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

JUNE 24, 2024

Central’s acquisition move is not unusual,” Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, International Association of Department Stores managing director, told Inside Retail. Central Group made the headlines again in 2022 after snapping up Selfridges Group, making it the largest luxury department store operator in Europe. What’s next?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This year, David Jones has expanded its Black Friday offering in a number of ways, upping the number of offers from last year to over 400 and going beyond discounting alone to promote exclusive offerings from brands only available at the department store. It also provided customers with more time to shop these deals.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At Myer’s annual general meeting this week, outgoing CEO John King predicted that trading activity on Black Friday would likely surpass Christmas, with the department store preparing stock ahead of time to mitigate any logistical delays related to potential industrial action. per cent increase in total sales to $3.36

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2023

Department store Kmart Australia is set to close its Port Adelaide store in the coming months, resulting in 100 job losses. A Kmart spokesperson told Inside Retail that affected employees would be redirected to opportunities within the “wider Wesfarmers business” when the store closes.

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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? In January of 2021, we thought we were on our final four-month march to the new finish line of May 31.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2025

From a practical standpoint, even from a marketing standpoint, I can’t see a logic behind the rationale for a department store with, essentially, 50 stores or 60 stores across Australia to buy another 600 or 700 smaller stores, Gary Mortimer, a Professor of Retail Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at the QUT Business School, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2021

Korean department stores diversify into food delivery services. South Korea department stores are introducing near-distance delivery services to get food and beverage from food courts and restaurants into the hands of consumers. Google to open first physical store in New York. E-mart to quit Vietnam.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Global high-performance wellness brand, Hyperice , opens its first pop-up shop at luxury department store, Harrods. Today, the company is a holistic high-performance wellness brand with numerous product lines and categories. Jim Huether, CEO of Hyperice says: “Harrods’ is the world’s most iconic department store.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

per cent, department stores 15.9 Retail turnover continues to be negatively impacted by lockdown restrictions, with each of the eastern mainland states experiencing falls in line with their respective level of restrictions,” said ABS director of quarterly economy wide surveys Ben James. “In per cent, household goods 5.9

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Some small outlets stocked paperback romances, as well as department stores like Big W in Australia and Walmart in the United States. Romance readers lined up for the opening of dedicated romance bookstore Romancing the Novel in Sydneys Paddington last year. Major bookstores now have dedicated romance shelving spaces.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Myer currently operates 56 department stores across Australia, as well as its online business and in-house brands including Sass and Bide, Marcs and David Lawrence. per cent increase is a case of under-promising and over-delivering, the department store CEO is taking the win as a sign of more growth to come. “We

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

Only general retail, discount department store and leisure spending maintained their growth rate through the Christmas and Boxing Day weeks. Other categories, including apparel, department stores, and household goods, saw falling spending growth.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2021

In line with our new Reconciliation Action Plan, these activities also bring to life our goal of creating spaces for connection.”. The store has a weighted average lease expiry of 10.5 The department store saw sales fall 13.1 years and is 100 per cent leased to Myer. per cent year on year at $1.4 per cent.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2023

Running from 6 th January – 13 th February, Kusama’s mesmerising, multicoloured, and immersive, vision will inhabit the iconic department store. To celebrate the launch in a standout way, Louis Vuitton has projected a colourful, moving Yayoi Kusama polka dot design onto the façade of Harrods; the first brand ever to do this.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We think the bottom line is that Australian shoppers are remarkably adaptable and channel-agnostic. Hyundai Department Store (Korea) Hyundai incorporates new digital technologies such as AI to enhance operational efficiency and customer convenience, including the industrys first AI copywriting system called Lewis.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

recalled an incident where they wanted to try on some shapewear at a department store, but they were told by the sales assistant they couldn’t enter the fitting rooms. “It And that one incident means that I’m never gonna go into that store again.”. It was this 10 minute ordeal of me feeling like s**t, to be quite frank.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The beauty refill model In 2018, in line with its launch of lip oils, Fluff introduced its refillable compacts as a way to reduce product waste and lower costs for consumers. But the question of partnering with big beauty retailers and expanding into department stores remains open-ended.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

When business was booming, Revlon’s strategy was to expand sales through mass market department stores, as well as buying expensive advertising. Like other legacy brands, they invested in magazine editorials which drove shoppers into stores, where sales would be converted through personal selling and glossy displays.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

hectare site about eight kilometres from downtown Phnom Penh, is officially called Aeon Meanchey but is likely to be referred to on the street as Aeon 3, falling in line with the simplified local appellations of its predecessors, Aeon 1 in the city centre, and Aeon 2 in the northern district of Sen Sok. The mall, on a 1.74

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 27, 2024

A recent Myer trading update will have analysts and investors thinking long and carefully about the bold proposal by the department store for a merger with Premier Investments. The review of the Myer department store business and Myer Specialty Brands was initiated by John King, who retired as CEO in June.

