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JANUARY 29, 2025

Caledonia Park achieved record-breaking performance in 2024, with total sales surpassing 2023 levels and footfall up 8%, underlining the impact of its targeted leasing strategy tailored to evolving consumer demands. Black Friday weekend was particularly successful for the scheme, with a 19.1%

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

After expanding in North America, high-end beauty brand Kypris is now turning its attention to the Asian market, starting with its debut in Japan. Japan’s deep cultural appreciation for beauty, ritual, and craftsmanship closely aligns with Kypris’ ethos,” Chase Polan , founder and CEO of Kypris, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Thirteen Lune is an e-commerce platform that sells beauty products from primarily Black-owned brands. Even after having worked in the beauty industry for more than 18 years, Grieco was surprised by the number of new-to-her Black-owned beauty brands she discovered through these listicles. In 2023, Thirteen Lune raised US$12.5

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

A gym membership for your skin In addition to the pop-up with Magnum at Bondi Beach, the membership-based skin clinic recently opened a second location in Sydney’s Neutral Bay. The new location is bigger than the first and feels like walking into a skincare spaceship with its monochromatic colour palette and metallic surfaces.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2025

As of March 13, the brand will be expanding its brick-and-mortar presence via 500 Whole Foods locations across the country. Other categories, like beauty, had started to become an extension of our identities or something proudly displayed in our medicine cabinets, but the period care category was still lacking.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Phnom Penh unit is sprawling, covering approximately 1000sqm and offering a beautiful range of items across 15 categories. The product categories are similar: plush toys, health and beauty products, stationery, developmental toys, personal accessories, bags, action figures, snacks, beverages, digital accessories, home decor and more.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

After only six months of operations, Aje Collective’s beauty brand, Ikkari, launched its first physical location, with the promise of more to come. The business uses all-natural ingredients across a slew of products, ranging from skincare and ingestibles, to beauty and diffusers. Innovation is a big part of our range.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Rare Beauty, launched by Selena Gomez in 2020, swiftly built traction among Gen Z by blending influencer collaborations, authentic storytelling, and platform-specific content strategies. By balancing purpose-driven marketing with authentic content, Rare Beauty highlights how social commerce can thrive in a Gen Z-focused marketplace.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

His eponymous boutique is located on Glenmore Road in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, where customers can shop his jewellery, fragrance and accessories alongside the gowns. If this goes well, I feel like the world is my oyster with anything I would go into; beautiful homewares; like cutlery, plates anything to do with the home.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2024

French prestige beauty retailer Sephora is widely recognised as a leader in its category, with 3000 stores and 52,000 team members operating worldwide. While the beauty category tends to be resilient in times of economic downturn, Motte noted that Sephora outperformed the market. “We For us, the word partner is not a gimmick.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

After unveiling its renovated Melbourne Central store earlier this month, French beauty giant Sephora is now gearing up to open the doors to its new store in Sydney’s Westfield Miranda shopping centre. It strives to stay at the forefront of beauty retail with its fully integrated omnichannel shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 13, 2023

billion) on Australian beauty brand Aesop as it looks to take a bigger slice of the luxury organic skincare market. Aesop launched its first two standalone stores in China in 2022 , the first of which is located in Shanghai, and so far, they have been quite successful. L’Oreal recently dropped a staggering US$2.5 billion ($3.7

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The increasing awareness of health concerns, largely brought about by the pandemic, paired with a growing interest in wellness products have created a market for patches that allow people to absorb vitamins through their skin. According to market research firm Future Market Insights , the industry is valued at US$6.6 per cent to US$10.4

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2025

Sigma Healthcare has begun converting My Chemist stores into Amcal Plus pharmacies, starting with the Chadstone location. Over the next six months, more than 20 My Chemist stores will rebrand as part of Sigmas broader strategy to strengthen Amcals presence in the Australian pharmacy market.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2021

The surge of consumption of Korean beauty products has made K-beauty not only popular in its most prominent market, Asia Pacific, but also the rest of the world. The K-beauty market is projected to reach $13.9 We are open to all people of colour who love K-beauty, especially Africans. We are currently located in Korea.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

The surge of consumption of Korean beauty products has made K-beauty not only popular in its most prominent market, Asia Pacific, but also the rest of the world. The K-beauty market is projected to reach $13.9 We are open to all people of colour who love K-beauty, especially Africans. We are currently located in Korea.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

The Amazon Salon, located on Brushfield Street in London’s East End, will offer a full range of hair styling services by independent salon Neville Hair & Beauty and will range an extensive selection of professional hair care products – but being Amazon, it’s got a high-tech approach. Image: Amazon. Industry impact.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Armed with fresh knowledge of the beauty industry, he quit the role in 2014 and created his first business, a tiny design agency that created floral designs for corporate clients, specialising in events and gifts. “Our Our pricing is the highest in the beauty industry for a Chinese brand. Creation also means business.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2025

