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Numerous conferences and sessions held over the first two days provided a comprehensive overview of market trends, featuring many exclusive international speakers. Retail investment has been especially driven by the strong performance of the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets, alongside robust results in the UK.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In what is an extremely difficult time for all management, staff and suppliers – we are currently exploring all options available to maximise the value of the business, stock and IP given the perceived value of the well-established and leading brand name,” Howlett said.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Upon completion of the deal, Retail Zoo’s new investment partner will own a majority of the business and partner with the existing management team led by Nishad Alani, CEO of Retail Zoo. “We The investment company was considering listing the Retail Zoo business from 2019 before Covid-19 put that plan on hold.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Travis Wright, former general manager of fashion online retailer Esther & Co, is taking the reins as CEO at iconic Australian swimwear brand, Tigerlily. After Tigerlily fell into voluntary administration in 2019, Wilkinson led the integration of the swimwear brand into the Crumpler business.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The arrival of Mango is in line with the wider strategy- developed and implemented by Touchwood owner The Ardent Companies UK (“Ardent UK”) alongside asset manager Sovereign Centros – to diversify the scheme’s offer and attract premium brands to the scheme.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Six years after it left the market, the brand debuted its Woden store last month and will open its second location this Friday. Novo Shoes acquired the South Australian footwear brand Spendless Shoes in 2019, making it one of the country’s largest footwear retailers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The Australian market currently accounts for 16 per cent of its sales, and the company aims to grow that to 38 per cent by 2025. Since 2019, the business has grown revenue by 300 per cent, with $4.3 The brand is currently scouting for a chief marketing officer and a sales relationship manager. million achieved this year.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

It has already become one of the country’s leading and most trusted cosmetic and injectables brands with 17 clinics across five states since I founded the business in 2017,” Stormeur group chairman and managing director Dr Vivek Eranki said in a statement. Eranki will retain over 60 per cent shareholding in the group.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

in 2019 to 2.9% Leaving and changing jobs is a sign of a healthy, well-functioning labour market. Of course, it is possible Australia’s labour market will change direction and ape the US labour market. Monthly US quit rates in 2019 were little different to rates 20 years earlier. That’s not unusual.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

The luxury market is categorised by its exclusivity, maintained through a combination of high price points, consciously limited product volumes, reputation and customer experience, amongst other factors. Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world. billion in 2024.

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MAY 27, 2021

Ananth Sarathy, former general manager of digital experience at WooliesX, will lead the newly launched online HealthyLife business as managing director. Sarathy has held a number of other leadership roles in digital within the Woolworths Group over the last eight years, including as general manager of loyalty and data solutions.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The slightly smaller 135,000sqm Macquarie Centre, situated 19km from Sydney’s CBD, is located adjacent to the Macquarie Metro Station and Macquarie University, in the heart of the Macquarie Park business park – Australia’s largest non-CBD office market. Macquarie Centre in Sydney.

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JULY 14, 2024

We will build restaurants the right size to suit the market. Hog’s Breath growth strategy “The fact we are here shows the real power of the name in the market. Under the previous management the brand got confused and we lost our way.” Spurgin said “The brand had struggled; it closed 19 restaurants in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Bacha Coffee, managed by TWG Tea’s parent company V3 Gourmet, is betting big on its global strategy, injecting €20 million (US$22.2 Europe has always been a cornerstone of our global expansion strategy and we had our sights on France since we relaunched the brand in 2019,” said Barnes. million and a post-tax profit of $2.2

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In what is an extremely difficult time for all management, staff and suppliers – we are currently exploring all options available to maximise the value of the business, stock and IP given the perceived value of the well-established and leading brand name,” Howlett said.

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JUNE 27, 2024

per cent lower than they had been in 2019. per cent lower than they had been in 2019, with the visit gaps for indoor malls and open-air shopping centres narrowing to 5.8 The post The “Great Mall Resurgence” in the American retail market appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. per cent and 15.3 per cent and 1.0

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JULY 7, 2021

The Melbourne-based clothing brand was founded by Merril Bainbridge who identified a gap in the market for post-pregnancy clothing following the birth of her second child. I realised there was a gap in the market and there was a consumer that was not being serviced sufficiently,” said Merril. “One Customisation and automation .

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JULY 8, 2021

Jane Eskriett, Karen Millen, Coast, and Oasis and Warehouse managing director, said they are delighted that Dawson has joined the team as her creative and design talent will be very useful as they rebuild the four brands, according to an article on Fashion United UK. “As Booktopia restructures marketing team.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Akeroyd, who took over in April, will present his strategy alongside first-half results that will show the lingering impact of lockdown restrictions in China, Burberry’s biggest market. He has already made his key appointment in choosing Daniel Lee to replace Riccardo Tisci as chief designer at the 166-year-old label.

