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Resilience Training: Small Business Innovation During a Recession

Retail TouchPoints

And to avoid possible delivery delays, using more than one shipping carrier builds resilience as well and allows you to maintain more control over your ability to serve your customers. Innovation can be brought about in three ways: changes in technology; changes in the market; and changes to how products or services are used in a market.

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Fast-growing Online Furniture Retailer ‘Bed Kingdom’ Opens New Liversedge Distribution centre

365 Retail

In addition, office space spread across three stories and a canteen area will become the new workplace for Bed Kingdom’s buying, marketing, and sales employees. Established in 2011 by Ashley Hainsworth following an initial £400 investment, the idea was born from a university project before becoming a fully-fledged business.

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Beer Cartel invites consumers to buy up shares in the business

Inside Retail

There are also plans to introduce investor perks such as free shipping and discounted pricing on beer. 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. The website itself is such a big channel for us.

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Why Book Depository’s closure could be a “net benefit” for Australian booksellers

Inside Retail

Prior to its closure, it shipped to more than 120 countries and provided free delivery. The company also referenced the closure of Angus & Robertson and Borders in 2011, where Booktopia’s revenue immediately jumped by 20 per cent in the months following. Book Depository was already more expensive than Amazon for most titles.

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What’s on Levi’s agenda? Sustainability, supply chain and empowering people

Inside Retail

Bergh joined Levi’s in 2011, after a 28-year stint at Procter & Gamble. When you’ve got container ships stuck in the port at Long Beach, and consumers can’t get your product, you’re leaving money on the table, and that’s not a good thing,” Bergh said, adding “the name of the game is now supply chain resilience and agility”.

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Have we reached peak Christmas advent calendar?

Retail Gazette

But with the market now flooded and the cost-of-living impacting discretionary spend, is the advent calendar craze starting to wane? Selfridges debuted its first version in 2011 and it became an instant sell-out. The advent calendar market has “expanded hugely in recent years and shows no signs of abating,” she says.

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GameStop’s Strategy, What You Need to Know

Indigo 9 Digital

To get a sense of why this was a big deal, consider this, in January of 2021 GameStop’s stock was up an eye watering 1,625% and between December 31st, 2000 and the end of January 2021 GameStop’s market valuation increased from $1.3 GameStock’s revenues reflect this shift with sales peaking in 2011 at $9.6 billion to $21 billion.