Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Westfield Mt Druitt will unveil a $55 million expansion and redevelopment of the centre next month, adding 15 restaurants, including rooftop dining, and a large-scale Timezone. “In listening to our customers and understanding what they want, we set out to create Western Sydney’s new go-to rooftop dining and entertainment experience at Westfield Mt Druitt,” said Danii Ashton, Scentre Group regional manager centre, experience.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Frasers Group plc has unveiled plans to open a 50,000sq. ft Sports Direct flagship in Manchester city centre, as part of the group’s strategic flagship roll out. The store will open in The Arndale shopping centre, in the heart of the city, and will house Sports Direct, USC, Evans Cycles and GAME as well as a Belong esports arena. Continuing the success from the business’ first flagship opening on London’s Oxford Street, Manchester will be the 3rd flagship location revealed sitting alongside Birm

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Flora & Fauna (F&F) founder and CEO Julie Mathers has resigned from the eco-friendly online retail business she started in 2014 and sold to beauty and wellness business BWX less than a year ago. “I’ve decided to leave for a variety of reasons and have always found there’s no one reason but many. What I can say is that it’s not because I don’t love F&F,” Mathers told Inside Retail in an exclusive interview on Wednesday evening.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Gilly Hicks, a brand in the Abercrombie & Fitch Co. portfolio that offers underwear, loungewear and activewear, today announced it is reintroducing standalone stores in EMEA following the successful rollout of its new prototype in Columbus, Ohio. This Summer, the retailer plans to open a new store located on London’s Carnaby Street, an internationally renowned shopping destination.

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Yesterday, online furniture and homewares marketplace Temple & Webster revealed it has tripled in the past two years – growing f irst half sales a massive 218 per cent compared to the same period of FY20. Much of the growth has come from the expanding amount of pies the business has its fingers in: from its furniture and homewares sales, to home improvement (which grew 95 per cent) and a growing B2B offering.

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CTM Design

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As an independent convenience store owner, you generally know when it’s time to update or modernize your space. You start hearing the whispers from customers. Little signs of wear and tear become impossible to ignore. Worst case, customers may begin choosing a newer store just down the block. The question is: can you get away with a simple cosmetic update, or will you need a building or trade permit to renovate your convenience store interior?

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Mindful Design

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

If you are dreaming of owning a dessert store, but building the business from the ground up seems overwhelming, buying into an existing franchise may be an option. We have discussed before the pro and cons of both alternatives in our franchise versus new brand article. If your decision leans toward getting the help that […]. The post Popular Dessert Store Franchises That Are Worth Buying appeared first on Mindful Design Consulting.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

As part of an ongoing commitment to sustainability, Officeworks has acquired a stake in Brisbane-based social enterprise, World’s Biggest Garage Sale. The WBGS started in 2013 in a garage and is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise that repairs, repurposes and res-sells imperfect and unwanted products. The company wants to build a circular economy that impacts both people and the planet in the process.

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Midday has designed the protest-inspired identity for Assembly Gin, a new spirit from American distillery Republic Restoratives. Women-owned and crowdfunded, the distillery aims to “celebrate an outspoken and disruptive attitude towards the production of quality American spirits”, according to its website. The identity for Assembly hopes to conjure “a voice that speaks up and promotes.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Tech startup Slyp has raised $25 million including the support of new investor, Sayers Group in its latest funding round. . The capital raised will help the company to reduce the country’s consumption of paper receipts. This funding round was run by Slyp’s CFO, Ashley Davies who joined the company in August last year. Paul Weingarth, co-founder and CEO of Slyp, said the company’s mission is to deliver seamless, intuitive and sustainable proof of purchase.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Italian foodie start-up White Rabbit is launching a first-to-market vegan and gluten free Calzone across Sainsbury’s.

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Retail Store Windows

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Piping hot pizza delivered straight to your doorstep. It's the ultimate experience that Domino's is known for. But some doorsteps are harder to find than others - if you are ordering from a block of flats, a new build, an office complex or anywhere vaguely rural you might be used to giving additional directions. Soon this will be a thing of the past.

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Bay Cities

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

We came into 2022 with a nice, continued drive of business and a promising forecast of continued strength. This was indicated by my forward leading economic indicator: our busy Design Department. We are extremely delighted to see great opportunities as retail is opening up, coming off a very strong fall season. All of this will help us drive success, with our continued push towards building retail display campaign programs.

