Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2021

E zibuy and Gumtree , two companies that continue to see significant growth and engagement, share their perspective on the rise of e-commerce during the pandemic, the challenges they faced and how a tech solution driven by AI helps them personalise their experiences and unlock hidden revenue.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2022

The on-premise solution also required Lorna Jane to keep a dedicated IT support team on hand to manage the site. . “As We’re trying to approach [omnichannel] from a unified perspective, so the same customer is the same customer anywhere they shop, not just ‘they can shop anywhere’,” Clarke said.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

H&M announced a collaboration with Iris Apfel, New York style icon, fashion designer and interior decorator who likes to dress up “for herself and herself only” and is known for her vibrant clothing, fun accessories and signature thick, oversized specs. Apfel recently celebrated her 100th birthday.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth. That’s possible from a financial perspective.”.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While Chadstone was not yet ready to provide data, its centre manager Daniel Boyle told Inside Retail that Black Friday has continued to increase in popularity and productivity over the years. He expected that customers were eager to experience Chadstone’s in-store experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2022

Poor performance – well below market growth during recent quarters – has raised serious questions about the grip management has on operations, he said. Saunders described the “chronic underperformance” at Old Navy – usually the growth engine of the group – as exacerbated by operational stumbles. An incoming CEO faces a tough challenge.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2023

Not content with capturing the Australian and New Zealand market, Group CEO Felicity McGahan said that Nere – which strives to offer an affordable range of suitcases, travel bags and accessories – is adding another sticker to its passport by expanding into the United Kingdom. IR: Can you tell me more about how Strand is currently performing?

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2024

Which brand can say that they’re the inventor of the blue jean,” Nuholt Huisamen, managing director of Levi Strauss & Co for East Asia Pacific, told Inside Retail. New Balance from a sneaker perspective is quite hot at the moment. The other one that we’ve done a few collabs with is New Balance.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

This underserved segment represents huge potential, offering substantial benefits from both a customer and business-to-business (B2B) perspective. In Australia, they were also clothing (17 per cent), followed by bags and accessories (11 per cent) and shoes (10 per cent). Returns aren’t great for consumers or vendors.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

From Mosaic’s perspective, we never, ever thought bricks-and-mortar was dead,” Mosaic Group chief executive and managing director Scott Evans told Inside Retail. “We The group’s brands include Katies, Millers, Noni B, Rivers, Rockmans, Crossroads, Autograph, W.Lane, EziBuy and Beme.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2024

Inside Retail spoke to Tim Page, New Balance’s Pacific retail manager, to discuss how the latest Chadstone concept store is creating the next generation of immersive and engaging shopping experiences. New Balance sits at the intersection of sports and cultural heritage and its new UCC concept stores aim to reflect that.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2024

But this is not a replication of history, Inside Retail spoke to Nuholt Huisamen, managing director of Levi Strauss & Co for East Asia Pacific, about how nostalgia is fueling the future of the business. It’s really trying to stay at the centre of culture, right?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

All this – on top of challenges related to a highly competitive rental market, and an increased cost of borrowing – can lead to greater stress placed on staff and management which, in turn, can have a detrimental effect on wellbeing. The manner in which we interpret the media perspective might also vary [according to] demographic.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

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 According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales were up 19.2 In other words, pessimists outweigh optimists.”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here, Designworks divisional general manager Brooke Norton discusses why it has relaunched with Big W, how Pavement’s product line will look different compared to previous ranges, and what’s next for the brand. Inside Retail: Tell me about Pavement’s relaunch in collaboration with Big W.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2024

That approach is supported by the findings of the 2023 report ‘ How Consumers Really Feel About Personalisation ,’ commissioned by Medallia – an American customer and employee experience management company based in San Francisco.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2021

Apparel takes up part of the floor space that was originally allocated to accessories in our stores, so we had to shrink down our accessories offer to accommodate the arrival of apparel, but the sales per metre in the smaller area was actually much larger than it was before. It’s something that needs a laser-like focus to get right.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This time last year, the business was on the brink of collapse after nine months of border closures left it with an oversupply of travel bags and accessories. The most noticeable change is the retailer’s rebrand from Mon Purse to Mon, which is part of a broader strategy to offer a bigger product range for men. “We

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

The brand’s fifth store in Singapore, which is located in Ion Orchard, features an “enhanced shopping experience” that aims to introduce more consumers to Desigual through a new perspective on the brand. Balazs Krizsanyik, general manager of Desigual in Asia. The Singapore marketplace.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Managing director Simon Schofield discusses the new bricks-and-mortar experience and the brand’s revitalised product range. From a design perspective, the new look reflects the evolution of our product and aligns with Witchery’s exit out of men’s and children’s wear. IR: Tell me about your plans for the e-commerce side of the business.

