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MAY 9, 2021

SS: Covid has undoubtedly impacted the way consumers are shopping, and it’s impossible to ignore the consistent growth in the digital space as a result. In the past year, one of our proudest initiatives has been formalising our commitment to Reconciliation through our first Reconciliation Action Plan.

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APRIL 6, 2022

If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s that being available to consumers across different channels is key to your success. Eighty-five per cent of those polled plan to maintain or increase their online spending levels this year, with 19 per cent expecting to spend ‘a lot more’. Luggage and travel goods will fly.

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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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JUNE 20, 2024

The review will focus on surcharging, Connolly said, given the rapid development of payment systems available to merchants and consumers. The RBA’s surcharging regulations aim to encourage consumers to use lower-cost payment methods and strengthen the bargaining position of merchants relative to payment system operators,” he said.

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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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JULY 4, 2021

I am excited to be playing a key role in the next phase of the company’s growth plans. 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.”. According to Mittoni, Chill Factor made up 2.7

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AUGUST 4, 2021

An untold number of coffee shops across the globe have temporarily or permanently closed at the height of the pandemic but Vietnam’s TNI King Coffee has bucked the trend, opening its first store in the US early this year and pushing forward with expansion plans. After all consumers still need to eat and drink,” Thao said.

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MARCH 5, 2024

More than ever, consumers are aware and conscious of these topics. The report surveyed 12,000 global consumers on their sentiment towards Big Tech and expectations for brands online. So naturally, as our digital business has become a larger part of our sales mix, our values have evolved to encompass digital ethics.

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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. “We

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Chinese fashion retailer Shein is reviving plans to list in New York this year and its founder is considering a citizenship change to bypass proposed tougher rules for offshore IPOs in China, two people familiar with the matter said. Both sources declined to be named as the plans are confidential. The US is its biggest market.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

THG specialises in taking brands directly to consumers with divisions spanning the beauty, wellness and commerce industries. A new power player in the beauty industry While the valuation of THG has decreased since its initial public offering, the group’s successful and attempted acquisitions signal optimistic plans for growth.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2022

Less than five years ago, many consumers wouldn’t have heard of buy now pay later (BNPL). per cent) used a BNPL service in the year to June 2021, up from only 6.8 We take a look at some of the fascinating consumer shifts around BNPL that have happened in the retail landscape lately. Trust and the consumer.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021. PLBY Group CEO Ben Kohn said he is “thrilled by the brand’s potential to become a multi-million-dollar luxury lifestyle franchise”. Honey Birdette is forecast to generate $73 million in revenue this financial year, representing growth of over 40 per cent.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

Now more than ever, it’s critical to understand the latest consumer expectations — and be ready to adapt. Direct-to-consumer selling. Around the world, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands are becoming mainstream — and they’re causing a major shift in where, when and how shopping is done. Fulfilment of the future.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

With a whole new danger hitting consumers – inflation – will the same be true? According to PwC , the strong Q4 2021 period that many retail businesses had put them in a strong position for 2022, and as such 73% of UK CEOs have confidence in the growth potential of the UK economy and 83% in the global economy. The good news for retail.

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Brands that successfully surfed 2020’s first wave of Covid-impacted consumer behaviour changes have now learned that was the best and longest ride. It’s probably why JB Hi-Fi bundled its results with the year prior, to show it did pretty well in 2021, compared with pre-pandemic activity. State of play.

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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. The health brand will be ingrained into the wider Woolworths business, with plans for a select range of HealthyLife products to be offered on the highly anticipated Woolworths marketplace.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Burberry’s new chief executive Jonathan Akeroyd will on Thursday set out his plan to finish the job started by his predecessor: boosting growth at the British luxury brand to the levels of its European rivals. Leather goods account for around 20 per cent of Burberry’s sales versus 70 per cent at Bottega Veneta.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Co-founders of The Memo, Kate Casey and Phoebe Simmonds, saw a gap in parenting retail for flagship boutiques which give consumers an elevated shopping experience with a focus on quality, curation and exceptional customer service. The baby boom The Memo’s expansion plans are well in line with its remarkable growth.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Inflationary pressure on consumer discretionary spending, supply chain disruptions and elevated inventory levels, which tie up a retailers’ net working capital, are set to create the perfect storm for retailers that do not have a strategy in place to ensure they are well positioned for the choppy market conditions ahead.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Bright Data , the global industry leader in making public web data accessible to all, has today released new research that reveals consumer sentiments around the 2021 holiday shopping season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The research, carried out by Vanson Bourne , surveyed 4,000 consumers across the US and UK.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

A March 2021 survey, which we reported on in the last issue of Inside Franchise Business , confirmed that sit-down restaurants and cafes were among the sectors hardest hit, with cafes forming the majority of the business closures in the first calendar 2021 quarter. What are your expansion plans for 2022 and beyond?

