Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

Salons have been forced to open and shut their doors at a moment’s notice, then have been scrambling to work out the next steps. Covid has had a lasting impact on consumer behaviour and expectations of the bricks-and-mortar shopping experience have changed. Everything was so much more time consuming,” recalls De Sylva.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

The latest issue is inflation, which is running at a 40-year high in the U.S., forcing retailers to grapple with remaining relevant to increasingly price-sensitive consumers. Illustrating the consumer response to the Fed’s activity, on June 15 the U.S. What do customers consume and buy? 7% increase.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Witchery, Politix and Mimco brands will launch at Myer from next month while Country Road – including Country Road Kids, Country Road Home and Trenery – will be stocked from July. Woolworth Holdings bought a controlling interest in Country Road in 1998 and acquired Witchery Group in 2007 to create Country Road Group.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

The number one selling product at Officeworks in 1994 was Reflex Copy Paper which retailed at the time for $5.49, and now, despite inflation, costs $5.99. Officeworks’ evolution Officeworks became part of Wesfarmers in November 2007 following the conglomerate’s acquisition of Coles Group by way of a scheme of arrangement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2022

This is further supported by a study from NetSuite , which found that 97% of consumers see a need to go to a physical store. One in three 16- to 29-year-olds has already used their smartphone to pay at the checkout. Many digital natives here saw their parents lose almost everything in the 2007 global economic crisis.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has given the greenlight to extend the Casual Mall Licensing Code of Practice for another 10 years, which governs how pop-up stores are able to be implemented. Under the code, Australian companies are allowed to rent a space for pop up stores for a maximum of 180 days.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2024

Direct-to-consumer Smart Buy Glasses Group turned over an eight-figure top-line revenue last financial year and the business is expected to expand on this come July 1. Direct growth vision In 2007 the business hired a third-party company to develop the first iteration of the website, allowing the operations to leave Ebay.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Additionally, nearly two-thirds of consumers say they’re more attracted to brands that focus on making the world a better place. With BODEQUALITY , Old Navy is attempting to “redefine size inclusion” by offering every one of its women’s styles in every size at no extra cost. What research and insight helped validate this focus?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At its height the cake chain had more than 300 stores operating. RFG acquired the business in 2007. Five years ago a Queensland court ruled RFG had breached Australian Consumer Law, successfully finding in favour of the franchisees claim they were misled in 2012 over quality and supplier agreements.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

“The economic reasons behind the losses are elevated interest rates and weak consumer and business confidence in Hong Kong, which has affected rental income and property valuation,” Gary Ng, senior economist at Natixis, told Inside Retail. “It per cent at the end of last year compared to 41.4

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

Melbourne-based cycling marketplace Bike Exchange co-founder Sam Salter has just taken on the newly created role of chief of sales and partnerships officer at the business. The marketplace first launched in 2007 and now sells more than 600,000 cycling products from over 1500 brands and 1450 retailers. million consumers each year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

A 45-year-old family-owned luxury business might not be the kind of company one expects to be at the cutting edge of digital commerce, but thanks to President Ken Natori, the company’s second-generation leader, Natori is just that. There were some signs in the tea leaves that were concerning,” said Natori.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

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. Looking at Target’s trajectory over the past few years, however, it’s clear that this latest move could very well be the beginning of the end.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

We’d never done an event at that level before – there were 50,000-plus community members. We were very lucky to find a space on a main street in Pacific Beach, and we decided to open a retail store at the front and our office behind it, which is exactly what we have back in Australia. I transitioned the brand to LKI in 2007.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

At the core of Target’s success is the most talented team in retail,” said Brian Cornell, Chairman and CEO of Target in a statement. Sylvester, who joined Target in 2007 has served in a variety of leadership roles across strategy and merchandising, most recently as SVP of Home. She will remain in an advisory role through spring 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

We are now at a similar inflection point for retailers. Ever-shifting consumer tastes, the speed of omnichannel, environmental and social concerns and ongoing supply chain and other systemic shocks are spurring retail management to move faster than ever before. The New Speed of Retail.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 31, 2021

Contactless payments were first capped at £10 in 2007. David Postings, chief executive of trade body UK Finance, said: “Contactless payment has proved very popular with consumers and an increasing number of transactions are being made using contactless technology. Jonathan Brady/PA).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

ShopStyle launched in 2007 with an innovative idea: creating a search engine focused solely on fashion. We share the ShopStyle catalog and search data with them to communicate trends to our influencers, and then [conversely] we look at what’s [happening with those influencer programs] to surface new trends.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Technological advancements over the past decade revolutionised the way consumers pay for goods and services. Data from the Reserve Bank of Australia suggests that, nowadays, cash is used for only 16 per cent of in-person transactions, down from about 70 per cent in 2007. The retail world is embarking on a cashless revolution.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Established in 2007, 99Bikes is Australia’s largest bicycle retailer, with over 60 stores nationwide. Our biggest objective is to replicate the in-store experience online,” says Logan McEwarn, head of marketing at 99Bikes.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2024

