Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2022

The first seven weeks of FY23 have been relatively strong, with a return to a normal pattern of trade in retail and a continued recovery in Endeavour Group’s hotels division. Compared to the beginning of Fy20, before Covid-19 hit, retail sales were up 12.7 What’s in store for FY23? per cent and hotels 13.4

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Planning Pattern Customer Engagement Balance 130

Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

In a rollercoaster year for retail sales, a survey of retailers has indicated an optimistic outlook for store network growth. In what the national property agency CBRE described as a ‘flash survey’, 83 per cent of Australian respondents across a snapshot of the Asia Pacific region indicated expansion plans.

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Contrast Retail Sales Expansion Location 244

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Former Woolworths executive Bill Wavish and gaming czar Bruce Mathieson have developed a “fix it” plan for Endeavour Group. The plan involves having Wavish join the board of the liquor and gaming powerhouse, which they argue has lost its way after being divested by Woolworths in 2019. Sales have increased by around $1.5

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Expansion Boutique Planning Pattern 246

Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2022

Pattern Australia has released its fourth annual report on consumer considerations and e-commerce. Impressively, Amazon has managed to hold onto the accelerated gains it made in the last two years when consumers were in lockdown, and the research finds that e-commerce shoppers have no plans to slow their spending on the marketplace in 2022.

Pattern 130

Pattern Gifts Consumer Planning 130

Tusco Display

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

” With domestic travel restrictions lifted, vaccinations more accessible and more available knowledge about the disease, families are eagerly planning their holiday get-togethers. The sales numbers are beginning to reflect this – and the trend is likely to continue into the holiday season.

Shopping 40

Shopping Gifts Pattern Planning 40

Barber Design

AUGUST 19, 2016

Indications are that this heightened performance was driven by elements of retail strategy and promotional activity across the retail sales industry during this period. In the first full month since the EU referendum result, like-for-like retail sales jumped by 1.1%

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Strategy Promotion Retail Sales Pattern 52

Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

With consumer confidence well below 100, inflation high, and interest rates fuelling concerns about mortgage stress and negative equity – and the continuing spectre of recession – we would expect to see highly predictable patterns of behaviour. I can reveal that retail sales for Q1 of 2023 are forecast to be $99.9

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Consumer Gifts Pattern Marketing 130