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Luxury Retail Phygitalisation: Blending Tradition and Technology in the Digital Age

Retail Focus

For their staff to effectively navigate this new landscape, brands must invest in training and development. It requires a delicate balance between preserving the traditional allure of luxury retail and embracing the opportunities presented by digital technology.

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Expanding the Boundaries of Luxury: Navigating Experiences Beyond Traditional Retail

Retail Focus

Recently, they crossed all boundaries to discover the vast opportunities for their brands to evolve and grow. On one hand, creating a comprehensive brand experience extends an enticing array of opportunities. Luxury brands can also introduce different tiers of products or services to cater to varied consumer segments.

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Analysis: What’s changed since the Farfetch-YNAP deal was first announced

Inside Retail

per cent of Yoox Net-A-Porter, reducing Richemont’s stake to below 50 per cent and allowing it to remove the under-performing e-commerce platform from its balance sheet. Emirati business mogul Mohamed Alabbar would acquire 3.2 Richemont first purchased Net-a-Porter in 2010 for approximately US$550 million, before merging it with Yoox.

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Toys “R” Us Owner Acquires 7.4% Stake in Express

VMS

Brand management company WHP Global (New York) will spend a total of $260 million to acquire a 7.4 The brand manager will also spend $25 million to acquire 5.4 We expect to accelerate our growth by acquiring multiple brands in partnership with WHP and operating them on our platform. Columbus, Ohio).

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First Nations artists, Pride and mental health: Volley talks collabs

Inside Retail

Opening up again Volley – which was sold by Pacific Brands to private equity firm Anchorage Capital in 2014 following a collapse in sales – has managed to transform its reputation as a ‘daggy’ shoe company. In 2019, Volley’s brand manager John Szwede told News.com.au

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All-in-one fresh foods market, catering and event location BRIDGE opens in Zurich

Retail Focus

The BRIDGE market concept skilful balances the offering into a varied combination of fresh-food areas, catering and dry goods. The entire 2,000 m² are distributed on two levels, representing a meeting point for food culture that invites you to shop, enjoy and linger.

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Studio Giancarlo Valle transforms historic Stockholm cinema into tactile rug showroom

Dezeen

The brand managed to find a Swedish company that could replicate the original terrazzo to cover the entire floor area. To balance out the existing stone and terrazzo, we brought in warmer, more tactile materials like pine, oak, and walnut," Valle said.