Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

“We reject the investor group’s attempt to seize control of our board and disrupt our momentum, especially considering that we are well underway in implementing a strong growth strategy and accelerating our performance, and we have refreshed half our board with six new independent directors since 2016,” said the retailer in a statement.

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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. The ultimate plan is to sell to the highest bidder. Johnson had hoped to expand into new categories and markets, but the tides quickly turned after the company went public via SPAC in October 2021. as of July 1, 2022.

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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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Mass Relators

JULY 27, 2022

Dollar General plans to add three new distribution centers to its network. The North Little Rock dual distribution center facility represents an approximate $140 million investment in Pulaski County, and construction is currently slated to begin by fall with a late 2023 planned completion date. GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. Aurora, Colo.

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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. Some of our products are made in China, the US, Korea, and Australia, but we’ve managed to have very little price increases. SS: We’re not.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2023

retailers plan to use technology and automation for their critical behind-the-scenes work, like inventory, orders, payroll and invoicing — as well as for more customer-focused needs like communications, marketing, loyalty and checkout. Creating a seamless inventory management journey. What’s Next?

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Lepley, who joined Morrisons in 2016 from Asda, has spent the last four years as its group retail director. Our market share has slipped slowly and consistently and (underlying) sales have been below the pack for a while,” he said. Morrisons stores chief David Lepley has resigned from his role after eight years at the supermarket.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

Our 2024 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. The swimwear brand burst onto the scene in 2016 with a niche product that Vogue would later call the “world’s sexiest rashie”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2023

Earn-out structures, while uncommon in the consumer and retail sector, are increasing in frequency in a challenging market for mergers and acquisitions as a way to reconcile price differences. Roark took the view that the restaurant market is too fragmented for the deal to raise competition concerns, the sources added.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

ZAANDAM, the Netherlands — Ahold Delhaize said Wednesday that its Supervisory Board intends to propose the reappointment of Frans Muller as president and CEO and member of the Management Board at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 12, 2023. Frans Muller. Frans Muller became president and CEO on 1 July 2018.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 20, 2021

. — Publix Super Markets’ vice president of marketing Mark Irby plans to retire at the end of February. Renfroe, 42, began her Publix career in 2005 as a marketing support associate in Lakeland, Florida. She was promoted to her current role of director of marketing operations in 2019.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

They arrived with great fanfare but many international retail brands have found the Australian retail market has been a graveyard. In some cases, the failed Australian ventures were part of a flawed strategy to breathe growth into struggling home market operations. The Woolworths-Lowe’s venture closed in 2016 after five years.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Consumers will be immersed into a bright, light, open-plan shopping environment with products clearly visible to make the shopping experience effortless and enjoyable. . Not only will this bring us great footfall and visibility, but presents us with huge opportunity to bring the Freshly revolution alive to a new market and customer base.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2022

It’s been a year in the making,” Wilkinson, who is also general manager of new business at Brand Collective, told Inside Retail. Mate was founded by sister and brother Julie Kronstrøm Carton and Christian Adel Michael in 2016. While the brand is benefiting from the overall growth of the e-bike market, which is projected to reach US$79.7

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Mass Relators

MARCH 31, 2024

She has held roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as vice president, human resources for DG’s retail organization since 2021 and was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women list in 2023. She was named to the Mass Market Retailers Most Influential Women lists in 2022 and 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

These days, the framework for marketing success is still being driven heavily by a company’s media plan rather than in the context of overall customer health. But for consumer brands, the ultimate measure of marketing success is in fostering a better relationship with the customer. That needs to change. Goldfarb holds an A.B.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

Her relatively brief time as President — she took on the role in January 2023 — has been eventful, with the rollout of a new marketing approach , multiple product expansions and a rebrand in which the company dropped the word “Arrangements” from its name, as well as a new store concept in the works. And that’s exactly what happened.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 7, 2023

Promenaden Management, the company behind Oslo’s luxury retail destination, has announced the opening of Lucid Motors’ first store in Scandinavia. This marks Lucid’s fourth store in Europe and its 33rd site worldwide. The City of Oslo is positioning itself as a leader in the transformation to a greener and more inclusive society.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Meanwhile Holt, who was appointed general manager of sustainability, health and quality at Woolworths in 2016, explained that the team would discuss plans at length in order to determine which initiatives would resonate with customers, and actually work. “My Here’s a snapshot of this discussion.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2023

According to Volley’s partnership manager Renee Jaeger, the NGA approached the brand after seeing Volley’s Wear it with Pride campaign. Volley’s content and marketing manager Anna Geason told Inside Retail that the best collaborations happen when there is an authentic connection between partner brands.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2023

