Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

In todays competitive retail landscape, customer insights play a crucial role in shaping business strategies and enhancing the overall shopping experience. IR : How do you collaborate with other departments, like product development or marketing, to ensure customer insights are acted upon? You can download the full report here.

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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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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 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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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Our merchandise process also ensures we conduct thorough checks during the product ranging and development process, to ensure we are not infringing the rights of others. However, Amazons seller guidelines have encouraged Dreamfarm and other innovation-first brands to start patenting their products once again.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Better demand forecasting with AI Using AI algorithms to analyse historical sales data, seasonal trends and other market factors can help retailers predict future demand with higher accuracy. Another strategy with AI is dynamic pricing. This helps manage consumer expectations as well as enhance profitability on limited stock.

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Retail Focus

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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“Under Wirth, Myer has hopefully redefined its strategy, streamlining operations for a balanced omnichannel approach,” Nick Gray, the founder of I Got You Consultancy, told Inside Retail. In his view, successful brands are those that answer the customer’s question, or in other words, meet the customer’s demand. “If

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The recent opening of Lululemon’s new flagship at Emporium Melbourne marked a key milestone for the brand and its robust growth strategy in the region. Inside Retail spoke with Paul Tinkler, vice president of Lululemon ANZ, about the significance of this opening and how it fits into the activewear brand’s broader business strategy.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“There’s been a lot of curiosity from customers who are familiar with H&M in different markets and are eager to visit this innovative store,” she said. “We The company currently operates more than 250 stores across key markets such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

some entered the Indonesian market in 2019, citing a gap in diverse retail product offerings. Business model and strategy The company offers products across 15 categories, including trendy toys, beauty products, stationery and snacks, with exclusive regional distribution rights for some items. Retail chain Oh!some In December, Oh!some

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The presence of major international players such as AEW, CBRE IM, Pradera, Klepierre, URW, Ingka Centres, Nhood, Altarea, Hammerson, IGD, Apsys, Mercialys, Sonae Sierra, and others highlighted the significance of the event. These sessions revealed an optimistic vision of the resilience of retail as an asset class.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

GP: While I dont envision the Potts Point space becoming a permanent store; the residency concept is something were considering expanding to other cities in the future, both domestically and internationally, as the brand grows. Weve really enjoyed the process and think theres potential for this model to work in other cities.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Heavy online marketing spending by Temu and Shein is making it more costly for other retailers and brands to reach shoppers on Black Friday, marketing and industry experts say, with both platforms bidding heavily on search keywords used by competitors. Shein did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2024

We work hard to keep our overall costs of doing business low so we can maintain our price advantage versus other retailers,” said Eshuys. The Reject Shop’s low-cost operations combined with the ongoing success of its merchandise strategy are intended to set the retailer up for success despite macroeconomic conditions.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Besides KFC and Pizza Hut, Yum China also operates other brands including Little Sheep, Taco Bell and Lavazza. Strategy paid off Yum Chinas strong performance comes against the backdrop of Chinas challenging economic environment. Ding noted that China is still a very big market.

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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 4, 2025

From a digital commerce standpoint, the alignment of a retail division is a logical step based on how the market is changing, stated Sperti. Woolworths organisational restructure and consolidation of its retail divisions could in fact hint towards a more nuanced strategy at play.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Its brands include Fiskars, Georg Jensen, Gerber, Iittala, Royal Copenhagen, Moomin by Arabia, Waterford and Wedgwood, among others. Nathalie Ahlström: For Fiskars Group, Australia is our fifth largest market, it’s big. What’s the retail strategy in Australia? We have a very clear channel strategy by brand.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You don’t have to be a marketing expert to know that Taylor Swift is a bulletproof brand that consistently improves, regardless of the challenges she faces or the challenges she sets for herself. She can instruct marketers on leading by example and practicing what they advocate for.

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Inside Retail

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. Im 52, but thinking back to when I was younger I could probably count on one hand the number of women out in the world, other than my mother [singer Diana Ross] who wore their natural hair texture.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2025

In February, the business announced it had experienced 225 per cent year-on-year sales growth, primarily driven by its strategy in the US market. The US fashion market has a history of making or breaking Australian fashion labels and Leo Lins move into the US saw the brand double its revenue in just two years.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2024

Before joining the Go-To team, Faddy was the global marketing and sales director at The Beauty Chef, and before this, she worked at The Estée Lauder Companies. IR : What advice would you give to emerging marketing leaders who aspire to reach the CMO level in their careers?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“While Australians continue to face cost-of-living pressures, particularly in a high-interest rate environment, we’ve seen that they’re still willing to spend, particularly on others during key gifting moments like Black Friday,” James Holloman, David Jones’ chief marketing officer, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2024

Retailers have also been hit with rising input costs eroding margins, leaving many merchandise, marketing and commerce functions wondering how they are going to achieve more with less. The post Retention and loyalty – how to grow when the market is down appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As part of the integration, some Monki stores will be converted into multi-brand Weekday destinations, while others will be closed. Monki operates 56 stores in 15 markets and runs online shops in 29 countries. Weekday has 47 stores in 14 markets and 29 regional online stores.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

The bad news was that company CFO Mat Friend admitted that Nike fell short of its plan, telling investors on its June 27 conference call: “We experienced meaningful shifts in consumer traffic in key markets – particularly in Greater China, where brick-and-mortar traffic declined as much as double-digits versus prior year.” per cent).

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

Australian luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty launched into the US market this week and is now stocked in over 1,800 Kroger Co stores. Inside Retail: How did MCoBeauty approach entering into the US market? Shelley Sullivan: We are following the same strategy in the US. SS: Six per cent. SS: Absolutely.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

Rollout of Naked Sundays products into 50 Urban Outfitters stores will increase the brand’s identity in the US market and make it more accessible to its target audience. Naked Sundays prides ourselves on being first to market and at the forefront of SPF innovation. million locally and US$11.52 billion worldwide.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While there are some more obvious steps retailers can take to bolster sustainability such as switching plastic-based bags for paper alternatives and putting in place product recycling schemes, other actions may not be so apparent. How is all this possible in just a few steps? Additionally, choosing sustainable flooring enhances brand image.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 2, 2025

While certain trends that were apparent this year may not be as key in 2025, others will continue into the next year and beyond, playing a major role in shaping customer demand. Chris Newell, creative partner, Syn As a marketing agency working within the retail sector, Syn has seen several trends emerge in 2024.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 30, 2025

H&M is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into its marketing strategy by creating digital versions of real-life models. ” H&M told Business of Fashion that models will retain control over their digital likeness and can allow other brands, including competitors, to use them for marketing. .

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The food emporium has earned a reputation for its hospitality-first approach in the grocery sector and its strategy for the holiday season will follow the same playbook. Inside Retail : How has LaManna differentiated its holiday season offering from other supermarkets?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This stand-alone app will be expected to compete with other fashion retailers like Walmart-owned Myntra. In 2020, India banned Shein’s app alongside other Chinese applications like TikTok due to security concerns during border tensions. Reliance is one of Indias largest conglomerates and has strong ties to the government.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The sale of MCoBeauty at a valuation of $1 billion, and the fact that MCoBeauty was Australia and New Zealands number-one-selling cosmetics brand in the last 12 months, suggests a legitimisation of the dupe category in the beauty market. I think MCoBeauty came at the right time it was Covid. So it was all about timing. he told Inside Retail.

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