Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Australian department store David Jones has become the latest retailer to sell pre-owned clothing following the announcement of its partnership with Sydney-based luxury reseller Blue Spinach last week. It also offers second-hand items in its London flagship store through a partnership with online resale platform Vestiaire Collective.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Department stores globally are adjusting their product offer to reflect rapid changes in the menswear category as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the category wears off. But last year menswear rebounded to its pre-pandemic levels, reaching on average 14 per cent of total department-store sales.

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Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2023

Japan’s department stores bear a striking resemblance to cruise ships: they’re big, luxurious, move glacially and serve an ageing customer. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reports that department stores led the retail sales recovery through the first five months of the year. per cent gain.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Mosaic Brands is seeing positive results from the implementation of a digital department store strategy across several of its core apparel brands, including Noni B, Rivers, Millers and Katies. Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry. Leveraging loyalty. million names in June 2020.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The store joins RM Williams’ existing locations in London’s New Bond Street and Berwick Street, Soho.  Another UK store will open in Cambridge in December. The store will feature RM Williams’ new retail design concept, which it introduced at its Sydney flagship last year.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The department store chain has yet to name the appointees for the newly created roles of GM of merchandise for beauty, accessories and services and GM of merchandise for women’s apparel. Meanwhile, former Cedar Brands CEO Warwick Blunt will assume the newly constructed role of GM for digital commerce at Myer in November.

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VMS

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? The wrong clothes and accessories at the wrong time of year could be the nail in the coffin to an already bad year.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2024

Meanwhile, clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing fell 0.2 Department store sales also declined 1.7 The discretionary categories are being hit the hardest, as seen with household goods, clothing and department stores,” said Fleur Brown, chief industry affairs officer at the Australian Retailers Association.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

” Department store sales climbed 3.7 billion, while clothing, footwear, and accessories rose 0.5 “Department stores fared particularly well, capitalising on the Boxing Day sales and the final few weeks before Christmas with a range of promotional events.” per cent to $1.83 per cent to $14.18

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Inside Retail

JULY 30, 2024

Department stores came in second as its sales grew 4.2 Clothing, footwear, and accessories sales jumped 2.2 The ‘other’ category, which includes cosmetics, sports and recreational goods, saw the strongest growth of 6.3 per cent, with sales hitting $5.68 per cent to $ 1.89 billion, followed by food, which increased 3.1

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2024

per cent while clothing, footwear and accessories fell 0.4 Department stores dipped 0.3 “The Taylor Swift-inspired boost in turnover for fashion and accessory retailers last month has proved to be temporary with an instant reversal this month,” said Ben Dorber, ABS head of retail statistics.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2023

billion in stores and online, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). per cent, department store sales at 4.7 per cent and clothing, footwear and accessories sales at 3.6 Retail spending rose 5.4 per cent year-on-year in March as consumers spent more than $35.3 Other retailing increased by 1.6

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Clothing, footwear, and accessories increased 0.8 Meanwhile, department stores declined 0.2 Food retail sales rose 3.1 per cent to $14.5 billion, while cafes, restaurants, and takeaway climbed 1.4 per cent to $5.46 per cent to $3.04 billion, and household goods improved 0.03 per cent to $5.82 per cent to $1.91 per cent.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Meanwhile, clothing, footwear, and accessories fell 1.7 billion and department stores slid 1.3 Cafes, restaurants, and takeaway sales grew 2.5 per cent to $5.38 billion while food sales went up 1.9 per cent to $14.23 per cent to $2.93 Household goods declined 1.4 per cent to $5.77 per cent to $1.88

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MARCH 27, 2024

This led to increased spending on clothing, merchandise, accessories and dining out,” ABS head of retail statistics Ben Dorber said. ” ABS data showed that clothing, footwear and accessories sales rose 4 per cent, the strongest growth across all categories. Department stores’ sales increased 3.7

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Earlier this month, several members of the Nordstrom family, including the company’s CEO Erik Nordstrom and president Pete Nordstrom, offered to acquire the legacy department store chain for US$3.8 The department store division has various structural challenges, while the off-price Rack division is starting to produce some good growth.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The store offers the brand’s celebrated collections including tutus, dresses, resortwear, and accessories crafted for young fashion enthusiasts. ­­The Children’s couture brand Tutu Du Monde has opened its first flagship location, in Sydney’s Westfield Bondi Junction.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Clothing, footwear, and accessories grew 0.5 billion, and department stores went up 0.1 July turnover grew 2.3 per cent year over year to $36.16 billion, with the ‘other retailing’ segment, which includes cosmetics, sports, and recreational goods, recording the highest growth, of 5.5 per cent, reaching $5.66

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

billion while department stores climbed 2.1 Clothing, footwear, and accessories rose 2 per cent to $3.04 .” Other categories, which include cosmetics, sports and recreational goods, had the highest growth of 6.5 per cent with sales amounting to $5.75 Food sales grew 3.8 per cent to $14.53 per cent to $1.92 per cent to $5.80

