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Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Departmentstores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces.
Australian retailsales moderately improved in July, which Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data attributed to the continuation of mid-year sales. billion, with the ‘other retailing’ segment, which includes cosmetics, sports, and recreational goods, recording the highest growth, of 5.5 Food jumped 3.2
In fact, China saw its economy strengthen in November 2020, with retailsales expanding by five per cent. Hopefully, as vaccines roll out across Southeast Asia, and the eventual relaxation of the MCO, will set the retail industry firmly on the path to recovery and growth. You can download it here.
Australian retailsales are on the rise – but new research suggests growth is being driven by inflation, not by consumers buying more. On a quarterly basis, overall retail price growth has already exceeded sales volume growth in both the March and June quarters,” says Rumbens. per cent.”.
In the landscape of global commerce, few sectors evoke as much intrigue and promise as the consumer goods market in China. With higher than expected growth , a burgeoning middle class, and evolving consumer preferences, China stands at the forefront of the retail revolution. per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Two thirds (66.3
The latest retailsales figures are really quite incredible. According to the Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retailsales rose by 0.6 per cent) and departmentstores (down 0.4 My tip is that retailsales figures in the next couple of months will start to reflect this. per cent bump.
In Japan, as usual, the retailers think of ingenious ways of getting around it. Departmentstores, which have traditionally been one of the favourite retail go-to places for high-end chocolates, have had to think a little bit out of the box (or out of the square if you prefer). per cent, in the second half it was just 2.3
First quarter results for calendar year 2022 are in for the three biggest Korean departmentstoreretailers, and the numbers are encouraging. Shinsegae, Lotte, and Hyundai account for the top nine departmentstores in the country (coming in at number 10 is Galleria’s high-end flagship in Seoul). trillion KRW ($2.1
Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean departmentstoreretailing 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.
For once, departmentstores are leading a retailsales recovery instead of lagging it. In Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reports that retailsales in the first quarter amounted to 39,781 billion yen (about $434 billion at current exchange rates), up 6.5 per cent from a year ago.
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per cent and retailersales per square metre for the trailing 12 months were US$8,166, up 3.3 One of the key issues facing Simon and other mall operators is that they are still joined at the hip to departmentstore anchors. And one of the remaining three, Neiman Marcus, is basically an upscale apparel departmentstore.
And it supplies to departmentstores, 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.
Retailsales in the US soared 0.6 per cent increase in November, according to the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau. On a year-on-year basis, US retailsales were up 5.6 On a year-on-year basis, US retailsales were up 5.6 For 2023, unadjusted retailsales increased 3.2 per cent and 5.7
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And while food retailing led the way in growth (1.1 per cent) across the nation, several other segments of the market fell: namely, household goods (-1.1 per cent) and departmentstores (0.7 In total, the ABS recorded sales of $31.1 of total sales in May 2021.”. per cent), clothing (-0.4 billion in May.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retailsales were up 19.2 Customers were spending more on clothing, footwear and personal accessories, departmentstores and cafes and restaurants in July 2022, compared to the 12 months prior, and consumer sentiment was also up, by 3.9
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While the retail sector had been a standout in March 2020, as actual spending and spending intentions surged during the early stages of the pandemic, retail spending and spending intentions growth had stabilised in recent months.
stores in Vietnam. The retailsales mix is nicely balanced, with 30 per cent hardlines, 39 per cent food and 31 per cent fashion. Among the highlights was a successful relaunch of Central Chidlom (popularly known as Central DepartmentStore) in downtown Bangkok, with a new multi-level designer wing called Luxe Galerie.
This has been good news for retail spending that is linked to social settings, such as clothing and shoes and departmentstores. The impact of higher interest rates on the housing market is apparent. Domestic travel has fully rebounded, with 27.7 Hospitality has had a resurgence as well.
Inflationary pressure on consumer discretionary spending, supply chain disruptions and elevated inventory levels, which tie up a retailers’ net working capital, are set to create the perfect storm for retailers that do not have a strategy in place to ensure they are well positioned for the choppy market conditions ahead.
Amazon expects net sales in the quarter ended June 30, 2020, to be between US$110 billion and US$116 billion, an increase of between 24 per cent and 30 per cent year on year. It’s not surprising that Amazon has done really well,” Jason Pallant, a senior lecturer in marketing at Swinburne Business School, told Inside Retail.
Words used for praise in marketing have a tendency to get overused to the point of being meaningless, thus requiring replacement every couple of years. The departmentstore huffed and puffed, but its status was clearly under threat. Same-storesales for Vietnam hardlines were down 20 per cent.
E-commerce in Singapore had a couple of bumper years in 2020-21, but online sales growth plateaued in 2022 as a percentage of Singapore’s retailsales : for Capitaland’s malls, many of them part of integrated mixed-use projects, it was time to start taking full advantage of normalisation. per cent) and departmentstore BHG (1.0
It is also a gross figure, so it excludes obsolete space exiting the market. If you have a disproportionately large number of leases expiring in one year, it can signal trouble, since it puts the landlord at the mercy of any market shock that might occur in that year. per cent in June. A few other categories had small gains.
For some time now, the growth of e-commerce in the Lion City has been falling back in line with the growth rate of retailsales as a whole. It operates retail properties, mixed-use projects and office buildings. Downtown malls outperformed their suburban counterparts, with sales increasing by 20.3 per cent versus 4.1
The first is the perennial issue of whether or not the various markets can absorb the new space becoming available as developers open the doors of their newest projects. The normalisation of tourism in markets such as Singapore and Bangkok also helped landlords lease space and stabilise rents. Three factors are of special concern.
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A decade ago, the advertising and marketing sector was taken to task by Peter Field and Les Binet. But 10 years later, advertisers are falling back into old habits ditching long-term brand-building efforts to purely focus on activation campaigns that deliver sales in the short term. And that applies equally to retailsales data.
Aeon Mall, Japan’s pan-Asian mall developer, is slowly but surely engineering a shift in its development focus from Japan to growth markets in China and Southeast Asia. As a result, the contribution of those non-Japan markets to revenue can be expected to increase steadily. In June, retailsales were up 2.0
US departmentstore Nordstrom has teamed up with Instagram page-turned-online marketplace Black Owned Everything to spotlight four up-and-coming Black-owned fashion and accessories brands alongside global sneaker giants Nike and Jordan as part of its Nordstrom x Nike initiative.
So in looking for opportunities above the parapet to adapt and innovate, and to prioritise resources right now, it might be useful to first look at the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which tells us clothing, footwear, accessories and departmentstores all experienced a marginal decline in July turnover compared with June 2024.
Vincom is easily the largest mall developer and operator in Vietnam, and wants to focus less on new development this year and more on a trifecta of objectives aimed at its existing mall fleet: driving rental growth, upgrading its market positioning, and strengthening the shaky operating metrics of elements of its far-flung portfolio.
In each case, the arrival of these brands in new markets has generally been greeted with huge enthusiasm. Even departmentstores like Takashimaya, Isetan and Aeon have had a fair measure of success in non-Japan Asia, notwithstanding their recent problems due partly to the pandemic. Sales were up 0.4
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