Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

Schnuck Markets has extended its partnership with Instacart to introduce Caper Carts, which use AI and computer vision to automatically identify items shoppers put into them, allowing shoppers to then skip the line and check out using the cart technology. Louis Schnucks stores this fall, with a broader rollout planned for later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

Mattress Firm has publicly filed for an IPO that will return the furniture retailer to the public markets six years after South Africa’s Steinhoff International took the company private. 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.

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Wiser

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

With Black Friday 2017 just days away, it’s only natural to look back and figure out where exactly this retail holiday came from. While, at first, it seemed a bit rogue, it paid off big time and ignited a multi-year marketing campaign that resonates deeply with their customers. . What it Means for Black Friday 2017 .

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365 Retail

APRIL 26, 2021

The owner of Poundland has announced plans to list its shares in Warsaw instead of London, in its multibillion-pound stock market float. Poundland owner Pepco has announced stock market float plans (Pepco/PA). Poland is where this business started in 2004 and is still our biggest market,” he said. “It

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Before taking the reins of Propel Group, the company behind some of Australia’s best-loved workwear brands, Caroline Elliott was the COO who restructured the local operation of French fashion label Kookai and orchestrated the local franchisee Magi Enterprises’ acquisition of the global licensing rights in 2017.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

A detailed timeline released by Sitrick and Company, the law firm representing Cooler Screens, outlined the deterioration of the companies’ relationship, which began in 2017 under former Executive Chairman and CEO Stefano Pessina. It also is paying $4.95

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The new funding is a major vote of confidence in the potential of digital commerce in India, still a relatively nascent market. Brick-and-mortar dominates the retail scene, with ecommerce projected to account for just 7% of sales this year, up from 3% in 2017. billion population, but still with plenty of room for growth.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Founded by television presenter and fashion expert Trinny Woodall at her kitchen table in 2017, the brand is known for its multitasking makeup products, such as the Lip2Cheek range, which can be used as both lipstick and blush, and BFF Eye, an award-winning serum and concealer in one. And that’s only the beginning.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Instead, a series of recent diversifications, including the launch of a direct-to-consumer site in 2017, meant the brand was poised to roll with the pandemic punches. While the pandemic-prompted ecommerce boom certainly played heavily into these results, Florin also credits the deployment of email marketing tools from Omnisend.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2024

Target ’s announcement earlier this month that it was launching a paid membership plan almost felt like a foregone conclusion. So how does Target plan to beat these odds, especially as a latecomer in its sector? The company’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Lisa Roath laid out the game plan in a session at Shoptalk this week.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

In recent years, India has emerged as a major market for luxury brands. It currently accounts for over 10 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and around 8 per cent of the employment. Now things are changing in the world’s second-largest smartphone market, with nearly 700 million mobile phone users.

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365 Retail

MAY 14, 2021

billion (5 billion euros) ahead of its stock market debut. Poundland owner Pepco has announced stock market float plans (Pepco/PA). The listing comes almost two years after South African owner Steinhoff started assessing options for the retail group following the fallout of its own 2017 accounting scandal.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a window into future spending patterns across the economy and the only model of its kind globally, it can help retailers plan their operational strategies with greater confidence. with the annual change in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) National Accounts nominal household final consumption over recent years.

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Store Growers

OCTOBER 5, 2017

So for that I needed to get started on building a cheaper marketing channel. For the first 15 days of October I’ve got 7 posts planned. I think those might be interested in “staying up to date when we add new posters” I haven’t really though about email marketing yet. Apes In Space Instagram account.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

However, the conglomerate sold its UK business to private equity firm Aurelius in November 2021 for £477m when it sought to fully exit the European market. It blamed government funding cuts and higher operating costs for the move as it swung to a pre-tax loss of £148m in the year to 31 March 2017.

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Mass Relators

JULY 27, 2023

Since joining Dollar General in 2017, Lau held a variety of leadership positions overseeing many of the company’s key corporate finance functions including strategy, corporate development, investor relations, financial planning & analysis (FP&A) and strategic planning. retailer in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

Peters joined Woolworths as MD of supermarkets in 2017, before taking on her current role in 2020. Lisa Ronson, chief marketing officer at Coles, has announced on Linkedin her departure from the company. Ronson is leaving in late September and hasn’t revealed much about her future plans. million, accounting for 16.5

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365 Retail

JULY 9, 2021

Luxury retailer Watches of Switzerland has revealed plans to launch across Europe as it posted soaring annual profits thanks to customers’ booming “disposable wealth” in the pandemic. Luxury retailer Watches of Switzerland has revealed plans to launch across Europe as it posted soaring annual profits (PA). million the previous year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Self-isolating customers without access to the internet or a Morrisons.com account could call through Amazon Connect to order groceries over the phone — no account or internet needed. The Retail Butterfly. This shopper has grown accustomed to personalized shopping experiences with their favorite retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2021