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

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

illycaffè, the first Italian coffee company to obtain the B Corp certification, has appointed Cristina Scocchia as the company’s new chief executive officer. Scocchia will succeed Massimiliano Paglion, the first external CEO to run the family-owned business.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Authored by Glen Fitzgerald, Technical Sales Manager of Industrial for Drytac North America. Selecting the right adhesive is critical for the success of many different types of applications and projects. Simply put, if you do not get this choice right, you risk ruining the hard work you put in to creating the application and put the entire job and installation in jeopardy.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Aldi, the best supermarket wine retailer of 2021, has announced its nationwide search for three budding wine enthusiasts to trial and test wines alongside its buying team – for free.

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E Delevry

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

UK road freight prices are up 15% on the start of 2021 and the highest of the previous three Januarys, according to the latest TEG Road Transport Price Index. It says that the average price-per-mile for haulage and courier vehicles increased from 101.5 points to 116.8 points between January 2021 and January 2022 and comes as inflation and interest rate rises continue to bite.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Over the last four days, the UK’s largest and longest running trade show for home, gift and fashion, has generated millions of pounds worth of business kick-starting and refuelling the retail industry. A return in buyer confidence and the buzz, enthusiasm and energy throughout the show has been backed up by reports of huge volumes of orders and the average order values going up.

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E Delevry

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Poundland is to roll out home delivery to Fultons Food online customers, the retailer bought by Poundland in 2020. Online Fultons had operated as Star Bargains but the site now states that it is closing “but something better is planned”. The retailer sent an email to customers to say that they could now get access to the Poundland home delivery service, which launched last year but is still limited to the Midlands and North of England in its reach.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Very.co.uk, operated by The Very Group, has expanded its range of beauty and self-care brands by 94% since the start of the pandemic, as the online retailer continues to meet its customers’ growing appetite for wellbeing products.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Dunelm says the opening of its new dedicated ecommerce operation in Stoke in partnership with GXO, which opened towards the end of 2021, will support the company’s future growth ambitions through better customer experience, scale and efficiency. Over time it’s planned that the facility will also enable the extension of the Dunelm range of goods available for click and collect, as well as reducing customer lead times.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Royal Mash Ultra-Premium Vintage Vodka has announced the appointment of Mike Jennings, a distinguished Michelin-trained chef turned hospitality consultant as Head of Sales (UK) for the brand. He also runs The Hospitality Hut and is an expert in recipe development with an extensive network in high end venues across the UK.

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Chutegerdeman

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Online retailer JD Williams unveils its latest ‘Womankind’ state of the nation report 2022, in association with Censuswide looking into ‘grown women’s’ lives. The report highlights how women aged 45 and over, are feeling post-pandemic and reveals their ambitions for the coming year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Melbourne-based e-commerce platform Airrobe launched three years ago with the mission to bring the circular economy into mainstream fashion. Here, we chat with Airrobe’s new global head of partnerships and general manager Beth Glancey about how the business is making it easy for retailers to get involved in circular fashion and the biggest sustainability challenges for retailers in the industry right now.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To mark National Pizza Day (9th February), One Planet Pizzais announcing that it has taken its planet-protecting credentials to an exciting new level by introducing Carbon Labels on the packaging of its ‘epically tasty’ plant-based pizzas. It is the first frozen pizza company to measure and state the carbon footprint of their products, andthe company’s core pizza range will carry the labels from March 2022.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The confluence of supply-chain disruptions, rising costs of raw materials and pandemic-driven demand peaks and troughs have created the perfect storm for Merchandise Planners and in turn, the retail executives whose goals they are trying to meet. . The task of meeting a retailers’ critical inventory levels, stock turns and margins are becoming increasingly more challenging.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Northwest Arkansas-based clothing brand LIVSN is the latest retailer to minimize its complex manual processes with Brightpearl’s more sustainable Retail Operating System.

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Design and technology consultancy Pentatonic has developed the “world’s first” high-performance, fully compostable face mask. Face masks have become a huge part of life since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, but single-use options have a marked effect on the environment. According to Pentatonic, the world disposes of three million face masks every minute – and each will take up to 450.

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Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

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