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MARCH 2, 2025

Rising operational costs, increased global competition, and shifting consumer behaviours are among the contributing factors. Ultra-fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu have leveraged advanced analytics and agile supply chains to dominate the market. This fast-moving cycle pressures brands to accelerate production and delivery.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2025

The nations largest supermarket groups and the Australian Retailers Association leapt the the industrys defence in the wake of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC)s much-anticipated Supermarket Inquiry on Friday.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

Ralph Lauren has reported a lower growth rate for its fourth-quarter revenue, but an analyst said the brand is still doing well amid a wider slowdown in the luxury market. Neil Saunders, MD of GlobalData, said the moderate growth was in line with expectations given the general trend in the luxury market. “In

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JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. Amazon, the $2 trillion gorilla, arrived on our shores officially in December 2017, just in time for Christmas.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Makeup artist turned brand founder Hilary Holmes is challenging traditional beauty marketing tactics that leverage and profit from consumer insecurity through her cosmetics company Holme Beauty. The post How Holme Beauty is disrupting traditional makeup marketing tactics appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It seems like every day a new piece of content is published about the metaverse that defines the metaverse, projects its market size, and offers frameworks for conceptual understanding. At Microsoft, we break down the metaverse i nto three strategies: consumer, enterprise, and industrial. Consumer metaverse. NFTs and Loyalty.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With consumer sentiment and discretionary spend down, many retailers are already facing reduced profit margins and a higher cost of doing business, making hefty discounting for prolonged periods a particularly costly exercise. We’re pleased with the initial sales figures, which are in line with our expectations.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The 15-day festival has held the title of Australias largest consumer-facing fashion week for some time, but its still kicking new goals, announcing that in 2024 it delivered over 10 per cent growth in attendance. And the team uniform, if you like, is anything that looks fabulous and anything that you feel good in, she added.

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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. They add that while eco-conscious choices resonate with today’s consumers, there is more to it than recycled content alone.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Capitalising on this momentum and the resurgence of nostalgic trends, Mattel is now setting its sights on more ambitious goals for the Asia Pacific market. Paul Faulkner, senior VP and MD at Mattel Asia Pacific, spoke with Inside Retail about the company’s vision to conquer the burgeoning market.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

The bad news was that company CFO Mat Friend admitted that Nike fell short of its plan, telling investors on its June 27 conference call: “We experienced meaningful shifts in consumer traffic in key markets – particularly in Greater China, where brick-and-mortar traffic declined as much as double-digits versus prior year.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2025

Despite tough trading conditions, many Australian and New Zealand retailers continued to invest in CX, leveraging data, technology and innovative thinking to elevate their offerings in line with consumers’ rapidly changing expectations,” said McIlvaine. ” The winners will be announced in Melbourne on February 20.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The main issue is that consumers are buying less coffee from Starbucks in order to save money. Offering more promotions does not seem to have worked as consumers forgo some coffee occasions or replace them with cheaper alternatives such as having a coffee at home,” Saunders said.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

2025 marks a year of accelerated growth, with a strong focus on premiumisation, direct-to-consumer expansion, and a broader lifestyle offering beyond denim. These include the highly anticipated launch of Blue Tab, the brand’s most premium denim line yet, and a renewed focus on creating immersive retail experiences across the region.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2024

“As Singapore is a strategic gateway to the Southeast Asian market, it was imperative that we launched stores here,” Washing Zhong, country manager at Descente Singapore, told Inside Retail. Quickly understanding and adapting to local consumer behaviour is crucial,” he said. billion last year and is projected to grow from $9.07

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the early 2010s, the Millennial generation gave rise to a slew of direct-to-consumer brands, such as Everlane, Warby Parker and Bonobos. The generational disruptors Born between 1980-1995, Millennials are known for their thoughtful purchasing habits that place brand value and actions ahead of tradition, according to IMARC market research.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The vaping industry has seen a lot of growth over the years, driven by evolving consumer preferences, regulatory changes, and advancements in technology. For vape juice brands, staying competitive in the retail market requires a deep understanding of the latest trends influencing sales.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Affiliate marketing has become a multi-billion dollar industry globally – but in Australia, the concept remains shrouded in suspicion, largely misunderstood by consumers. Its share of the broader e-commerce market is just a fraction of that in China or the US. Her role in the transaction is simply sharing the information.

