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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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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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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Email marketing has become a cornerstone of delivering this seamless retail customer experience, acting as a direct and personalized communication channel between brands and their customers. It involves connecting the dots between various touchpoints, including online stores, physical locations, customer support, and marketing communications.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2025

Golden Goose aims to gain more market share in Australia by establishing a strong retail presence and building lasting community connections through new retail experiences. Inside Retail spoke with Mauro Maggioni, Golden Gooses Apac CEO, about how the business plans to grow its market share in the global US$39.91

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Global womenswear and lifestyle brand Club L London announces the appointment of Dan Lorenson as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Dan has been a key figure in the brands evolution since 2018, initially collaborating as the Founder of boutique marketing agency Flying People.

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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

MARCH 5, 2025

In a press release, Jean-Marc Bellaiche, Printemps Groupes chief executive officer, stated, “We think we can bring something unique, both to its engaged local consumer base and the strong tourist flows the city welcomes We plan to pioneer a new format of experiential retail in this fast-changing and demanding market.”

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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 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Our innovative measures from menu evolution to the introduction of breakthrough business models like KCoffee Cafes and Pizza Hut Wow have expanded our addressable market and increased our market share, Wat said. Ding noted that China is still a very big market. Further reading: How Yum Chinas growth strategy is paying off.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Omar Sabr, the brands CEO, spoke with Inside Retail about how the retail disruptor has created its own lane, how to align with the right IP partnerships and what this business approach looks like in international markets. Mid-market brands chase mass appeal. IR : Are DTC stores on the horizon for any markets? Why or why not?

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Tributes to the former Coles chief marketing officer Lisa Ronson poured in on LinkedIn, following the news of her untimely death in a vehicle accident near Daylesford on Saturday. She also previously worked as GM of marketing at David Jones, head of marketing services at Telstra, and marketing director for ANZ at Visa.

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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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Lovisa noted that it experienced a higher cost of doing business in the first half as it invested in team structures and technology for expansion, along with increased spending on digital marketing and events and a mix of stores in higher-cost markets. For the first seven weeks of the second half, comparable store sales rose 3.7

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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

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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

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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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

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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Temu: The fast-growing challenger A relative newcomer to the Australian market, Temu – whose parent is China’s PDD Holdings – has quickly attracted a large following. Shein: Dominating the fast-fashion market Shein has become a major player in Australian fashion, particularly among younger consumers. In the last year alone, 3.8

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Rolling out a burger chain across the country has proved challenging for other US brands which have dipped their toes in the Australian market in recent years. Five Guys hit the Australian market in 2021. billion burger market, with more than 1000 stores and an estimated brand revenue of $5.7

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Adaptability and Market Responsiveness : Applying a hyper-local strategy enables luxury brands to be more agile and responsive to market trends. This adaptability helps luxury brands innovate while reducing the risks associated with entering new markets or launching experimental collections. market, making it a notable example.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“Under his leadership Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd grew from a Brisbane-based company to a truly global business – the market-leader in each of the markets the company has operated for more than three years in Europe and the Asia Pacific,” said Jack Cowin, chairman of Domino’s Pizza Enterprises.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

“This forms part of our ongoing test and learn approach with the aim of growing our market share and brand awareness during the key gifting season.” . “We have opened two new stores and further extended our reach with the launch of 12 pop-ups in flagship centres across the country,” said Vlad Yakubson, Dusk CEO and MD.

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