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Meet the power couple behind Stax and Secondleft

Inside Retail

From humble beginnings as a fitness-focused apparel brand to a global business with a rapidly growing retail network, Staxs journey showcases the power of community engagement, strategic product evolution, and adaptability in a dynamic market. When Matilda first met Don in 2016, I had absolutely no interest in Stax, she told Inside Retail.

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How Taking Shape is leveraging backend efficiency gains to grow overseas

Inside Retail

What we want to do is make buying online as easy and as engaging as it is in-store,” Krista Diez-Simon, Taking Shapes’s chief financial officer and chief operations officer, told Inside Retail. It launched a local online offering in the UK in March 2021, after a previous foray ended with the closure of 30 bricks-and-mortar stores in 2016.

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Zara’s live shopping shows are a big hit in China. Can it do the same in the West?

Inside Retail

The fast-fashion brand, whose parent Inditex reports quarterly results on Wednesday, is investing in new ways to engage shoppers as analysts expect sales to grow less strongly after an extraordinary post-pandemic surge.

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“We’re on step one out of 10”: Kmart Group MD Ian Bailey on taking Anko global

Inside Retail

It’s a huge opportunity and a long time coming for Kmart Group managing director Ian Bailey, who was chief operating officer (COO) of Kmart during the turnaround in 2008 and took over from then-CEO Guy Russo in 2016. It gives us a very global perspective, I think, in Australia. That’s something we’re working on.

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Designing better public health awareness through video games

Design Week

A first look at the visuals for the coronavirus game from Game Doctor “Games are excellent tools for engagement” Back in June, Glasgow-based design studio Game Doctor was awarded a £50,000 grant by Innovate UK to develop a “casual mobile game” to educate young people about the coronavirus.

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Channel 4 privatisation could damage the UK’s “entire creative sector”

Design Week

Foxall co-founder Andrew Foxall offers a more positive perspective, though says he’s “far less positive about the plausible political motives” behind privatisation. ” The studio would also be open to the changing way that it engages with the channel’s commissioning team, according to Foxall.

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How teen Sofia Sacoor started an athleisure brand to support kids with diabetes

Inside Retail

The story so far Sacoor was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as an eight-year-old in 2016. We’re excited to engage with the Malaysian community, spread positivity, and make a meaningful difference through our initiative,” Sacoor said. She had to change her daily habits to control her insulin levels and conserve her energy.

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