Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2025

On September 13, Heytea opened its fifth brick-and-mortar location and first concept store at 1293 Broadway, in New York Citys bustling Herald Square area. Jessica (Qinjie) Shen, Heyteas associate global brand director, told Inside Retail that the concept store took inspiration from a traditional Chinese pavilion courtyard.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 24, 2024

The historic retailer’s store is centred around its fresh design concept of New Heritage, which celebrates its dual identity as both historic in legacy and contemporary in design. Neal Street provided the perfect location for this type of store with a large international consumer, nestled with global brands and independent concept stores.”

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Numerous conferences and sessions held over the first two days provided a comprehensive overview of market trends, featuring many exclusive international speakers. Retail investment has been especially driven by the strong performance of the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets, alongside robust results in the UK.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The brand has recently doubled down on its Melbourne presence with the opening of its concept store in Hawksburn Village. The biggest difference between Best Jumpers’ flagship store and its concept store is the potential to reach a different demographic.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Greeting card retailer Hallmark Australia has opened a new concept retail store at Blackburn Square Shopping Centre in Victoria. “We will use our concept store to test and learn, which will enable us to bring innovative, market-leading product, and display solutions to our customers and consumers.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2025

Golden Goose aims to gain more market share in Australia by establishing a strong retail presence and building lasting community connections through new retail experiences. Inside Retail spoke with Mauro Maggioni, Golden Gooses Apac CEO, about how the business plans to grow its market share in the global US$39.91

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

In a press release, Jean-Marc Bellaiche, Printemps Groupes chief executive officer, stated, “We think we can bring something unique, both to its engaged local consumer base and the strong tourist flows the city welcomes We plan to pioneer a new format of experiential retail in this fast-changing and demanding market.”

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 18, 2021

IKEA Xuhui will be testing an innovative retail concept centred around enabling people to live a better and healthier life within the limits of the planet. I’m thrilled we could bring the first ‘next gen’ store to a futuristic fast-moving market such as Shanghai.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

If you don’t have your narrative set, someone else will tell your story, said Katie Welch, the chief marketing officer of Rare Beauty. Ross wanted to find a haircare brand that carried products suited to a wide variety of hair textures that were also marketed and presented in a quality manner.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

some entered the Indonesian market in 2019, citing a gap in diverse retail product offerings. some identified Malaysia as its next key market, driven by the countrys young consumer base and thriving retail environment. For these reasons, we decided to use these two cities as pilot locations for the Malaysian market, the person said.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2025

Wesfarmers Health has opened the pilot of a new beauty and wellness concept store called Atomica, which it plans to roll out in major cities this year. The first store is located at the Castle Towers shopping centre in Sydney, in a space formerly occupied by Priceline shop.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2025

Sex always sells While other retail categories are reporting slow or stagnant growth, the global market for toys and devices is expected to reach US$30 billion in 2026, compared with US$19 billion in 2021, data analysed by PwC shows. More recently, however, the concept has been rebranded by Gen Z and Millennials as a little sweet treat.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At over 1000sqm, the store is Lululemon’s largest in Australia and New Zealand and houses new concepts, more menswear and products for all. We now have footwear destinations in 10 stores throughout Australia and have leveraged our ‘Science of Feel’ design philosophy to find a unique position in a crowded market.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The launch of the new showroom concept brings to life the brand’s new visual identity with an interior showroom design organised around a ‘customer hub’ – a living space where customers will interact with the brand both digitally and with retailer experts. Didier Gambart, Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Customer Experience, TME.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

The past year has been all about pushing forward innovation, fostering growth in existing and potential new markets, reaching a new generation of customers, and strengthening Desigual’s inclusive brand identity. When it comes to Singapore, the brand landed in the island republic back in 2008, and later expanded to different markets.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 11, 2023

US beauty giant Sephora has brought its ‘Store of the Future’ concept to Shanghai’s East Nanjing Road, the brand’s second globally after launching in Singapore last year. Sephora currently has some 3000 points of sales across 36 markets.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Wittner worked with The General Store to develop the new store concept, drawing on the retail agency’s design expertise as well as its own insights from market research and staff surveys conducted last year to better understand what customers want and expect when they walk into a Wittner store. “And Image: Supplied.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

