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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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 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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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2024

The firm’s head of retail and wholesale Sophie Michael said: “Since we started tracking both online and in-store sales in 2017, the only time we’ve seen results this poor was during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period, when the majority of non-essential retailers were forced to remain closed.

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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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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

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. Under Armour saw business begin to slide in 2017 following years of record growth. Prior to that, Baxter held various leadership roles at Adidas and Reebok.

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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. Product that Delivers on its Promise. We’ve built this business in a more traditional, grassroots way.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2017. Launched in 2016 as a DTC business, Vuori has since expanded to brick-and-mortar via wholesale at retailers including Nordstrom and REI , as well as with 10 standalone stores. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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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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Mass Relators

APRIL 20, 2021

BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. Bob’s leadership, strategic vision and deep knowledge of the business have been pivotal in driving BJ’s Wholesale Club’s transformation and record growth across all key metrics,” BJ’s executive chairman Christopher Baldwin said. WESTBOROUGH, Mass.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

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. Brick-and-mortar dominates the retail scene, with ecommerce projected to account for just 7% of sales this year, up from 3% in 2017.

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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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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

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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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

In 2017, Papier raised approximately US$4 million in a Series A funding round. How Papier made a name for itself across the pond Papier was originally launched in 2015 by chief executive officer and founder Taymoor Atighetchi. At the conference, Atighetchi spoke with Saunders about Papier’s focused approach to omnichannel distribution.

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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 Harnessing the synergies.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 22, 2024

However, he admits as of 2017 that magic formula stopped working – as he points out all business formulas eventually do. Although the following years have been far from disappointing – profits have jumped a respectable, but “unexciting” in Wolfson’s own words, 16% from 2017 to date – the horizon looks somewhat brighter.

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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. Goldney, who is due to leave Unitas in late April, will join Pricecheck as commercial director.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The company’s revenue has grown from $217 million in 2017 to an expected $1.3 Additionally, the retailer sold its wholesale business to AmerisourceBergen Corporation for approximately $6.5 VillageMD currently operates more than 230 practices across 15 markets, with plans to expand nationally in the future. billion in 2021.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2023

Ishpal and Serina Bajaj started Kind Kones, a plant-based ice cream company, in a no-frills family home kitchen back in 2017 in Malaysia. Ishpal and Serina Bajaj The story so far “When we started the brand back in 2017 in Malaysia, we realised that there was a huge gap in the market as there were no plant-based options available.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 11, 2024

While the tumbler wasn’t gaining traction with burly mountain climbers, it piqued the interest of the lifestyle influencers of The Buy Guide, a blog, in 2017, who highlighted the fact that it is dishwasher safe and large but fairly portable. Within days, influenced readers bought out The Buy Guide’s entire inventory of the Quencher.

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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. Daniel, the founder and CEO, sought out business mentors in late 2017 after the business had been idling around $3 million in annual revenue for five years.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

They call this the “wholesale” shopping experience. Awards received during her tenure included: Forbes Best Management Consulting Firms: IT-Implementation 2016, 2017, 2018 and IBM Business Partner Award: 2016 IBM Commerce Winner. Emma sees the mattress and pillow shopping experience spanning both spectrums.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The business, along with its other units – LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, LloydsDirect, Lloyds Online Doctor and a wholesale arm AHH – were sold by Celesio to American healthcare company McKesson in 2014.

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Mass Relators

JULY 10, 2023

CHICAGO — Amazon, Aldi, Costco Wholesale Corp. The dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index database of more than 70,000 consumer survey responses between 2017 and 2022 was referenced to understand which trends matter the most to consumers. and Wal­mart are among the U.S. values-based consumption, and channel proliferation.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Costco Wholesale holds the second position in this year’s index, followed by Amazon. Rounding out the top 15 are Sam’s Club, Market Basket, Amazon Fresh, Trader Joe’s, Winco, BJ’s Wholesale, Target, Aldi, ShopRite, Walmart Neighborhood Market and Walmart. grocery market by data science firm dunnhumby.

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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. I sold the company in 2017. The changes that have happened recently are seismic — as seismic as the change in moving from the wholesale/retail model to online shopping was. How have sales been going?

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365 Retail

MARCH 4, 2024

Images courtesy of The Body Shop In 2017, The Body Shop transitioned ownership to Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, for £880 million in a move celebrated for aligning with its ethical roots. Unfortunately, Roddick’s untimely death in 2007 left the brand without its visionary leader.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alongside the announcement, the business reduced its outlook for FY23 due to anticipated weakening demand, and wholesale order cancellations. Rendle said it had been an honour to have served in the role, and that he was looking forward to watching the company’s continued success. The Body Shop’s global retail director steps down.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alongside the announcement, the business reduced its outlook for FY23 due to anticipated weakening demand, and wholesale order cancellations. Rendle said it had been an honour to have served in the role, and that he was looking forward to watching the company’s continued success. The Body Shop’s global retail director steps down.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 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. Additionally, Gap appointed Chris Blakeslee as president and CEO of its women’s activewear brand Athleta, effective August 7.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 2, 2023

4 is Schwarz Group, which since 2017 has operated grocery stores in the United States under the Lidl banner. 7: BJ’s Wholesale Club, with U.S. 12: Costco Wholesale, up 16.9%. 3 this year is Primark Stores Ltd. The London-based clothing and accessories chain posted a 65% increase in its U.S. sales in 2022. sales up nearly 23%.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

IR: I think some people might not know that LSKD – which stands for loose kid – started off as a wholesale brand. I never had the intention to do wholesale, but that’s what was around back then. In 2017, I started trying to find our “why”. We pay for their Audible accounts so they can listen to books that we recommend.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Bergmann brings more than 20 years of experience in the grocery and wholesale industries. He has also held leadership roles with a number of retailers and wholesalers, including C&S Holdings, Unified Grocers, and SuperValu, where he was president of the SuperValu West Region from 2017 to 2018.

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