Retail Focus

MAY 30, 2022

Grosvenor today announces new retail activity at Liverpool ONE, where luxury footwear brand Kick Game has signed for a 3,500 sq ft unit on South John Street. Kick Game will join Kenji, the Japanese-inspired homeware and stationary retailer, which is upsizing its store by 40%.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2023

According to the South China Morning Post , social media giant TikTok has appointed Harvard-educated Kevin Chen Xi to join the platform as its head of e-commerce product and data. Chen joined TikTok’s parent company Bytedance in December 2020, and was the president of its news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2023

According to the South China Morning Post , social media giant TikTok has appointed Harvard-educated Kevin Chen Xi to join the platform as its head of e-commerce product and data. Chen joined TikTok’s parent company Bytedance in December 2020, and was the president of its news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 31, 2023

This deal is a testament to the momentum we are continuing to build at the destination and is particularly exciting given the new space will be one of the first model stores in Europe. We look forward to seeing the store open and feel confident it will be a hit with Liverpool ONE’s visitors.”

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

These openings join a number of other brands who recently selected Bluewater and reinforces our position as one of Europe’s leading retail and leisure destinations.”. Bluewater, with its line-up of retail brand names and its strong experiential offering, was a standout choice for us when selecting a destination for our debut.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 1, 2021

Square Inc will purchase buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Afterpay Ltd for about $39 billion (US$29 billion) in Australia’s biggest-ever buyout, creating an online payments giant to tap into explosive growth in the niche payments sector. The news also comes at a time of frenzied deal-making activity in Australia. billion ($8.15

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2022

Puttstars will be part of Queensgate’s emerging leisure line-up, joining a 10-screen Empire cinema within the £60m extension, which is set to complete this year. It will add nearly 80,000 sq ft of new leisure and experience-led floorspace, creating an additional 200 jobs at the Peterborough city centre destination. .

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Retail Focus

JUNE 10, 2021

Wesley Mullett, Crew Clothing Retail Director, said: “We’re so excited to have joined centre:mk – one of the country’s top shopping destinations. Supporting the British high street is key for us and the fact that we’re able to bring even six new jobs to the local area is a plus.

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VMS

JANUARY 25, 2023

(New York), operator of the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands, has hired Donald Kohler as President, Calvin Klein Americas. Kohler will join the company on March 13 and report to PVH CEO Stefan Larsson. Kohler joins PVH and Calvin Klein with three decades of retail leadership experience.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Landsec has announced that five leading retail and lifestyle brands have joined Trinity in Leeds, as part of its drive to secure regional debuts, relocations and upsizes into the destination for the best-performing brands in the region. Nespresso is set to relocate to Trinity from its existing Leeds store in the New Year.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2022

Berlin-based online fashion platform Zalando has acquired Highsnobiety, a daily news website covering luxury lifestyles. The companies will join forces to engage and inspire customers. David Schneider, founder and Co-CEO of Zalando.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Woking will also debut a new store concept as the brand gears up for further site openings throughout the year. Joining Moss Bros. We are very pleased to be joining the Woking community and look forward to a bright future at Victoria Place.”. Enhancing the town centre’s premium retail offering, Moss Bros.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 14, 2022

The 1,444 sq ft space emphasises the cultural, historical heritage and relevance of the King’s Road as the destination enters a new centenary, exploring 400 years of rich history from the beginnings of Chelsea House to the foundations of Chelsea as a recreational space. The exhibition will run until the end of March.

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Retail Focus

JULY 8, 2021

St Johns Liverpool, located in the heart of the city centre and a stone’s throw from Liverpool Lime Street Station, is welcoming a brand-new HMV store to the centre in July 2021. . Its brand-new HMV store will occupy a 10,000 square foot unit in the centre, which will come as great news to the city’s music lovers. .

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Retail Focus

APRIL 22, 2021

The new Chelsea site joins the brand’s UK portfolio of stores in Kent and Romford. . Joining Sleep.8 Commenting on the news, Hannah Grievson, Head of Property at Sloane Stanley said: “Throughout lockdown we have seen an increased focus on interior design, and sleep wellbeing amongst our customers. Musi Chayla, Sleep.8’s

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sloane Stanley has announced that Chinti & Parker , the luxury womenswear brand, has opened its debut pop-up on the King’s Road, joining returning fashion favourites, Prochaine and Seraphina , as well as Dacre Art x Air Contemporary at 340 King’s Road. .

