Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since the retailer’s establishment in 1858, Macy’s has become one of the most well-known department stores in the US, if not the world. Like many retailers, both in the US and internationally, Macy’s has been impacted by the decline in consumer interest in shopping in traditional department stores amidst the rise of online shopping.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The brand has grown to have a presence in 80 countries through a distribution network encompassing 1200 points of sale across stand-alone stores, franchises, department stores, multi-brand leather goods stores, travel retail and e-commerce websites. The brand still has potential to grow further in Australia.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

These acquisitions reflect the group’s strategy for building a geographically balanced brand portfolio of premium beauty and fragrance brands. Dr Vranjes Firenze was founded by Dr Paolo Vranjes in 1983 from a small shop in the heart of Florence. Its work with premium Australian department store chain David Jones is an example of this.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the driving force behind a new era of hyper-personalisation, efficiency and sustainable retail experiences, its impact on the way we shop cannot be understated. So as more and more retailers integrate the benefits of AI into their growth strategy, what will be next for this transformative technology?

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2024

The UK-based online platform for independent and ethical brands Wolf & Badger opened its first bricks-and-mortar location in London in 2010, before adding stores in New York in 2017 and Los Angeles in 2022. Here, we speak with Wolf & Badger co-founder and CEO George Graham about his plans to continue driving global retail growth.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2022

Back in 2019, Fortnum & Mason opened in Hong Kong its first fully-owned and operated shop and restaurant in Asia, as a gateway to strengthen customer connections across the region. It has always been our strategy to grow digitally in Mainland China.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

The country’s growing economy and expanding middle class have created a favourable environment for global brands to set up shop and tap into a new consumer base. Marketplace strategies Ramaswami did acknowledge that Apple products are only affordable for a tiny fraction of Indians at the highest end of the market, but in a country of 1.4

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Burberry’s new chief executive Jonathan Akeroyd will on Thursday set out his plan to finish the job started by his predecessor: boosting growth at the British luxury brand to the levels of its European rivals. He raised prices, limited distribution to its own shops and high-end department stores and cut discounting.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

Since March, David Jones has closed three of its food stores and in recent weeks, it announced that it was ending its partnership with convenience chain BP. The Woolworths Holdings boss attributed the downfall of David Jones Food to a failure to adapt the Woolworths food strategy to the Australian market. “I Food strategy in SA.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Spearheading this move are two flagship stores nestled in prime locations: one at the prestigious Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store in Taipei’s vibrant Xinyi Xintiandi district, and the other at the iconic Dubai Mall. Its location in Taipei was designed after careful consideration of Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A8 shoppers.

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Retail Design Institute

AUGUST 4, 2021

Macy’s is proudly America’s Department Store. Transformation at Macy’s encompasses corporate strategy, business development, strategic program management, and measurement. Transformation at Macy’s encompasses corporate strategy, business development, strategic program management, and measurement.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2023

Compared to more traditional forms of advertising, retail media is touted as a more targeted, less wasteful form of customer acquisition: if someone is already shopping on a retailer’s website, they’re likely looking to buy, or to learn more about products that they’re considering purchasing. And it’s a big business. billion. “It

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

Never more so than now, when the industry emerges from two years of Covid restrictions that almost crippled it, and hungry competitors are proceeding with plans to bang up malls everywhere in the region. The mall will have almost 100,000 square metres of gross leasable area and 250 shops. Malls: the Homogeneity Problem.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In some cases, the failed Australian ventures were part of a flawed strategy to breathe growth into struggling home market operations. British department store chains Marks & Spencer and John Lewis have both similarly opted not to launch Australian operations after testing the waters with local partners.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Amazingly, the savage string of rate rises so far this year doesn’t seem to be affecting the shopping habits of Aussies overall, although there has been a dip in sales figures for household goods (down 0.8 per cent) and department stores (down 0.4 per cent bump. I’d say it’s a little more complex than that.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2022

David Jones CEO Scott Fyfe said the retailer drew on lessons learned from the revamp of its Elizabeth Street flagship store in Sydney in 2019 to ensure the Melbourne project was a success. Department stores are big boxes, and you’ve got to have an experience on every floor,” he told Inside Retail. “We’ve

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

The retail industry in Malaysia has struggled during Covid, but shopping centre Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur has continued to find a way to reach consumers. It’s encouraging to observe similar trends in countries like China, where trends such as “revenge shopping” are aiding the country’s speedy economic recovery.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2023

per cent, with the Plaza format, which accounts for about two-thirds of its shopping centre portfolio, sitting at 81.1 By the standards of world-class shopping centre operation, that’s a bit ordinary, and occupancy in the Vincom+ format is scruffier still, at 73.2 The total portfolio occupancy rate sits at 84.5

