Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2022

Herrington joined Amazon as VP of Consumables in 2005, launched Amazon Fresh in 2007 and was promoted to SVP of Consumables in 2014. Prior to joining Amazon, Herrington served as CEO of KeepMedia and VP of Marketing at online grocery retailer Webvan.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2022

Andrews will join the digitally native brand’s Co-founders Griffin Thall and Paul Goodman in leading Pura Vida to the next level of growth, with plans for new performance-based marketing initiatives, the launch of new sales channels and category expansion.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

True Religion is just the latest in a wave of popular, Y2K-era fashion labels experiencing a revival at the moment. By 2013, the company reached peak profit, when it hit $490 million in revenue, after nearly tripling sales between 2007 and 2012. Even if they love the brand, they want it at 30 per cent off, 50 per cent off.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2022

The offer values the shares not already held by Frasers at around $23.47 Founded in 2007, MySale currently operates retail websites in four markets – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia – with its sites Oz/Sale, NZ/Sale, My/Sale and Sing/Sale. At the time the company announced its purchase of a cornerstone 28.7

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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

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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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2025

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. Now, the only danger is again, what the hell is it writing if you do this at scale? It’s way bigger than that now.

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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

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. By 2010, he and his brother Harrison saw a gap in the market for upscale outdoor furniture and decided to reposition the company to fill in that space. “We

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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

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. However, it’s clear that having another major player in the market will shake things up.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2024

With the global eyewear market revenue projected to reach US$174.06 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. billion by 2028, the business has a vast growth opportunity.

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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. RFG CEO Matthew Marshall said at the time the strategy is to grow the core cafe, coffee and bakery brands. There are just 19 Michels Patisserie stores across RFGs home state of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2023

Born in Los Angeles in 1995, Jenner has become one of the world’s most recognised models and one of the world’s most influential women since 2007, together with her sisters. “At Kendall Jenner will be the face of L’Oreal Paris’ beauty campaigns beginning in September.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

Compared to its sister brand Kmart, which has seen its market share grow exponentially in the past decade, Target has been suffering a slow decline, with its position in the middle of the market – not quite as value-based as Kmart, and not quite as high-end as Myer – making matters worse.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

Growth is now driven by the more complex dynamics of customer acquisition and retention, and digital marketing has introduced a new set of variable costs. The velocity and volume of trades that digitization catalyzed led to the automated algorithms that dominate the financial markets today. Performance was reviewed monthly.

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

Sportswear retailer LSKD has been expanding rapidly throughout Australia in recent years, and has now set its sights on a bigger market: the US. We’d never done an event at that level before – there were 50,000-plus community members. JD: I was very lucky to have LKI [Loose Kid Industries] before LSKD, from 2007 to 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. We see BODEQUALITY as a revolution,” said Alison Partridge Stickney, Head of Women’s and Maternity Merchandising at Old Navy in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Home furnishing giant Ikea has launched the world’s first Ikea Close to You concept store inside the Market Place grocer in Hong Kong’s Discovery Bay. The new store was opened alongside Bread Pantry at the Market Place Discovery Bay launched last Friday (October 1).

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

ShopStyle launched in 2007 with an innovative idea: creating a search engine focused solely on fashion. It matches influencers with retailers to advertise and market retailers and products across social platforms. The nice thing about ShopStyle is, because we started with search, we’re really good at that component.

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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. Gomez, who has been with Target since 2013, most recently served as the company’s Chief Marketing, Digital and Strategy Officer, during which time he launched Target’s loyalty program.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2022

Marcel Portmann, responsible for the brand’s global franchise development, told Inside Franchise Business Executive at the recent Melbourne Franchising & Business Opportunities Expo, master franchisees will need to commit to developing five stores before sub-franchising their region.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. It was founded in 2007 by Jason Daniel and now has eight retail stores in Australia, one in San Diego, US , with two new stores coming soon.

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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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Cisco Retail

JULY 23, 2021

Yet here I am still working at Cisco, 16 years after I joined the company. At university I studied English literature. My initial stint at Cisco was as a technical writer contractor in 1999. The company’s humble beginnings at Stanford in 1984?by Stint at Startups and Return to Cisco .

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Established in 2007, 99Bikes is Australia’s largest bicycle retailer, with over 60 stores nationwide. The retailer partnered with Wunderkind – the leading AI-driven performance marketing solution – as part of this optimisation journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. 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.” in November 2022.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

If I can reflect ‘post’ my time at Salomon and know I have left both the brand better, and through the brand inspired our customers and communities to become better versions of themselves through mountain sports, that would be a great legacy. How, and why did you enter the retail industry?

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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

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2022

Our 2022 report features C-level executives with decades of leadership experience, alongside start-up founders and digital specialists with a wide range of skills, from marketing to logistics. She joined the business in 2018 as its head of marketing and e-commerce before being promoted to her current role in 2021. Resale economy.

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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. Is the market saturated for mega-marketplaces with more than a million products and hundreds of categories like an eBay or Amazon?

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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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