Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

Quadrant later became a co-owner before taking full control of Amart in 2016. The retailer generates about $600 million of sales and annual earnings of $90 million. Ironbridge Capital bought the chain for $500 million in 2006. Quadrant is believed to offload Amart through a trade sale or an IPO.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These iconic names were introduced to the area after Promenaden Management assumed control of the district in 2016. This prestigious street boasts nine of the world’s top ten luxury brands, including Gucci, Hermès, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Saint Laurent, Moncler, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, and Dior, with Prada set to join in 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

‘Love Stories by David’s’ to Anchor Pearl Media Offerings Image courtesy David’s Bridal Founded in 2016, Love Stories TV boasts more than 20 million viewers for its library of over 30,000 videos across content platforms including social media, YouTube, podcasts, linear TV and video on-demand.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2025

MacNaughton brings more than 30 years of retail experience, including roles as Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer at Walmart and a previous stint as President and COO of Family Dollar from 2016 to 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2025

Baradoy also led Lightrail – an API payment infrastructure for customer value – as CEO from 2016-2020. He is a seasoned executive in the digital incentives/payments space and cofounded Giftbit in 2011, leading the business through its early startup days, pivots and growth, most recently leading the platform’s expansion.

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Retail Wire

MAY 19, 2025

The declines have persisted since 2016. At the end of the year, the sandwich company had 19,502 domestic locations, its lowest number in almost two decades. In 2015, it reached a peak of almost 27,000 stores. Subway has lost about 7,600 stores, including over 1,000 in 2020, 2021, and 2018. making it the second largest.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The program now covers 72 suppliers and has grown in total supply chain financing from $100 million in 2016 to $800 million in 2022, highlighting the critical role of value chain collaboration in decarbonization efforts.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Akeroyd is currently CEO of Gianni Versace SpA , a position he has held since 2016. From 2004 to 2016, Akeroyd was CEO of Alexander McQueen , and he also has held a number of senior fashion roles at London-based luxury department store Harrods. Burberry has appointed Jonathan Akeroyd as CEO and Executive Director, effective April 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He was named SVP of Retail Operations in 2016 and President in 2019. He was named President in 2008, added the CEO title in 2016 and was named CEO in 2019. All three executives are long-time Publix veterans: Murphy began in 1984 as a front service clerk in Margate, Fla., working his way up through various positions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Harper was named CEO in May 2022; she had previously served as CEO of Torrid from 2011 to 2016 and served as CEO of Belk from 2016 to 2021. Torrid has had an unusually high number of top-level management changes over the past year. The retailer’s most recent financial results paint a picture of a company facing tough headwinds.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2022

Between December 2016 and September 2019, the company admitted to receiving $58 million in cost-per-click fees from offers that weren’t the cheapest choice available for a given hotel. Trivago had used an algorithm to determine which travel booking site paid the highest cost-per-click fee and highlighted them on its website.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

While the retail landscape has changed dramatically since Inside Retail first launched the Retailer Awards in 2016, understanding your customer’s needs, and coming up with creative and innovative ways to meet — and ideally, exceed — them, remain vital to success.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

In the 2016 financial year, the first under Alceon ownership, Noni B posted a modest $2.2 Consolidated Press Holdings offloaded the 370-store Pretty Girl Fahsion Groups labels, Rockmans, Table Eight, BeMe and W Lane in August 2016 in a cash and share deal which increased total revenue for FY17 to $316.8 million.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2024

million pounds of materials since 2016. “With back-to-school and college shopping top of mind for families, we’re offering this 20% off Target Circle deal to make it even more affordable for our guests to refresh their denim wardrobes, while also doing our part to reduce waste and keep used denim out of landfills.” million car seats and 39.7

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2024

The proceedings were about changes implemented to the supply chain between 2015 and 2016, and alleged breach of the Franchise Agreement, contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law and the Franchising Code of Conduct, the company said in its previous statement.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In the past three years, the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes, up from two in 2016. Its exhausting and the Harvard Business Review tells us that employees willingness to support enterprise change collapsed to just 43 per cent in 2022 compared to 74 per cent in 2016.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Bed Bath & Beyond achieved a 6% sales increase in Q2 2020, its first growth since Q4 2016, driven by an 89% jump in ecommerce sales. The online growth offset a 12% decline in same-store sales, bringing net sales to $2.7

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Walmart has been working with Alert to customize technology for its market fulfillment centers (MFCs) since 2016. Walmart has entered an agreement to acquire Alert Innovation , a robotics automation company that develops material-handling technology for automating order fulfillment in retail supply chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2023

