Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Online B2B wholesale marketplace Faire has closed a $400 million Series G funding round, its third in the last year. With this latest round, which pushes the company’s total funding to date above $1 billion , Faire is now valued at $12.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

But one area of commerce has stubbornly resisted this move toward digitization — wholesale. People basically just ignored the third leg of that triangle though, the wholesale leg.” Since its launch in 2017, the platform has raised more than $1.29 billion and was valued at $12.59 The opportunity was hiding in plain sight.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vuori has received a $400 million investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 that values the activewear brand at $4 billion just six years after its debut. The company has been profitable since 2017. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

B2B wholesale marketplace Faire is expanding into Europe with launches in the UK and the Netherlands, with plans to add additional European markets in the coming months. Created by four former Square employees in 2017, Faire was recently valued at $2.5 billion after its latest $170 million Series E funding round.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Alibaba Group has reorganized its consumer and wholesale commerce divisions and named current Deputy CFO Toby Xu to succeed Maggie Wu as CFO in April 2022. Dai, the new leader of the China division, is an Alibaba founding member and partner who has served in various leadership roles at the company. com , AliExpress and Taobao Deals.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The mass store closures prompted by COVID-19 in spring 2020 could have spelled disaster for equestrian specialty brand Kerrits , which had operated as a wholesale-only business for over 25 years. Once the pandemic hit, our wholesalers had to close their stores, and we had to rethink our entire email plan,” said Florin.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

Frisk, who has been with the company since 2017 and at the helm since 2020, will stay on as an advisor through Sept. The last five years have been a turbulent period for the sportswear brand, which saw business begin to slide in 2017 following years of record growth. 1, 2022 to help with the leadership transition.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

BJ’s Wholesale made the most dramatic moves up the rankings over the last three years, climbing from 27th place to 10th place in 2022. In fact, club stores are gaining momentum across the board, with three of the top 10 spots now occupied by these retailers: Costco (#2), Sam’s Club (#5) and BJ’s Wholesale (#10).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back. Customers can try products for seven days and return what they don’t like at no charge.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

billion in fresh funding and is now valued at $37.6 The Flipkart Group includes ecommerce marketplace Flipkart , digital fashion destination Myantra , Flipkart Wholesale , online travel company Cleartrip and a majority stake in the payments app PhonePe. billion population, but still with plenty of room for growth.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Before joining Under Armour in 2020 as SVP of Americas Wholesale, Baxter served as President and CEO of LIDS Sports Group from 2016 to 2019. Prior to that, Baxter held various leadership roles at Adidas and Reebok. Under Armour saw business begin to slide in 2017 following years of record growth.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

RM Williams has opened its third UK store in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the company’s first store outside Australia since 2017. The store will feature RM Williams’ new retail design concept, which it introduced at its Sydney flagship last year. Another UK store will open in Cambridge in December.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Launched in 2017, wholesale platform Foodbomb connects restaurants and cafes with a marketplace of around 160 suppliers, simplifying the ordering process. There’s a core group of about 400 that are consistently loyal buyers, but we’ve had thousands come and go and take advantage at different times.

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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. Elliott told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Walgreens is planning to open at least 600 Village Medical at Walgreens primary care practices by 2025 and 1,000 by 2027, building on the 80 that are expected to open by the end of 2021. The company’s revenue has grown from $217 million in 2017 to an expected $1.3 Walgreens Boots Alliance will invest an additional $5.2

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

It forms part of a transformation genda for MFG – which owns more than a dozen retail and wholesale brands including Williams, Midas, Ziera, Diana Ferrari, Colorado, Mountfords and Mathers – focused on strategic acquisitions, investment in new technologies, facilities and omnichannel growth, and the continued growth of its store network.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

Brothers Omar and Zane Sabré (l to r) started the accessories label in 2017. Since launching in 2017, Maison de Sabré has grown into a multi-million dollar global accessories business with dedicated e-commerce sites in Australia and New Zealand, Japan and the US, and an international site that ships to customers around the world.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As we explored in our eBook, “ The Wholesale Brand Disruption Guide ,” direct-to-consumer is defined as “the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers from the brand manufacturer.” percent of all retail growth in 2017, and eCommerce sales increased by 16.4 What Does Direct to Consumer Mean?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Harmony783 also is a reinvention of pluggz , a grounding shoe company that Whiteley sold in 2017 but recently reacquired. Whiteley: I was at a trade show and saw a booth that demonstrated products that you plug into a grounding port. I sold the company in 2017. How have sales been going?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

