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IR: It seems that a lot of Australian retailers are considering international expansion right now. Can you tell me about launching the business initially, and why you shifted your focus in 2018 to direct-to-consumer – first online and now offline as well? In 2017, I started trying to find our “why”.
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We obviously knew of the brand and – from a product and consumer perspective – we felt that it would fit in well with our business,” he said. “We Seamless channel movement In 2017, MFG finalised the acquisition of Fusion Retail Brands, which saw labels such as Williams, Mathers, Diana Ferrari and Colorado join its existing brands.
International expansion driven through flagships. Although A&F in its current guise has been a mainstay in the American retail scene from the 1990s, it took until the end of the 2000s for the brand’s international expansion to gain traction. This included the images on in-store photos, gift cards and shopping bags.
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Its e-commerce platform recently announced an expansion of its product offerings. “We Feng’s journey towards setting up this company began back in 2017, after she adopted an abandoned lollipop-tailed tabby cat. To cater to consumers’ demand for natural food, manufacturers have introduced food formulas that mimic pets’ ancestral diets.
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We position ourselves as a bold, lifestyle-driven consumer brand, that celebrates expression and sparks trends – with a goal to empower our customers, employees and community.”. We’re digitalising the stores, we’re digitalising the way the consumers are ordering, and it’s a game-changer to retail. “As Price point is key.
The Myer takeover of Premier Retail would require approval by shareholders and from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Taxation Office. Myer acquired Marcs and David Lawrence in April 2017 after both brands were placed in voluntary administration.
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If you look at the stock price of a lot of retail companies and direct-to-consumer businesses that had their beginnings during the past three, four or five years with IPOs, they are at very low valuations.” It’s likely to be an interesting retail project or brand, he said – “something innovative and exciting with good expansion capabilities”.
Here, we speak with founder Brianne West about the business’ growing expansion opportunities, the surge in ‘values-led’ brands, and what other brands get wrong about being green. It’s good to see that the shampoo and conditioner bar segment as a whole is growing quite dramatically, it’s really showing that consumer demand.
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A shock to the system of western merchants and consumers who had largely operated with an assumption of unconstrained access to whatever they’ve wanted, whenever they’ve wanted it. But in the process also opened global consumer markets to risks that would make the cotton collapse of 1861 look like a picnic.
Consumers who use the service are often effusive about the technology, with Reddit threads about it. Fast Retailing began embedding RFID tags in apparel back in 2017. With a ‘tap-and-go’ debit or credit card, the shopper can be on their way in as little as 60 seconds. Pretty cool,” wrote one fan. But weird because it was too good.
In other instances, the ventures’ failures had more to do with retail store concepts that simply didn’t work in Australia, poor market research and an attitude that Aussie consumers will buy ‘what we want to sell’ rather than asking what they would want to buy.
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