Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

The potential merger of Lew’s retail interests after the decision to spin off the growth brands, Smiggle and Peter Alexander, into new listed entities cleans up his investments. The problem with spinning off those two well performed retail chains was that it left Lew and Premier Retail’s less dynamic apparel brands stranded.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2021

4Workers has been established to fill a gap in the market of workwear that’s easily accessible, convenient and high-quality, offering a good, better, best strategy of product,” said 4Workers general manager Armando Pedruco. “By

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2023

The CEOs of two discount retail chains — The Reject Shop and Best & Less Group — have stepped down with immediate effect today citing personal reasons.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It also marks Rebel’s first foray into new categories, such as specialised apparel and footwear for racing and trail running, even as it bolsters the retailer’s existing positioning as the ‘home’ of football and basketball in Australia. “I Focus on ‘her’ Williams initiated the RCX project shortly after joining Rebel in 2019.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2023

Meanwhile, in Australia, retail chains including 7/11, Ferguson Plarre Bakehouse , and BWS have recently explored the drive-thru concept. However, if not managed well, he believes there’s some risk that dine-in customers will shift to drive-thru for convenience. per cent to 2030.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

However, according to Professor Michael Townsley from Griffith University’s Criminology Institute, most of the retail crime taking place across Australia and New Zealand is spontaneous, accidental and not especially complicated. “In That’s not to say that a retail chain shouldn’t protect itself.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2024

In an industry with a very high percentage of female employees and, positively, strong representation in management ranks, there is still room at the top for many more women in leadership roles as CEO and company directors in major retailers. The retail industry accounts for 9.8 million employees.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 1, 2021

“We are thrilled to be opening two stores in Greater Manchester to make our affordable and much-loved furniture even more accessible in the North,” says Jenny Johnston, JYSK Sales and Marketing Manager, UK & Ireland.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Japanese retailer Uniqlo is investing heavily in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to accelerate supply chain efficiencies, with an ambition to embed RFID into its global product range, facilitating improved inventory management and the customer self-checkout experience.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, told Inside Retail , “Having produced a string of good numbers over the past few years, Walmart is currently one of the stars of the retail market.” And it added new “dollar shops” for consumers to pick through seasonal, more affordably priced items.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Since filing for bankruptcy last week, pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid has received interim approval to access up to US$3.45 The fall of the pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid isn’t the only pharmaceutical retailer in the US that is facing financial challenges.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

This retailer, once celebrated, found itself mired in controversy over issues like dishonesty and poor customer service and staff management. Case Study: A streetwear store’s triumph through Invisible PR Imagine a small streetwear store in a vibrant urban neighbourhood, up against larger retail chains and online giants.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

Training your team with a Learning Management System means that you can push training out to your team in just a matter of clicks. Case Study: How this Fashion Retail Chain Improved Mystery Shopper Results with RedSeed Training. CASE STUDY: How Revlon Increased Training Reach By Moving Their Face-To-Face Training Online.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

Mosaic Brands, the business behind some of Australia’s biggest womenswear retail chains — Noni B, Millers, Rivers, Katies, Autograph, Rockmans, beme, W.Lane and Crossroads — is giving frontline retail staff the opportunity to gain a Certificate III or Certificate IV in Retail through a new online training program.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2022

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries has reportedly partnered with US private equity fund Apollo Global Management to buy a majority stake in UK-headquartered health & beauty retail chain Boots.

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Creative Displays Now

MARCH 27, 2024

Effective inventory management in retail is paramount to success. It entails buying, tracking, storing and selling stock, meeting customer demand and keeping costs down across the supply chain. The combination of these components is vital to a thriving retail business.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2022

In 1999, the company bought the famous Ray-Ban brand and went on to acquire California’s Oakley as well as retail chains in North America and Australia. HANDS-ON MANAGER. Acquisitions were also part of the Del Vecchio strategy.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Mass merchants and major retail chains are reaching deeper into their bag of tricks this year to prevent holiday shoplifting. The new anti-crime measures have industry observers warning about their effect on shoppers. People planning to shop in stores will not want to go in to these locked and over-secured stores.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Russel Creedy, group CEO, joined the business in 2001 as supply chain manager and served as GM for Pizza Hut in New Zealand. Restaurant Brands is a corporate franchisee and specialises in managing multi-site branded food retail chains. He took on the CEO role in 2007. Creedy will retire on 31 March next year. “I