Founded by Michael Pratt in 2017, the digitally native brand is known for its patented design, which allows the wearer to slip the shoes on and off hands-free. At Kizik, we believe there is no longer a need for shoelaces in modern-day footwear, and when you step into a Kizik shoe, you are stepping into the future.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

They had the licence for an eyewear company called Blind, and they took a stall at Sydney Fashion Week in 1999. IR: How did they go from ‘accidentally selling’ a bunch of jeans at Sydney Fashion Week to building a business? I was CEO of General Pants at the time, and in 2019, we took the business independent. Imag: Supplied.

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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. They call this the “wholesale” shopping experience. Nicola Kinsella is SVP Global Marketing at Fluent Commerce.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. IR: You started as the customer service and wholesale manager, how have you witnessed the brand’s evolution in your time at the company?

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2023

Blakeslee has broad experience in the apparel retail and wholesale industries, having served as president of sister companies Alo Yoga and Bella+Canvas since 2017 and held senior positions at Alphabroder. Apparel company Gap has appointed Chris Blakeslee as president and CEO of its US$1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

consumers starting their online searches on Amazon, it essentially functions as a product search engine — and a very popular one at that. Even if you’re buying brands that no one’s ever heard of except on Amazon, the ‘on Amazon’ part is enough to look at the brand as a serious business opportunity.”. Want proof?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

According to Grand View Research, the global cannabidiol (CBD) market size was valued at US$2.8 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.2 Hemp-derived CBD is also on the rise, expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.4 per cent from 2021 to 2028. Hemp goes mainstream. Petcare market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. Its 10th store will open at Sunshine Plaza on March 10, and its 11th store at Pacific Fair on May 4.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Launched in 2013 as a pure-play DTC business, Madison Reed expanded into wholesale through a partnership with Ulta Beauty in 2017 and recently began opening retail locations, dubbed Hair Color Bars. The company now operates 30 Hair Color Bars across the country and plans to double that by the end of 2021.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

We’d never done an event at that level before – there were 50,000-plus community members. We were very lucky to find a space on a main street in Pacific Beach, and we decided to open a retail store at the front and our office behind it, which is exactly what we have back in Australia. In 2017, I started trying to find our “why”.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 22, 2024

Local village stores have raised concerns, alleging that Tesco is employing tactics like limiting their access to groceries to force them out of business via its wholesale division, Booker. Independent retailers have aired their grievances to The Guardian , highlighting recent changes implemented by Booker.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Soon after Britain’s Tesco abandoned its retail business in Thailand and Malaysia in early 2021, its buyer, Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group, merged it with its Siam Makro wholesale arm. The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 billion baht ($9.4 There’s a buzz in the malls.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Body Shop has been snapped up by private equity investor Aurelius Group for £207m, just a fifth of the price that Brazilian cosmetics giant Natura paid for it in 2017. The sale, which is expected to complete next month, is far below the £500m price tag that Natura was understood to be targetting.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2024

It also operates the online marketplace Styletread and a wholesale arm. M&A background A few years before he joined MFG as its CFO in 2017, Bartlett worked at Wesfarmers, where he was involved in the acquisition of Coles Group and later Guy Russo’s turnaround of Kmart Group.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 23, 2024

The ecommerce giant’s trading director Sam Brocklebank, wholesale and product operations directo Marie Laskowski, and product director Claire Asher, are believed to have left the business, Drapers reported. A raft of senior Boohoo directors are understood to have left the online retailer.

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Talking Retail

APRIL 7, 2021

Unitas managing director, Darren Goldney, is to join wholesaler Pricecheck. He brings a wealth of varied industry experience having led the merger to form Unitas after joining Today’s Group in 2017. Previous to that, he had held leadership roles at. This story continues at Goldney to join Pricecheck.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 6, 2025

McKoy joined the bootmaker in January 2015 as global category manager for footwear, before being promoted to global product and merchandising director in 2017. Prior to Dr Martens, Mckoy held a range of product manager and category roles at VF Corp, Adidas, Mamas & Papas and Asics.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Disruption — I hate that word; you don’t want to disrupt,” he said at an event hosted by retail management platform Trax in January 2023. “No Still, for many new brands hitting the market today, disruption of legacy norms, and brands, is the goal, And whether he likes it or not, Dubitsky is very good at it. Johnson & Son.

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