Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

The centre’s tenant lineup is a who’s who of high-end retail, featuring designers from all around the world. Prior to Gotemba, Japan’s retail market was tightly regulated and the industry in bad shape. Government statistics show that at the time of Gotemba’s opening, retail sales in Japan had fallen for 42 consecutive months.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Chinese consumers are typically known for lavish spending on high-end handbags, clothes and accessories that sustain Western luxury brands. Chinese consumers are “spoiling themselves with those little things and they’re loving something novel,” said Mark Tanner, founder of marketing agency China Skinny.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales were up 19.2 Customers were spending more on clothing, footwear and personal accessories, department stores and cafes and restaurants in July 2022, compared to the 12 months prior, and consumer sentiment was also up, by 3.9

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A decade ago, the advertising and marketing sector was taken to task by Peter Field and Les Binet. But 10 years later, advertisers are falling back into old habits ditching long-term brand-building efforts to purely focus on activation campaigns that deliver sales in the short term. And that applies equally to retail sales data.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

billion – with a large question mark over how viable such an expansion would be due to the fact that it is ‘unproven’ in other markets. Australian retail sales have fallen in recent months, and Premier hasn’t been exempt from that. “As Despite this, Lew remains bullish on the prospect of Premier’s brands going global.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Inflationary pressure on consumer discretionary spending, supply chain disruptions and elevated inventory levels, which tie up a retailers’ net working capital, are set to create the perfect storm for retailers that do not have a strategy in place to ensure they are well positioned for the choppy market conditions ahead.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2021

US department store Nordstrom has teamed up with Instagram page-turned-online marketplace Black Owned Everything to spotlight four up-and-coming Black-owned fashion and accessories brands alongside global sneaker giants Nike and Jordan as part of its Nordstrom x Nike initiative.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2022

In each case, the arrival of these brands in new markets has generally been greeted with huge enthusiasm. The reasons for the appeal of Japanese retailers are easy to understand: they have good store designs, often with small footprints that make tidy, efficient use of space without appearing cluttered. Sales were up 0.4

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

On the sales front, the CEO forecasted continued volatility. In Britain, its biggest market Asos saw sales fall 8 per cent in the four months to December 31, hurt by Christmas delivery problems, which shook customer confidence in online, and a tough comparison against last year when, by contrast, the pandemic pushed people to shop online.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

Data shows the rapid increase in online shopping that defined the first year of the global pandemic has started to fade, as the novelty of lockdowns wears off and government stimuluses run out, and online retailers that once enjoyed record highs are now working harder to drive sales. People don’t have the stimulus.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Meanwhile, ‘ revenge spending ’ and ‘aspirational shopping’ are set to continue dominating areas such as boutique shopping, luxury items and premium delivery, as customers seek moments of joy. Cognition Research principal Bill Morgan told Inside Retail that the world of new retail is undergoing rapid change.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2023

In August 2022, the National Basketball Association (NBA) opened its first bricks-and-mortar retail store in Australia – located in the Emporium shopping centre in Melbourne. IR: Can you discuss the split between e-commerce and physical retail sales, and whether there are distinct strategies in place for each channel?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

It will be Sheike’s first location outside of a shopping centre and one of the first to feature the brand’s new design concept, which rolled out in the brand’s Karrinyup and Robina stores last year, and includes marble and brass finishes. I think we need to back that up with conviction,” she said. From t-shirts to eveningwear.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 8, 2021

The impact of Covid-19 restrictions nationally was not as serious as in the early months of calendar 2020 and sales were bolstered by Black Friday, Click Frenzy and Cyber Monday leading into Christmas. One retail group that remains bullish about future prospects is Premier Retail, which posted a 7.2 million in global sales.

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Creative Displays Now

MARCH 8, 2022

Visual merchandising is a marketing practice that retailers and consumer products companies use to capture people’s attention so they’re more likely to purchase something. Since then, the market has become saturated with competition. Many retailers also practice visual merchandising in their stores.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Local governments and their communities around the world have been concerned for decades about the decay of their High Streets (called ‘strips’ in Australia, ‘Main Streets’ in America, and various other names in Asia), which is closely linked to the growth of shopping centres. Apparel and accessories from 45 per cent to 21 per cent.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

According to a recent report by Bain & Co and Meta, GDP growth and inflation in Southeast Asia are projected to perform better than other markets, such as the US and EU. With shoppers often buying sweets, custom-made apparel, accessories and jewellery, White Day offers e-commerce platforms a huge opportunity to fulfil consumers’ needs.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2023

The first is the perennial issue of whether or not the various markets can absorb the new space becoming available as developers open the doors of their newest projects. On the positive side, Covid restrictions eased and more people shopped in stores for a change, which was a huge fillip to food and beverage retail.

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