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How Culture Kings CEO Simon Beard is turning the brand into a behemoth

Inside Retail

The Las Vegas Culture Kings store is just a few weeks old, but CEO Simon Beard is confident that it will break records. The new flagship store – the brand’s first in the US – features about 1300sqm of retail space, as well as a recording studio for musical artists, a 23-metre hat wall, a bar, live DJs performing daily, and a Secret Room featuring sought-after items in the streetwear market.

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Buckle Up, Retailers: Strategies For Growth During The Most Frugal Holiday Season Ever

RetailMinded

As the ‘golden quarter’ once again rolls around – the third since the pandemic began – retailers have learnt from experience to expect a direct challenge to business. . In 2020, lockdown-fuelled online shopping surges led to mass stockouts; 2021 brought global supply chain issues and delays; and this year, among skyrocketing inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, there’s a widely expected lack of demand. .

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How Culture Kings CEO Simon Beard is turning the brand into a behemoth

Inside Retail

The Las Vegas Culture Kings store is just a few weeks old, but CEO Simon Beard is confident that it will break records. The new flagship store – the brand’s first in the US – features about 1300sqm of retail space, as well as a recording studio for musical artists, a 23-metre hat wall, a bar, live DJs performing daily, and a Secret Room featuring sought-after items in the streetwear market.

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Tommy Hilfiger, London

Retail Store Windows

This is a huge change of direction for this brand and their presentation and we absolutely love it. Gone is the usual Blue and Red-style schemes and in with a rather bizarre installation which is bringing so much joy out there on an otherwise tired and battered high street. We expect that there is someone new here at the brand breathing a bit of life and creativity into the brand (or they've hired an external agency to design this).

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Meet Astrid, an Aussie dispensary putting the high in high-end CBD products

Inside Retail

Since the sale and use of medicinal cannabinoids was legalised in Australia around two years ago, CBD dispensaries have started to pop up across the country and online, offering products and services to those with prescriptions. Now there are more than 300 dispensaries around the country, including some high-end brands that are differentiating themselves with a focus on wellness and education.

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AirRobe GM Beth Glancey talks fashion resale, tech and start-up culture

Inside Retail

AirRobe is a fashion tech company that is aiming to kick the resale market into high gear. Here, Beth Glancey, the GM at the start-up, gives her take on why resale isn’t already a larger chunk of the market and explains the challenge of going from a large, established player to a challenger. Inside Retail : Resale has been on fashion’s radar for a few years now.

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Why fast-growing tea brand Naoki Matcha is looking to open stores

Inside Retail

Founded by Chiam Sing Chuen and Samuel Loo in 2015, Naoki Matcha is a Singapore-based brand that specialises in selling matcha tea online. The brand has built a reputation for sourcing high-quality products from various tea regions in Japan, and caters to a growing global audience in Singapore, the US and UK. “Over the years, we’ve built close relationships with our network of Japanese tea estates, processing factories and tea masters.

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