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How premium parenting retailer The Memo picks its store locations

Inside Retail

But great experiential retail requires a great store location and Melbourne is currently boasting the lowest retail vacancy rates in Australia. But high street locations like The Memo’s shopfront on Fitzroy’s Gertrude Street are rarely vacant and competitive to secure.

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Behind Desigual’s repositioning and its Asia Pacific expansion

Inside Retail

Inside Retail spoke to Balázs Krizsanyik, GM of Desigual Asia Pacific, and Tim O’Rourke, national sales and managing director at O’Rourke Showroom, to learn more about the brand’s local strategy for the Australian market and its expansion strategy globally. IR: Could you elaborate more on the expansion strategies in this market?

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Amazon to test department stores in offline expansion

Inside Retail

Kohl’s may suffer, if only because Amazon is likely to favour locations similar to its own. In short, the lack of innovation by traditional department stores means their defences are very weak, so the last thing they need is to fend off a new invader to their space.”.

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Goodbyes’ roadmap for national expansion and a store in every city

Inside Retail

But even with six, we’re proud to be the largest secondhand bricks-and-mortar retail service in Australia, and our plans are to achieve broad nationwide expansion in the next couple of years. This year and going forward has been [about] securing retail properties, so the right leases and the right spaces.

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MAPIC 2024: Highlights of the 2024 Edition

Retail Focus

With an expanded area and a new space dedicated to brand licensing (IP), LeisurUp, the zone dedicated to leisure and immersive experiences, brought together leading players such as Bandai Namco, Citywave, Cits Immersives, Hasbro, Dama Dreams, Dedem, Hupalupa, Smiley, QubicaAMF, Pausa, TF1 Licensing, Universal, Walltopia, and Zero Latency VR.

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Chatime Australia CEO talks expansion into US and New Zealand

Inside Retail

“We see New Zealand as a wonderful market opportunity, and we already see a number of global bubble tea operators in that space and performing really well, so it gives us a lot of insight into the market,” Antonius said. We’ll be opening our first three corporate locations in Los Angeles in Q2 next year, and will expand from there.”.

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Melbourne, NZ next stops on Geezy Go’s rapid expansion

Inside Retail

Geezy Go, an online-only supermarket that launched in Sydney in August, is setting up shop in Melbourne on Wednesday and will soon hit New Zealand as part of its rapid expansion plan. “We’re The business plans to expand to 200 locations globally by the end of this year, and New Zealand is next on the cards.

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