According to the group, Greece has continuously been among the fastest-growing markets in Europe under his leadership, with the company achieving three years of double-digit growth, and building market share in every business channel. Davison has served as the CEO of L’Oreal Greece for the past three years.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2022

How involved will Anchorage be in the management of David Jones going forward? When TPG bought Myer as a venture capitalist, they went out to the market, they talked growth, they expanded Myer considerably, […] they attracted lots of investors in that early window and then [they took] money out of the company,” he told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2020

These include supply chain, real estate, merchandising operations, product operations, health & wellness, human resources, marketing, customer service and e-Commerce. The e-Commerce division, which grew out of Walmart’s acquisition of Jet.com in 2016, is headquartered in San Bruno, Calif.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 14, 2024

the way it has in Asia, a number of brands are adding some spice to their content marketing mix with the integration of live shopping experiences. “To In 2016, Amazon dove into the livestreaming waters with the debut of Amazon Live on the Amazon website, app and its Fire TV devices. While livestreaming has yet to take off in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Inside Retail was the first to report earlier this month that Wesfarmers has cut 100 jobs at Catch , with the redundancies impacting key departments including marketing, product and technology, and finance. One former Catch employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said it was a repeat of Wesfarmers’ failed takeover of Homebase in 2016.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

Surfing brand Rip Curl has announced that the general manager of its women’s category, Brooke Farris, will take up the vacant CEO position left by Michael Daly after he succeeded Xavier Simonet as leader of the wider Kathmandu Group earlier this year. KFC Asia’s chief marketing officer to move to Westpac.

Management 130

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Since it debuted its first product, the Impossible Burger back in 2016, Impossible Foods has been on a mission to restore biodiversity and reduce the impact of climate change by transforming the global food system. Laurent Stévenart, Singapore’s country manager for Impossible Foods. The Singapore market. The future is bright.

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Grocer Consumer Marketing Accounting 130

Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2021

The brand plans to expand the Refurbished program to more US stores throughout 2021 and beyond. According to ThredUp, a digital platform in the US that enables consumers to buy and sell secondhand clothing, the resale market grew 21 times faster than the retail market overall in 2016-2019, and is expected to be worth US$51 billion by 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

When the mobile game “Pokémon GO” made a splash in 2016, global audiences got their first taste of just how engaging augmented reality experiences could be — and brands took notice. That’s why these immersive experiences need to be a near-term goal, and not part of retailers’ five-year plan.

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Customer Experience Social Commerce Advertising Shopping 316

Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

Dick Smith collapsed in January 2016 with debts of more than $390 million; Kogan acquired it from administrators for an undisclosed sum. Earlier, in 2011, Anchorage didn’t exactly give The Blackstone Group a robust business when it sold the Burger King fast food chain either, after spending two years implementing a turnaround plan.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 19, 2023

has promoted company veteran Steve Deckard to the newly created role of executive vice president for growth and emerging markets, in one of a number of recent leadership moves. DG has also promoted Chad Fox to senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Fox joined DG in 2019 as vice president and chief marketing officer.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2016, JD.com formed a strategic alliance with Walmart, taking control of the latter’s online grocery business, Yihaodian, and giving Walmart a 5 per cent stake in JD. It’s a 20-year plan, which is likely to cover multiple economic cycles. JD.com also aims to contribute RMB 100 billion in taxes and create over 1 million jobs.

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Merchant Services Supply Chain Management Net Profit Marketing 130

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cotton On’s Ceres Life hires new general manager. Cotton On’s online-only sustainable label, Ceres Life, which focuses on using organic and recycled fabrics in its clothes, has named former group strategy manager Steph Nolan its general manager. Little Birdie shakes up leadership team. Little Birdie was launched last month.

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Wholesale Management Marketing Planning 130

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2023

Compliance is how companies can easily onboard new customers and grow faster, as well as navigate through red tape to get into new markets with ready-to-go products and services. Compliance is much more multi-faceted than being up to date on which regulations are in effect in different markets.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2022

“The First Nations Advisory Board provides us with the capacity to make a meaningful contribution to Closing the Gap, drawing on collective expertise and informed insights to make meaningful change,” said advisory board chair and Woolworths Group’s managing director of B2B and Everyday Needs Claire Peters. I certainly can’t wait.”.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2021

Australasia’s largest fun company Funlab is planning to double its footprint nationally and internationally as it aims to capitalise on demand for experiences over products. Since 2016, the company has more than tripled revenue thanks to the popularity of Holey Moley and Archie Brothers with corporates, families and millennials.

Shopping 246

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Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2024

Founded by a dynamic 17-year-old, Sofia Sacoor, the brand marked its entry into the Malaysian market with a weekend pop-up event at Sunway Pyramid from March 23-25. The story so far Sacoor was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as an eight-year-old in 2016. She became aware of numerous cases of children who could not afford insulin.

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