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Behind Documents’ path to luxury fragrance leadership in China

Inside Retail

In 2018, one of his agency’s clients was the Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster. Around 2019, my design team and I started to look around to see if there were any opportunities to create our own consumer brand,” he said. So, in that case, Documents…is not a big consumer brand in China.

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Devising an Optimal Returns Policy for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

Devising a new returns policy, then, entails managing a series of trade-offs that vary from one business to the next. Under lenient returns policies, retailers tend to be too quick to blame high returns on so-called “opportunistic renters” — consumers who buy with the intention of returning the item rather than keeping it.

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Business Growth through Digital Transformation: The Case of Premium and Luxury Brands

Retail Focus

Despite being a buzzword, digital transformation has now become a defining element of modern business strategy, and its significance cannot be understated (Achille, Marchessou et Remy 2018). The resilience of these brands is exemplified by their ability to withstand economic fluctuations and evolving consumer tastes.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

Makro, the biggest cash-and-carry operator in Southeast Asia, was already something of a beast in wholesale and retail terms: it operated 154 warehouse-style units with an average size of just under 5,400sqm, selling to both retailers and end consumers in major cities and secondary locations, mostly in Thailand and Malaysia.

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Exclusive Q&A: ‘We’re Asking a Lot More From Our Supply Chains’

Retail TouchPoints

It’s the question that’s on every retailer’s — and not a few consumers’ — minds: When will global supply chains flow freely once more? With supply chain challenges come the higher costs feeding inflation, which is itself a double-edged sword. trillion , compared to January 2018 ( $4.2 trillion ).