Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2025

The synchronised bang-bangs took place along a 1400-metre stretch of the Chao Phraya River, with its epicentre at the Icon Siam shopping mall on the west bank. Siam Piwat marketed the whole shebang as Amazing Thailand Countdown 2025 and claimed 30 million viewers, not implausible in a nation of more than 70 million on New Years Eve.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

That’s the time it takes to realise you’ve walked into a chain you swore you’d never shop at again. A 2014 study by Patrick Bohl on airport shopping behaviour revealed a striking pattern: Longer dwell time in duty-free shopping zones directly increased spending. Add a coffee shop and they might even bring a friend.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2023

EP Athleisure Collection 01 is available to shop via the Ena Pelly website. Founded in 2014 in the South Melbourne Markets, Ena Pelly currently operates a direct-to-consumer website and 90 stockists around Australia, and is sold at David Jones and The Iconic.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

American fashion brand Brooks Brothers has relaunched in the Australian market with its new Autumn/ Winter 2023 collection. In a joint venture with Oroton Group, the first Brooks Brothers store in Australia opened its doors in 2014 at Melbourne’s The Emporium and with a 2293sqft store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The new funding is a major vote of confidence in the potential of digital commerce in India, still a relatively nascent market. Through its expanding grocery and last-mile delivery programs, the Flipkart Group will also work with kiranas (small local shops) to help them digitize and grow. Flipkart currently works with more than 1.6

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It has 11 fitting rooms for customers and five self-checkout stations to improve the shopping experience. The Adelaide store marks Uniqlo’s 30th store after debuting in Australia in 2014. The Japanese retail giant is expanding its footprint into other markets including the US, Europe, China, South Korea and Singapore.

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Frank Mayer

APRIL 30, 2025

Whether it’s due to a recession or a tightened budget, brands are always adjusting to shifting market conditions. And while not all brands scale back, many reevaluate their marketing spend during times of uncertainty. In fact, a 2014 Compliance Initiative Study by Shop!

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 19, 2025

Net shop closures across the UK stabilised in 2024 as openings across retail parks accelerated and the rate of closures across high streets and shopping centres slowed. Convenience and coffee shops were the primary drivers of store openings during the year, registering a net uplift of 171 and 105 respectively.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Luxury home brand Brooklinen is planning to triple its brick-and-mortar retail presence, first with the addition of four stores in new markets in 2022 and plans to reach 25 to 30 locations by the end of 2024. ”

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Retail Gazette

MAY 19, 2025

McKeon returned to the supermarket in January as part of a wider leadership shake-up under executive chairman Allan Leighton, aimed at better meeting the daily and weekly shopping needs of ordinary working people and their families who demand value.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2024

Frasers Group is ramping up its property acquisitions with plans to add another shopping center to its portfolio. The Mike Ashley-owned group is in the process of acquiring Fremlin Walk, an outdoor shopping centre in Maidstone, from M&G Real Estate. Just last month, the company acquired the Frenchgate shopping centre in Doncaster.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These cutting-edge solutions will help retailers optimize customer loyalty and stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving market. One of the key dimensions of EuroShop 2023 is Shop Fitting, Store Design & Visual Merchandising, which is the heart of EuroShop and its largest dimension. The consequence?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2021

However, A&F’s recent financial figures and strategy actually show a brand that is firmly in recovery mode, with a focus on more on-point marketing messaging and fewer stores, as sales are shifted to its digital channels. . Abandonment of sexualised marketing. International expansion driven through flagships.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

We are making the necessary moves to reinvigorate relationships with our customers through improved shopping experiences, relevant assortments and compelling value. Our teams are energized by the work ahead as we accelerate our path to market share gains, sustainable, profitable growth and value creation for our shareholders.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

The two decided to fill in the white space themselves and started with a small booth at an independent fashion market. In 2014, German sportswear juggernaut Adidas approached the Brazilian company about a collaboration. Over the past 10 years, the team has focused on growing in the US market.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Thousands of years later, in 2009, the market for digital assets arose. In 2014, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were introduced. And, some major publishing companies are closing shop on their NFT marketplaces. However, an inflated market and an insatiable demand for NFT collectibles created too much hype.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2022

Our 2022 report features C-level executives with decades of leadership experience, alongside start-up founders and digital specialists with a wide range of skills, from marketing to logistics. They are proud to shop with us,” Mathers told Inside Retail. You can download it here. Taking a stand on plastic.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

To be unique, you can’t get that at the mall, but young consumers are seeing the advantage of the contemporary vintage market as a place where you can find garments that express yourself, while being economical and environmentally conscious,” Graham Wetzbarger, founder and CEO of Luxury Appraisals and Authentication, told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

