Retail Focus

APRIL 27, 2021

Hines, the international real estate firm has announced that Sky, Europe’s leading media and entertainment company, has chosen to open one of its first bricks and mortar retail shops at 229-249 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. The post New Sky shop to open at Buchanan Street, Glasgow appeared first on Retail Focus.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2023

The existing Australian management team led by CEO Phil Reed will continue to run the business. “Our Brands in 2016, Allegro has grown Pizza Hut Australia’s franchised store network to nearly 260. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of this month. Since acquiring the master franchise from Yum!

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

He leads the company’s global IT teams, information security, enterprise data management and analytics, enterprise applications and digital storefront functions. Browne, who began at Under Armour in 2016, will step down from the COO role this autumn to pursue other opportunities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2022

Torrid has appointed Lisa Harper as its new CEO, as current CEO Liz Muñoz steps into a newly created position as Chief Creative Officer (CCO) at the apparel retailer that serves women sizes 10 to 30. The change at the top comes amid a number of leadership shifts taking effect immediately.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With a background in pharmacy retail and retail healthcare services, Langowski will further Walgreens’ aims of expanding its role in healthcare and bringing solutions to industry players, including payers, health systems, pharmacy benefit managers and biopharma manufacturers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2022

Back in 2016, Ron Johnson was asked in a fireside chat at Shoptalk about the biggest mistake he had ever made. Additionally, cash flow became a problem as the company was hit hard by the broader tech selloff at the beginning of this year. Ron Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Enjoy Technology. His response: “Going to JCPenney.”

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Resale streetwear and lifestyle platform StockX is one of the hottest retailers at the moment, where customers can purchase exclusive, authenticated products from sneakers to handbags from sellers or its DropX model concept. Earlier this year, it entered the Australian market and in May, it opened an authentication hub in Melbourne.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Between November 2016 and December 2020, Politix underpaid about 850 employees with around $2.06 Individual wage underpayments were up to $22,956 at Politix and $12,576 at David Jones. Individual wage underpayments were up to $22,956 at Politix and $12,576 at David Jones.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Specialist law firm Adero has received intel into the unfair practices at certain Lovisa stores and potential breaches of the enterprise agreement. “We This includes team members, senior stylists, assistant store managers, store managers, inventory managers and any other in-store employees,” said the firm.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 9, 2024

Popular independent Greek street food vendor, Acropolis, is now open in upper Blue Mall at Metrocentre. Since Acropolis was founded in 2016, the business has rapidly expanded and is now serving its mouthwatering Greek food at venues and pop-ups throughout the North East of England.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The partnership includes Next’s management of a Banana Republic-branded ecommerce shop and a presence within Next’s brick-and-mortar stores, according to WWD , and the joint venture will include the Athleta brand by 2023. has expanded its partnership with Next plc as part of its return of the Banana Republic brand to the UK and Ireland.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Effective Thursday this week COB and after 8+ years, I will no longer be at Modibodi, unfortunately my role has been unexpectedly made redundant,” Lorenzato said in an email. Lorenzato joined the company in 2016 as marketing and public relations manager and was appointed CMO in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Emma, one of the world’s largest direct-to-consumer brands, is reaching a record number of customers through both online and offline channels as the company tears through the mattress industry at a blistering pace. Nicola Kinsella is SVP Global Marketing at Fluent Commerce.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Akeroyd has served at Versace as CEO since June 2016, helping the brand reorganise and accelerate its growth. Prior to Versace, he was CEO at Alexander McQueen from 2004 to 2016. Akeroyd has also held several senior fashion roles at London-based luxury department store Harrods. “I

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

Since then, the brand’s attention to detail and focus on people have gotten it to runways at New York Fashion Week and Miami Swim Week – and its latest capsule collaboration with former Victoria’s Secret Angel and Sydney local, Georgia Fowler. After the initial shock, most of my management team and all staff members rallied and dug in.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2021

Former advertising firm executive Chris Willingham has joined the senior leadership team at footwear and apparel brand R.M. Willingham, former managing director of advertising and brand consulting company DDB New Zealand, will aim to drive the next phase of growth for the 89-year-old South Australia-based company. The post R.M.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

His pre-Belk roles include senior leadership positions at Kohl’s and Lands’ End. He has approximately two decades of experience in operations, merchandising, supply chain and retail and store operations, including time spent at Target and Gap. . Patel joins GameStop as the retailer attempts its own turnaround effort.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The effects from the recent flooding in Kentucky have been catastrophic,” said Matthew Rubin, SVP and General Manager of Petsense in a statement. Our hearts go out to all of our team members, neighbors and communities impacted by the damage from the flooding.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

During her career, Sullivan also worked with The Stride Rite Corporation as COO and held consumer brand management and sales roles at companies including M&M/Mars and The Mennen Company. Schmidt joined Caleres in 2009 as the company’s SVP and General Manager of Image Brands, becoming President of Contemporary Fashion in 2010.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2023

