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With Acquisition of Complex, NTWRK Plans to Create a ‘Next Gen Content and Shopping Experience’

Retail TouchPoints

Buzzfeed has sold youth culture media company Complex to livestream shopping platform NTWRK , which plans to use the acquisition to build a “next generation content and shopping experience.” The fusion of content and live shopping creates an immersive experience tailored to the tastes of today’s digitally savvy consumers.

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True Religion Aims to Triple Online Revenues with the Help of New Ecommerce SVP

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True Religion plans to transform itself into a “digital-first DTC brand.” In 2002, True Religion launched as a premium-denim brand and over the course of its history the label has expanded to include sportswear and accessories. To lead the charge, the denim brand has hired ecommerce veteran Scott McCabe as its new SVP of Ecommerce.

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Why Direct to Consumer Brands Struggle with Profitability

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By Tricia McKinnon Over the past decade direct-to-consumer businesses have popped up in nearly every corner of the retail sector. From mattresses sold by Casper to prescription eyeglasses from Warby Parker ambitious founders have taken a page from Amazon’s playbook hoping to sell goods directly to consumers online. million and $58.5

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The fastest fashion: Why Incu has launched two-hour delivery with Uber

Inside Retail

Established in 2002 by twin brothers Brian and Vincent Wu, Incu has long been a staple of Australian fashion and is known for bringing a number of international brands to local shores. It’s about setting that standard, and then going above and beyond to be able to offer consumers new things.”

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7 Ways Big-Box Retailers Can (Painlessly) Move into Wireless Retail

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Simultaneously, consumer demand for new connected devices — such as cellphones and tablets, smart systems, and connected wearables and hearables — has never been higher. For a store-within-a-store, those challenges are magnified by offering a wide range of rate plans, which means working with multiple carriers.

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Why the Kmart-Target back end merger has been a decade in the making

Inside Retail

For now, the businesses will remain separate in the eyes of the consumer, though they will share systems in the back end, such as having a single tech-stack. Wesfarmers ultimately didn’t move forward with that plan, and instead decided to double down and invest in Kmart and Target independently.

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Former L’Oréal Australia MD goes all in on natural skincare

Inside Retail

During Mark Tucker’s tenure as managing director of L’Oréal Australia from 2002 to 2010, annual revenue grew from $12 million to more than $400 million. But over a decade later, it’s the booming clean beauty space that has caught his eye. The brand will make its debut in the Australian market, before rolling out internationally.