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AUGUST 7, 2024

Little Birdie is an AI-powered price-comparison shopping platform that launched in 2021, with $30 million in funding from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, before suspending operations in May. It’s a great opportunity for retailers with products on promotion to get in front of consumers,” Walsh said.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The French fashion brand is planning to expand its farming of saltwater crocodiles with plans for an additional NT facility which could see up to 50,000 crocodiles farmed for their skins. Power of consumers . Pearson said the dire conditions in wildlife trade could lead to future pandemics. Ethical fashion revolution.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Australian Retail Outlook : What are some of the things Witchery worked on in 2021 that you’re most proud of? . Simon Schofield: Witchery has had an incredible 2021. SS : The fashion industry has been very quiet since this pandemic started and we have really missed seeing those large-scale consumer and media events.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2021

2021 has been a year many retailers would like to forget, but none more so than online accessories brand The Daily Edited (TDE), which has not only had a global pandemic to grapple with, but also the shocking exit of co-founder and creative director Alyce Tran following allegations that she had misused company funds. .

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A survey of 2,500 people by the Consumer Reference Group – reported by Energy Consumers Australia – revealed that electricity bills are set to increase by $300 for households, and $1,500 for small businesses. So, what are the implications of rising costs – in particular, rising energy costs – for retailers and consumers?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Panels on “Global forces shaping the retail business landscape,” moderated by Andrea Bell, vice president of consumer insights at WGSN, and “The Vogue Business Index: Luxury’s new global gateways,” moderated by Anusha Coutiggane, head of advisory at Vogue Business , were particularly enlightening. billion by 2031.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With the 2021 holiday sales period shaping up to be the biggest to date, here are three reasons why now is a critical time to cut through the noise and win over customers ahead of the main event. What’s your plan? When timing and statistics align. Supply-chain issues.

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MAY 30, 2024

Tapping into sub-cultures is how Reebok plans to avoid returning to its “stagnated” 90’s state. After Reebok “disappeared off the shelves,” and since Authentic Brand Group (ABG) acquired it in 2021 from Adidas, Foster said the business has continued to approach branding through its unique thinking.

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MAY 31, 2021

After a year of disrupted ski seasons in both the northern and southern hemispheres due to Covid-19, snow gear brands are bracing for a big winter in Australia and New Zealand, as consumers hit the slopes in the largely Covid-free countries. We see kids picking up the practice and they will be the consumers of tomorrow,” Pompilio said.

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APRIL 12, 2021

The brand plans to expand the Refurbished program to more US stores throughout 2021 and beyond. At the same time, consumers are becoming more and more conscious of the environmental impact of throwaway fashion consumption and the opportunity to extend an item’s life through buying secondhand.”.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

Burgeoning popularity, quick uptake among users and relatively loose regulation has led to rapid growth in the sector, and has reportedly even driven Apple Inc to plan a service to let shoppers pay for purchases in instalments. where its fiscal 2021 sales nearly tripled to A$11.10 billion ($8.15 billion) in constant currency.

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JUNE 8, 2022

It received funding from Jay-Z’s venture-capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, in May 2021, and has recently opened stores in the UK and Japan. billion by 2026, from US$47 billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 11.1 billion by 2026, from US$47 billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 11.1 It is now led by CEO Thomas Vulliez. “It

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MAY 16, 2021

Manufacturing and consumer goods company BWX is branching out beyond natural beauty into vegan and cruelty-free products with its acquisition of leading eco-friendly online retailer Flora & Fauna. The acquisition, announced on Monday, is expected to be complete in July 2021 and will see BWX pay between $27.9 million and $30.8

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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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