Once considered a lost cause, the business has gone from strength to strength since embracing a ‘lowest price’ strategy following its acquisition by Wesfarmers in 2007. In the first half of FY24 , the most recent results at the time of this writing, Kmart reported record earnings of $601 million, a 26.5 This was about 18 months ago.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Most retailers will be looking at the sales they’ve made between Black Friday and Cyber Monday with mixed feelings. With higher-than-usual stock levels leading into Christmas that retailers are planning to turn over at the full freight Christmas margin, that could spell trouble. But compared to 2007, we’re in slightly new territory.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2022

Doug Herrington has been named CEO of Amazon’s new Worldwide Amazon Stores business, which was formerly known as Consumer, and John Felton has been named the leader of the Operations business. He launched AmazonFresh in 2007 and has served on the e-commerce company’s senior leadership team since 2011. “I

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

On Friday, JB Hi-Fi Group CEO Richard Murray officially left the consumer electronics company, where he has held various roles for the past 18 years, to lead Solomon Lew’s Premier Retail business; Terry Smart, previously managing director of The Good Guys and CEO of JB Hi-Fi, took over the top position.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 7, 2022

It’s the result of many different factors coming together, like high unemployment, low consumer confidence, and decreased spending. This can manifest itself in different ways, like lower production levels, fewer jobs, and less spending by consumers and businesses. READ MORE: 19 Recession-Proof Businesses. Stages of a Recession.

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Retail Bound

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While consumer brands are gearing up for the holiday season, many are looking even further ahead to the consumer tech event of the year – the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). At Bolt PR, we work with companies to customize these strategies to ensure theyre able to capitalize on time and money spent at CES.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Paul Zahra: You’ve been at Bunnings for 16 years and held various roles since becoming managing director in 2016. I think if my memory serves me correctly, Paul, we both spent a bit of time at Target! So) I answered an ad in the newspaper for a job at a retail bank. People put down roots and grow at Bunnings.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It’s probably twofold why [marketplaces are] starting to explode,” said Richard Hankin, a former eBay executive who is now SVP of Go-to-Market, North America at marketplace SaaS solution Marketplacer. Ordering groceries online became a common practice during lockdowns, and many consumers haven’t looked back since.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Lloyd-Hurwitz will exit the role at the end of June 2023, providing time for Mirvac to hire her successor and transition them into the role, while Mulcahy will leave the board on 31 December. Rob Sindel, a non-executive director at Mirvac, will take over as chair effective 1 January. Myer’s general manager of omni experience exits.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

You have to go back to 2007 to see a bigger improvement over the same seven-month period. Researchers at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government have been tracking the stringency of government Covid-19 countermeasures in 155 countries since the beginning of the pandemic. per cent, after falling 15.2 per cent after an 18.7

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Educational Insights first launched its shop in April 2023, and Lee Parkhurst, Senior Brand Manager at the company, said they’ve “been quadrupling our business month over month since.” But the meteoric success on TikTok of the 3D puzzle game Kanoodle (first introduced in 2007) took everyone by surprise.

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Cisco Retail

AUGUST 10, 2021

They certainly aren’t a new way to consume technology. Cisco jumped all in on SaaS ourselves, acquiring WebEx back in 2007. The goal is to add flexibility and choice for how our customers want to consume our technology in addition to the usual ways of purchasing it. Not a lease and much more than an OpEx model.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 9, 2021

From consumer favorite licensed brands (Sports, Collegiate, or Entertainment) and fun designs to custom brand styles, they can satisfy all of your case needs. From their humble beginnings back in 2003 to today, Skinit Acquisition has turned into an industry leader in personalized and branded cases and skins for consumers and retailers alike.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Two C-suite bosses, the CEO and CFO at Restaurant Brands New Zealand, will retire in 2023. He took on the CEO role in 2007. The multi-brand hospitality business has built a solid international presence under their long term stewardship. Creedy will retire on 31 March next year. Four Pillars appoints head of global travel retail.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

Third-party online retailers have proven that consumers prioritise the acquisition of the product over the in-store purchase experience. Net-a-Porter is considered a pioneer in the online luxury space since its founding at the start of the millennium in the year 2000 by Natalie Massenet. Net-a-Porter is much more of a wholesale model.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It’s nearly 30 years since Carolyn Creswell, a first-year university student at the time, snapped up the small muesli business she worked at part-time for $1000. At the end of the day, I could go out and pursue whatever ideas I had and if it all fell to pieces, I could go home to Mum and Dad’s house and crawl under my doona.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2021

It’s nearly 30 years since Carolyn Creswell, a first-year university student at the time, snapped up the small muesli business she worked at part-time for $1000. At the end of the day, I could go out and pursue whatever ideas I had and if it all fell to pieces, I could go home to Mum and Dad’s house and crawl under my doona.

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Supermarket Consumer ATS Management 130