Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Changing culture of shopping.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The downfall of the almost 40-year-old business raises the question of whether this is a sign of things to come as retailers struggle to compete with the increasing e-commerce capabilities and convenience of retail goliaths on the global market, or whether it is a case of Harrolds facing a ‘perfect storm’ of challenges on multiple fronts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“While Australians continue to face cost-of-living pressures, particularly in a high-interest rate environment, we’ve seen that they’re still willing to spend, particularly on others during key gifting moments like Black Friday,” James Holloman, David Jones’ chief marketing officer, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Typically, consumers seek out department stores and shopping centres to get in the holiday spirit but LaManna has managed to position itself as the exception. LaManna, the 10,000sqm independent supermarket located at Essendon Fields, is rising to the Christmas occasion.

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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.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“Mosaic Brands continues to be an exciting opportunity to reshape a business with a clearly defined market proposition for its target customers, and employees, that we can be proud of,” Berchtold said in a statement. Today, a physical presence is a brand’s most manageable, tangible, and measurable marketing tool,” Gray reaffirmed.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Wirth’s leadership has focused on in-store enhancements, customer loyalty, and curated brand partnerships, helping Myer adapt to and anticipate market shifts,” she added. In his view, successful brands are those that answer the customer’s question, or in other words, meet the customer’s demand. “If

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

A prospective backdoor listing and a marriage of convenience have enlivened end of financial year stock market prognostications. After some six years spent exploring and preparing for a stock market listing, Chemist Warehouse believes the Sigma backdoor listing is its best option and will not adversely impact on competition in the market.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A fundamental question about the future of David Jones was put to rest this week, after the retailer’s parent company Woolworths Holdings announced the sale of the department store chain to Australian private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners on Monday. How involved will Anchorage be in the management of David Jones going forward?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Myer saw a decline in net profit in the last fiscal year due to the underperformance of Sass&Bide, Marcs, and David Lawrence, inflationary pressures, and store closures. The department store chain’s net profit fell 26 per cent to $52.6 million as sales dipped 2.9 per cent to $3.27 million, which accounted for 21.6

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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

AUGUST 3, 2023

David Jones has joined the growing ranks of major retailers to establish their own retail media sales and management business. The department store chain has launched a standalone business called David Jones Amplify which will give brands access to more than 475 in-store media, 102 digital formats and 70 print and digital editorial formats.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Local governments, planners, place makers, economic development managers, trade associations and retailers work hard to design, improve and revitalise main streets. So what types of stores and services do they want? Overwhelmingly, participants considered the pharmacy the most important store or service for an ideal main street.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

How do you market to the customer who can get anything they want anytime they want it? The US luxury retail market was worth US$134.6 billion last year, retail analyst and GlobalData managing director Neil Saunders told Inside Retail. billion, missing analysts’ expectations of US$23 billion.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The luxury market is categorised by its exclusivity, maintained through a combination of high price points, consciously limited product volumes, reputation and customer experience, amongst other factors. Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world. billion in 2024.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Department store Myer has enjoyed the fruits of a rebounding retail environment in FY21, with total sales up 5.5 The result, according to CEO John King, is due to the business’ ability to thrive despite the extraordinary market conditions, and a continued focus on its online channel. “As per cent to $2.65

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And it supplies to department stores, such as David Jones, Myer, Kmart and Big W. Designworks’ divisional general manager Brooke Norton told Inside Retail that the brand sells about 15 million units each year and is heading towards $200 million in wholesale sales. The market is holdings its breath.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Ahead of Myer’s upcoming annual general meeting, Solomon Lew’s Premier Investments has called on the department store to disclose its preliminary full-year results early to “allow an appropriate window” for shareholders to decide its board’s fate.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Results in the past two years were bolstered by Covid management strategies, including landlord rent concessions and government JobKeeper payments. Good management no doubt but also quite likely a strategic move to position Premier Retail for further acquisition opportunities. per cent to $1.5 billion and net earnings up 4.9

