Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

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 Noni B had struggled for sales growth from 2007 with earnings tumbling from $8.2 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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Having joined Adairs as finance manager in September 2007, Ronan has transitioned over the years into merchandise planning manager, head of retail operations, and then COO until being appointed CEO in November 2016. Prior to joining Adairs, he was operations manager at Sovereign Hotel Group and finance manager at River Capital.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I didn’t even have a CV,” said Scott Druce, founder of the upscale Australian stationery chain Milligram, who recently announced his departure from the business he started in 2007. Druce said the size of his team at Typo will be at least triple or quadruple the size of his team at Milligram.

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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2023

Since 2007, CCEP has produced and distributed Beam Suntory’s brand portfolio across Australia, which includes products such as Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark and Canadian Club, as well as a number of ready-to-drink options and non-alcoholic beverages. “So

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

Back to the future “ Product trends are constantly evolving,” Sarah Hunter, managing director of Officeworks, told Inside Retail. 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.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

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. Chop and change Acquired in 2007 along with Coles and Kmart, Target started off in a strong position in Wesfarmers’ stable. We’ve done a lot of listening to customers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2024

Nicholas officially started working for the family business in 2001, initially as the production manager before moving on to his role as design and development director in 2007. Harbour’s sales have grown 250 per cent since 2020, the brand stated, a pace the company plans to continue moving at through next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Most shoppers have been in this frustrating position at least once (and most retailers, daily). While virtually every retailer uses inventory management software, they still suffer from stockouts, and often find that physical inventory counts don’t match what the software is reporting. Shelves might be scanned once a week at the most.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

The management of trading floors has evolved to cope with this complexity. A critical enabler is the ability for managers to review the profitability of trades in real time and intervene as the situation requires. We are now at a similar inflection point for retailers. Every Retailer Should be Inspired by the Trading Floor.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Alison Clegg has worked for Grosvenor for 15 years, joining in March 2007, ahead of the opening of the first phase of Liverpool ONE in May the following year. Involved with Liverpool ONE throughout her time at Grosvenor, Alison most recently successfully led the destination through the pandemic and its significant bounce back.

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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 per cent at Sun Hung Kai Properties. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 4, 2022

Increased Access to Insights In GA4, you’ll have more data and features at your disposal to make informed decisions about your ecommerce site, including: Unsampled data: According to Google, GA4 allows website owners to request unsampled data for creating explorations.

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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Last week, Bunnings managing director Mike Schneider joined Australian Retailers Association CEO Paul Zahra on the ARA podcast about how he began his career in retail, what a typical day looks like for him – and why he reckons he has the best retail job in the country. So) I answered an ad in the newspaper for a job at a retail bank.

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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., Retailers sit on massive troves of data and almost none of them use it ,” said Peter Curran, General Manager at cloud commerce app Lucidworks in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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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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Cisco Retail

JULY 23, 2021

Yet here I am still working at Cisco, 16 years after I joined the company. I’ve stayed because I’ve had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technologies, to have my voice and ideas heard by superiors, to advance my career from individual contributor to manager, and to witness the evolution of Cisco into a close-knit family. .

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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. Alison Stiefel, General Manager of ShopStyle. ShopStyle is all about curating an inspirational shopping experience that helps people discover their personal style,” said Alison Stiefel, General Manager of ShopStyle.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The UK retailer’s management is understood to be pushing its US parent company towards an IPO. According to Bloomberg, an IPO would value the retailer at roughly £7bn, returning it to the FTSE 100. Talks are thought to be at an early stage and there is no guarantee of a listing or sale.

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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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Retail Gazette

JULY 30, 2024

Prior to Morleys, Blow worked at Dublin-based Arnotts from 2010 to 2015 and Brown Thomas before that, from 2007 to 2010. The retailer’s chair Sian Westerman said: “John Edgar is stepping down as CEO as part of a reorganisation of our executive leadership team and wider changes to the management structure of the company. “We

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Merry Hill has announced that renowned restaurant brand Lounges, managed by award winning hospitality business Loungers, is set to join the destination in January 2025 with the opening of Toledo Lounge. Gemma Irwin, Head of Community at Loungers, said: “We’re so looking forward to opening the doors of Toledo Lounge next year.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

“We’re looking to partner with some external marketplaces and start taking the brand back out to more customers within Australia but also overseas,” Sarah Rovis, Mimco’s managing director, told Inside Retail. It was acquired by Gresham Private Equity in 2007 for a reported $45 million and then by Country Road in 2012.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Property group Mirvac has announced the upcoming retirement of chief executive and managing director Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, as well as chair John Mulcahy. 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.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2022

Herrington brings 17 years of experience at Amazon to the role, including more than seven years as senior vice president of the North American consumer business. He launched AmazonFresh in 2007 and has served on the e-commerce company’s senior leadership team since 2011. “I Dan Murphy’s boss to head M&S Food.

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Cisco Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Shawna Darling, Social Corporate Responsibility Programs Development Manager at Cisco. I jumped at the chance to move my family to New Orleans as part of this 21 st Century Schools Initiative and lived there for a year.

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And a fun fact, back in 2007, the first year of the CRN Channel Chiefs, two Cisco executives made the list. Keith Goodwin, who was the partner org leader at the time, and another leader you may have heard of – Chuck Robbins, who at the time was a segment VP for US and Canada channels. Cisco is well represented. Frank Lento , Sr.

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Cisco Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And while this remains true, 10 years later at our Investor Day in September 2021, Cisco forecasted that half of revenue will come from software and other recurring sales by 2025. Transformation at that scale is not only challenging but usually avoided due to the lengthy commitment to a singular vision. That’s nearly $30 billion.

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Cisco Retail

AUGUST 10, 2021

Cisco jumped all in on SaaS ourselves, acquiring WebEx back in 2007. The difference between Network as a Service (NaaS) and a managed service. One of the questions I frequently get is “Sure, I know what aaS is…that’s just the same as a managed service, right?” While there are similarities, they are not the same.

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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. Russel Creedy, group CEO, joined the business in 2001 as supply chain manager and served as GM for Pizza Hut in New Zealand. He took on the CEO role in 2007. Creedy will retire on 31 March next year. by Dean Blake.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 20, 2023

The business fell into administration earlier this month putting 12,000 jobs at risk after failing to secure a financial lifeline. sq ft site at Manton Wood in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, was sold to logistics giant DHL last November for £48m. ‘I would have thought it would be worth more,’ he added.

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Cisco Retail

DECEMBER 9, 2021

1] According to Dimensional Research, Gartner, this trend comes on the heels of a 74% decline in desk phone usage between 2007 and 2020. [2] At one level, a company’s collaboration strategy is focused on how to provide end users access to the information they need from their peers who include other employees, partners, and customers.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 27, 2023

City sources told the publication that a rescue deal with Putman was “unlikely” but that it remained under discussion with PwC, with a decision likely to be made at the start of next week. Wilko plunged into administration at the start of the month after teetering on the brink of collapse for several months.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From starting out as an assistant manager at Walmart to landing his role as chief operating officer at Ikea, Rob Olson has never been one to sit still. To be honest, my old district manager had referred me, and out of respect to her, I went and listened [to their pitch].

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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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