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JUNE 2, 2022

“We are emerging from the pandemic a much stronger, more profitable company than we were at the time of our IPO in 2019,” said the company’s President and CEO Chip Bergh in a statement. “We This shift to a DTC-first mentality doesn’t mean the end of Levi’s wholesale relationships, however.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

With retailers already pushing out holiday sales to entice consumers to buy early and avoid delivery delays due to supply chain congestion, one tactic that they will lean on to entice customers is buy now, pay later (BNPL). BNPL Can Have an Effect on Consumers and Retailers.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Established in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Wez and Eirin Bryett, the Gold Coast brand sells on-trend women’s clothing for predominantly Gen Z consumers. Since its entry online in 2019, the company says US sales have made up the majority of its revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2024

Cramer also has experience working with brands targeting younger consumers, similar to Claire’s, from his time as President of Parade , a Gen Z-focused intimates and lifestyle apparel retailer. The accessories retailer has forged wholesale and shop-in-shop partnerships with major U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In 2019, Hanna Andersson shifted to a fully DTC model , closing all its stores and ending its wholesale business. With no plans to return to brick-and-mortar, the company’s new loyalty program offers the brand another avenue to maintain contact with its consumers.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Australian online wholesale marketplace startup TradeSquare has secured $28 million in funding from US investment firm Tiger Global. New York-headquartered Tiger specialises in the digital sector and was a key investor in the Australian consumer marketplace platform Catch, which was sold to Wesfarmers in 2019.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

After a little more than a year in his role as EVP and Chief Consumer Officer, Jim Dausch has stepped down from his post at Under Armour , according to an SEC filing from the company. I see tremendous opportunity to elevate the brand, enable deeper loyalty, and drive growth among new and existing consumers.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2021

The timing is ripe as consumers increasingly seek out sustainable products and brands. Nike has recently made a number of other moves to build a more direct relationship with its consumers, including ending its partnership with Amazon in late 2019, and terminating wholesale partnerships in lieu of building its DTC business.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The retailer managed digital growth despite direct-to-consumer penetration falling to 41.2% Wholesale revenue soared 157% despite the company’s plans to exit between 2,000 and 3,000 wholesale partnerships. Lululemon posted an extremely strong quarter, led by a 61% net revenue increase to $1.5 of net revenue compared to 61.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

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. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is the second institutional investor to back Vuori, following Norwest Venture Partners, which invested in the company in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company delivered a revenue increase of 16 per cent to $172 million during the period spanning pre-Covid year 2019 to 2022 and expects flat-to-modest revenue growth for 2023, in the face of constrained consumer spending and wholesaler buying caution.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Options such as buy now, pay later (BNPL) services were first introduced to business to consumer (B2C) transactions, giving customers the ability to access products and services they need today while paying at a later date or over a series of instalments. . Transform your B2B transactions with better payment technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 25, 2023

The retailer will promote Heidi O’Neill to the role of President, Consumer, Product and Brand, and Craig Williams to President, Geographies and Marketplace. O’Neill, a 24 -year Nike veteran, currently serves as President, Consumer and Marketplace, where she led marketplace and four geographic operating regions.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

decrease from 2019 primarily driven by the decrease in single-site operators. To account for this rapidly evolving environment, savvy convenience retailers have focused on closing the gap between what consumers expect and what retailers can deliver. despite less than desirable market conditions. Focus on service. Take the tech leap.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail (CRC for short) has launched full-on into the wholesale business under the name Go Wholesale, and is planning to give CP Axtra — parent company of retailer Lotus’s and wholesaler Makro — a run for its money. It operates 164 wholesale units, of which all but 10 are in Thailand itself.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Thanks to a growing partnership with OSM Worldwide , Dr. Squatch has successfully evolved its fulfillment strategy so it can not only deliver packages faster but cheaper for consumers and the business. However, shipping costs for the brand were only slightly above 2019 levels. and internationally.

