Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Keeping pace with consumer trends and changing behaviours is key to the success of retail operations, particularly when managing the impact of current global events on supply chains to ensure they’re able to consistently meet demand. . Three of six key trends identified in ASCG’s latest eBook research include: 1) Spread the cost.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2024

Headquartered in Queensland, RFG is a multi-brand retail food franchise manager, with brands including Gloria Jean’s, Donut King, Brumby’s Bakery, Michel’s Patisserie, Crust Gourmet Pizza and Beefy’s Pies. The company affirmed this move has no impact on its annual financial results.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When you think about the types of businesses millennials and Gen Z consumers frequent, apparel or beauty brands may come to mind first, but what about home goods? Research shows that millennials make up an increasingly large part of the consumer base for home goods and furnishings, which includes products ranging from bedspreads to furniture.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2021

Despite launching an e-commerce site and new look stores in mid-2018, the Healthy Life franchise struggled to make an impact on consumers. Ananth Sarathy, the former general manager of digital experience at WooliesX, will lead the HealthyLife business as managing director. Booming market.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 6, 2022

This round was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and B Capital, with participation from the company’s existing investors; Steadview Capital, Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Eight Roads Ventures, and Matrix Partners India. in July and $30M in Dec 2021, taking its total investment to $178m within 8 years.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Today’s consumers are enjoying better standards of e-commerce than ever before – recent figures show 56 per cent of Australians now prefer to make purchases online, while 85 per cent are likely to purchase more at the digital checkout in 2021 over last year. Find out more about Roubler’s all-in-one workforce management solution here.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2024

According to the firms, there will be an easy-to-lodge process where clients may input their garment and repair needs before mailing their garment, with Shona Joy managing the entire process. Consumers bear the costs, which start at $10. “We We make sure that the portal provides the best user experience for the customer.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Launching in November 2021 and ending in March 2023, the scheme will provide a roadmap to hit ‘clothing circularity’ in Australia by 2030, in line with the National Waste Policy Action Plan targets, and is powered by a $1 million grant from the Federal Government.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Woolworths and Coles are facing charges from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for allegedly misleading customers about the discounted pricing of their products. The allegations involve 266 products at Woolworths between September 2021 and May 2023 and 245 products at Coles between February 2022 and May 2023.

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2021

Toys “R” Us has announced the appointment of chief operating officer, Lian Yu, who has been promoted from her previous position of general manager of the brand. This will increase sales capacity to support the imminent launch of Babies “R” Us and our wider business into our key holiday season from October 2021 through to late January 2022.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

Another 300 7-Eleven stores will receive Australia Post deliveries by the end of 2021. Australia Post’s Nicole Sheffield, executive general manager community and consumer, said the partnership was timely. This is in addition to more than 500 existing Australia Post parcel locker locations in the network.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As restrictions ease, and consumers in Australia’s most populous states regain some basic freedoms, the recovery can now get underway. However, while retailers and consumers alike would be eager to put 2021 behind them, the research suggests recent events have yet again reshaped the way people shop and spend.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With consumer sentiment and discretionary spend down, many retailers are already facing reduced profit margins and a higher cost of doing business, making hefty discounting for prolonged periods a particularly costly exercise. Since 2021, LSKD has joined in on the “Black November” sales period, starting its discounting earlier each year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

The back half of 2021 however has seen disruption and uncertainty return in a major way as the third wave of Covid-19 hit without warning and hit hard; but at Strikeforce, we’re more than prepared. Effective supply chain management, scale and in-store support are integral components of the end-to-end provided by Strikeforce.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As Taking Shape’s SEO and digital performance manager, Kiran Flynn is the plus-size fashion brand’s go-to person for digital and content marketing. Kiran Flynn: As SEO and performance marketing manager at Taking Shape, I’m proud to have produced some fantastic results for the business. KF: Taking Shape is my first role in retail.

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Inside Retail

JULY 15, 2024

In a mass redundancy, Booktopia has terminated 165 staff members, with only 18 left to manage the retailer’s collapse. The closure of Booktopia has presented the Australian retail and publishing industry with a gap and a lesson in consumer behaviour. It’s a zero-sum game to do that,” Chia told Inside Retail.