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Inside Retail

JULY 15, 2021

Deliverability from an ownership perspective lies with the teams that are sending the e-mails but there has to be that partnership, there has to be that collaboration between your technology teams,” he added. “This is what you call convergence,” Akhavan said. It all starts with awareness.”.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

We wanted to harness this power for the greater good, and give back to our Aussie heroes,” Jennifer Mancuso, MI Academy’s delivery manager, told Inside Retail. Moreover, Homie’s strategy to simplify and scale its B2B business is an easily implementable solution from a resourcing and financial perspective.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Eugene Leung: My workday usually comprises creative work in different mediums, a research session and some management tasks. It is the best way to keep myself excited, motivated and be able to see things from a totally different perspective. These accounts provide some daily inspiration and perspectives in art and creation.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2022

They haven’t done it – and this is a really important point – purely from a synergistic perspective. We’re trying to do it from an operational efficiency and growth perspective.”. Now there is an even bigger portfolio of brands to manage, and the imperative to ensure that each is performing strongly,” she said.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2024

Throughout my career in banking, I was able to do things the whole end-to-end life cycle of a business, from product management, developing and building new products, marketing and sales, project management, discipline, operations and business operations and implementation, and customer service.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

His extensive knowledge in the luxury sector and his deep experience in developing brands across the region has provided our team with a valuable perspective.”. Cadman also founded PMC Global Hong Kong, a strategic management and business consultancy focused on the luxury goods industry.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

CEO and co-founder Wes Ng emphasises the tech accessory maker’s key ethos – a responsibility to prioritise sustainability. “We believe that creativity is the superpower that keeps the world, and certainly our tech accessories, moving,” explains Ng. “We

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2022

Earlier this month, it announced a new, multi-year partnership with licensing management experts IMG to relaunch Laura Ashley as a standalone fashion brand. It plans to offer apparel, footwear and accessories and is currently seeking global partners with sourcing and design capabilities to licence the brand.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks. The scenarios are endless.

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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2023

According to managing director and regional manager in South Asia, Oldouz Mirzaie, the pandemic has accelerated digitalisation across the board and this has made the company recognise the need to transform and rethink faster. “Our

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2023

Formula 1 and Puma recently inked a deal that will make Puma the official supplier at F1 races, granting the brand the right to produce F1-branded apparel, footwear and accessories for both F1 staff at the track and fans. A new beginning “It’s very exciting for us.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2022

Last week, Snap unveiled a slew of new tools and features that aim to make it easy for retailers and brands to create 3D versions of their products, and enable users to ‘try on’ clothes and accessories and make purchases, without ever leaving the Snapchat app. Can you put them in context of what was available previously?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

We obviously knew of the brand and – from a product and consumer perspective – we felt that it would fit in well with our business,” he said. “We Strong alignment Bartlett noted that Bobux had been going through challenges that were fairly typical of retailers post-Covid-19 restrictions.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2024

He was familiar with the industry since his parents founded Designa Accessories, one of Australia’s largest watch and jewellery distributors, in 1984. We talk about hiding the broccoli, which is, let’s just make it about having fun and let people join dotted lines as to what we’re doing from a business perspective,” said Lawrence.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They enable accurate inventory levels by location and improved management of a retailer’s inventory. While the apparel sector is leading the adoption of RFID tags in Australia, Ramp is now seeing traction in the personal care sector, sporting goods, accessories, eyewear, and – more recently – liquor and furniture stores.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2023

A nuanced perspective Dr Seshan Ramaswami, associate professor of marketing education at Singapore Management University (SMU), described Indonesia’s recent move as a form of protectionism, which is a policy of creating barriers to foreign competition for domestic marketers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2025

NYSE-listed luxury fashion conglomerate Lanvin Group has reported a 23 per cent year-on-year decline in revenue to 328 million euros for FY24, marking what management described as a “transitional year” as the company strategically realigned its operations. John declined by 12 per cent to 79.3 million euros.

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