They need to think about what customers really want, and how quickly they can deliver and adapt to these changing market demands. The State of the Market. Why wait around for new features from a provider when you could be shopping around for best-of-breed functionality from a whole marketplace of software developers?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Armed with fresh knowledge of the beauty industry, he quit the role in 2014 and created his first business, a tiny design agency that created floral designs for corporate clients, specialising in events and gifts. Scents were at the top of my mind because for four years, every morning, I used to get up very early to go to the flower market.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As we fast approach Q4 2023, there is one topic at the forefront of every retailer’s mind: holiday shopping. And if Amazon Prime Day sales and back-to-school shopping trends are any indication ( hint : we know they are), then this year’s Cyber 5 is going to be one for the books.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2025

From a practical standpoint, even from a marketing standpoint, I can’t see a logic behind the rationale for a department store with, essentially, 50 stores or 60 stores across Australia to buy another 600 or 700 smaller stores, Gary Mortimer, a Professor of Retail Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at the QUT Business School, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 28, 2024

We’ve had customers shopping while on vacation in another city, who continue to shop with that sales associate from afar after returning home. We pulse post-purchase surveys to our customers both online and in-store and conduct focus groups, shop-alongs, and customer intercepts to understand and stay close to our customers.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2021

When Anchorage Capital Partners bought Brand Collective from its previous owner Pacific Brands in 2014, “it was an unloved, unprofitable, orphan company within a large public company”, he told Inside Retail. There’s no doubt that Shoes & Sox is the market-leading retailer of children’s shoes,” he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As an example, in 2014 the International Journal of Marketing Studies set up two pairs of running shoes in two separate Nike retail spaces that were completely alike with the exception of one detail — one space was perfumed with a floral scent while the other was not.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2022

billion that Woolworths Holdings paid for the business in 2014, though the sale to Anchorage does not include David Jones’ recently revamped Bourke Street flagship store, which is valued at around $250 million. In 2014, the firm bought a then-unprofitable Brand Collective from Pacific Brands. Growing in a shrinking market.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

A decade after making its debut in Vietnam, Japanese retail giant Aeon is making a move into regional towns, armed with 10 years of data about local consumer behaviour and a renewed commitment to what is now its second-largest international market.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We feel the market is significantly under-serviced in the street and sneaker space. It’s always been overlooked as a fashion market, and we see a good opportunity to service Brisbane and the surrounding areas down to the Gold Coast and showcase brands that are not available in that market.”. Look and feel of a high-end boutique.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Online furniture brand Brosa is ramping up its marketing activities and expanding into adjacent product categories, such as outdoor furniture and home decor, as it seeks to capitalise on the rapid increase in online shopping during Covid-19. Curated range. We’ve always taken a curated approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

We have had over 35 retailers and brands participate since 2014, several returning year after year.”. Squadded Socially focused solution Squadded connects shoppers with their friends through a partner retailer’s website as a way to re-create the social aspect of brick-and-mortar shopping in a group, but via an ecommerce platform.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A group called Bleach stepped in and picked up their debt and ran the business until 2014. All the while, General Pants was Ksubi’s biggest account, so when the second iteration of the brand ultimately went into administration in 2014, General Pants took over running the brand. In 2008, they actually went into administration.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

In 2014, fashion veteran Christopher Molnar decided to go after a white space he felt was being overlooked by the big fashion houses — premium essentials. Nobody wanted to be in brick-and-mortar retail and everybody was saying shopping was in decline, but we never believed that to be true.”. Do their customers really keep coming back?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The platform originated as a ‘private’ Facebook group in 2014 by Brooke Marks who was looking for a peer-to-peer marketplace to buy and sell her unwanted luxury designer items. It’s encouraging to see more brands embracing the secondhand market and adopting sustainable practices, something that was quite taboo in the past,” said Marks.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Since its inception in 2014, Parachute has aimed to provide comfortable, high-quality home products at an affordable price point. For example, the Parachute team found that Millennials are 57% more likely to buy products recommended by influencers and just as many find sustainability to be important or very important while shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. In fact they are anything but — and with good reason. Social commerce sales in the U.S. billion by 2025, according to projections from Insider Intelligence.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

In yet another sign that the COVID-generated ecommerce surge has subsided, the Salesforce Shopping Index reported flat ecommerce sales in the U.S. for Q1 2023 — the first period with no online sales growth since the Index debuted in 2014. So the questions retailers should be asking themselves are: How loyal are your customers?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For Australian property group Mirvac, this isn’t just a strategic investment but also a partnership it hopes will help shape the future of its retail business through shopping centre activations. Stylists in Residence at Toombul Shopping Centre, QLD. Mirvac partnership taps into community connection. Image: Supplied.

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