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Stop & Shop Names Industry Vet as Chief Merchant

Retail TouchPoints

He originally joined the supermarket retailer in 2004 as a grocery buyer and category manager: Its a brand I know well and look forward to caring for in my new role. Nicholsons career also has included stints at Walmart, SuperValu and Winn-Dixie.

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Movado Group’s Xavier Gauderlot on the watch giant’s latest JV in Southeast Asia

Inside Retail

The joint venture is a strategic alliance of two entities with shared values and complementary strengths,” Xavier Gauderlot, president of international at Movado Group, told Inside Retail. The joint venture’s formation comes a month after Norbreeze Group appointed Stig Maasbol as its new chairman, replacing Anders Peter Juel Sauerberg.

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Retailers tap silver and green trends at Hong Kong fair

Inside Retail

These evolving trends were on full display at last weeks Hong Kong Gifts & Premium Fair, where more than 6000 exhibitors and nearly 36,000 buyers gathered to underscore the citys position as a global sourcing hub. Sustainability, health, and wellness are at the core of our three-year strategic plan, said Chong.

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How the Gance brothers built a billion-dollar pharmacy empire leading with retail

Inside Retail

Sam and Jack Gance have been retailing royalty since long before the aforementioned $30 billion merger was sealed at a Melbourne suburban pub in a 16-minute-long meeting. Since the opening of its first interstate store in Cairns in 2004, Chemist Warehouse now has over 535 stores across Australia and employs more than 20,000 people.

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WHSmith takeover: A closer look at Modella Capital and TGJones

Retail Gazette

Retail Gazette takes a closer look at the private equity firm and its ambition for WHSmith’s high street store estate. Modella Capital has built up its retail portfolio at speed in recent months, successfully acquiring Hobbycraft last August and The Original Factory Shop in February. What is Modella Capital?

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Burberry Names Akeroyd its Next CEO

Retail TouchPoints

Gobbetti is leaving Burberry at the end of 2021 to take the reins at Salvatore Ferragamo. Burberry credited Akeroyd for reorganizing and accelerating growth at Versace by building on the Italian brand’s heritage to elevate product, communications and the customer experience. “I

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Purple Appoints Marketing Veteran as CMO

Retail TouchPoints

Krausz’s most recent experience was serving as the Chief Marketing Officer at digital health distribution platform HealthPlanOne , which she joined in August 2020. as the company’s VP of Marketing, QSP from 2004-2012. The plan will be exercised if a person or group acquires 20% or more of Purple’s common stock.

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