Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At Myer’s annual general meeting this week, outgoing CEO John King predicted that trading activity on Black Friday would likely surpass Christmas, with the department store preparing stock ahead of time to mitigate any logistical delays related to potential industrial action. per cent increase in total sales to $3.36

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2022

The department store giant’s adjusted operating profit rose 85.5 The first principle, knowing your customers, is incredibly important to a luxury department store business like David Jones, Fyfe said. We’ve got a consistent plan about how we will celebrate these events with our customers. Looking forward.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Macy’s has been stepping up to the plate with a series of new moves, from the expansion of its smaller-footprint stores, to a new digital fashion platform targeting younger shoppers. But while these initiatives sound promising, the question remains: can the department store chain truly adapt to the needs of the modern-day consumer?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This week, Macy’s announced plans to shut down 150 “underproductive” stores, more than one-fifth of its department store assemblage, over the next three years. The closures are a part of the retailer’s plan “to create a more modern Macy’s, Inc. per cent of its workforce. In December, Macy’s received a $5.8

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This is creating new challenges for retail operations, including a particular demand for agile merchandise planning and supply-chain processes. These activities require frequent decisions on product assortment, store, and floor-space allocations. The complex shift to omnichannel. Australians are shopping online more than ever.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The high perfumery now has six global flagships with plans to open another four locations within the APAC region over the next 12 months. For Australia, our strategy is pretty simple. By culture, we are a department store brand in the way we function. We saw a lot of brands, stop producing and stop investing.

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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. Its work with premium Australian department store chain David Jones is an example of this. L’Occitane also acquired a 50 per cent stake in Singaporean skincare brand Erborian in 2012.

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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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Retail Times

MAY 6, 2021

Norwegian contemporary department store Steen & Strøm, which is managed by Promenaden Management, is launching a brand-new 900sq m (9,700sq ft) Beauty Hall this month as part of a major NOK 300 million (£25.7 million GBP) refurbishment and upgrade.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2021

The fight for board control of department store Myer will be decided in the next few months, with the firm’s AGM likely to run in late October, but Solomon Lew’s major stake in the business could well be diluted by the time to vote. Department store sales up this year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

There is also a view that the breakup strategy could fund further acquisitions, including the Myer department store chain in which he has already built a substantial shareholding. The timing tends to infer that Murray was not keen on the breakup plan or didn’t see a suitable role for himself in the future.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2022

Despite the multiple challenges over the last two and a half years, Carmen Chiu, regional managing director, Asia Pacific at Fortnum & Mason, is confident that the brand has built a solid foundation and engagement strategy with the domestic customer through its retail and hospitality businesses. “We

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

Shelley Sullivan: We are following the same strategy in the US. IR: Any plans for an MCoBeauty retail store in the US or Australia? IR: Previously you mentioned the strategy was almost entirely digital, did this end up being the the case entering the US? SS: Not at this stage. SS: Six per cent. SS: Absolutely.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

Last month, the department store reported its highest interim profit since 2014. You’ll probably have to adjust margins to implement this model effectively, and it’s likely that the ‘better’ offer will end up being the largest seller, so plan your orders accordingly. And you’ll need a pre-planned mechanism to achieve that.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

From using non-toxic paint in stores to digitising documents to avoid paper waste, more businesses are taking steps to make their physical operations more sustainable. That includes the Japanese department store chain Takashimaya. Takashimaya opened its first store in Kyoto, Japan, in 1831, selling gofuku (formal kimono).

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

Woolworths had written off more than $420 million restructuring the business, which was Australia’s largest consumer electronics chain by store count. Anchorage Capital, at best, added some finishing touches to Woolworths’ turnaround strategy and reworked the balance sheet for the sharemarket float. No more balance sheet shuffle .

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

In November last year, Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited (ABFRL) entered into a strategic partnership with French department store chain Galeries Lafayette to open luxury department stores and a dedicated e-commerce platform in India. Both strategies could work, in his opinion. “A

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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

JANUARY 4, 2024

So as more and more retailers integrate the benefits of AI into their growth strategy, what will be next for this transformative technology? Category management – for example, range and assortment planning, pricing strategies – is a typical use case where AI can augment human decision-making.

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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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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 21, 2021

The viability of the two iconic department store chains, Myer and David Jones, has been seriously analysed and debated since a merger proposal by Myer was revealed in 2014. The financial collapse of traditional US and UK department stores and the impact of the pandemic has increased industry scrutiny on Myer and David Jones.

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

As the company’s senior manager of Research and Insights, Gower will help strengthen Cartology’s insight-led approach to campaign strategy, implementation and evaluation. International Group of Department Stores appoints new president. He will be reporting to Jodie Koning, Cartology head of Marketing and Insights.

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VMS

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Heading into 2023, the growth plans at Nordstrom (Seattle) are focused solely on its Nordstrom Rack off-price division. The retailer plans to open six new Racks in the coming year, bringing the total to about 260 in the U.S. Here are the planned Rack openings for 2023: Los Angeles: NOHO West – spring 2023. Wichita, Kan.:

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, last month Designworks, the wholesale arm of Brand Collective, a leading house of lifestyle brands in Australia, announced that it was relaunching Pavement in the marketplace through the discount department store Big W. Are there plans for expansion beyond this partnership?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

Luxury department store Harvey Nichols recently announced the opening of the first blue-chip non-fungible token (NFT) retail space at its Pacific Place Hong Kong store. Physical stores are seeking to understand their place in the digital economy and align with this cultural phenomenon.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

Myer, for example, recently announced that it would be partnering with undercover police officers to curb theft in its department stores. In our recent report , we asked loss prevention managers the most common tactics used, and the most common are still very simple tactics that require no planning,” Townsley said.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Maggie Beer Holdings’ CEO and MD Chantale Millard says she plans to resign by the end of the year. He said the business is “well positioned” to execute the next phase of its strategy, with strong brands, new systems, and a highly focused and energised team. and oversees strategy and corporate development. By Dean Blake.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2023

These include Nike, which will debut its new Nike Unite concept store later this year, and UK luxury fashion retailer, FLANNELS , which recently opened its 45,000 sq ft department store – the first in the country. The addition will significantly enhance our fashion offer, and we’re delighted to see the store open its doors.”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

He will be responsible for formulating the company’s global strategy around traditional and non-traditional development. The Telegraph said her departure comes after “a clash with the luxury retailer’s Chinese owner Dickson Poon over her plans for the business”. A clash between Manju and the owner is categorically untrue.”

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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

MAY 20, 2021

BooHoo, which also acquired department store Debenhams in January, bought Arcadia’s e-commerce, digital assets and associated intellectual property rights that also include customer data, business information, and inventory of Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, and Burton. He joined BooHoo last month.

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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

We have continuously worked with all our tenants to come up with robust marketing strategies to encourage customer traffic and spending, including creating promotional areas at high traffic areas, assisting with shopping and dining vouchers, and continuing with our shopper rewards and redemption programs.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2023

In an interview with Inside Retail , he discussed how CBCH and TDE are rebounding following collapse, as well as his plans to expand in the years to come. It has opened 22 more stores – bringing the total today to 57 – and placed a strong emphasis on correcting the product range, pricing and promotional strategy.

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