Inside Retail

MAY 20, 2021

Kathmandu acquired RipCurl for $350 million in October 2019. Former Topman managing director joins BooHoo. BooHoo Group has appointed Mitch Hughes as the new managing director of its newly acquired Arcadia Group brands Dorothy Perkins, Wallis, and Burton.

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Inside Retail

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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All Work

JUNE 10, 2022

During Mental Health Awareness month, RSP’s Kari Smith discusses how the right workplace strategy can support wellbeing at work and help people thrive. Nearly half (44%) reported physical fatigue, which was a full 38% increase over 2019. Why is this important? And 36% reported mental weariness. Project: R.D. Be Flexible.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This means adopting new-generation technologies such as digital signage, powered by a robust operating system, enabling remote management, personalisation and interactivity with in-store signage. “As We offer them a sort of digital canvas: retailers have their own strategy and we give them the digital medium to execute inside their stores.”.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2022

There are two ways retail business owners can approach product pricing strategy. What the competition is doing will also be a factor in determining pricing strategy but it’s not everything – business owners need to focus on their operation. Endlessly absorbing costs and making reckless price hikes are crazy brave strategies.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Two dedicated sessions delved into analyses from international investors, highlighting their views and strategies in an evolving environment. There is now a clear distinction between the retail of 2019 and that of 2025. This increasing polarisation underscores the value of well-managed assets.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2023

For instance, Adidas doubled its production of Germany’s women’s football merchandise compared to the previous Women’s World Cup in 2019. US-based online sportswear retailer Fanatics similarly saw sales of women’s soccer products increase by over 80 per cent compared to 2019.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Here, Clovis Young, founder and CEO at Mad Mex, shares the struggles the brand faced in Asia, the strategy for growth in Australia, and how the brand is ramping up its healthy eating message in stores. IR: What does the growth strategy look like for Australia in the next 12 months? IR: Health is a big focus of the Max Mex strategy.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll dive into the innovative strategies setting four forward-thinking brands apart from the competition and outline key takeaways other brands can use to replicate their success. It’s impossible to talk about Savage x Fenty’s influencer strategy without mentioning the brand’s blockbuster fashion show.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded by then-21-year-old Cami Téllez in 2019, Parade was initially created to fill a gap in the market for stylish and size-inclusive bras and underwear for Gen Z consumers.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

Schai said Lindt’s bricks-and-mortar strategy revolves around three store concepts: the cafe, the outlet, and the boutique. While Lindt’s outlet stores are trading up on pre-Covid levels, the business’ CBD locations are still behind where they were in 2019. Lindt has 20 stores across Australia, and approximately 500 worldwide.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Homebase all over again However, Inside Retail has spoken with multiple former Catch employees who believe the problems started well before the pandemic and stem from Wesfarmers’ misguided attempt to change the DNA of Catch, which was profitable and growing when the retail giant acquired it in June 2019 for $230 million.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2021

What has been most important has been to build a phenomenal team that is able to understand our customers’ needs, then implement our strategy to such a high standard – that is what I am most proud of from the past five and a half years,” Sharp said. Booktopia restructures marketing team.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2024

Born in France, his first job after university was as a product manager for L’Oréal in Tokyo, where he became fluent in Japanese. The brand has been working with content creators for some time and it recently formalised its social media strategy, as evidenced by the influencer trip it hosted earlier this year.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2023

Anticipating that the cost of doing business will remain elevated in financial year 2024, Bunnings has invested heavily in its in-store technology and stock management systems to drive productivity. billion in earnings for the year reflected a “remarkable period of growth” for the brand, up 42 per cent since 2019.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inside Retail : Why did you decide to join BCF in 2019? When I got the opportunity to join the Super Retail Group back in 2019, I essentially had no choice but to say yes to joining this great brand. Customers were asking for a much broader range than what we were stocking in 2019. What was the appeal?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ikea piloted the concept in the UK in 2019 before launching two permanent stores in its home market Sweden last year. However the company earlier said the return and reuse strategy would help it meet its goal of becoming a circular business by 2030. The pilot began this week and ends on September 19.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Hicks will step down from the role on June 30 at the end of FY25, but will remain close to the business in a brand and strategy consulting capacity. He joined Woolworths in 2008 as national marketing manager of Dan Murphy’s and became GM of marketing for Woolworths Liquor Group in 2012. He has been CMO of the group since 2019.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 1976, Australia’s total fertility rate has been below replacement level and in 2019, the ‘total fertility rate’ was 1.66 So, should astute hiring managers be looking towards the relatively untapped resource presented by the 19.4 versus its peak of 3.55 per cent of our workforce over 55 years of age?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“We’re always striving to provide our customers with a better experience, and keep up with their demands,” Drakes’ general manager of fresh food Tim Cartwright told Inside Retail. “As The plant-based sector in Australia is thriving,” V2food’s general manager of Australia and New Zealand Nathaniel Tupou told Inside Retail.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Orion Capital Managers has announced a number of significant lettings at its Telford Centre so helping footfall recover to near 2019 levels at the 1 million sq ft destination. Following an active asset management strategy led by Sovereign Centros, new occupiers have now been found for all three stores.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2023