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Retail Focus

MAY 26, 2022

Well, there are likely hundreds of different web data outputs found on a single product page that each and every one of us as a consumer cares about or takes into consideration when purchasing a product without even noticing. Essentially consumers are the ones who dictate market prices.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in an exciting new era for retail marketing and customer engagement, according to Jake Cohen, VP and head of Shopify at Klaviyo. This will help the company use AI to drive autonomous campaigns and marketing executions in the future. He cites a brand launching a new product line as an example.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 2, 2025

With brands having to work harder than ever to maintain attention, loyalty and consumer spend, powering authenticity with imagination – have driven impressive commercial results through dynamic retail design. So, what can we expect in 2025 and how can Checkland Kindleysides help retailers?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2025

The menstrual care market has long been dominated by major global manufacturers. Since launching in January 2020, Viv for your V has steadily built its direct-to-consumer (DTC) and e-commerce presence via retailers like Amazon and TikTok Shop. I felt consumers deserved better, both for their bodies and for the planet.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

As inflation and rising interest rates start to bite and reduce consumers’ spending capacity and confidence, Australian e-commerce sales declined sharply in July. . This shows that consumers are researching online to find the product they are after before they head to a retail store to buy it. Representing 19.3 Search engines.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2025

They have all successfully tapped into the power of pop culture to keep hold of the increasingly fleeting attention of the millennial and Gen Z consumer. However, just because a collaboration is unique, or even a little weird, depending on the consumers perspective, doesnt ensure that it will be popular or profitable.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 27, 2023

The key downfall of a D2C brand in the eyes of a consumer is the lack of physical presence where you get the chance to pick up, turn on or try on its products. In 2022 we created the ‘Productivity Pop Up’ for the productivity and organisational webtool D2C brand Notion in Old Spitalfields Market to bring to support their UK media campaign.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Leveraging insights into their lifestyle, aspirations, and consumption patterns, retailers can position themselves for success in this evolving market. Retailers who fail to authentically embrace these values risk losing market share. Monitor emerging platforms to stay ahead of shifts in consumer behaviour.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2024

This week, the Senate Committee on Supermarket Prices made 14 recommendations for the Government to consider amending the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to end the alleged price gouging of the major supermarkets. However, outside of this committee, there has been a publicised difference in opinion across political lines.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

“[Our mandolin slicers] have seen noticeable boosts in demand on our assortment ranging from sales lifts of 30 per cent to almost 600 per cent depending on the product,” Nicole Rivera, vice president of marketing at OXO, told Forbes.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Five years after launching into the market with its hero product, a true-blue fitted t-shirt, the brand now operates 9 brick-and-mortar stores, alongside thriving direct-to-consumer and wholesale operations. BY: We identified a gap in the market for high-quality, affordable basics that fit well and stand the test of time.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The retail industry is in a stir with the sportswear giant Nikes recent announcement that it will partner with Kim Kardashians activewear brand Skims to release a new line of activewear for women dubbed NikeSkims. billion to Nikes market value, which has been struggling as of late. On February 18, the companys share price rose 6.2

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2025

Indeed, many retailers will happily say goodbye to 2024, a period when high inflation and interest rates remained persistent and an ongoing cost-of-living crisis crushed consumer sentiment to its lowest in 45 years, all of which resulted in anaemic national year-on-year retail sales growth. So as the going got tough, what did retailers learn?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With the evolution of retail media networks, brands and retailers are seizing the opportunity to shape consumer behaviour in real-time, using in-store touch points to elevate the shopping experience. Then, if we compare that to a week where we had no in-store retail media, it was an uplift of 76.8

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2024

During the financial year, the company focused on launching the SmoothFit women’s line to expand its women’s offerings. Its women’s line now accounts for 14 per cent of its revenue, up from 12 per cent in the prior year. The underwear retailer’s net profit soared 43.9 per cent to $12.4 per cent to $84.5

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Amazon has also been taken to task for one of its fashion lines, along with Boohoo, Zalando, Shein and ASOS. This was particularly painful, given Lululemon’s roots in yoga and its marketing theme of a healthy and ethical lifestyle. Do consumers really care? Neither has it bothered the share market.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to data provided by Adobe Analytics, online Black Friday shopping in the US hit new heights in 2024, with consumers spending a record US$10.8 To put these numbers into perspective, that is more than double what US consumers spent online on Black Friday 2017, which drove US$5.03 billion online on Friday,​ up 10.2

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

per cent thanks to effective value and marketing campaigns. Comparable sales through its own operated international markets dropped 2.1 International developmental licensed markets slid a further 3.5 On the bottom line, consolidated operating income decreased 1 per cent. Global comparable sales dropped 1.5

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