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How Axel Arigato designs its stores to be like art galleries and raves

Inside Retail

Starting with a single sneaker launch in 2014, the brand has expanded into other retail categories, including outerwear, streetwear and accessories to become a lifestyle brand for all ages — from children barely old enough to pronounce the name of the business to veteran fashion consumers.

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How Aloha Collection is expanding through collabs and bricks-and-mortar

Inside Retail

Here, the co-founders discuss their decision to invest in infrastructure and fast-track growth through bricks-and-mortar and wholesale retail partnerships, and they share how they are giving back to Hawaii-based conservation organisations. IR : How has the industry changed since Aloha Collection first launched in 2014?

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Fast Retailing, Inditex among the biggest family-owned retailers in the world

Inside Retail

C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC The US-based supply chain solutions provider and wholesale grocery supplier was founded in 1918. Their sons Greg and Frank have been co-CEOs since 2014. Juan Roig, son of the founders, is the president of the company, with the family making up the majority of the board.

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High Street, High Stakes: Why Immersive Physical Experiences Are Key to Unlocking Retail Success

365 Retail

However, rather than rebuilding its empire, Topshop announced it would be returning via a one-day Shoreditch pop-up, followed by a series of wholesale partnerships , which would see the brand’s products sold inside other retailers’ brick-and-mortar stores. Then, in April, came the crescendo.

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Topshop reunites with Cara Delevingne more than a decade after first campaign

Retail Gazette

Topshop has named Cara Delevingne as the face of its relaunch, reuniting with the British model more than a decade after she fronted the brand’s first-ever solo campaign in 2014. The brand also confirmed plans to re-enter bricks-and-mortar retail later this year with a semi-permanent high street presence.

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Ocado Retail CCO to exit after less than two years

Retail Gazette

He started as the UK’s biggest supermarket’s head of group strategy in 2014, before going on to lead retail operations at Tesco’s west London convenience stores and serve as category head of cooking ingredients and global grocery. Chitnis was named as director of trading at Booker Wholesale, a subsidiary of Tesco, in 2020.

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China’s ‘Victoria’s Secret Town’ at risk as US tariff loophole faces closure

Inside Retail

In 2014, he started selling overseas to escape price wars in the Chinese market. ” Factory owners praise the park as a better place to receive customers – many of the showrooms are wholesale and only open by appointment – and store raw materials. His exports have almost doubled every year since. .

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