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Essity Completes $320M Acquisition of Digitally Native Intimates Brand Knix

Retail TouchPoints

“Essity is now becoming the global market leader in leakproof apparel, which is an important step towards our goal of being the world’s fastest-growing company in intimate hygiene, providing increased wellbeing for customers and consumers,” said Magnus Groth, President and CEO of Essity in a July statement.

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FTC Taking Another Look at Online Disclosures

Hunton Andrews Kurth

The FTC has announced that it is taking a fresh look at its guidance for online disclosures, in part because, according to its Consumer Protection Director, “some companies are wrongly citing the guides to justify practices that mislead consumers online.”. The FTC is taking comment s on these questions through August 2, 2022.

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Short-Form Video and UGC are Reshaping the Realm of Influencer Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

If you spend any time at all on social media it’s hard to escape influencers, and there’s a good reason for that — they are incredibly compelling, both to consumers and advertisers. So brands that were reliant on Facebook ads were forced to look for the next thing, and content creators have been that medium for them.”.

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Why short-term data alone won’t cut it for retailers in 2024

Inside Retail

A decade ago, the advertising and marketing sector was taken to task by Peter Field and Les Binet. In 2013, the duo, who have come to be known as the godfathers of effectiveness, published their book The Long a n d Short of It which called out brands for being too focused on short-term metrics. billion and $1.6

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How Hue’s Nicole Clay is making the beauty industry more inclusive

Inside Retail

For example, according to data collected by management consulting company McKinsey & Company, while 11 per cent of all beauty consumers in the US are Black, Black-owned brands account for only 2.5 For consumers, this lack of diversity can often be seen in the people advertising products through traditional channels.

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Tumi, Zalora execs share the skills retailers need in a post-Covid world

Inside Retail

Imran Khan, consumer goods and retail industry director at Salesforce, said the retail industry also need game designers and programmers. “If People from the retail industry would need to change their customer experience and make it more interesting [for their consumers].”. Creativity and talent for storytelling.

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6 Reasons Walmart’s eCommerce Strategy is Winning

Indigo 9 Digital

For many years analysts were saying stores are dead but if Walmart didn’t start testing grocery pickup back in 2013 its grocery pickup services would not have performed so well when put to the test during the pandemic. Walmart had this foresight and a decade ago in 2013 it started testing a grocery pickup service. More than 1.7