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US firm Bluestar Alliance snaps up Scotch & Soda

Inside Retail

Scotch & Soda has been acquired by New York-based brand management firm Bluestar Alliance after filing for bankruptcy for its Dutch operations last week. The brand’s products are distributed by 7000 retailers globally and it operates 252 of its own stores outside its home market. Despite recording €342.5 million (US$369.42

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Mecca for mums: How The Memo is disrupting the baby goods market

Inside Retail

At the time, she was a brand manager at Mecca, so she understood the power of a highly curated and branded shopping environment, and a first-rate customer experience, but she felt like it didn’t exist in the baby goods category. All about the flow. flow was really important,” Casey said.

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Why Woolworths’ acquisition might bring the best out of Milkrun 

Inside Retail

He believes that Milkrun has better brand recognition compared to Metro60, and has more potential as a front-end facing brand. Meanwhile, Woolworths’ strong cash flow, and robust back-end systems and processes – including its IT, fulfillment, and customer management – are complementary.

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Plus-size fashion was in the spotlight at Fashion Week. What comes next?

Inside Retail

We are expanding our capsule range to provide more options,” brand manager Claire Primrose said. There is a nod to our inner rock chick roots, with black pleather accents and mixing it back with new and exciting prints, textures, flowing silhouettes and a little glomesh glam,” Harlow co-founder Kerry Pietrobon said.

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Retail Spaces That Build Community

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Community Retail Brand Building. Really as a brand manager or someone charged with the development of your retail design strategy, you're going to be able to fill in these blanks better than any outside source (other than your customers themselves).

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Employee-first tech could transform the retail experience chain

Retail Focus

At the same time, we also need to be driving real-time visibility for managers, designers and store merchandisers so they can grasp more of what’s happening daily, right on the shop floor. . Traditional paper-based checks can create blindspots when it comes to managing the retail experience. Going digital ticks all those boxes.