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Using a single device can speed up managers’ daily activities and on-site audits, enabling them to automatically trigger follow-up tasks. Meanwhile, it’s also easier for retail associates to access and manage their prioritised tasks via a single mobile platform. No server or PBX integration is required.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the growth strategy Newman is currently recruiting for a dedicated franchise development manager and the brand will exhibit at the Melbourne and Brisbane Franchising & Business Opportunities Expos in August and October this year. “We’re not in the Northern Territory and Queensland is under represented,” he said.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Blanca Gonzalez has led merchandising and brand management for top brands including Nike and Lululemon throughout the course of her career. Today, she is the senior vice president and general manager for WSS, a nationally recognised shoe retail chain , and Foot Locker.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to Till’s recent whitepaper on Payment orchestration , 84 per cent of respondents said they were working with up to 20 payment providers, with 75 per cent seeking to simplify their payment management. The role of payment orchestration Modern payment orchestration strategies are revolutionising how retailers manage transactions.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

New CEO at Go Vita By Aron Lewin Australian health food retail chain Go Vita Group has appointed Ann Cattelan as the new chief executive officer, effective 1 February. “In the current environment, where cost of living pressures are front of mind, helping all Australians with some extra cash in their wallet is more beneficial than ever.”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Customer theft has long been recognised as retailers’ primary source of loss, accounting for about half of all crime-related losses. When we sought answers from LP managers, enquiring about the tactics customers engaging in theft employed, their responses were both enlightening and disheartening.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 27, 2021

The reality is retail’s detail, and there’s a lot of cliches in retail, but giving the customer what they want is a pretty good place to start in retail, and making sure the in-store team feels valued and passionate about what they’re doing. The greatest trap for a retailer is not going out to your stores.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Best and Less, The Reject Shop CEOs depart By Rakshnna Pattabiraman The CEOs of two discount retail chains — The Reject Shop and Best & Less Group — have stepped down with immediate effect today citing personal reasons. In November last year, he was named acting CEO when Grant Kelley retired, prompting a global search.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But, with a National Plan for reopening in play, and the news that retailers will be able to reopen their doors soon in New South Wales, bricks-and-mortar retail is about to re-enter the conversation in a big way.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GMG is a Dubai-based company with distribution rights for more than 120 global brands in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and a portfolio of multi-brand retail chains across sports, food and beauty. It recently opened its first corporate office in Singapore, marking a significant milestone in the company’s expansion strategy.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum, Craig Flanders, co-founder and managing director of full-service creative agency Spinach, told Inside Retail he thought the concept was a “no brainer”. Businesses around the world have trialled drive-through concepts to serve customers in a Covid-safe manner during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We’ve seen the emergence and huge growth of platforms like Afterpay, Zip and Klarna, offering alternative ways for consumers to manage their payments. With some cash in their pockets, the co-founders are now gearing up for expansion, with plans to onboard another 14 retailers in a matter of weeks. At the forefront”.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Lexicon has also welcomed growing Danish retail chain Søstrene Grene and well-known home store Robert Dyas. Leading the new arrivals is popular Thai eatery Giggling Squid who opened a new 4,750 sq ft outlet earlier this summer, adding to The Lexicon’s renowned F&B offering.

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Compliantia

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The director of operations is crucial to the success of national retail chains. Anyone who takes on this role is tasked with managing high-ranking staff such as district and general managers. Retail managers do scheduling and enacting policies, whereas the director of operations supervises bigger-scale projects.”.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For example, a franchise of an international retail chain , Uniqlo, recently posted its salaries, including RM2,400 (US$528) for a retail associate role, and RM2,800 (US$616) for a senior retail associate role. . In his mind, this is an age-old problem, but ultimately shows a failure of leadership and management.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

There was a temporary panic, which enabled large retail chains to exert pressure on their landlords to drop rents or face store closures. There were others who said the pandemic would be the kiss of death for retail property and that retailers would be in a much stronger position to negotiate terms. Wrong again.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2022

It is obviously impossible to say what might have happened had Coles Myer prevailed, particularly in respect of how it would have managed and developed the brand, compared with Woolworths’ approach. Sales for the first half of FY22 for the retail chains were $5.7 billion, just 0.6 per cent.

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Scrube

APRIL 17, 2023

If you're a purchasing manager, visual merchandiser, or retail chain buyer looking to improve your stores' efficiency and presentation, you've come to the right place. Retail-ready store display fixtures can be an invaluable tool for streamlining processes and allowing customers to find products within your store easily.

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