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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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? Retail was no different. It was in this context, that we helped launch Cimaco Culiacán in Culiacán, Mexico.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Architecture studio OMA has revealed images of the first completed part of its renovation of Berlin department store KaDeWe, a retail and event space connected by wood-clad escalators. Wood-clad escalators sit in the centre of the space. The quadrant encompasses the beauty department.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2022

We have ‘iconic’ shopping centres, ‘iconic’ retail stores, ‘iconic’ restaurants, ‘iconic’ hotels, ‘iconic’ rock groups. But Takashimaya, a retailer of 1831 vintage and still the largest department store chain in Japan, is surely genuinely deserving of the word. The amount of department store floorspace declined by 6.1

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While the industry can agree on the necessity of a physical presence for retailers operating in the apparel space, the jury is still out on the optimal number of locations for brands to maintain relevance and succeed. “We We all grew up with a shop on every corner. For Walker, this is where Mosaic Group’s brands have gone wrong.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While the headlines have largely focused on the number of stores and sales Myer will add to its business if the acquisition is approved, the biggest opportunity could lie in the loyalty space. Where is Myer’s Wirth now Many experts recognise Wirth’s strong background in loyalty as one of the department store’s greatest assets.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2024

Moreover, the group started the reconfiguration of department store space at Westfield Bondi and Westfield Burwood in Sydney and Westfield Southland in Melbourne. Meanwhile, Scentre Group said it continues to progress its $4 billion pipeline of future retail development opportunities. per cent.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When Laura Peden was growing up in the 1970s, department stores were a special place. Decades later, she still vividly remembers how she and her grandmother would travel into Myer’s city store at Christmas to see the “insanely fascinating” windows. The department store was no longer the star attraction.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Battersea Power Station Located in London, UK, Battersea Power Station has transformed a 170,000sqm development in the heart of central London into a community of homes, shops, bars, restaurants, cafes, offices and over 19 acres of public space. The centre is located 17 kilometres southeast of the Melbourne CBD.

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2021

Sales in department store David Jones jumped during the last year despite the continuation of the Covid-19 crisis and intermittent lockdowns hampering trade. Sales in the department store rose 2.3 per cent in comparable stores, as customers increasingly shopped online through lockdown and unprofitable space was minimised.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2022

Department store Myer has announced it will close its Frankston store in Victoria. . The retailer says it wants to divert resources to its rapidly growing online business and develop stores near the Frankston location, such as Southland, Chadstone, and Fountain Gate.

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Investing in expensive leases in CBD locations made sense for Harrolds in a pre-pandemic world, but the decline in foot traffic during the lockdowns made the business vulnerable and diminished its profit margins.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Showfields closed its Miami and New York City locations in July and September, respectively. It has three remaining bricks-and-mortar locations, in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Brooklyn. The Brooklyn store will be expanded by 2,500 sq feet, to 14,000 sq feet, to accommodate brands relocating from the two stores that closed.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Myer has announced the closure of its Blacktown store in Sydney’s outer west, a move that follows the reduction of footprints of five other stores across Australia. . Since then it has closed stores located at Logan, Hornsby, Emporium and – most recently – Knox, last August.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2023

One of the key issues facing Simon and other mall operators is that they are still joined at the hip to department store anchors. Seven of Simon’s top 10 anchors are mainstream department store chains, headed by Macy’s (97 stores) and JCPenney (53 stores).

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So what types of stores and services do they want? Intriguingly, four types of stores/services that are disappearing from main streets around Australia – the post office, bank, department store and newsagent – are in the top ten (out of 45 choices in our survey). The top ten stores and services in an ideal main street.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2025

And in the space of a couple of decades, Bangkok has gone from being a retail backwater to arguably Southeast Asias leading retail destination (although Singaporeans might have something to say about that). The store is the work of Central Department Store Group, a sibling company of Central Pattana.

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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. Within Selfridges , Roper and Diagon have created a captivating space to reflect the ethos and core values of Pangaia.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Spanning eight floors and 71,500 sqft, Johnnie Walker Princes Street is located inside a building, which was formally a traditional department store for almost 100 years. The experiential space also houses two rooftop bars and a terrace overlooking the Edinburgh skyline. .

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The brand plans to increase the number of locations from four to 24 by the end of next year. It’s all about experience Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, the managing director of the International Association of Department Stores, said there are three main types of retailers that cater to the 1 per cent.

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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2021

Discount department store The Reject Shop’s full year results tell an interesting story – one of business suffering under the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown, but also one of a strong reset to an ailing business model. Total sales in the chain fell 5.1 per cent over the course of FY21 to $778.7 Total sales in the chain fell 5.1

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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. Cars are accommodated with 3,200 spaces, and motorbikes — the staple of transport for Cambodians — with 1,850.

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Dezeen

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Parisian fashion brand Coperni has collaborated with Swiss furniture company USM Haller to create its first-ever boutique, a shop-in-shop at French department store Printemps Haussmann. The floor of the retail space was covered in Versailles parquet flooring, with each of the wooden floor panels separated by USM Haller's silver tubing.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

India is the world’s fifth-largest global destination in the retail space. Big brands The recent news surrounding Apple opening its first company-run retail store in India’s financial hub of Mumbai is an indication of how important the market is in this niche space. billion Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) shipments by 2030.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Laurent Boidevezi, the Apac president of luxury liquor group Moet Hennessy kicked off the day by outlining the company’s plans to expand on building its maison’s direct retail spaces as it looks to boost engagement with new generations of end customers. And that follows a fundamental mantra for the group.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Make the Space, a petition started by Rebecca Willink in April, is calling on supermarkets to stock a more diverse range of foundation colours and has gained over 6000 signatures to date. For example, Maybelline’s foundations are stocked in full in only three stores in the whole of Victoria.”. Supermarkets respond.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Fendi and Chanel demonstrate how gaming aesthetics can work for non-gaming brands too : At the “Fendi Arcade Game pop-ups” at the luxury department store Harrods, Fendi combined visual merchandising, reminiscent of amusement fairs and 80s video games such as Pac-Man, with clothing packed in arcade game machines. Credits: Burberry.

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Retail Focus

JULY 27, 2022

Champagne maker Moët & Chandon opened its first permanent space in Europe within the Harrods beauty halls in London on 7th July 2022. The centre piece of the space facing out onto Basil Street in Knightsbridge is an organic, hand-sculpted chandelier, that spans a curving bar and visually connects the bar with its environs.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Myer’s executive chair Olivia Wirth gave her first full-year earnings report to investors on Friday since officially stepping into the top job at the department store chain on June 4. But what I would say is a number of things about why we have a right to play [in the online space]. million members and 4.4

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Retail Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

EL&N Café, famously dubbed as “the most instagrammable café in the world”, has secured almost 8,000 sq ft of space on the bustling New Street, adjacent to Zara, and will offer an expansive 20m double-height frontage.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The brand commands premium prices for its designer eyepieces and is renowned for its stores, most of which resemble contemporary art galleries more than retail spaces. Western perfume brands like Jo Malone London and Diptyque came to China a decade ago and now have around 100 stores. The first goal is to differentiate from them.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Earlier this month, several members of the Nordstrom family, including the company’s CEO Erik Nordstrom and president Pete Nordstrom, offered to acquire the legacy department store chain for US$3.8 The department store division has various structural challenges, while the off-price Rack division is starting to produce some good growth.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Since launching in Sydney in 2006, the chain of hobby game stores has grown to 29 locations across the country, as well as two in the United States. Board games have become popular enough over the past few years to earn shelf space in larger department stores, such as Kmart and Big W, but this doesn’t bother Chiu.

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