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Can Premier replicate Smiggle’s UK success with pyjama brand Peter Alexander?

Inside Retail

After Lew’s Premier Investments acquired the Just Group, and with it Peter Alexander, he shut down the US stores in 2009, saying it “reflects the board’s commitment to take the decisions that are necessary to maximise returns for shareholders”. The post Can Premier replicate Smiggle’s UK success with pyjama brand Peter Alexander?

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Hallenstein Brothers gets new CEO

Inside Retail

Brown has been a brand manager at True Alliance since 2009, most recently managing the Ben Sherman brand. In that role, he was responsible for product sourcing, buying, design, marketing, wholesale and retail sales, brand positioning and organisational development.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

Strategic Considerations: Inventory management becomes paramount. Retailers need to consider their capacity to manage logistics and the value of faster delivery to their customer base. For example, a customer may order three products that come from three different wholesalers. Dr. Ralph F.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Benno Dorer, who has been VF’s interim president and CEO since 5 December, will continue to serve on the board, and Richard Carucci, a VF board member since 2009 and interim chair during the organisation’s recent leadership change, has been named chair. Before Puma, she served at Adidas as VP of wholesale.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Former Crumpler and Tigerlily CEO Adam Wilkinson has just taken on the newly created role of general manager of new business at the PAS Group, based in Melbourne, Australia. Wilkinson’s new role sees Wilkinson return to Pas, where he was previously general manager of product and sales at Designworks for more than seven years in 2009.

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SpartanNash names Petko EVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer

Mass Relators

Petko previously served as senior vice president of supply chain for C&S Wholesale Grocers. The post SpartanNash names Petko EVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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High growth e-cigarette brand opts for Brightpearl to light up multichannel expansion

365 Retail

Since they launched in 2009, Ecirette has experienced phenomenal success, growing from one of the first online vaping stores to one of Ireland’s leading e-cigarette brands.