Retail Focus

AUGUST 3, 2021

Alison Clegg, Managing Director, Asset Management, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland commented: “We are pleased to further our longstanding relationship with David M Robinson with the launch of this new OMEGA store, which will bring an exciting new brand experience to Liverpool ONE’s luxury offering.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

“Items are returned to Amazon for many reasons – sometimes a product is just not what a customer is looking for, or perhaps there’s a cosmetic defect or the packaging is damaged,” said Amazon Australia country manager Matt Furlong. These items can’t then be sold as new, but are still great quality and are in good working condition.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As the Black Friday 2024 shopping frenzy approaches, Australian retailers are gearing up for their biggest challenge yet – managing skyrocketing demand while staying efficient. By adopting automation in areas like supply chain management and customer service, Australian retailers can meet rising global demand and secure long-term growth.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The issue was first reported to Fairwork Ombudsman (FWO) in September 2020 when failures in manual payroll processes resulted in the underpayment of minimum wages, evening, weekend and public holiday penalties, overtime rates and other entitlements. Between November 2016 and December 2020, Politix underpaid about 850 employees with around $2.06

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our brand’s ethos revolves around providing our young people with clothing that empowers them to showcase their personalities,” said Brooke Norton, divisional general manager at Designworks, the new owner of Pavement. In 2020, Pavement entered voluntary administration as it struggled with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

While there’s no doubt that 2020 was a tough year for all retailers, Australian denim brand Jeanswest had a steeper hill to climb than most, starting out the year under voluntary administration with the closure of 37 stores, the loss of 263 staff and owing $50 million to creditors.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2022

In 2020, Propel Group and GP Securities acquired the brand with Arthur’s great-grandson, Paul Rossiter maintaining a shareholding and a seat on the board. Under new management, the company is building a factory in Adelaide and investing in technology to create waterproof leather from Australian hide tanned in Geelong, Victoria.

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Inside Retail

MAY 6, 2021

By screening and ranking candidates and providing a short list of the best matches to hiring managers, the ARA Talent Registry also helps reduce the time it takes to fill roles, which is one of retailers’ biggest complaints about the recruitment process, according to Zahra.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

The boost to locker locations comes as Australia Post’s latest Inside Australian Online Shopping eCommerce report reveals the volume of parcels increased almost 32 per cent over the 2020-21 financial year. Australia Post’s Nicole Sheffield, executive general manager community and consumer, said the partnership was timely.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2021

Ananth Sarathy, the former general manager of digital experience at WooliesX, will lead the 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. Booming market.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

The idea isn’t to have Uber drivers deliver customers a full grocery shop, said Woolies Metro general manager Justin Nolan, but to bring a smaller ‘top-up’ shop to your door, and will complement the business’ bigger e-commerce offering. The broader initiative follows a trial partnership with Uber in 2020.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The charity was founded as a complimentary delivery service during the pandemic in March 2020. For the redevelopment project, Gold Coast’s construction community has banded together with Hutchinson Builders leading the construction work, Spatium Architects designing plans and Zone Planning Group managing the charity’s DA.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 13, 2021

times the valuation of their last private funding round in 2020,” he said. As per the FSANZ [preliminary] December 2020 approval report, they outline that their initial plan is to import their products, thereby expediting their launch into Australia and New Zealand,” he said. Rapid expansion in Asia.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Current CEO and former banker and finance lawyer Matthew Kenny took on the role in 2020. A case management hearing on 7 February 2024 was adjourned. Cook has also disclosed the circumstances and terms of his departure from the firm. Zambrero alleges this is a breach of an agreement between the two parties.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Property fund manager ISPT is selling its GPO and The Strand Melbourne retail buildings. “The two assets are expected to be highly sought after and following the robust sale of Louis Vuitton in 2020 at a low yield of 2.4 ISPT has tapped CBRE’s Simon Rooney and James Douglas and Colliers’ Lachlan MacGillivray to sell the assets.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2023

The retailer said one of the signatories to the class action was claiming “less than $20” According to the Australian Financial Review , the law firm alleges the discount retailer underpaid up to 1400 salaried managers an average of $40,000 to $65,000.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Another former employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said that Wesfarmers favoured managers over doers, and when it came time to create a strategic roadmap for the future of Catch, the executive team wasn’t involved. Many of the category managers have also left, taking jobs at MyDeal, Kogan and MySale. Lessons learned?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Current CEO and former banker and finance lawyer Matthew Kenny took on the role in 2020. A case management hearing on 7 February 2024 was adjourned. Cook has also disclosed the circumstances and terms of his departure from the firm. Zambrero alleges this is a breach of an agreement between the two parties.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2024

The reported closure of Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar stores managed by authorised retail partners in China has raised questions about the tech giant’s strategy in the world’s second-largest economy and whether the move is counterintuitive when the market’s consumer electronics sector has seen a sign of recovery.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2021

“While clearly there are people struggling or worse off from the pandemic, more Australians feel better off, more financially secure and more in control of their finances,” said CBA executive manager of financial wellbeing Ben Grauer. Spending less, saving more and paying down debt have been the big stories from this past year.”.

