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Aje Athletica launches flagship store in Westfield Sydney City

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The store features curved forms, inspired by the sculptures of Richard Serra and the space is dominated by earth tones, highlighted with metal and rock to create an organic feel. . Source: Supplied.

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Balenciaga designer, CEO apologise for ad campaign

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One last month, advertising a gift collection, featured a handbag in the form of a stuffed teddy bear in bondage-style straps, held by children. A second, separate campaign for the label’s spring 2023 collection, set in an office, included papers featuring text from a 2008 Supreme Court ruling relating to child pornography.

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Why the founder of Culture Kings wants retailers to sell with emotion and magic

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Culture Kings is an Australian retail phenomenon, what started as a Carrara market stall in 2008 evolved into an international retailer being listed on the stock exchange with a $600 million valuation.

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Why Australia’s ‘great resignation’ is a myth: The Conversation

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Writing in the New York Times, Nobel Prizewinning economist Paul Krugman suggests America is witnessing a new form of worker revolt in the wake of years of substandard conditions. And there’s little to suggest the trend will come to a stop there any time soon. Monthly US quit rates in 2019 were little different to rates 20 years earlier.

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Why Brava Lingerie is calling on customers to help in Afghanistan crisis

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Brava Lingerie co-founder Lin Windram has been involved with the charity since forming a business friendship with a neighbouring shop owner. He established AusGhan Aid in 2008 to support the people of his village close to Mazar-e-Sharif, the fourth-largest city of Afghanistan. .

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Why Australia’s ‘great resignation’ is a myth: The Conversation

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Writing in the New York Times, Nobel Prizewinning economist Paul Krugman suggests America is witnessing a new form of worker revolt in the wake of years of substandard conditions. And there’s little to suggest the trend will come to a stop there any time soon. Monthly US quit rates in 2019 were little different to rates 20 years earlier.

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Reinvest and innovate: Key takeaways following Fenton & Fenton collapse

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If your product can be copied or emulated in some way, shape or form by a value player, it becomes harder to build your brand, and [strengthen] customer loyalty.” That wasn’t around when the brand started in 2008, or ten years later, but [this] competition certainly appeared during the Covid-19 period,” he said.

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