Surges in online shopping during the pandemic helped fuel the growth of point-of-sale loans — a market that is forecast to grow at an annualized 9.8% BNPL are essentially layaway plans in reverse. Mac Nab has been in this role since April 2017 when he co-founded the company. over the five years through 2024-25, to $1.1

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Rollup firms are typically able to buy these Amazon businesses at anywhere from 4X to 6X EBITDA, sometimes less, according to Thomson: “As long as you manage to keep the same efficiency that any one of those accounts had when they were a standalone, you can get a 15X to 25X valuation on your company. There is massive financial arbitrage here.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A decade ago, convenience stores were a rare sight in Vietnam, where the vast majority of the population was used to shopping in traditional markets or mom-and-pop stores for everyday grocery needs. In recent years, the nation’s convenience store market has seen rapid escalation – and sophistication – in the larger cities.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

Sportswear retailer LSKD has been expanding rapidly throughout Australia in recent years, and has now set its sights on a bigger market: the US. We didn’t plan on opening an office, but our first US team member has been here for almost two years. JD: We don’t have any concrete plans yet, but we will.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Kaplan, who initially joined the business in 2017 and was part of a short-term management shuffle that saw a number of key executives fired and subsequently rejoin the business, also served as the business’ chief financial officer. “If

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 30, 2022

Lau joined Dollar General in 2017 and most recently served as vice president, investor relations and corporate strategy. He joined the company in 2017 as director of demand chain management and most recently served as senior director of store operations. Donny Lau has been promoted to senior vice president and chief strategy officer.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

In a crowded market like the home fragrance category, where everyone from fast fashion and beauty brands to discount department stores and pharmacists are selling candles, it’s near impossible to create and retain cut-through, much less develop an iconic brand synonymous with luxury and quality like 60-year-old Parisian brand Diptyque.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The business had been faltering for some time as it failed to keep up with value rivals B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains, which have all been growing rapidly and stealing its market share. between 2017/18 and 2021/22. Indeed, Wilko had recorded sales declines in its last four financial years, with revenue falling by 18.6%

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

continues to shuffle its leadership ranks ahead of the planned retirement of chief executive officer Todd Vasos. The 53-year-old Garratt will remain responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, strategy and procurement functions. The post Garratt named Dollar General president appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 14, 2021

Planned celebrations for their 25 th anniversary in April 2020 were delayed with the start of Covid-19. Edible cocktail brand Smith & Sinclair unveiled a multi-sensory shopping experience at the John Lewis Oxford Street store with the help of some eye-catching Perspex® acrylic displays from Inplas Fabrications in 2017.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

New ultra fast fashion competitors like ASOS and Boohoo entered the market and did what Forever 21 did but better. Not only are these retailers fast to market with their trendy designs they are also skilled eCommerce operators. Like Sears and Neiman Marcus, Forever 21 simply did not react to changes in the market fast enough.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WASHINGTON – More Americans plan to celebrate Halloween this year, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, which found that holiday-related activity will return to pre-pandemic levels. Similar to last year, one in five plan to dress their pet up in a costume.

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Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

million people are planning to shop from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday this year, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. This figure is almost 8 million more people than last year and is the highest estimate since NRF began tracking this data in 2017.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 19, 2023

A few highlights: • In June 2021, the retailer launched Hy-Vee Financial Services, fueled by its Midwest Heritage bank subsidiary, offering customers everything from checking and savings accounts to home mortgages and auto ­insurance. • That isn’t even an exhaustive list.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 11, 2022

Prior to joining Lowe’s in 2018, Denton served as executive vice president and CFO of CVS Health, where he was responsible for all aspects of their financial planning and management. In December 2017, Mr. Denton played a pivotal role in CVS’s acquisition of Aetna, structuring and negotiating the terms and financing for the transaction.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

points on the last week of December 2017. “So Taking all that into account, we would expect consumer spending to be down in the short term. per cent in November, the labour market remaining extremely tight with an unemployment rate of 3.4 It’s worth saying, however, that this was a 4.9-point per cent by the year end as well.”.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Agent Provocateur Acquired: March 2017 Frasers Group acquired Agent Provocateur in a pre-pack administration deal worth £27.5m back in March 2017. Since then, the group has been persistent on its expansion plans for the retailer opening new flagship stores in major UK cities and entering the Irish market.

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