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2024

The approach has helped to achieve some sales momentum but at a cost to the bottom line which is likely to be evident in the forthcoming financial reporting period for retailers listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Clothing and footwear stores started the half well bettering 2023 sales with a 2.4 per cent and May 0.7

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2022

By category, department stores led the growth, up 4.1 Whilst the top-line performance of retail trade is strong, consumer confidence has fallen significantly this week and we could see more subdued levels of consumer spending in the months ahead as people start to tighten their household budgets,” Zahra said. per cent), NSW (1.8

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, last month Designworks, the wholesale arm of Brand Collective, a leading house of lifestyle brands in Australia, announced that it was relaunching Pavement in the marketplace through the discount department store Big W. Inside Retail: Tell me about Pavement’s relaunch in collaboration with Big W.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2025

Among the highlights was a successful relaunch of Central Chidlom (popularly known as Central Department Store) in downtown Bangkok, with a new multi-level designer wing called Luxe Galerie. The detail: While top-line sales in the food segment rose by 12 per cent in the fourth quarter, same-store sales were down by 2 per cent.

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Inside Retail

MAY 20, 2021

Michael has led RipCurl with a relentless focus on brand, product, people, and the bottom line and we are confident he will bring the same focus and energy to the wider group,” said chairman David Kirk. Daly, who has been with RipCurl for almost 20 years and ran it for the last eight years, started his new role this week.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Having prices as the main driver of nominal retail sales – or top line revenue – is relatively unfamiliar for retail,” observes Rumbens. The report concludes that the post-Covid spending spree has been particularly centred around discretionary categories including department stores, apparel and catered food. Labour crunch.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 13, 2021

Housed in the world’s most famous department store, the space will provide an immersive customer experience, as retailers reopen their doors following months in lockdown. Designer Bevan Roper says, “ It was refreshing to work with brand where sustainability was at the centre of all design decisions rather than just a token gesture.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

This launch also saw us introduce consumers to cult Iconic brand Aere Home, as an extension of Aere’s line of more sustainable styles for women and men.”. And it’s a move we have seen other fashion brands make over the years, like Country Road and H&M, not to mention the department stores,” Newell told Inside Retail. “As

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

OROTON has announced the launch of a new pop-up at London department store, Selfridges. The space is an immersion of the Australian brand’s latest spring-summer collection, the optimist – a concise line-up charged with new energy and vibrance, incorporating painterly colours and a sense of free spirit. “I

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2024

Malone’s love for storytelling extends beyond the creation of Jo Love’s product line and into the consumer’s purchase experience. I then build the story, instead of using words I use scent notes and I imagine the colours of the story and these, as I have synaesthesia, translate into smells,” Malone detailed.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Here, Brennan details how she turned that opportunity into a retail career, working as the senior buyer for women’s designer fashion at UK department store Harvey Nichols, women’s merchandising manager at The Just Group and head of buying at Glue Store. This is what I love most about my job.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 10, 2024

The department store huffed and puffed, but its status was clearly under threat. The floors that have been unveiled already make a sparkling addition to the department store and transport it firmly into the 2020s, making its new company-coined moniker, “Store of Bangkok”, only just a teeny-weeny exaggeration.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

The brand entered the South Korean market with the opening of its first store at the high-end Shinsegae Department Store located in the bustling area of Gangnam. CDG by Comme des Garçons also opened its first standalone store in South Korea under a partnership with Samsung C&T Fashion earlier this year.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Being a hobbyist store, Good Games caters to the niche market of tabletop gaming: games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, as well as board games, such as Settlers of Catan and, ironically, Pandemic. . Instead, it provides an opportunity for Good Games to offer a more varied product line in its stores. .

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