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Sustainability and Profitability: How Embedding Sustainability can Boost Business Performance

Retail TouchPoints

This requires targeted upskilling in critical areas like carbon accounting and management, sustainable procurement and stakeholder management. Establishing clear communication protocols, cross-departmental KPIs and accountability measures is essential. Our research highlights that U.S.

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Designerex resumes trading amid ‘significant’ investor interest 

Inside Retail

Founded in 2016, Designerex allows customers to create accounts and list items for rent directly from the online checkout pages of participating brands.

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How to manage change without burning out employees

Inside Retail

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. Empower and hold to account.

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Meet the power couple behind Stax and Secondleft

Inside Retail

When Matilda first met Don in 2016, I had absolutely no interest in Stax, she told Inside Retail. When [Matilda], Til, came into the brand, she was disinterested in Instagram her account was private, Don said. Now Matilda has over 100,000 Instagram followers on her personal socials, almost double that of Dons personal account.

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Farm Rio CEO Fabio Barreto on how the brand’s bold approach is winning customers

Inside Retail

Barreto said the brand plans to catch up with its fashion peers that derive at least 30 percent of business from bags, footwear and additional accessories, which currently account for about 5-10 percent of Farm Rios business. In February 2024, Grupo Soma confirmed a merger with leather goods specialist Arezzo Group.

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Returns and Fraud are on the Rise — Happy Returns Wants to Help

Retail TouchPoints

has nearly doubled over the last six years, now accounting for roughly 17% of all merchandise sold, according to Timothy Fehr, COO of Happy Returns, citing research conducted in partnership with the National Retail Federation. When we talked to [merchants] in 2016 and 2017, the immediate response was, Why on earth would I make returns easier?

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Articore’s boardroom shakeup: Investor demands and future uncertainty 

Inside Retail

July 2010 – August 2018: Hosking led Redbubble as CEO and managing director through its 2016 ASX listing and early global expansion. The oversight shows that governance isn’t limited to financial or strategic oversight, for digital-first brands, it includes content moderation, community accountability and ethical commercial practice.

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