Back in time The story starts in 2017, when then-CEO and managing director John Humble went on a bit of a buying spree. To that end, in 2018, Humble, backed by financial director Aaron Finlay and Bain Capital, offered to purchase 100 per cent of BWX’s shares in a management buyout. It’s a long story. That was ultimately the problem.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

That goes from expense optimisation, to digital strategy, to products. It was our best month online since December 2019. With that strategy comes demand creation. IR: Speaking of those ups and downs, do you attribute that to Covid, or more to the previous rebrand in 2019 not really turning out as planned?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The number of Godfrey retail outlets has fallen by 16 per cent since the 2018 takeover – from 210 outlets to 175, according to The Australian Financial Review – but the management team has placed a focus on three key pillars of the business: its product line, property holdings and people. That program was introduced in September 2019.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 11, 2024

In 2019, we made the decision to be purely online. One of the biggest problems in the furniture industry is inventory, so this allows our close partners to work with us, so we get better inventory management. Is the strategy to remain mostly an online business supported by a few flagships? You learn from those moments.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

A post-pandemic uptick in Australian e-commerce is here to stay, according to a new study conducted by order and delivery management software company ShipStation. The business surveyed 2000 global consumers to compile the data, releasing the report to highlight retailer opportunities that continue to arise in the sector.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

some entered the Indonesian market in 2019, citing a gap in diverse retail product offerings. Business model and strategy The company offers products across 15 categories, including trendy toys, beauty products, stationery and snacks, with exclusive regional distribution rights for some items. Retail chain Oh!some

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In 2019, third-party sellers generated roughly 60 per cent of Amazon’s product sales, double the percentage they represented a decade ago, Marketplace Pulse found. Sellers often have a deep understanding of their market and target customers and bring ideas for new product launches and an overarching brand strategy. “It

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Lego ANZ vice president and general manager Troy Taylor told Inside Retail that having the world’s biggest Lego store in Sydney was exciting, and would hold the largest range of Lego sets in the country. 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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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The streaming platform, which launched in late 2019, feeds behavioural data into AI algorithms to serve personalised viewing suggestions to its 118 million global paid subscribers. Eero Martela, General Manager of digital sales consultancy Columbia Road. Recommendations for the right time and the relevant mood.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

The fast-fashion player first filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2019, after global sales for the brand had dropped by 32 per cent year-over-year (YoY). As Global Datas managing director Neil Saunders explained, Forever 21 has been battered by the rise of Shein and to a certain extent Temu.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2023

Huddle joined Vicinity in 2019 and is responsible for the company’s property management, leasing, operations, development, and marketing functions while leading an integrated and customer-focused team. Huddle said the company has the “right strategy in place” to deliver long-term growth. “I

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2021

A new ebook from ShipStation , “Happy Customers, Healthy Planet”, reveals the key steps online retailers should take to make their business more sustainable and highlights strategies that retailers have adopted to help consumers make more sustainable choices when shopping online. 2020 was a year of significant change for the retail industry.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Coles also released a “ Netflix and Chill esse n tials ” range for delivery via UberEats in 2019, spanning ice cream, biscuits and other snacks. These partnerships suggest a strategy for restructuring labour relations was already under way before the pandemic. The supermarket personal shopper.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world. We have also made sure to incorporate artwork from the brand’s vibrant history with historical advertisements, art and posters,” said Julie Therond, general manager of Longchamp Australia & New Zealand.

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