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A marriage of convenience? Myer’s acquisition of Premier’s apparel brands

Inside Retail

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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Decoding the global trends shaping the future of retail

Inside Retail

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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Analysis: Consumers and the new reality

Inside Retail

The evidence arising from the research points to a rapid shift in how customers view their world: such is the level of change, it demands an equally rapid response from retailers’ approach in their markets. We will explore the four key themes emerging from our research and how retailers need to respond to the changed consumer.

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Why it’s good to be a mall operator in the Philippines right now

Inside Retail

SM Prime is not just a developer and operator of garden-variety malls: it develops whole ‘lifestyle cities’ with residential, office, hotel, convention and entertainment uses integrated with enclosed malls, markets and retail high streets. Some of these naturally occupy space in SM Prime’s malls.

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Opinion: Consumers’ screen times gives shopping centres a headache

Inside Retail

Retail shopping centres face a major challenge rebuilding customer traffic and sales after the Covid-19 pandemic is controlled. With occupancy rates under pressure, shopping-centre landlords have already reviewed property valuations to account for tighter rent market conditions and financial concessions required to retain key retail brands.

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For Singapore’s Capitaland, the mall comes roaring back

Inside Retail

The portfolio sales growth compares favourably with Singapore retail sales growth, which averaged monthly year-on-year increases of just over 14 per cent throughout 2022. It isn’t possible to say that Capitaland’s malls outpaced the market. per cent) and department store BHG (1.0 per cent) and department store BHG (1.0

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The key to better boards? More women with hands-on retail experience

Inside Retail

A 2016 survey by the National Retail Association found 40 per cent of full-time managers in the industry across Australia were female with around 1700 in CEO or managing director roles. The skill sets of individual directors in finance, technology and marketing, etc, are valuable but a director also must understand the business.