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Inside Designworks’ four-pronged expansion strategy

Inside Retail

And it supplies to department stores, such as David Jones, Myer, Kmart and Big W. Designworks’ divisional general manager Brooke Norton told Inside Retail that the brand sells about 15 million units each year and is heading towards $200 million in wholesale sales. The market is holdings its breath.

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Australia’s retail sales growth can’t last. Here’s how to prepare for it

Inside Retail

The latest retail sales figures are really quite incredible. According to the Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales rose by 0.6 per cent) and department stores (down 0.4 My tip is that retail sales figures in the next couple of months will start to reflect this. per cent bump.

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Retail expert on China’s department store dilemma and potential growth drivers

Inside Retail

In the landscape of global commerce, few sectors evoke as much intrigue and promise as the consumer goods market in China. With higher than expected growth , a burgeoning middle class, and evolving consumer preferences, China stands at the forefront of the retail revolution. per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Two thirds (66.3

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Why short-term data alone won’t cut it for retailers in 2024

Inside Retail

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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Can Singapore’s CapitaLand maintain its momentum as the economy slows?

Inside Retail

For some time now, the growth of e-commerce in the Lion City has been falling back in line with the growth rate of retail sales as a whole. It operates retail properties, mixed-use projects and office buildings. Downtown malls outperformed their suburban counterparts, with sales increasing by 20.3 per cent versus 4.1

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Analysis: a perfect retail storm is brewing

Inside Retail

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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How Amazon more than tripled its profits in Q1

Inside Retail

Amazon expects net sales in the quarter ended June 30, 2020, to be between US$110 billion and US$116 billion, an increase of between 24 per cent and 30 per cent year on year. It’s not surprising that Amazon has done really well,” Jason Pallant, a senior lecturer in marketing at Swinburne Business School, told Inside Retail.