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

With over 200 stores and a slew of international brands, including Celine, Ganni, Levi’s and Reebok, United Arrows is one of the country’s largest select shops, which is a kind of mini department store. While the business is primarily direct-to-consumer, wholesale is an important part of its strategy in Japan.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

He opened his first stores in Hong Kong in 2013, then a flagship in Kyoto in September 2014. Back then I had been frustrated that most coffee shops in Japan were copycats of Melbourne or Portland cafes,” he recalls. The response to the Kyoto cafe was overwhelming as he received franchise applications from all over the world.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Inside Retail: Your homewares brand In the Roundhouse started as a side hustle, but now it’s stocked in major department stores, such as DJs and Liberty. IR: In the Roundhouse is now stocked in major department stores such as DJs and Liberty. How would you describe the growth strategy behind your business?

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2021

The retailer’s pop-up space, The Corner Shop, will see a wedding takeover in August, with a curated range of vintage and pre-loved womenswear, menswear and accessories that can be purchased or rented for the big day as part of the company’s Resellfridges and Selfridges’ Project Earth initiatives. billion in annual economic output.

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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

APRIL 13, 2021

In April alone, online spend was up 56 per cent on the previous year, while in-store was down by 41 per cent. per cent) and department store sales (-68.3 Companies also used the post-lockdown period to review the way they operate by implementing restructuring plans or evaluating their store footprint.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2024

You would find it in a jeweller or a department store and to a smaller degree online. A remodelled Maxum website with an optimised shopping experience and digital capabilities went live in mid-October 2023, and Veil confirmed that Maxum still has a “very good relationship” with the retail partner. It was very successful.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail (CRC for short) has launched full-on into the wholesale business under the name Go Wholesale, and is planning to give CP Axtra — parent company of retailer Lotus’s and wholesaler Makro — a run for its money. In the September quarter, its sales in the fashion category were up 8.2 per cent year-over-year.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Discount department store Best & Less has made its debut in the lucrative beauty category, unveiling a pink pop-up store from MCoBeauty this week. . Now also available online at Best & Less, MCoBeauty is the first beauty brand stocked at the value chain, in 120 of its stores across the country.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. The strategy is inspired by the city plan of Paris, strategically driving the customer down the ‘boulevard’ to the next feature,” says Zaballero.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Customers are increasingly interested in getting back out into the world and enjoying the physical act of shopping, resorting to e-commerce more for convenience. While online retail enjoyed a bumper few years during the Covid-19 pandemic, the spotlight is back on bricks-and-mortar as the channel to watch for the foreseeable future.

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Barber Design

MAY 15, 2017

Some of this buzz has filtered down to retailers who are keen to include it in their digital retail strategy– but does the technology deserve the hype and is it really suitable for retail applications? VR for online shopping experiences. The post Digital retail strategy – will virtual reality live up to its promise?

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a window into future spending patterns across the economy and the only model of its kind globally, it can help retailers plan their operational strategies with greater confidence. This was partly offset by softness in: packaged alcohol, window coverings, nursery & garden supplies, arts & crafts and antique stores.

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Jahabow

JULY 9, 2021

Selling great products is one way to boost your retail business’s bottom line, but even the best inventory will languish on your shelves without the right merchandising strategy in place. The best way to get shoppers inside your store is to lure them in with your window displays. Start With the Windows. Rotate Displays Regularly.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2021

billion, as store closures during sporadic Covid-19 lockdowns throughout the year forced customers to shop online. We continue to see our digital operations as complementary to our in-store offer, with many customers enjoying this omnichannel experience,” Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott said in an investor briefing on Friday.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Here, Chaya, who acts as president of the uber-luxe fragrance business, explains the chemistry and synergy between him and Kurkdjian, the benefits of joining LVMH Group, the trends and challenges in the fragrance industry, how the brand is building its online revenue, plans for international growth, and the Parisian echoes in MFK’s physical stores.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And the latest global research from ESW shows that 73 per cent of Millennial shoppers plan to spend the same or more online this year, making this generation the leader in global e-commerce spending. Most consumers, when asked directly, will say they want to shop sustainably. And, why wouldn’t they? It’s also weighed in experience.

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Greater Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In recent years, retail designers have been met with a new challenge: to create shopping experiences that cater to digital-first generations while continuously engaging shoppers who primarily shop in-store. Before decorating your omnichannel retail strategy with expensive gimmicks, strip down to the basics.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. The strategy is inspired by the city plan of Paris, strategically driving the customer down the ‘boulevard’ to the next feature,” says Zaballero.

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