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Aligning Purpose with Profits: How Consumer Goods Companies can Unlock Business Growth by Integrating Sustainability into their Operations

Retail TouchPoints

The rapid advancement of technology and social media has created a new generation of well-informed, empowered and discerning consumers. IBM’s Institute of Business Value (IBV) has just completed significant research into the priorities and decisions for supply chain operations and sustainability in partnership with The Consumer Goods Forum.

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Beer Cartel invites consumers to buy up shares in the business

Inside Retail

The funds raised through Birchal will be used to improve the website, logistics and marketing. From a marketing point of view, it’s about making more people aware of us. Beer Cartel launched its beer subscription service back in 2009 and it now accounts for about 80 per cent of the online business, according to Kelsey.

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Gen Z Alternative to Credit Cards

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With the advent of Apple’s Pay Later offering, greater attention has been paid to the BNPL market. Market leaders such as Afterpay and Klarna forged new brand partnerships, and as their offerings became more visible, it quickly became an alluring option, particularly for the emergent Gen Z. The Bottom Line.

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How Vestiaire Collective’s new initiative drives fashion activism

Inside Retail

Launched in Paris in 2009, Vestiaire Collective is an app for luxury pre-loved fashion with an inventory of 3 million items that include 550,000 new listings every month. According to a report from ThredUp this year, the secondhand fashion market is expected to double in the next five years, reaching $77 billion.

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Getting Retail Website Localization Right the First Time

Retail TouchPoints

The term localization for many retail professionals and marketers is closely linked to advertising localization — serving culturally appropriate advertising to key regional segments. the decline of the total retail market this year is expected to be double that experienced in the 2009 financial crisis. In the U.S.,

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Inside the Online Bookstore Building a ‘Model for Small Businesses to Compete with Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

It wouldn’t be precisely accurate to count Bookshop.org among the successful conquerors, since its 1% market share of print book sales is dwarfed by Amazon’s approximately 50% (by some estimates, it’s even more). But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said.

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A shift in attitude: How Lekker Bikes is normalising e-bikes in Australia

Inside Retail

Back in 2009, industrial designer Meindert Wolfraad identified a gap in the market for practical, comfortable and stylish commuter bikes that would enable Sydney-siders to get around, similar to what he saw growing up in the Netherlands. Meindert Wolfraad: Lekker Bikes started back in 2009, in Sydney.

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