An immense passion for outdoor sports and strategically accelerating brands drew Moore to the Salomon business, where he is now leading its next phase of growth within the ANZ market. He attributes this new positioning to driving the huge growth of the brand in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Omar Sabr, the brands CEO, spoke with Inside Retail about how the retail disruptor has created its own lane, how to align with the right IP partnerships and what this business approach looks like in international markets. Mid-market brands chase mass appeal. IR : Are DTC stores on the horizon for any markets? Why or why not?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The ‘Space’ retail concept enables customers to interact with the Polestar brand, meet product specialists and take a test drive in the all-electric Polestar 2. The concept was recently named “Most Immersive Brand Home” by leading design publication Wallpaper*. By 2023, the company expects its cars to be available in 30 markets.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Australian sporting goods and apparel chain Rebel has expanded its omnichannel offering with a revamped website that aims to bring some of the experiential elements of Rebel customer experience (rCX) concept stores online. The post How Rebel is bringing elements of its immersive store concept online appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

JD Sports Fashion said it considers Australia a principal market in Asia Pacific on the back of the inauguration of the flagship store in Sydney, which the company says is its most successful new store opening globally. Meanwhile, it closed eight stores in the region during the period as it withdrew from the South Korean market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You don’t have to be a marketing expert to know that Taylor Swift is a bulletproof brand that consistently improves, regardless of the challenges she faces or the challenges she sets for herself. She can instruct marketers on leading by example and practicing what they advocate for.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The concept of spectating here is really about truly getting involved as a spectator You turn up and you’re part of it. Keeping in line with PMFFs broader concept of sport, 10 emerging Australian designers will be acknowledged on the runway in front of 1500 people. You’re there, Ralph told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

I worked alongside my sister Hannah for years at the Salamanca markets and learned the tricks of the trade from the age of 12. The concept of selling and marketing a product, and brand became second nature and a part of my identity. When I finished school I turned down a law degree to continue alongside Hannah in the business.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

According to Statista , the second-hand market’s value in Australia exceeded $60 billion in 2022, with 85 percent of Australian households having unused or unwanted items. The resale furniture market in particular appears to be experiencing a boom period. Buying seconds, first.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To achieve this target, the Copenhagen-based company will increase investments in brand desirability and the store network with a refreshed marketing strategy and elevated in-store experience. Pandora jewellery is now sold in more than 100 countries through more than 6500 points of sale, including more than 2500 concept stores.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

He believes that Singapore is an important market for the brand, both globally and as a regional hub for the East Asia Pacific commercial cluster, thanks to its political stability and sound monetary and fiscal policies. This market has long been key to the Levi’s East Asia Pacific expansion plans.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Toys ‘R’ Us Asia is shifting away from traditional retail formats, introducing a series of innovative concept stores across Asia, as it seeks to tap into the lucrative ‘kidult’ segment. In Singapore and Malaysia, the company introduced the ‘Toy + Play’ concept. Kidults are adults who purchase toys and collectibles. “We

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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2025

Jurlique will open a new flagship concept store at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre on the Gold Coast. We have been working on rolling out a new concept design across the last few years with concept stores including Chadstone and Burnside receivingan intermediate design,” said Goyet.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Canadian activewear brand Lululemon Athletica aims to double its business through category, retail and market expansion and product innovation. And then globally, we’re now in over 26 markets with single-digit market share, and we have a unique position in almost every market we compete in. How big can it get?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2024

Beyond that, it speaks to the size of the market for add-on products and services, from specialised brushes and cleaning products for status water bottles to covers to protect fancy luggage from scuffs and scratches, The chic Béis Wash pop-up on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles last month is a polished example of how this looks.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 27, 2023

Non-physical marketing also limits some of the other key interactions D2C brands can have with their consumers, such as creating more impact around a ‘big news moment’, or having a physical platform to engage with your community plus the obvious brand building a physical store environment provides.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Adaptability and Market Responsiveness : Applying a hyper-local strategy enables luxury brands to be more agile and responsive to market trends. By observing consumer preferences in a particular region, brands can test new concepts, products, or designs through pop-ups without committing to a full-scale launch.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2025

” As a national brand, Mitre 10 may go to market with a particular message around Boxing Day or Black Friday, but when a customer walks into a store, they have a unique experience with that store. While personalisation is nothing new in e-commerce, this initiative takes the concept to the next level.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Retail Focus caught up with experts in the flooring market to find out more about their latest solutions and the long-term benefits they offer to retailers large and small. This is beneficial both during the design concept stage and when it is no longer required.” How is all this possible in just a few steps?

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Having garnered a reputation for reinventing luxury cosmetics through cutting-edge product innovation and artful product design; they set out to establish a new retail standard in this highly-competitive market.

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