Forman Mills, which had been acquired by private equity firm Goode Partners in 2016, currently operates 43 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Delaware and New York. One store, in Philadelphia , already had closed, and the impending layoffs indicated that others were in danger of shuttering.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2021

Patel has been with Belk since 2016, joining as EVP, GMM, Men’s and Ecommerce. Hendricks also has been with Belk since 2016 and has prior retail experience from leadership roles with Gymboree , Hot Topic and Torrid. Current CEO Lisa Harper will transition to the role of Executive Chair of the Belk Board of Directors.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2022

Incoming CEO Harper has previously served as CEO of the plus-size retailer, from March 2011 until July 2016. More recently, Harper was CEO of Belk from 2016 through 2021 and then served as Executive Chairperson.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2024

PE Nation creative director Pip Edwards has stepped down from the role, but will maintain her directorship and shareholding in the fashion brand she co-founded in 2016. The announcement comes just months after PE Nation’s other co-founder, Claire Greaves, stepped back from the company’s day-to-day operations back in March.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

After going private in 2016, the chain hit a few bumps in the road, including an accounting scandal that saw the resignation of the current CEO. In 2017, Mattress Firm filed for bankruptcy to facilitate a prepackaged restructuring that included the closure of 700 underperforming stores.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This isn’t the first time Grill’d has run afoul of the Standards Board, having been targeted in 2016 for a series of posters which represented one of its burgers as ‘The Good Schnitzel’, but with some letters bolded to also suggest it is ‘The Good S**t’.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2023

in 2016 and has since grown to include more than 110 aircraft across 70 destinations worldwide. Each plane will ship thousands of packages every day from the 1.1 million sellers in India across Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai, India, helping to move goods faster and more cost-effectively from fulfillment centers to last-mile carriers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

1-800-Flowers.com will replace its current CEO, Christopher McCann, with a familiar name and face: Jim McCann, who led the company as CEO from inception through 2016. Christopher McCann is stepping down for personal health reasons, effective immediately, but will remain on the company’s board and as an officer of various subsidiaries.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Yume, founded by Katy Barfield in 2016, is a food redistribution platform that helps prevent food waste by connecting surplus food from manufacturers, to other businesses and charities that can use it. million tonne per annum food waste problem.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Arnott temporarily closed the company in 2012 and relaunched it in 2016. .” Arnott founded Arnsdorf in 2006 and established a following across Australia, North America, and Europe. The post Ethical fashion label Arnsdorf closes appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 7, 2025

She joined Louis Vuitton in 2016 and has held several senior roles within the brand. Meanwhile at Kenzo, Charlotte Coupe has been named CEO, effective May. She will also report to Toledano. Coupe began her career at Ralph Lauren and later moved into menswear product leadership at Lacoste.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

” Goop first entered the skincare space in 2016 and then swiftly launched Goop Beauty, with both lines emphasizing “results-driven” products with “best-in-class incredients,” according to a company blog. “Now, with Good.Clean.Goop, we’re making beautiful clean essentials available to more people.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Founded in 2016 in Melbourne, Lukumades is known for its loukoumades, which are bite-sized Greek doughnut balls. Australian doughnut chain Lukumades has launched its first presence in Singapore, with a brick-and-mortar store on Arab Street. The new Lukumades Singapore store is a vegan-friendly and Halal-certified location. and $12.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

That deal was shut down in 2016 due to antitrust concerns. Staples is making another bid to acquire its rival Office Depot , this time with a bid of $2.1 billion — one-third of the $6.3 billion offered in the original 2015 merger agreement. billion transaction.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

As a subsidiary of Tractor Supply Company since 2016 , Petsense has a longstanding relationship with Canidae, and the two companies have come together on a number of initiatives to promote animal and environmental health since 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2023

The number of employees who worked at the facility is unavailable, but GameStop said it planned to employ 400 when it opened the warehouse in 2016. The closure was further confirmed by a commercial real estate listing stating that the 630,000-square-foot building will become available for a new occupant as of July 1, 2023.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Founded in 2016 by Joel Hauer, Liquor Loot offers subscription boxes and tasking packs that allow customers to try new spirits without having to purchase a full-sized bottle. The administrators have not laid off staff, and shoppers are still able to access Liquor Loot tasting packs, subscription services, and full bottles via its website.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2022

The regulator said that between March 2016 and October 2018, the company ran in-store and social media advertisements that claimed the phones could be used in pools or sea water. The regulator had first sued the company in July 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2025

Free Online Training that Evolves with the Luxury Industry Image courtesy LVMH One of the biggest opportunities that Ambassadors make their classmates aware of is the Inside LVMH guided training and insights platform, a free online resource launched in 2016 that provides access to luxury education and in-depth knowledge about the luxury sector.

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