Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Significant market trends are impacting retail businesses today – the migration of consumers online, supply-chain challenges and the cost-of-living crisis to name just a few – but there is a more obvious reason many retailers are struggling. Good planning tools arrive at consensus forecasts from every area of the business. “We

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

While it is certainly true that there are challenges in wholesale and that the luxury market is softer, these factors do not explain Capris chronic inability to stabilise its sales line. All brands recorded lower sales during the period, with Versace down 15 per cent, Jimmy Choo down 4.2 A decline of 11.6

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Doug McMillon, Walmarts CEO, doesnt mince words when it comes to summing up the vibe in the companys executive suite in a call with investors last Thursday, saying that the confidence level was high, and tariffs dont really bother him either: Tariffs are something we’ve managed for many years, and we’ll just continue to manage that.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2025

Ramadan continues to be a crucial shopping period across Southeast Asia, with evolving consumer behaviours and market dynamics shaping the retail landscape. Growing demand has led some retailers to operate 24 hours a day to accommodate changing consumption patterns. This year, Ramadan began on February 28 and ends on March 30.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

Jaya Grocer’s deputy CEO, Daniel Teng, and Coles’ general manager of exports and fresh food commercials, Will Mulholland, sealed the deal at a symbolic ceremony at Jaya Grocer Starling Mall, witnessed by the Australian Deputy High Commissioner to Malaysia, Clare Gatehouse.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2025

And lets not forget the infamous Optus outage in 2023, which crippled local retailers reliant on POS systems for payments and inventory management. Crowdstrike is a market-leading anti-malware solution because it rapidly delivers updates to detect new threats. The same is true for cloud providers like AWS.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

There was sales growth over last year, although most of this was generated online rather than in stores,” Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, observed. Ethan Chernofsky, Placer.ai’s senior vice president of marketing remarked, “Black Friday is not just about purchasing products.”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2025

Indeed, many retailers will happily say goodbye to 2024, a period when high inflation and interest rates remained persistent and an ongoing cost-of-living crisis crushed consumer sentiment to its lowest in 45 years, all of which resulted in anaemic national year-on-year retail sales growth. How did they adapt?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2024

It’s the same thrill that retailers across Australia feel as retail sale season kicks off. Lasting from November through January, sale season captures the excitement and hustle as retailers gear up for Click Frenzy, Black Friday , Boxing Day, and beyond. This helps customers feel empowered over their data.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2022

An invitation-only international expression of interest campaign was conducted and managed by Stonebridge’s Philip Gartland and Lachlan MacGillivray and Stewart Gilchrist of Colliers. hectares of developable vacant land, a portion of which has preliminary approval for retail, showroom, medical and indoor recreation, and offices.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Research from E-marketer shows that global marketplaces accounted for 62 per cent of online retail sales last year up four points from 2022. In a warning to Australian retail brands, he sees the market share of marketplaces growing even further. And make no mistake, TikTok Shop is now coming to this market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Net sales in Asia Pacific were down 7 per cent driven by China’s weak performance and partially offset by growth across other markets led by Hong Kong’s double-digit growth. The company reported net sales plummeting 9 per cent to $7.8 billion for the six months ended December 31.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

The struggles of the UK high street and the acceleration of retail sales from ‘bricks to clicks’ have never been more apparent than during the Covid-19 pandemic. With e-commerce sales reaching 21.8% Jon Walkington, Retail and System Integrator Sales Director, Schoeller Allibert UK.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

per cent from a year ago, due to the opening of new malls and improved occupancy over the portfolio, but Vincoms revenue crown jewel, the sale of inventory properties (shophouses), has been hollowed out. The company managed to eke out a 1.7 per cent but the sale of shophouses cut roughly in half. Leasing revenue increased 3.9

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 19, 2024

Vicinity Centres has acquired a 50 per cent stake in the Lakeside Jundaloop shopping centre in Western Australia from Future Fund for $420 million, and will co-own it with Lendlease-managed Australian Prime Property Fund – Retail. Its tenancy profile is supported by 16 mini-majors and 267 specialties and kiosks. per cent.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Elijah Etri, Skippy’s Fresh Frootz manager at Victoria Point, Queensland, has started a new Tiktok challenge, encouraging viewers to head into their local supermarket and check the prices of comparable produce and products. Private-label brand sales account for 18.1 per cent overall of all FMCG retail sales.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The group plans to review its retail operations and identify any new opportunities that a different corporate structure could bring to Smiggle and Peter Alexander, up to a potential demerger of the brands, and to analyse any potential capital requirements, management structures, and separation costs.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2023