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MAY 27, 2021

After quietly acquiring the Healthy Life business in 2019, following the closure of all stores, Woolworths has focused on reviving the business with an unparalleled digital offering. Ananth Sarathy, the former general manager of digital experience at WooliesX, will lead the HealthyLife business as managing director.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth. The US market could be next on the list.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

per cent in 2019 to 2.9 Leaving and changing jobs is a sign of a healthy, well-functioning labour market. Of course, it is possible Australia’s labour market will change direction and ape the US labour market. Monthly US quit rates in 2019 were little different to rates 20 years earlier. That’s not unusual.

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APRIL 3, 2023

According to Volley’s partnership manager Renee Jaeger, the NGA approached the brand after seeing Volley’s Wear it with Pride campaign. Volley’s content and marketing manager Anna Geason told Inside Retail that the best collaborations happen when there is an authentic connection between partner brands.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Two years after stepping down from his role as executive general manager of national salon chain Hairhouse, Steve Terry is back with a new wellness venture that is part online retailer, part digital magazine and part events business. McKinsey recently estimated the global wellness market at more than US$1.5

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JULY 31, 2024

Back to the future “ Product trends are constantly evolving,” Sarah Hunter, managing director of Officeworks, told Inside Retail. B2B market In 2024, Officeworks has a well-established presence in the business-to-business (B2B) market. “We

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MARCH 14, 2022

Our 2022 report features C-level executives with decades of leadership experience, alongside start-up founders and digital specialists with a wide range of skills, from marketing to logistics. Because of this, Mathers turned to the ‘Flora & Fauna Family’ of shoppers when it came to finding a way to market the business in an authentic way.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

JB Hi-Fi Group’s acquisition of a majority stake in Melbourne-based kitchen, bathroom and laundry product supplier E&S Trading Co will enable the business to expand nationally, according to E&S managing director Rob Sinclair. The reality is, there aren’t so many options and JB had shown interest in us as early as 2019.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Results in the past two years were bolstered by Covid management strategies, including landlord rent concessions and government JobKeeper payments. However, the 2022 performance was much “cleaner”, with sales over the pre-Covid 2019 financial year 17.8 per cent to $1.5 billion and net earnings up 4.9 per cent to $285.2

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Retailers who anticipated the incredible momentum behind their campaign – and suitably prepared their inventory levels and marketing approach – reaped significant benefits. For instance, Adidas doubled its production of Germany’s women’s football merchandise compared to the previous Women’s World Cup in 2019.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The 900sqm store is the first Lego store in Australia to have a street frontage, rather than being placed in a shopping centre, and signifies the culmination of years of bricks-and-mortar expansion in the market. As a result we’ve got a lot of global attention from the Lego community and the senior management team in Denmark.”

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MAY 19, 2024

The global market for natural and organic cosmetics is projected to reach US$37.44 per cent from 2024 to 2032, according to Zion Market Research. Born in France, his first job after university was as a product manager for L’Oréal in Tokyo, where he became fluent in Japanese.

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JULY 14, 2021

According to Preet, Roxo is being designed to create an entirely new market for making the economics of same-day delivery feasible. Standing at nearly five feet, the autonomous delivery service was first introduced in Dubai in 2019 and is now undergoing testing in seven states in the US to further “train” its software.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inside Retail was the first to report earlier this month that Wesfarmers has cut 100 jobs at Catch , with the redundancies impacting key departments including marketing, product and technology, and finance. Many of the category managers have also left, taking jobs at MyDeal, Kogan and MySale. They basically self-sabotaged,” they said.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

South Australian supermarket chain Drakes is working together with plant-based meat brand V2foods as it looks to position itself at the forefront of the meat alternative market. According to forecasts by GlobalData, the alternative meat market’s value in Australasia is expected to jump 570 per cent in the next few years, reaching $1.4

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“We see a great opportunity in Queensland,” Liam Robson, general manager of Subtype, told Inside Retail. “We We feel the market is significantly under-serviced in the street and sneaker space. After Brisbane, Robson sees Perth as the next logical destination for Subtype to expand, followed by an overseas market. billion by 2025.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

As an ode to its “spiritual roots” the brand will release the archival ‘BADDIES’ collection exclusively to the Australian market and the Beach House will carry further limited-run offerings to its guests.

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APRIL 9, 2021

of total retail sales in the UK in 2019 1 , climbing to over 38% in the first lockdown, and estimated to have settled in the region of 28-30% subsequently, retailers are now accepting that larger online capability is not just necessary but expected. References: 1 E-commerce share of UK retail sales 2019-2024, Statista.

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