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Torrid Appoints Retail Veteran as New CEO

Retail TouchPoints

Chinwe Abaelu, SVP and Chief Accounting Officer, will serve as Principal Financial Officer until Torrid appoints a new CFO. Incoming CEO Harper has previously served as CEO of the plus-size retailer, from March 2011 until July 2016. More recently, Harper was CEO of Belk from 2016 through 2021 and then served as Executive Chairperson.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Exec Appointments: Shakeups Reaffirm Focus on Healthcare

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He initially joined WBA in 2016, serving as SVP, Global Controller and Chief Accounting Officer and took over as interim global CFO in July 2023 to support WBA in its cost-cutting measures. Healthcare business in a senior advisory role. Another headline appointment is Manmohan Mahajan, who is WBA’s new EVP and permanent CFO.

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TWG parent V3 Group to launch Hong Kong IPO

Inside Retail

Greater China, V3 group’s biggest market, accounts for 55.7 The growth reflects the surge in consumer demand for lifestyle and wellness products despite the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2016, Sim privatised the company, delisting from the exchange. During the nine months to September 30, the company recorded 32.8 times, reaching S$72.7

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Lifestyle products and services: How to harness Asia’s silver economy

Inside Retail

About one-in-five Chinese is over 60 and by World Bank definitions that makes it a ‘super-aged’ country, a situation partly deriving from the longstanding one-child policy that was abandoned only in 2016. Services are now estimated to account for up to 45 per cent of China’s household spending and it is growing.

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PacSun Taps Virtual Influencer for BTS, Holiday Campaigns

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Self-described on her Instagram account as a “19-year-old Robot living in LA,” Miquela (who was previously known as Lil Miquela but has since ditched the Lil) is one of the first known virtual influencers — a computer-generated human, essentially a digital character — that takes on all the tasks and tools of actual homo sapiens influencers.

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Beauty Pie opens ‘Warehouse of Dreams’ pop-up in Covent Garden

Retail Focus

Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore , Beauty Pie was created as a one-stop destination for luxury beauty products at ‘warehouse prices ‘ The D2C brand claims it does not charge consumers for the ‘middleman’ or retailer mark-ups.

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5 Tips to Improve Retail Pay-Per-Click Results

Retail TouchPoints

To continue on a positive trajectory, the retail sector must focus on the growth being driven by consumers’ continued adoption of online shopping. In grocery ecommerce alone, online revenues are expected to account for more than 13% of total category sales by 2026. The numbers can be even higher in some cases.