The centre boasts robust annual retail sales of $532 million and welcomes about 9.7 The post AMP Capital fund to sell 50 per cent of Westfield Tea Tree Plaza appeared first on Inside Retail. A $40 million upgrade project is expected to be completed by September, which will bring about more benefits. million customers a year. “A

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

“It is quite the milestone, it does mean we’ve officially taken the designer crown of being the longest-running consumer fashion event in Australia,” Matthew Flinn, MFW senior manager, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Enticing shoppers into bricks-and-mortar stores to spend their hard-earned money during a cost-of-living crisis requires marketing teams to get creative, leveraging everything from giveaways to extended trading and entertainment. per cent higher than last year, with ultra-luxury brands expected to be most disappointed in sales this year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. per cent, year-on-year retail sales growth in August 2022. Brooke Norton – Supplied.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2021

Here in Asia Pacific, online retail sales are expanding at a compounded annual growth rate of 11 per cent, driving two-thirds of global online retail growth,” said Kawal Preet, FedEx president, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (AMEA). Meanwhile, 33.09 The company also introduced drone delivery in 2019.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

This is a fantastic new partnership for PAS and we’re very excited to launch Replay into the Australian and New Zealand markets in the first quarter of 2022,” he said. “We Before] these latest lockdowns, we were tracking extremely positively,” he told Inside Retail last month. “We

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

It also has a significant online presence, claiming 50 per cent of all online Australian liquor sales. Pfeiffer-Smith did not directly address the decline in beer sales and its effect on Dan Murphy’s; however, she did note there is a great opportunity for all drinks categories, including beer, to innovate to meet changing customer needs.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, told Inside Retail , “Having produced a string of good numbers over the past few years, Walmart is currently one of the stars of the retail market.” In 2022, Walmart accounted for approximately US$500 billion in retail sales.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

per cent – retailers might be expecting tough economic conditions, as consumers are expected to cut back. . According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales were up 19.2 With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) increasing interest rates for six straight months – most recently, a 0.25

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

In 2011, Australian swimwear label Bond-eye re-entered the market, after taking a hiatus for several years to recalibrate. Brand identity for strong, scalable growth Today Bond-eye is known for its balance between function and aesthetic, impeccable quality and aspirational marketing campaigns. A major factor is that Bond-eye sells.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2023

The report found that Australians between 25-29 were more likely to be in the rental or housing market, and were subsequently making the most significant spending reductions to afford rising costs. Volley content and marketing manager Anna Geason told Inside Retail that the usual Volley customer is usually aged between 35-44 years old.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The shift in spending towards online channels is another permanent outcome of the pandemic, with annual events such as the Black Friday and Click Frenzy sales helping to propel end-of-season retail sales well into November , permanently changing the flow of consumers’ retail spending patterns.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It’s also an important time for retail staff, with many retailers taking on additional Christmas workforces to keep up with demand. However, the emergence of BFCM, and the fact many of these sales are predominantly online, has impacted the Christmas period significantly. Consider this; last year retail sales in November rose 5.8%

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

Data shows the rapid increase in online shopping that defined the first year of the global pandemic has started to fade, as the novelty of lockdowns wears off and government stimuluses run out, and online retailers that once enjoyed record highs are now working harder to drive sales. This time last year, we were all still in lockdown.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2022

Brown has been a brand manager at True Alliance since 2009, most recently managing the Ben Sherman brand. In that role, he was responsible for product sourcing, buying, design, marketing, wholesale and retail sales, brand positioning and organisational development.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The tradition of gift-giving at Christmas drives billions of dollars in retail sales every year. It’s just breaking the stigma starting,” Aífe O’Loughlin, senior manager of circular economy at Salvos Stores, told Inside Retail. Salvos’ Christmas campaign comes at a time of growing interest in the secondhand market.

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Retail Times

JUNE 1, 2021

At the Spar virtual conference held on 27 May 2021, Spar UK managing director Louise Hoste told invited retailers, store, wholesaler and central office colleagues, trade, supplier and press guests how the symbol group is determined to maintain its lead in the convenience market by investing £125 million in the business over the next 12 months.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

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.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2022

Last month we talked about How coaching influences the retail sales culture. Being that person that your team member remembers as giving them confidence, believing in them and providing the support necessary for them to progress or take the next step is a benchmark for any people manager. Benefits for the individual.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2023

This, he said, is covering up volume decreases for retailers. Many retailers aren’t keeping up with the inflation rate and seeing negative growth. Success] will be very much about stealing market share from competitors,” Brookes said. It’s fair to say that no one will escape this dilemma,” he said.

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