business then conducted market research for a year and found that while its proposition was incredibly attractive to this group of younger consumers, it hadn’t been marketing to them at all.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Major retail stores across the US including Walmart, Trader Joes and Sprouts Farmers Market now stock the product, and in September the brand launched into Canada.The company also announced last year that it was doubling its R&D team to focus on the creation of plant-based milk, steak, bacon and fish. Rapid expansion in Asia.

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MAY 27, 2021

The health brand will be ingrained into the wider Woolworths business, with plans for a select range of HealthyLife products to be offered on the highly anticipated Woolworths marketplace. Ananth Sarathy, the former general manager of digital experience at WooliesX, will lead the HealthyLife business as managing director.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Launched in 2020 with a glass soap bottle that can be refilled using dissolvable hand-wash tablets, Single Use Ain’t Sexyhas grown rapidly in the years following. Founded by clinical pharmacist Lisa Nguyen in 2020, Astrid has built up a community of over 10,000 patients in under two years. Sneaker Laundry: caring for your kicks.

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MAY 23, 2022

As part of JYSK’s plans to expand in the UK, the largest Danish retailer, operating globally, will be opening its first Telford store on 2nd June 2022 at Unit NQ1, Northern Quarter, Telford Shopping Centre. The new store will be managed by Stephen Ambrose and boasts 1200 sq mtrs of floor space in the latest JYSK store concept layout.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2022

Antoni Martinez, a McDonald’s Australia alumni and current managing director of McDonald’s Korea, takes up the Australian managing director and CEO mantle. McDonald’s Australia is one of McDonald’s largest and most successful markets in terms of growth, employment and economic impact,” he said. “I

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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. In 2020, our market share of China’s on-demand DMW retail industry in terms of GMV was 28 per cent, ranked first in North China, according to iResearch. In June, the brand went public on the NASDAQ.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Heading into November are we meant to be planning for Christmas, or making the most of these big sales events (we’ll use ‘BFCM’ as shorthand to refer to these sales but we mean all the sales happening around this time of year)? Christmas planning cycles. There are also meaningful supply chain and distribution challenges to overcome.

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JULY 11, 2022

“However, as much as Syngal has moved things forward, progress has been slow, and initiatives have been piecemeal rather than part of a coherent grand plan of reinvigoration. Poor performance – well below market growth during recent quarters – has raised serious questions about the grip management has on operations, he said.

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JUNE 1, 2021

The largest Danish retailer operating globally, JYSK , is set to open two new stores within the Greater Manchester region as part of its ambitious UK expansion plans. JYSK Bury and Stockport are just two of the store launches that JYSK has planned for this year, with stores in Leeds, Barnsley, and Gainsborough also opening during 2021. .

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