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As wine shipments flow into China again, brands face falling alcohol consumption

Inside Retail

Australian wine-makers have shipped millions of bottles of wine to Hong Kong in a bet that China will soon lift tariffs on Australian wine and revive a trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to industry figures and trade data. Tim Ford said Treasury had not shipped wine for China to Hong Kong. million litres worth $65.5

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Promotions and Discounts: 2017 Back-to-School Trends

Wiser

Here at Quad, we took a deeper look at the promotion and discounting back-to-school trends of last year versus this year leading up to peak back-to-school shopping season. Less free shipping promotion mentions. Overall fewer promotional mentions. Target seems to also follow the same trend for both 2016 and 2017.

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On the board: former Big W MD championing social impact with Good360 solution

Inside Retail

DW: Big W at the time I took over as managing director in 2016 was struggling, and had been struggling for a number of years. It didn’t make particularly good logistical sense if you’re shipping stock from Perth into Sydney and then shipping it back out to Tasmania. IR: How did you encounter Good360 initially?

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Wiser in the News: The Strategy, Science and Psychology of Holiday Promotions

Wiser

Get a sneak peek into Wiser promotional data included in Bain & Company’s holiday retail newsletter published yesterday. The Strategy, Science and Psychology of Holiday Promotions features the best holiday sales and promotional data. . ” . Need better data to inform your decisions?

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How to Scale the Competitive Promotional Monitoring Process

Wiser

Take a guess: what occasion is being advertised by the following promotions from various sources? “Free Shipping. The campaigns surrounding Prime Day are a clear example of the difficulty in scaling promotional monitoring. In other words, be willing to go beyond the traditional holiday-based promotional calendar.

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Here is what’s driving Danish retail giant Bestseller’s success Down Under 

Inside Retail

Following its launch in Australia in 2016, Danish retail group Bestseller has firmly entrenched its presence in the retail market, with the company making strides in its sustainability and circularity initiatives. With this, we avoid more than 36,000 tonnes CO2 of potential emissions, compared to using traditional fossil-fuel based transport.

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“I want to rewrite the rules of retail”: Go For Zero’s Ellie Degraeve

Inside Retail

She moved to Australia in 2016 and launched Go For Zero in 2018. But while Degraeve had plenty of retail experience under her belt – she had worked as a business coach and international retail strategist before moving to Australia in 2016 – she didn’t know anything about growing an e-commerce business. “I

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