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Social media marketing trends for 2022

Inside Retail

It’s that time again! New social media platforms and trends emerge as 2021 closes in. If your business is using social media, it’s imperative to keep tabs on the ongoing and forthcoming trends to weave them into your marketing. So, what can we expect to see in 2022 for social platforms? Let’s take a deep dive into how social media will transform the marketing practices in the year ahead.

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17 Retail Design Pros Share First Memories of Holiday Windows

VMS

Regular VMSD readers know that we recently launched our exclusive Brain Squad , which is made up of visual merchandising and store designers across the country (and beyond) who offer up industry insight that only they can provide. Since it’s that magical time of year, we asked our members in a recent Brain Squad survey: What’s your first memory of seeing holiday window displays?

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Snap Print CEO to exit and take up CouriersPlease top role

Inside Retail

Snap Franchising CEO Richard Thame is leaving the heritage print business in February 2022 and will take up the CEO position at CouriersPlease. Thame’s return to the logistics field comes after the exit of long term CouriersPlease CEO Mark McGinley , which was announced on 1 December, and the appointment of former CFO John Venetsanos as acting CEO. A statement from CouriersPlease pointed to Thame’s “decades of combined executive leadership, franchise excellence and logistics industry experience’

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Roger Vivier, London

Retail Store Windows

Although this is a relatively small store here along Bond street this brand always produce some killer schemes. Indeed throughout 2021 we have seen some real corkers. We're not quite sure how we feel about this scheme with its Bubblegum Pink.are they fair ground horses? And, wearing some of the product but they do have a certain style to their schemes and quite honestly we're so glad that they take their Visual Merchandising so seriously.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Analysis: Why Asia is finally embracing plus-size fashion

Inside Retail

If you were to ask for a size XXL when shopping in Asia, the shop assistant would probably hand you the equivalent of a UK size 14 (Australia size 16). Considering the global average size for women is now a UK 16, Asia’s sizing range is incredibly limited. The pressure to conform to regular beauty standards is intense anywhere but especially within Asian cultures.

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Apparel Brands Report 2021

Fashion Retail

A few weeks ago, I was guest speaker during RBC exclusive expert call. Richard Chamberlain and myself discussed about supply chain disruptions and constraints, sustainability, casualization or retail transformation. Last week, Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets published European General Retail primer; the strong to get stronger, a report that presents latest market trends, financial … More Apparel Brands Report 2021.

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Alibaba fires employee who accused former co-worker of sexual assault

Inside Retail

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has dismissed a female employee who accused a former co-worker of sexual assault earlier this year , government-backed newspaper Dahe Daily reported late on Saturday. Dahe Daily interviewed the employee, saying she had received notification of termination at the end of November, and published a copy of what she said was her termination letter.

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Legislation imposes world-leading lifetime ban on cigarette purchasing

Inside Retail

The New Zealand government plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world’s toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking were taking too long. People aged 14 in 2027, when the law is scheduled to come into effect, will never be allowed to legally purchase cigarettes in the country of 5 million, while the level of nicotine in all cigarettes on sale will be reduced.

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Designer Carla Zampatti among Italian-Australians celebrated in SBS doco

Inside Retail

From iconic fashion designer Carla Zampatti and leading luxury jewellery designer Nicola Cerrone, to chairperson of Harris Farm Markets Catherine Harris, some of the country’s most successful Italian-Australian entrepreneurs are starring in a new SBS documentary. The 11-part series called “The Italians” will air tonight, December 13, and share the fascinating stories and lives of Italian Australian business people from the perspectives of migrants and their children.

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Here’s what the post-pandemic workplace looks like for leaders

Inside Retail

As you look ahead to 2022, now’s the perfect time to reflect on your workplace, leadership and team and map a course to ensure the new year is one of success and progress. There has been much uncertainty and change over the last 20 months. Not all of that change has been bad. For example, the discovery that remote working can work effectively, the demonstration of humans’ adaptability, and what we can do – very quickly – when we need to.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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‘Start of a new era’: The Daily Edited boss Tania Liu turns the page on 2021

Inside Retail

2021 has been a year many retailers would like to forget, but none more so than online accessories brand The Daily Edited (TDE), which has not only had a global pandemic to grapple with, but also the shocking exit of co-founder and creative director Alyce Tran following allegations that she had misused company funds. . Co-founder and director Tania Liu acquired Tran’s share of the business in May, and appointed a new creative director, Marsha Vetolskiy, in August.

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What’s in an Insta-famous name? Fortune – and risk

Inside Retail

Working with influencers can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you’ve got the massive audience-pulling potential of everyone’s favourite Insta-famous name, but on the other, you’ve got a huge helping of brand risk. The halo effect is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, brand or product to positively influence their opinion or feelings of something completely separate.

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Revlon names first Australian ambassador

Inside Retail

Aussie singer and songwriter Delta Goodrem has been named Revlon’s new ambassador for ANZ, and the brand’s first Australian ambassador. “Delta has always been a beacon of beauty, optimism and pure talent,” the brand said on its social media. “Now we celebrate her power as a multi-dimensional woman, some who live life boldly, fully, freely and with purpose, whatever that looks like to them.”.