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Meet rising star of the week: Kate Stansberry, beauty buyer, David Jones

Inside Retail

This week, we chat with Kate Stansberry, buyer of luxury beauty and skincare at David Jones. Coming out of the pandemic, there will be fundamental shifts in customer expectations from a retail experience perspective both instore and online. One of my key focuses has been expanding and elevating our services within beauty.

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Q&A: How Rationale is taking Australian luxury beauty to the world

Inside Retail

Last month, Australian luxury skincare brand Rationale launched its first two international boutiques in Singapore, under the wing of South Korean beauty giant Amorepacific, which invested in the company in 2020. The complete focus from Richard has always been on optimal skin health.

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Redefining everyday beauty

Inside Retail

Restrictions during lockdown periods have resulted in at-home beauty alternatives and an increased focus on self-care. The new normal has led to new beauty regimes and habits, represented in the dynamic of growth and decline of the segments. Channel shift in beauty categories. Beauty in the new normal.

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How Blooms The Chemist creates community connections

Inside Retail

Pharmacy had really been an old-school industry where there was a lot of faxing and paper-based prescriptions, whereas telehealth and e-health really ramped up during that time. There are long waitlists to get into their GPs to get a mental health plan. The next one is more of a dominant beauty offering, like Priceline for example.

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EchoPanel by Woven Image is officially certified Carbon Neutral by Climate Active

Design Middleeast

EchoPanel® is made from 100% PET, a minimum of which is 60% post-consumer plastics, recycled to create beautiful and functional design-led sustainable acoustic solutions for architects, interior designers and end-users. EchoPanel® achieves Global Green Tag (GreenRate level A), with the maximum Product Health Declaration Platinum Health Rate.

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Proximity retailing and current retail environmental paradoxes

Retail Focus

This conflicting situation is a result of many environmental factors influencing the health of proximity retailing: the brand/the business, the commercial environment, the competitive environment, and the consumer. Customers find it more convenient to drive back and forth to find a retail conglomerate to make or complete their purchases.

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Fun, diversity and community: Welcome to the evolution of shopping centres

Inside Retail

KM: From a community perspective, ultimately, we need to start using our spaces to offer things they can’t get in other environments. It is tailored to the individual business or brand, so they can work with us to determine their terms and their length of time. It was just beautiful to us.

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