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Given that shoppers in other markets have embraced it, however, the exam question is: Should this be regarded as a permanent or temporary difference? Physical retail Is the in-store retail experience becoming the last bastion for true brand experiences or has online won shoppers over? We suggest only time will tell.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Bunnings tapping into tradie market. Bunnings is looking to improve the customer experience for its trade customers with an expanded range of specialty products, tailored customer service desks in stores, dedicated self-checkout, load-and-go spaces and a fully transactional e-commerce site. Here are three key takeaways.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since the retailer’s establishment in 1858, Macy’s has become one of the most well-known department stores in the US, if not the world. billion acquisition offer from an investor group composed of Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital. Macy’s declined to comment on the offer at the time of this writing.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Seven months after Country Road’s CEO Scott Fyfe stepped across to lead department store stablemate David Jones the Australian fashion brand has settled on a new leader: Raju Vuppalapati. Prior to his time at RM Williams, Vuppalapati worked at Levi Strauss & Co.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2022

Department store giant David Jones unveiled the latest Spring/Summer collections this week in its Elizabeth Street flagship in Sydney. The runway featured local and international brands such as Aje, Camilla and Marc, Hugo Boss, P.E. Nation, Carla Zampatti, Matteau, Balmain, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Bastion Insights general manager for cross-cultural insights, Isabel Zhang said that cultural knowledge was key for brands in authentically engaging with Asian Australian communities. Bastion Insights client coordinator Vedant Bhusari noted that department stores Myer and David Jones are considered by many to be operating in luxury retail.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Meanwhile, with traditional dropshipping, the goods will ship blind, without any marketing material that reveals the identity of the supplier. Why fashion loves dropshipping This is the digital version of department stores that decades ago moved to concessions taking a percentage of sales.

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Contra

MARCH 12, 2021

My first job was working as a sales assistant in a department store. I have worked for Contra Vision since 2012 and I am currently the Marketing Manager looking after Brand and Design. The post Meet Helen Beresford Jay, Contra Vision’s Marketing Manager – Design appeared first on Contra Vision.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

After 17 years of running its discount department stores separately, retail conglomerate Wesfarmers announced earlier this week that it would be consolidating the back end operation of Kmart Australia and Target Australia. The impacts of Covid-19 are just the icing on the cake.” We’ve done a lot of listening to customers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2023

Group chairman Solomon Lew has commended Premier Investment’s strong half year results, attributing standout performances to careful management and execution. But my general view is they’ve done a great job and are maxing out the domestic market physically. per cent compared to the first half of FY2022, to $174.3

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Australian activewear brand Do You Even marked the start of its Big W retail partnership and its first range being stocked in the discount department store with a consumer launch event. Bigger impact Big W is Do You Even’s first major retail partnership and the decision was fuelled by a want to make the brand more accessible. “At

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Target Australia managing director Richard Pearson is just the latest person to attempt a turnaround at the perpetually underperforming retailer, but nearly one year into his role, this time, he says, is different. It’s enough to make him “really confident” that the department store is on its way to being a successful business again.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

In recent years, India has emerged as a major market for luxury brands. 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, this still is a significant group.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Anna Brennan is the general manager of women’s athleisurewear retailer Stylerunner. Before joining the team in 2023, Brennan was the general manager of fashion, at the Iconic. Commerce and Marketing at Sydney Uni), I was desperate for a role within the David Jones buying office, however, I lacked the experience.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Supreme was never a good fit for VF,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData. per cent of the luxury eyewear market. That said, EssilorLuxottica has strong distribution capabilities and is good at brand management, so Supreme fits better with them than it did with VF,” he said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Akeroyd, who took over in April, will present his strategy alongside first-half results that will show the lingering impact of lockdown restrictions in China, Burberry’s biggest market. He raised prices, limited distribution to its own shops and high-end department stores and cut discounting.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Inside Retail connected with retail experts Nikki Baird, the vice president of strategy and product at Aptos, a retail technology company, and Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, to gather their thoughts about the potential “Great Mall Resurgence” and what retailers should keep in mind. That is less so today.

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