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MARCH 13, 2025

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APRIL 11, 2025

The Chiswick property market has witnessed a remarkable shift over the past year, with property prices in the sought-after W4 postcode dropping by around 20%. Instead, it is a consequence of changing buyer preferences, with an increased number of flat sales dominating the market while larger family homes remain off the market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

But in 2025, we want to celebrate the gestures big and small that symbolise everyday love”, said Soniya Cooper, head of marketing and partnerships, at Lvly, told Inside Retail. Inside Retail spoke with Cooper about the brands considerate customer-led marketing initiatives, consumer trends and stepping into bricks-and-mortar retail.

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APRIL 7, 2025

According to Bain & Companys How India Shops Online 2025 report, Indias e-retail market is on track to more than double from $60 billion in 2023 to $160 billion by 2028, making it the fastest-growing major e-commerce market in the world. Platforms that fail to localise risk irrelevance.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

According to influencer marketing expert Sarah Walsh, Poppi got caught up in vanity metrics and lost sight of the people that purchase its products. First, stop investing your marketing dollars into vanity metrics and big-name influencers. Second, learn to apologise.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

some entered the Indonesian market in 2019, citing a gap in diverse retail product offerings. some identified Malaysia as its next key market, driven by the countrys young consumer base and thriving retail environment. For these reasons, we decided to use these two cities as pilot locations for the Malaysian market, the person said.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

Southeast Asia as key market We see Malaysia as a prime opportunity, given its status as one of Southeast Asia’s largest and most developed economies,” Mohammad A Baker, CEO of GMG, told Inside Retail. Insights from its acquisition of Royal Sporting House have also helped the company understand local market dynamics.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Chadstone has revealed its new dining precinct , The Market Pavilion, a $485 million food and lifestyle destination. The Market Pavilion spans 26,500sqm and is home to more than 50 businesses providing fresh fruit, gourmet foods, and artisan treats.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

The digitalisation of media has seen advertising budgets diverted towards social media campaigns and search engine marketing in Australia, 70 per cent of digital advertising spend goes to Meta and Google. For many retailers, these platforms have grown to consume the whole marketing funnel and their templated options have become the default.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

After a four-year hiatus, G-Star Raw is poised to re-establish its presence in Australia and New Zealand, emerging from a turbulent chapter in the market. The Australian arm of the Dutch-founded denim giant, established in 1989, collapsed into voluntary administration in early 2020 as the advent of covid engulfed the market.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Numerous conferences and sessions held over the first two days provided a comprehensive overview of market trends, featuring many exclusive international speakers. Retail investment has been especially driven by the strong performance of the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets, alongside robust results in the UK.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s not easy to be a mid-market retailer in Australia right now. There is increased competition from e-commerce players, the local market and major international brands. Our numbers continue to get better and better when technically the market remains challenging. We’re a mid-market Aussie retailer.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2025

Globally, it holds the top spot in 25 markets across more than 30 countries and regions with official Apple rankings. The online marketplace was launched in 2022 and entered the Australian market in March 2023. The post Temu named fastest-growing website in Australia appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

If you don’t have your narrative set, someone else will tell your story, said Katie Welch, the chief marketing officer of Rare Beauty. Ross wanted to find a haircare brand that carried products suited to a wide variety of hair textures that were also marketed and presented in a quality manner.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

American watch company Movado Group has established a joint venture with premier luxury brand distributor Norbreeze Group to enhance its market position in Singapore and Malaysia. Research company Statista estimates Southeast Asia’s watches and jewellery market to reach US$14.84

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MARCH 20, 2025

The core market of young families is among the worst impacted by the current inflationary economy. The brand operated 307 stores across its proprietary markets of Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Singapore and Malaysia at the end of the first half. Meanwhile, sales at the stationery and gift chain Smiggle dived 14.5

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. Amazon, the $2 trillion gorilla, arrived on our shores officially in December 2017, just in time for Christmas.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

High-profile fashion collaborations are nothing new, but does making luxury accessible and marketing it to a younger audience come at a cost? The strategy was vastly different from its polished Instagram marketing, targeted at an older Gen Y and Z audience. billion Bitmoji avatars globally. I think not.”

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Canadian activewear brand Lululemon Athletica aims to double its business through category, retail and market expansion and product innovation. And then globally, we’re now in over 26 markets with single-digit market share, and we have a unique position in almost every market we compete in. How big can it get?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It has been seven years since Amazon acquired the American grocery chain Whole Foods Market, but from its perspective, it is still only scratching the surface of the grocery sector. However, with just 500 physical stores in the US, Whole Foods Market isn’t ready to rival the likes of Walmart, with 4606 US locations, just yet.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

Attracting an offer from Dollarama, a recognised leader in the value retail market, is testament to both the meaningful improvement that our incredible team has made to our business over the past few years as well as the significant growth potential that exists for The Reject Shop, he continued.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

An immense passion for outdoor sports and strategically accelerating brands drew Moore to the Salomon business, where he is now leading its next phase of growth within the ANZ market. He attributes this new positioning to driving the huge growth of the brand in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The acquisition is expected to increase Thule’s market share in Asia Pacific from 5 per cent to 10 per cent as it gains access to a customer base of motorcycle enthusiasts. “This market is growing rapidly, and we look forward to tackling the many growth opportunities together,” said Andrew Poole, Quad Lock CEO.

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JANUARY 5, 2025

Two of the nations major employers, with a combined workforce of 320,000 staff and about a 66 per cent share of the grocery market, Woolworths and Coles endured a 2024 they would no doubt rather forget. Woolworths and Coles, Australias supermarket goliaths, have gone from Covid-19 heroes to cost-of-living villains in the last two years.

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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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APRIL 3, 2025

The last thing I was ever going to do was put a product or do something in the market that didnt feel genuine to our culture, he added. We put [Yarnn] out to the market as a direct-to-consumer brand, and we very much wanted to educate and inspire. We see a lot of potential in this market, especially with businesses that have ESG goals.

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MARCH 9, 2025

Accelerating growth in the mens market Canadian Lululemon, traditionally associated with womens yoga wear, has aggressively expanded its offerings to cater to a broader audience. Navigating the competitive landscape Lululemon is not alone in its push to capture a larger share of the mens activewear market.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Wunderkind leverages first-party data and its proprietary means of identifying anonymous website traffic, then works alongside brands, using its marketing engine to convert leads into sales through owned channels, including email and text.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As part of the plans , the new company will focus on global core markets, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Korea, India and Malaysia. It will also look into the European and additional Asian markets in the future. Operations in other markets with heavy liabilities will wind down.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Inside Retail spoke to industry experts Brian Walker, founder and executive chair of Retail Doctor Group, Mal Chia, managing director and co-founder of Ecom Nation, and Dr Jessica Pallant, marketing lecturer at RMIT University, for their take on the situation. Catch started by offering once-a-day deals in limited quantities.

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