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Stocking a range of vegan, cruelty-free and eco-friendly beauty, personal care, lifestyle, baby and kids, pet, food and health products, the online retailer quickly connected with consumers who shop with sustainability foremost in mind. . She ranked first in Inside Retail ’s Top 50 People in E-Commerce in 2019 and 2021.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

But how is a brand known for selling $88 jars of sea moss managing to capture consumers’ attention and their wallets, especially considering current economic circumstances? percent from 2021 to 2022, with the greatest changes seen in eggs, fats and oils, and meat. percent, to reach an estimated $8.47 trillion by 2027.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A much-welcomed ray of sunshine is that many retailers saw their private label brands have grown – particularly in the UK, which leads other European markets in private label as share of overall consumer goods’ sales value. Clearly consumers turn to brands they trust if they are priced attractively.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

However, for retailers to develop AI-driven technology that can forecast and reduce their climate impact they need to already have an understanding of their environmental impact, be able to collect data in every step of the supply chain and know what consumers and competitors are doing in this space. Now, Inditex is planning to invest €2.7

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nielsen Consumer Insights reported a 37 per cent increase in supermarket coffee sales – with more premium options seeing sales growth of over 40 per cent. The change, Knox explained, has worked well in concert with the way customers have been consuming their coffee. Customers stopped buying from baristas and started brewing their own.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

per cent increase in the number of consumers that purchased from brands powered by Shopify, with Australians ranking fourth globally in total spend. Shopify also reported a 26 per cent increase in in-store sales – as tracked by its POS systems – compared to 2021. Australian merchants using the e-commerce platform saw a 22.7

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

THG specialises in taking brands directly to consumers with divisions spanning the beauty, wellness and commerce industries. The offer made to buy Adore Beauty is straight from THG’s playbook after its buyout of UK-based online beauty retailer Cult Beauty for £275 million in August of 2021. billion in 2023, according to Statista.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2023

During warmer months, we have heat management plans in place and have installed large industrial ceiling fans, as well as wall fans to support cooling,” The Iconic said. Professor of marketing and consumer behaviour at Macquarie University Jana Bowden believes that underpaid wages are a problem across the industry.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

per cent – retailers might be expecting tough economic conditions, as consumers are expected to cut back. . Customers were spending more on clothing, footwear and personal accessories, department stores and cafes and restaurants in July 2022, compared to the 12 months prior, and consumer sentiment was also up, by 3.9

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

Paul Monnington, managing director of Wpay, previously led the development of Woolworths Scan&Go app and also worked in financial services for large banks and software companies including NAB and Oracle. Covid increased the pace of consumer behaviour change. billion transactions annually. Taking on Amazon.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2021

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021. When I founded Honey Birdette 15 years ago, my ambition was to build a brand for women, by women; a brand that would serve as a platform for confidence and sexual and body empowerment,” said Eloise Monaghan, founder and managing director of Honey Birdette.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

last minute shopping needs, and complement our existing e-commerce offer,” Woolworths Metro general manager Justin Nolan said in a statement. Uber Eats regional general manager retail for ANZ, Lucas Groeneveld, said that the company has seen significant demand for grocery items on the platform. Changing shopping habits.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Lacoste Japan, operator of the French premium casual brand, has collected zero-party data based on the consent of the consumer in preparation for the upcoming restrictions on the use of cookie data. Consumers were asked to choose their favourite long sleeve polo colours and vote against other colours. Campaign objectives.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

These insights guide our best management practices around irrigation, fertilisation and plant care,” said Bartle Frere Bananas owner and managing director Gavin Devaney. It’s [similar to tracking of] livestock; consumers want to know what happened to their meat before they eat it,” Devaney said. ““We Social innovation .

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Burberry has lagged competitors like Gucci, Prada and Loewe in creating a sharp brand in recent years and Lee will play an “important part in re-igniting interest”, said Mario Ortelli, managing partner at advisory firm Ortelli&Co.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

billion in 2020 (Mordor Intelligence, 2021), Australians are major consumers of health and beauty products worldwide. Progressive retailers should be leveraging this white space to provide replacement experiences that give consumers an equal sense of belonging and connectedness to the brand, and to their family and friends, from home.

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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. This movement towards a ‘New Retail’ demands more from brands in what they offer to their in-person consumers. Store flexibility.

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

The funding eclipses the $800 million unveiled last year, with both retailers and consumers having amplified their reliance on e-commerce, and the internet more broadly, due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19. In all, the government is dropping $1.2 Every business in Australia is now a digital business,” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Even before thinking about the specifics, the timing of these sales appears challenging for both retailers and consumers, not to mention supply chains. Noticing these challenges, we teamed up with Associate Professor John Hopkins to explore how BFCM might be impacting Christmas, from supply chain to consumer behaviour.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

It acted as a platform for consumers to interact with and learn about a rotating variety of omnichannel and digitally native brands, by way of QR codes. In doing so, the department store experienced a 1,000 per cent increase in digital sales from 2020 to 2021, CEO and co-founder Matt Alexander said. Did we execute everything perfectly?

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