Small beginnings In 1972, the Gance brothers bought their first pharmacy as graduates in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir and went on to buy another pharmacy three years later located only 300 metres away from their first storefront. The success of Le Specs and Le Tan informed Chemist Warehouse’s business model.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Inside Retail: How does Ghd’s commitment to innovation and developing new technologies contribute to your overall business strategy? This, combined with our brand attitude at the forefront of fashion, beauty and trends, has been key to our success. Ludovic Dellazzeri: It is both paramount and symbiotic.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Beauty retailer Mecca is creating new opportunities to connect with Christmas shoppers by introducing gift card vending machines in high foot traffic areas of Australia’s major cities. In the US, vending machines have more categories that are occasion and location specific, according to Goldring. “In Global uptake.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2024

The new addition to The Memo’s preconception product category hints at the power of retail to empower consumers with their family planning and fertility health. Since its founding four years ago, The Memo has been expanding not only its store locations but its category and product offering to include potential, expecting and current parents.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Currently, TBH’s Rebound serum is stocked in over 800 stores nationwide – with each location typically holding a minimum of six units and additional inventory in distribution centres. The scale achieved in both pharmacy and grocery channels has become substantial,” Wilde said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

From the increased market share of digitally native brands to decisions from companies like GlobeWest and Homebodii to dial up D2C strategies, shoppers are becoming increasingly accustomed to purchasing products directly from brands. And if the latest consumer behaviours are any indication, this trend is here to stay.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The location of the new mall ensures that Aeon gets a slice of the booming and until recently under-retailed southern section of Phnom Penh strung out along the north-south-running Hun Sen Boulevard. Aeon Wellness sells a variety of private-label health products, many of them Japanese. Aeon’s ASEAN strategy.

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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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MARCH 21, 2024

Located within Chadstone shopping centre, the largest shopping centre in Australia, the tweaked design comes as Vicinity Group invests in making Chadstone a renowned food destination in addition to being known as the nation’s “fashion capital.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2024

Today, there are more than 50 franchise locations and 500 head-office staff across Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Indonesia, and there are plans to open 30 more new shops in Australia alone this year. We did a lot of market research in Australia and then found the perfect shop location on Gould Street in Bondi Beach.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2024

Apart from being a mini-supermarket that sells across a full range of supermarket categories in a compact space, 7-Eleven is focussing on areas that make it increasingly relevant, with generous aisle space devoted to health and beauty products, on ready-to-eat meals under its Ezygo house brand, and on premium coffee service.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

KPMG’s latest Retail Health Index suggests that nominal growth is practically non-existent and industry insolvency numbers are higher than pre-pandemic levels. It will join the new Fitzroy store that opened earlier this month and the original Armadale High Street location, which opened in September 2022.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2023

In June, AS Watson , the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, and South Korean beauty company Amorepacific, signed an agreement to further solidify their partnership and collaborate in the K-beauty space.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Popular teen beauty brand Bubble Skincare will officially launch in Australian retail stores on October 10 through an exclusive partnership with Priceline. The US-based brand sells direct-to-consumer online and in over 12,000 stores across North America, including Ulta Beauty, CVS and Walmart. Social frenzy Bubble has amassed over 2.7

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2024

With over 2700 stores across 35 countries and a booming e-commerce presence worldwide, Sephora is one of the leading omnichannel beauty retailers in the industry. Sephora launched in South Korea in 2019 with a flagship location in the shopping-centered Gangnam District in Seoul. billion won (US$9.26 million), 14.5 billion won (US$10.6

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2024

billion , is witnessing a paradigm shift as consumers seek convenient paths to health and well-being. This insight led the team to introduce a diverse range of eight product categories, each designed to address specific health and wellness needs. The wellness industry, currently valued at a staggering US$7.3

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JANUARY 19, 2024

With a vast range of health benefits attributed to acai berries, businesses across industries are tapping into this superfood and getting creative with how they serve it up to consumers. In beauty, Australian brand Eco Tan has several different acai-centric skincare products, and the matcha skincare market has quickly become saturated.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

If so, what locations are in mind? It was a real gamble and a delight to relaunch in 2021 and see our customers adopting our new language. IR : Commodity just opened its first bricks-and-mortar space in New York City. Are there any plans in the works to open another store soon?

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AUGUST 26, 2024

For over two decades, Melbourne-based Adore Beauty has operated online only, but now the beauty retailer is investing in physical concept stores. It’s one of three pillars in our growth strategy and we want to bring the Adore Beauty brand to life in a physical form,” she added. It’s about who does that best,” he added.

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