As part of the new multiyear agreement — which builds upon a partnership that started in 2016 — Academy will use the Revionics Base Price and Markdown solutions to not only optimize its pricing strategy but better manage inventory levels throughout the product lifecycle.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

The menswear and womenswear store, situated across two levels, was launched in 2016. “We Poulakis said it isn’t financially viable to continue at Pacific Fair specifically, but that it will consider other locations in Brisbane in order to relaunch physically in Queensland within the next 18 months.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Fast-fashion giant H&M is to close its high-profile store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, unable to agree on lease terms with owner Scentre Group. H&M country manager Thomas Coellner said in a statement that the decision was made following a global review of sustainable store operations. “At

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Morrisons stores chief David Lepley has resigned from his role after eight years at the supermarket. Lepley, who joined Morrisons in 2016 from Asda, has spent the last four years as its group retail director. M&S attempted to poach Lepley in 2019 but he decided to remain at Morrisons as its operations director.

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Inside Retail

MAY 6, 2021

Since 2016 MyPost Business has helped many Australian businesses manage their domestic and international sending in one place with a free and easy to set up account. allowing online stores to ‘seamlessly’ print shipping labels, automate customer delivery updates and display accurate rates at checkout.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

Fast-fashion giant H&M is to close its high-profile store at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, unable to agree on lease terms with owner Scentre Group. H&M country manager Thomas Coellner said in a statement that the decision was made following a global review of sustainable store operations. “At

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A1 Retail

JULY 25, 2023

Retailer confidence at Northern Ireland’s premier designer outlet is continuing to soar as existing tenants take more space to increase stock and add new lines. Independently owned toy retailer, Toytown has also expanded at the discount outlet to include an expansive baby and nursery range under the brand Baby World at Toytown.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 14, 2024

The glass ceiling in Australia’s retail industry might not have been shattered but there have at least been some significant cracks. The real breakthrough for women in the retail industry is arguably the recent appointments of Olivia Wirth to the top executive role at Myer and Amanda Bardwell as CEO at Woolworths.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Our wholesale funds management program allows us to take advantage of these kinds of deep value opportunities and we look forward to working with Fortius on unlocking further value.” . Property company Blackstone Group bought Rundle Place and the office tower at 80 Grenfell Street for $400 million in early 2016.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2022

Before taking on the new role on November 1, he will remain in his role at Dan Murphy’s while a replacement is found and a transition completed. Before Dan Murphy’s, he served at Coles for 10 years in different roles, latterly as director of Fresh Food.

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Mass Relators

MAY 2, 2023

. — Roxanne Flanagan, SVP, Chief Supply Officer at Walgreens announced Tuesday on her LinkedIn page that she is leaving the company. Thank you to all the pharmacists at Walgreens. The post Roxanne Flanagan leaving post at Walgreens appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers. She joined Walgreens in 1993. You are all awesome.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Rituals Cosmetics is to open a new store at centre:mk Milton Keynes marking its debut in the region. Personal wellbeing and beauty are key areas, so Rituals is a great addition that, along with other recent openings at centre:mk, creates an offer unrivalled anywhere in the region.”.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Creating 10 construction jobs in the build, The Lost City Adventure Golf is the latest new tenant which will enjoy a surge of footfall at Odyssey Place over the festive season. Investment company Matagorda 2, acquired the long lease for Odyssey Place in 2016. The Lost City Apocalypse will be open 7 days a week from 10am until late.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Consumers hold firm expectations that environmental sustainability and social responsibility should be at the forefront of everything from executive strategy, to day-to-day operations. Just make a start According to Hunter, a key priority for Officeworks is ensuring that sustainability doesn’t come at an additional, consumer cost.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Still a relative newcomer to the global beauty industry, Freshly Cosmetics was established in 2016 and has already been used more than a million people across 20 countries throughout Europe as well as China. The brand has a very clear vision and purpose and the company are led and guided by pioneers in R&D for natural cosmetics.

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Inside Retail

MAY 26, 2021

At fashion retail giant H&M group, workforce planning has become a critical part of daily activity. This capability was extended in 2014 to allow for basic function planning and then again in 2016 to provide dashboard capabilities for management teams. “We The company operates some 4950 stores and has 126,000 employees.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2023

Founded in 2016, luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty has seen massive growth over the past several years, and is expecting revenue growth of up to 90 per cent in 2023. Inside Retail : Can you talk us through what the past few years have been like at MCoBeauty, and how you’ve seen customers’ standards changing? I saw that niche.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Koko Black owner Simon Crowe, who is also the co-founder and managing director of Grill’d, bought the business out of administration in 2016 after identifying its potential as a great brand, with quality, artisanal products. According to Crowe, Koko Black’s channels are carefully managed. Big guys knocking.

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