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. Automation and advanced analytics are now empowering local businesses to navigate both domestic and international markets more efficiently. The key to thriving?

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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. Tight job market ahead.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2022

Adelaide-based Australian boot maker Rossi Boots plans expansion into international markets, under new owners and with fresh investment. 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.

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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. billion, in 2023.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2024

China – the world’s fastest-growing coffee market – has experienced a downturn with significant players like Luckin Coffee and Starbucks reporting a decrease in sales in the first quarter of the year. Cotti Coffee’s latest marketing move to offer all beverages for RMB9.9 How does Cotti Coffee’s business model support its rapid growth?

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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 13, 2021

Major retail stores across the US including Walmart, Trader Joes and Sprouts Farmers Market now stock the product, and in September the brand launched into Canada.The company also announced last year that it was doubling its R&D team to focus on the creation of plant-based milk, steak, bacon and fish. Rapid expansion in Asia.

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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. . The Dalai Lamas advice that ‘most real change is slow’ is a valuable mantra in the present market.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The downfall of the almost 40-year-old business raises the question of whether this is a sign of things to come as retailers struggle to compete with the increasing e-commerce capabilities and convenience of retail goliaths on the global market, or whether it is a case of Harrolds facing a ‘perfect storm’ of challenges on multiple fronts.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The e-commerce boom of the last two years has been felt across the globe, and the Australian market is no exception. If last year felt slightly less volatile than the one before it, it might be because business owners and markets as a whole have learned to keep a finger on the pulse of change and respond quickly.

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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

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.” It is fully integrated with back of house, across wages, rostering, and food cost management.

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Inside Retail

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

MARCH 9, 2023

Last week, head of marketing at global outdoor brand Kathmandu, Richard Dalke, explained to Inside Retail managing editor Heather McIlvaine how the business’ understanding of its brand, as well as its customers, played a significant role in its recent rebrand. There was a lot of work to get the positioning right.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2022

Founded in 2007, MySale currently operates retail websites in four markets – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia – with its sites Oz/Sale, NZ/Sale, My/Sale and Sing/Sale. 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.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

billion in 2020, little did it know that the label, which it believed would be a promising addition to its portfolio, would turn out to be a lucrative lesson. Supreme was never a good fit for VF,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData. per cent of the luxury eyewear market. When VF Corp bought Supreme for US$2.1

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

James Chan, head of marketing for Reebok Pacific (Australia and New Zealand) chats with Inside Retail about the brand’s partnership with Brand Collective, how Reebok is aiming to be the fastest-growing sports brand in the world, and how he continues to push the envelope within in his profession.

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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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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2023

Here, we speak with the brand’s general manager, Van Mulryan, about the new Tag Heuer boutique in Adelaide, the increased demand for luxury items and how her upbringing has shaped her career. In 2020, we relaunched the website, and that allowed us to accelerate during Covid-19. We also announced our partnership with Porsche in 2020.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. Inside Retail: Tell me about Pavement’s relaunch in collaboration with Big W.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2021

We talk a lot as a management team about what’s the big driver,” Andrew Angus, Akubra’s general manager of sales and marketing, told Inside Retail. “Is Akubra has been making its Slouch Hats since World War I, and continued to do so through 2020. day workweek, but kept everyone employed. .

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Similarly, Vitality Brands’ Epzen ventured further into the body care market this month with the release of a body serum and body butter to complement its bath salt offering. Since founding the oral care brand in 2020 with one product, Gem has grown to a 28 product SKUs – with that tipped to grow in the last quarter of 2024.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

According to Grand View Research, the global cannabidiol (CBD) market size was valued at US$2.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.2 As governments slowly relax laws around cannabidiol and hemp, more and more companies, big and small, are tapping into this emerging market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

People leaders will be considering how these market conditions can be harvested in a sustainable way. At a tactical level, leave and shifts will need to be actively managed for maximum coverage but also to allow time for personal restoration. This generates maximum impact for comparably low cost.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

Compared to its sister brand Kmart, which has seen its market share grow exponentially in the past decade, Target has been suffering a slow decline, with its position in the middle of the market – not quite as value-based as Kmart, and not quite as high-end as Myer – making matters worse.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2021

Supermarket chains were virtually lottery winners of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, spectacularly increasing sales and earnings. Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash are doubling down on initiatives to maintain sales momentum and lock in customers they acquired in 2020. per cent, a lower growth over 2020 and 2021 than Coles, with a 6.7

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Matthews first joined the business in December 2020. Chadwick will lead the product and marketing teams; he formerly served as interim CEO of Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer program. The newly created position replaces the chief marketing officer role, which has been vacant since Alexander Meyer left last November.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The term was coined in late 2020 by Texas A&M University’s Anthony Klotz in response to two developments he said had collided like a perfect storm: growing quit rates and the burnout and rethinking of work-life balance that followed COVID. Leaving and changing jobs is a sign of a healthy, well-functioning labour market. in 1988-89.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

According to WooliesX Managing Director Amanda Bardwell, e-commerce sales at the supermarket jumped 92 per cent from July to December 2020, and now account for eight per cent of total sales. The site is expected to begin construction in 2021, with an operational launch date in 2024.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The collaboration had limited availability overseas, though, which prompted an online resale market where the products were being listed for twice, even thrice their retail value. Despite K-beauty’s mass popularity, its foothold in the market is no longer as firm. Florasis are using branding and marketing tactics similar to K-beauty’s.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Elijah Etri, Skippy’s Fresh Frootz manager at Victoria Point, Queensland, has started a new Tiktok challenge, encouraging viewers to head into their local supermarket and check the prices of comparable produce and products. Roy Morgan’s latest Most Trusted Brands list, saw both of Australia’s major supermarkets fall in the rankings.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since entering Southeast Asia in 2020, GMG has opened 31 stores in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. With an existing presence in Singapore and a commitment to the Southeast Asian market, this office symbolises our dedication to delivering unparalleled experiences and services to customers in the region,” he told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Australian clean beauty brand Frank Body has its sights set firmly on conquering the Chinese market after clinching a deal with Shanghai-based private equity firm EverYi Capital, valuing the brand at around $100 million. International growth. A US targeted Series B investment round is in the pipeline later this year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

At the release of its unaudited results, Kogan said the management team had misjudged the level of inventory and operational capacity it would need to grow through the second half, and purchased too much stock.

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