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MAY 3, 2021

During the year so far, Supercheap Auto has seen sales increase 21 per cent compared to the same period of 2020, while sport retailer Rebel’s sales grew 20 per cent.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

. “We are seeing a lot of growth in freight and trucking activity in the former Soviet Republics … a big rise in Hungary and Romania,” said Barry Conlon, chief executive of Overhaul, a supply chain risk management firm. In 2020, exports totaled $17 billion. per cent from 2020 and even 8.8 million marka ($436.65

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2021

Businesses continued to experience a rush of online orders during 2020 as employees worked from home [and] as this trend continues into 2021 it’s important to have a solution,” said Pitney Bowes Japan, Australia and New Zealand country manager and vice president Stephen Darracott.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The business was picked up by Bunnings in August of 2020, and will be launching four stores in Western Australia before Christmas. According to Bunnings’ managing director Mike Schneider, the business has been trialling new concepts in recent stores in preparation of the move, all of which saw positive responses from customers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 28, 2022

The drive to e-commerce, covid relief legislation, months of forced store closures in major markets, and retailers closing their doors permanently throughout 2020-21, all contributed to heavy disruption in the retail leasing sector. . If there was ever a ‘great reset’ event, gosh did we get it.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2021

“The global pandemic has more than ever highlighted the importance of mental health and the critical support needed around it, and we continually look at fostering meaningful relationships to help the community that we serve,” said Hugo Boss Australia managing director Matthew Keighran. “As

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

Under the previous management the brand got confused and we lost our way.” In 2020 HBCA sold the franchise business back to Hog’s Breath Cafe owners Don Algie and Ginger White operating as HBC Management. It is fully integrated with back of house, across wages, rostering, and food cost management.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2022

The retailer said there would be no changes to MySale’s current staff or management and that it would work with its executive team to make additional hires. In October 2020, the founders of Catch Group, Gabby Leibovich and Hezi Leibovich, along with Catch’s former CEO Nati Harpaz, invested $9.3

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2022

The FWO is attempting to recover $713,395 in underpayments by Woolworths to 70 salaried managers covering 2018-19. Rival Coles has admitted to $20 million in underpayments to some store staff in early 2020 and a class action on behalf of some store managers alleged a further $150 million had been underpaid.

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JANUARY 9, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, empty shelves were due to spikes in demand, as shoppers responded to lockdowns by buying more toilet paper, pasta and other consumables. Apart from the first wave in March 2020, shortages were localised. Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began. Supermarket restrictions.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At a tactical level, leave and shifts will need to be actively managed for maximum coverage but also to allow time for personal restoration. ABS data shows that from February 2020 to August 2022, job vacancies across the retail sector rose by nearly 78 per cent.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 19, 2022

Long before Covid, retailers were lacking a certain originality having become too transactional, but in the years leading up to 2020, imaginative changes were already being made to re-engage consumers. Something that’s prevalent in articles from 2020 and in recent months, is the need for stores to be agile and flexible.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The McDonald’s staff class action filed in the Federal Court by Shine Lawyers follows a 2020 finding that former employee Chiara Staines was not provided with paid 10-minute rest breaks when working shifts four hours or longer. McDonald’s is facing a class action over the company’s alleged failure to provide its employees with paid?10-minute?rest

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to data from McKinsey, 76 per cent of consumers changed stores, brands or the channel through which they purchased products during 2020 – a figure that shows in stark relief what a massive change the pandemic brought upon the retail industry. However, after a period of uncertainty, the market is beginning to settle.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2022

The concept has been live in beta phase since September 2020 with Woolworths taking steps to improve the customer experience progressively ahead of the formal launch this week. Jarad Nass, GM of Woolworths at Work. The site’s features now include two-hour delivery windows, an intelligent Work Hub, consolidated billing and credit. “At

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2021

“These lockdowns look to have dented retail spending in areas hard-hit in 2020, notably hospitality and clothing and footwear,” said NAB chief economist Alan Oster. Consumer sentiment has managed to stay relatively flat across the country, though this is due to steep declines in certain states and sharp spikes in others.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The appointment of Amanda Bardwell as Woolworths Group’s next managing director and CEO, effective September 1, marks a historic moment for the parent company of Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W, which reported nearly $65 billion in sales last financial year. She took on her most recent role, as the managing director of WooliesX, in 2017.

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