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How 99 Bikes plans to return to profit with an electric-powered push

Inside Retail

The retailer also expects to benefit from the trend of electric bikes, and it has two national expos this year to showcase the company’s fleet to consumers. A year later, Turner founded the Pedal Group, as a joint venture between the Turner family and Flight Centre in 2008.

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5 Ways COVID-19 has Reshaped Consumer Behavior

Retail TouchPoints

With COVID-19 case counts declining and vaccination efforts underway, eager consumers and retailers are both looking hopefully toward a future return to normal. The study draws on the expertise of its team of global analysts covering 100 countries around the world to identify the traits that will define consumer behavior this year.

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Retailers can’t afford to discount the customer experience this December

Inside Retail

Confirming the cost-of-living impact on retail spending attitudes this year, the latest Westpac Bank consumer confidence monitor shows Australians are as pessimistic currently as they were at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis of 2008. Short-term gain for long-term pain?

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Proudly made in China: How Chinese consumers are reclaiming domestic brands

Inside Retail

As the quality of living and workers’ wages reached new heights, Western brands spotted a golden opportunity and raced to set up shop in the East to reach China’s 1 billion consumers (and counting). Founded in 2012, lingerie label Neiwai (meaning ‘inside and outside’) is another direct-to-consumer label that began online.

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Despite global scrutiny, BNPL is on the rise in Singapore. Here’s why

Inside Retail

billion in 2026, as consumers increasingly shift from offline to online purchases. BNPL services are gradually gaining prominence in Singapore, with a growing preference for flexible payment methods among consumers,” Neralla Rama Ravi Teja, a retail analyst at GlobalData, told Inside Retail. per cent share in 2022 – up from 30.6

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

Archie Norman Archie Norman has spent the last six years overseeing food and fashion group M&S’s turnaround plan as it looks to re-establish its brand, win back consumers and return to profit. Mark Price With John Lewis in peril, could we see Lord Mark Price return to the Partnership? Sound familiar?

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Risk averse GenZ and Millenials make over 90% of purchases via a debit card says ClearPay

365 Retail

This is due to their risk averse nature after witnessing their parents suffer financial loss during the 2008 financial crisis. With GenZ and millennials accounting for 25% of the UK’s total retail spend and estimated to grow to 39% by 2030 as they enter the workforce, Shakaila Forbes-Bell gave three reasons why they shop.