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With the success of Ted’s Grooming Room across other locations in London, we are delighted to have them join our close-knit community and feel they reflect the true Chelsea we are proud to have helped curate.”. The opening of Ted’s Grooming Room also follows the news of Sleep.8’s 8’s upsizing at the King’s Road.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

Leaders in luxury retail have joined forces to create Aura Blockchain Consortium, a global luxury blockchain that enables customers to trace the entire lifecycle of a product and verify its authenticity. By joining forces with other luxury brands on this project, we are leading the way on transparency and traceability.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2023

These new brands will join Sephora UK’s existing selection of exclusive brands including Haus Labs by Lady Gaga, Glossier, GXVE Beauty, ONE/SIZE Beauty, Makeup By Mario, Skinfix, Vegamour, The 7 Virtues and Commodity. Their response to our White City opening blew us away and far exceeded our expectations.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Elon Musk is progressing plans to slim down Twitter since he bought the 396 million-member platform for US$44 billion (£38 billion) on October 27. Mortgage company Better.com made 900 employees redundant by Zoom in 2021, a year after electric scooter company Bird used a Zoom webinar to dismiss more than 400 workers. Digital layoffs.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

Seymour-Walsh joins Cashrewards with a clear vision to better recognise and reward Australian shoppers. He added that the brand has the potential to transform the relationship between Australians and the cashback sector, with one in ten using the cashback platform – significantly lower than other developed markets overseas.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2024

The #TikTokFitness Powered by Peloton hub will be available in the US, UK, and Canada. million units, incurring a cost of over US$40 million during the quarter. The brand concluded FY23 with US$1.13 per cent in pre-market trading, indicating a positive reception to the news. That is where TikTok comes in.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Too often, we see a news story about the consequences of a business’ actions, [and] we think to ourselves that that business needs to do better, and then we move on without asking ourselves what the elements of the system are that need to change to stop it from happening again.”. Change can only come when leaders understand the problem.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We are all shocked after this terrible news,” LVMH chairperson and CEO Bernard Arnault said. The LVMH family joins me in this moment of great sorrow, and we are all thinking of his loved ones after the passing of their husband, their father, their brother, and their friend.”. PepsiCo Australia and NZ welcomes new CEO from US business.

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RetailMinded

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With unwavering enthusiasm, we’re eager to join STIMULATE+Roadshow. Joining Leinbach in these retail workshops will be Founder of retail store and sexual health resource center Sultry Company and Sexologist, Tiara Trudeau-Gullotta, as well as a variety of other industry leaders.

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VMS

JANUARY 6, 2023

“As we embark on the next phase of growth and development for this iconic American brand, these additions to our leadership team, and the changes to how we’re organized internally, will position Lands’ End to achieve our long-term goals,” McLean said in a news release. Gray, appointed Chief Commercial Officer.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2021

Martin Wood, who joined Cartology last year from oOh Media, has been promoted to head of Strategic Partnerships and Matt Gower, former head of Research at News Corp, has joined the business as senior manager of Research and Insights. Donna James, managing director at Lardon & Associates LLC, will be the new chair.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Commenting on the news, Hannah Grievson, Property Director at Sloane Stanley said: “Both Lotta’s contemporary art pop-up and Guinea’s premium fashion offering are perfect examples of our successful approach to flexible leases which enable our visitors to enjoy a seasonally appropriate offer, and we’re thrilled that they are joining us.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2022

Phone sales in the fiscal third quarter rose 3 per cent to US$40.7 The results show Apple’s advertising business, which includes selling ads alongside news articles and app store search results, is vulnerable to marketing cuts just the same as rivals Snap Inc and Meta Platforms Inc. billion and $1.20 per share, above estimates of $82.8

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

His endurance and resilience during this period, which included not being able to see his US-based family, have been amazing.”. Jones will join Metcash on February 1, 2022, and will work with Adams on facilitating a smooth transition. MySale taps new CEO on road to ASX listing. Domino’s franchisee appointed CEO.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 20, 2021

BBC One, Two and Four all incorporate the new logo while Bright adds that the “junctions between TV programmes will use updated designs, with simplified navigation menus, and promotional content” In a video displaying these junctions, the logos and icons animate alongside idents. What do you think of the new BBC logos?

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Samantha Bain-Mollison, Retail Director at Shaftesbury , commented: “Warm & Wonderful picking Seven Dials for their first store in 30 years is fantastic news. The fact it is just a stone’s throw away from our original market stall makes it all the more special for us.”.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

US underlying inflation. US consumer price index for all urban consumers, all items less food and energy, city average. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, St Louis Fed. Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers – arguably the finest policy economist of his generation – contends that what’s happening is not transitory.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2022

The news that the US Supreme Court may be about to overturn Roe v. Multiple polls show that over half of people in the US believe abortion should be legal in all or most instances. While anti-abortion advocates welcomed the potential end of Roe v. While anti-abortion advocates welcomed the potential end of Roe v.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

When we announced the news, we told them it’s business as usual.”. The management team had choices, multiple buyers were interested, and PAG asked us about which was preferable.”. Among those at River Capital is former Domino’s executive Andrew Rennie, who will join the TCS board as chair and an independent shareholder.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2022

Bansal joins Foot Locker from premium beer, wine and spirits distributor Constellation Brands, where he served as senior vice-president of strategy, insights, and analytics. The news follows the appointment of Greg Chubb as COO of international in April. Foot Locker hires first chief strategy and transformation officer.

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Design Week

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

New York-based consultancy Barbarian has announced two new hires. Alec Troxell , who previously worked at Media Kitchen, joins as director of business development. Following the merger of design innovation consultancies Fluxx and MagneticNorth , the organisations have announced a new board structure. Appointments.

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