Inside Retail

JUNE 21, 2024

From one analyst’s perspective, the Australian mergers and acquisitions landscape is considered to be relatively subdued, but there are signs that confidence in the market is returning. Tattarang’s $190 million acquisition of heritage Australian brand RM Williams, from L Catterton in 2020, is perhaps an example of this.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The use of videos as part of a retail marketing strategy is a tried and tested method to catch consumers’ attention and drive sales. Instead of sending a physical team to every state to deliver brand strategy presentations and training to B2B partners and our staff, we were able to reach the same people from our office in Sydney.”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Here, we speak with Nathalie Ahlström, who has led the company’s transformation since she was appointed CEO in 2020 and recently visited its operations in Sydney, Australia. From this gifting perspective, [we are always thinking] how we can help fans of our brands and talk more about lifestyle so that we can expand.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

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. To me, it was important to get the formulation perfect from an efficacy and fragrance perspective. I think I trialled about 75 samples of the product.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

I’ve chosen to maintain perspective about the mistake. Other brands and businesses can learn from IMG’s holistic inclusion strategy. If 2020 taught us anything it’s that the unexpected happens. Yet when we were on the world stage, Australian Fashion Week had never evolved – until this year. But is it fair?

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Inside Retail

JULY 1, 2024

A certification in Sustainable Business Strategy gave me credentials to do that. John Winning recognised this and in 2020 I joined the Winning Group to establish the company’s first sustainability strategy and function. IR : Do you think having an industry perspective has helped you in your current role?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is also true from a cost perspective, with our conversion lag data indicating the first two weeks of October are the best time to market to customers at a more cost-effective rate. October has arrived, so we’ll be popping on our creative caps and fine-tuning our marketing strategies for our retail clients. What’s your plan?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The first is the addition of the brand’s first creative director, Giovanna Engelbert, in 2020, and its first CEO from outside the founding family, Nasard, in 2022. After Nasard and Engelbert joined the Swarovski squad, the team worked quickly on executing an updated merchandising strategy, dubbed LUXignite.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

During the pandemic, the Australian womenswear brand Witchery turned 50, but rather than kicking back to party, the retailer revved its omnichannel strategy and worked on a new physical store concept. Simon Schofield : Despite the impact 2020 had on the retail sector, it certainly was a special year for Witchery.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Travelling – I like to travel a lot for work and with the family, and this also helps with fresh perspectives. You have to remember I made the decision to take our business completely carbon neutral, during the bushfires of January 2020. I only know that for us, doing nothing wasn’t an option. In terms of the M.J.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Williams since Tattarang, the private investment company owned by mining magnates Andrew and Nicola Forrest, acquired the business from L Catterton in 2020, returning the bootmaker to full Australian ownership for the first time since 2013. This focus can be seen in R.M. And the changes continue. “We’ll million, up from a $2.3

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From an outside perspective, it may be hard to conceive an entire store dedicated to tinned fish products, from sardines to octopus. A heightened interest in caviar and cottage cheese has contributed to the trend in embracing acquired tastes,” Melissa Minkow, a director of the retail strategy at CI&T, noted.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While 2020 saw brick-and-mortar retail businesses buckle under the strain of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, the number of purchases being made online skyrocketed. A study by Inside Retail found that the ANZ e-commerce market experienced five years worth of growth in just six months from March 2020.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

That goes from expense optimisation, to digital strategy, to products. With that strategy comes demand creation. Just last Monday, we rolled out a new price strategy for 30,000 essentials, and that’s part of the wider strategy to make sure that our prices are in line with [the quality] a customer would expect.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In these two roles that spanned almost a decade, I honed my skill sets in leading brand strategy and marketing/e-commerce efforts for some of the biggest fashion retailers in the world. While building Barrire I relied heavily on my prior professional experiences and applied my existing skills just in new ways and from a different perspective.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

And new owners bring a welcome fresh perspective, he adds. The strategy is there – a franchise business model about baked in-store celebration cakes.”. The business has won a number of accolades, including Australian Established Franchisor of the Year in 2020, its second such award. That’s a tremendous comfort,” Ken says.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Charbit joined Kering in 2012 as product strategy director of Saint Laurent before taking the president and CEO role of Balenciaga in 2016, where he expanded the brand’s presence and relaunched its Haute Couture. In 2020, he was appointed CEO of Maison Margiela, before joining Saint Laurent in September 2023 as chief commercial officer.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Then in 2020 I moved into my current role, as general manager – merchandise, reporting into our managing director, Sarah Hunter. As I’ve progressed in my career, I’ve spent more time focusing on strategy, team culture and supporting our people rather than the ‘doing’. IR: What are some of your career highlights so far?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

So, in late 2020, the Documents concept was born, and eight months later, the first store opened in Shanghai. “We From the designers’ perspective, it’s like collecting and documenting a story,” Zhaoran said. “We “Our design ability could not transform into good performance,” he said. Creation also means business. That’s good for us.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2022