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MAY 27, 2024

Clothing, footwear, and accessories sales suffered the largest decline of 2.5 Department store sales also decreased 1.3 National Retail Association interim CEO Lindsay Carroll said the April retail trade had gone backwards in real terms, given that the 0.1 per cent, according to the ABS data. Household goods fell 1.3

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JANUARY 21, 2024

The brand has grown to have a presence in 80 countries through a distribution network encompassing 1200 points of sale across stand-alone stores, franchises, department stores, multi-brand leather goods stores, travel retail and e-commerce websites.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

billion, while department store sales went up 1.3 Clothing, footwear and personal accessory sales inched 1.1 . “Food and takeaway again led the spending growth, and this is consistent with what we’ve seen all year – shoppers are prioritising the essentials in a cost-of-living crisis,” said ARA CEO Paul Zahra.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

The department store chain expects net profit after tax of between $50 million and $54 million for FY24, compared to $71.1 Myer has flagged a drop in profit for this fiscal year, largely due to underperformance at its three specialty brands amid macroeconomic challenges. million in the prior year.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Department store giant David Jones unveiled the latest Spring/Summer collections this week in its Elizabeth Street flagship in Sydney. The runway featured local and international brands such as Aje, Camilla and Marc, Hugo Boss, P.E. Nation, Carla Zampatti, Matteau, Balmain, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen.

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JUNE 22, 2021

Luxury goods group LVMH unveiled on Monday the revamped La Samaritaine, a 150-year-old department store designed to help it grab a greater slice of tourist spending once pandemic travel curbs are eased. A view inside the revamped Samaritaine department store ahead of its reopening in Paris, France, June 21, 2021.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Department store sales increased 0.4 ” Sales fell in the household goods, clothing, footwear, and accessories categories, attributed to the decline in discretionary spending. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed that retail turnover amounted to $35.77 billion during the month, up 1.2 Food sales rose 3.3

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JUNE 28, 2022

Department stores saw the strongest growth at 5.1 On the contrary, clothing, footwear, and personal accessory retailing recorded a decline of 1.4 Seasonally adjusted Australian retail sales grew in May by 10.4 per cent year on year according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). per cent and 0.8

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Clothing, footwear and accessories rebounded from a decline in July, up 1.4 per cent), while department stores dropped slightly by 0.6 The growth was largely driven by sales from the cafes, restaurants, and takeaway industry, which rose 8 per cent, followed by food with a 3.5 per cent increase. per cent in August.

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JUNE 25, 2024

The acquisition of Just Jeans, Portmans, Jacqui E, Dotti and Jay Jays by Myer provides a new growth channel after several years of reducing department store floor space and trying to find a fashion edge. The Premier brands could also provide the department stores with expanded merchandise range options.

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APRIL 18, 2023

per cent and clothes, footwear and personal accessories at 2.8 Department-store sales were strong with 7.4 This year’s Easter sales were driven by food retailing contributing $3.6 billion – up 8.6 Sales from cafes, restaurants, and of takeaways rose 4.6 per cent, followed by other retailing at 3.9

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AUGUST 29, 2022

“July sales for clothing, footwear and personal accessories, department stores and cafes and restaurants were up significantly compared to 12 months prior, highlighting the impacts on those businesses at this time last year when they had to close their physical stores,” he said. “The per cent and 1.2

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JUNE 23, 2024

Department store group Myer has proposed to combine its business with Premier Investments’ Apparel Brands, comprising Just Jeans, Jay Jays, Portmans, Jacqui E and Dotti. The proposal is non-binding, indicative and conditional.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

The store features giant head kinetic objects highlighting the brand’s compelling visual narratives. The flagship follows the openings of the label’s travel retail boutique at Sydney International Airport in November 2022 and a shop-in-shop at David Jones department store in Sydney last October.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

confirmed that the global luxury pet accessories market alone was worth around US$3.8 Product type The luxury pet accessories market is classified into six main product types, including apparel; collars, harnesses, and leashes; beds and furniture; toys; feeding accessories; and grooming products. billion in 2022.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Department stores and the foodservice sector drove “unprecedented” Boxing Day sales growth across Australia according to data from the Australian Retailers Association and Westpac DataX. per cent on 2021, with department-store sales of $149 million up by 23.6 Spending on apparel and accessories surged 19.8

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MAY 25, 2023

per cent followed by department store sales at 6.5 per cent and clothing, footwear and accessories sales at 4.9 Although discretionary spending was low, restaurant and cafe services continued to do well. By category, cafes, restaurants and takeaway services registered an increase of 13.2 Other retailing spending increased by 0.2

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AUGUST 27, 2023

per cent followed by clothing, footwear and accessories sales down 0.3 per cent and department stores sales slipping by 0.05 Meanwhile, other categories recorded “negative sales for the second consecutive month” with household goods down 4.9

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