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Helping intensify Alo Yoga’s London expansion

Retail Focus

Founded in Los Angeles in 2007, Alo Yoga offers a stylish and comfortable selection of high-end activewear and loungewear, that is versatile and can be worn from studio to street, as well as offering a range of accessories and wellness products.

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Adore’s Ikou crosses border, opening first Melbourne store

Inside Retail

Naomi and Paul Whitfeld founded Ikou in 2007, and the company was acquired by Adore Beauty Group last year. According to Adore Beauty Group, the expansion is part of a plan to increase the national retail footprint to 25+ locations across the Adore Beauty and Ikou brands by 2027.

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How True Religion aims to be the latest Y2K-era brand to make a comeback

Inside Retail

By 2013, the company reached peak profit, when it hit $490 million in revenue, after nearly tripling sales between 2007 and 2012. It was one of the top players in the denim retail boom of the early 2000s.

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Kogan CTO shares seven experimental use cases for generative AI in retail

Inside Retail

Speaking at an industry event in Melbourne this week, Kogan CTO Goran Stefkovski described the launch of ChatGPT as the most significant technological event since the arrival of the first iPhone in 2007. They got 100 million users in just two months. It’s way bigger than that now.

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How Mosaic Brands’ rapid expansion led to its devastating collapse

Inside Retail

Noni B had struggled for sales growth from 2007 with earnings tumbling from $8.2 Alceon acquired Noni B in 2014 at what it no doubt thought was a bargain price of 51 cents a share, valuing the retailer at $16.4 million, but Noni B’s best days were behind it. million in 2006 to a $7.8 million loss in 2014.

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Services and the mid-market: Takashimaya’s post-tourism plan

Inside Retail

per cent from the preceding year, to breach 1 trillion yen (US$7 billion) for the first time since 2007. That sounds nice but still, you might well be shocked that the chain spent a whole 17 years getting revenues back to where they were in 2007.

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Michel’s brand to be axed

Inside Retail

RFG acquired the business in 2007. RFG to close Michels after 18 years of ownership Michels was founded by French pastry chef Michel Cattoen in Sydney in 1980. Eight years later the two Noels, Noel Carroll and Noel Roberts, bought the business and in 1990 launched the franchise model.