While Gordon Brothers has primarily focused on Laura Ashley’s homewares offering since buying the brand in 2020, Nanda believes the majority of its growth will come from fashion. “If If you look at the relative size of the market, fashion is the largest from a consumer perspective.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2022

After a two-year hiatus from launching stores in Australia, Swiss chocolatier Lindt has kicked off a new bricks-and-mortar strategy alongside a nascent online offer. We developed something back in 2020, but never had the chance to roll it out due to Covid. Chocolate overall did really well in 2020 and 2021.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The event showcased the vibrant world of emerging Vietnamese designers and streetwear brands, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary fashion. Manh Nguyen: Astoud was founded at the tail end of 2020 when we saw the worst of it all. IR: What strategies are you using to build brand awareness in the US market?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It pursued a ‘growth at all costs’ strategy, which is fine when that’s what the market wants. They need to find a cheaper way to authenticate luxury items, they need to figure out a better real estate strategy, and they need to pass on the true cost of shipping – particularly shipping of goods back to consignors.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2023

A nuanced perspective Xiaofeng Wang, a principal analyst at Forrester, described the roadmap as “courageous”, given how forward-looking it is. Therefore, from a long-term perspective, the current economic downturn won’t affect much in terms of achieving these goals,” she told Inside Retail. “The

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2023

Once I started looking at the strategy, I realised that what they were doing was actually right,” Nenke explained. One way Booktopia is doing this is through its growing textbook and education offer, having partnered with student portal Zookal in 2021 , and purchased university-focused bookstore Co-op in 2020.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Looking back, the pandemic highlighted the importance of having robust and flexible supply chains, and retailers have been forced to rethink their supply chain strategies and invest in new technologies to be dynamic, nimble and agile to evolving market conditions. This strategy has worked, improving our shopper satisfaction rate from 66.6

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Inside Retail

APRIL 9, 2024

Lydia Bertini started her career in bricks-and-mortar stores, but since joining pureplay online rug retailer Miss Amara in 2020, she has embraced the opportunities of e-commerce and earned a reputation for creating exceptional digital customer experiences.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 28, 2022

In some of our larger regions such as Europe, we have communicated our brand relaunch via Broadcast & OOH placements, in addition to the online strategy. From a corporate strategy perspective, this is a key transaction for Vestiaire Collective. We achieved transaction volume growth of over 100 per cent in 2020.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2021

Part of the Global Fashion Group, Zalora has grown by leaps and bounds since it launched in Singapore 10 years ago, and it recently recorded its first profitable quarter in Q4 2020. They can adjust their strategy, their buying plan and even their design. Inside Retail: Can you provide a snapshot of Zalora’s offering in Southeast Asia?

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2023

Started by Ami Bateman and Sian Murray in 2020, Pleasant State is a direct-to-consumer home care brand that aims to change the way consumers approach cleaning. AB: From my perspective, I knew that I had the skills to build the business – the HR, financials, you name it, I could do all of that, I just couldn’t do the marketing bit.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2021

Together, Sophie and I have looked at every possible way Oroton can become more accessible, available and relevant to both Australian and international consumers, which is a part of our near future growth strategy. You’ve really got to know how much you’re in for and the period of time that you can support the growth strategy.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As we continue to scale and grow our team, our challenge is to ensure we are all aligned from a values perspective and understand (and believe in!) So I launched the Clean Beauty Summer School (CBSS), a professional development program focused on accelerating minority-owned, small clean beauty businesses and minority creators, in 2020.

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2022

Sacha Laing: We went through a strategic view in late 2020 with Monash Advisory, and part of the scope of that review was to provide the owners with an insight into the market in terms of interest in retail businesses. Why General Pants was looking to sell.

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Design Wanted

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Aktay publishes his designs daily on Instagram , which he only joined in 2020 but has already amassed an impressive audience—32,500 to be exact. “It It’s the perfect strategy for someone who has endless ideas but not yet the means to realise all of them. “My My visualisations are a cost-efficient way to get them reviewed and checked.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2022

PB: One of the things we initiated really early on in April 2020 was Zoom meetings every Wednesday at 7am and 7pm for well over a year, and they still continue to this day. So there’s the retail offering, from a health perspective. IRW: Even before the pandemic, there had been a rise in customer abuse in the retail industry.

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Inside Retail

JULY 30, 2024

In 2020, the Society for Human Resource Management reported that DEI roles had increased by 55 per cent following demands for broader racial equity and justice after Floyd’s murder.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Butter was founded in 2020 by Singaporean entrepreneurs, Olivia Yiong and Tiffany Chng, to offer affordable activewear designed for Asian body types, with sizing from XXS to XXL. billion in 2020 with top brands being Nike, Adidas and Li Ning, and is projected to reach a five-year compound annual growth rate of more than 8.5

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