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JUNE 19, 2022

The business helps luxury brands, distributors and wholesalers clear end-of-line and off-season products through online marketplaces, such as Farfetch, Net-A-Porter, Vestiaire Collective and The Iconic, as well as its own e-commerce site, Azura Runway. However, Wood saw an opportunity. It keeps them loyal to the brand,” he said. “It

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MAY 29, 2025

While Disshs before-and-after story felt overnight to most of the industry, Disshs growth journey has been slow and considered it was founded in 2001 and didn’t kick-off its rebrand to a vertical brand that designs everything in-house until 2019. The brand awareness opportunity is unmatched.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Zulily, an online retailer dedicated to offering consumers low prices, is one of Amazon’s victims,” reads the Zulily lawsuit. The FTC complaint alleges that since at least 2019, Amazon specifically targeted Zulily as an emerging online superstore.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Consumers can now browse and buy Touchland sanitizer across multiple channels, including the brand’s DTC ecommerce site, marketplaces like Faire and even on the shelves of big-name retailers like Ulta , Target and Sephora. After six months of B2C sales in the U.S., This is the key to growth.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Through advanced forecasting systems, RFID technology and artificial intelligence (AI), retailers can leverage data-driven insights to improve transparency among wholesalers, distributors and buyers, bridge supply chain gaps that cause disruptions and increase their supply chain’s agility with offshore, nearshore and localized suppliers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Households with children in elementary and high school are set to spend an average of $789.49 , far exceeding the 2019 record of $696.70. Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. per family, up from $976.78 — another record.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2022

The threats posed by the pandemic caused many consumers to focus on foundational needs such as food, shelter and safety. But despite the initial shift toward the all-consuming COVID-19 response, brands and retailers should now recalibrate their perspectives. And, of course, toilet paper.

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MAY 4, 2021

Launching on Thursday, May 6, and running through May 23, the Discover New pop-up showcases the “sophisticated, edgy and deeply cool consumer products that New Zealand creates”, according to Bella Katz, commercial business advisor at New Zealand Trade & Enterprise. The impact of travel bans on buying.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

He compared the level of interest of a consumer who had simply seen a Natori ad on social media to one who had “gone to the website, added something to their bag and abandoned the cart. That’s much more useful [data] than the first consumer. We aren’t blindly retargeting every user,” said Natori.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

I was CEO of General Pants at the time, and in 2019, we took the business independent. But by 2019, it was a healthy business, and it was always the plan for it to be an independent business down the track. With our wholesale business, because we went to the best retailers, we got paid on time. IR: What was the reason for that?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Over the last year, we have seen the significant impact Michelle has had on sharpening the Levi’s brand vision as a ‘denim lifestyle’ leader while also positioning it to respond to fast-changing consumer needs and expectations across global markets. “We Over his tenure, Bergh advanced the Levi’s business from a predominantly men’s U.S.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Jordan Kallios: In 2019 or 2020, we did our first huge marketing campaign and launched the business into the US market. A lot of the way that consumers over there soak in messaging is different than how they do here, so we have to tailor our advertising a bit for the North American market.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

While the subject of cannabis legalisation still divides countries around the world, there is no denying the influence that legal cannabis products are having on retail and consumer goods. There is sometimes confusion among consumers about the safety and legality of products such as hemp and cannabidiol. per cent from 2021 to 2028.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In fact, there are three retail areas in particular — wholesale, off-price and grocery — where the marketplace opportunity is still wide open, primarily because each faces unique digitalization challenges that have slowed their move online. Marketplace White Space #1: Wholesale. That was the goal of AB InBev ’s new BEES marketplace.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Customer experience is almost as important to consumers as the product itself, and the experience of buying a luxury item directly from the designer is an area in which luxury brands are constantly investing. Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world. billion in 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But as these brands and many others look to new channels, such as stores and wholesale, to combat flagging sales and elusive profitability, True Classic is doubling down on digital. . Founded in Los Angeles in 2019, the brand started out with the ambitious goal of disrupting the T-shirt category — a saturated, highly commoditized space.

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MAY 6, 2025

Melbourne-based premium pet accessories brand St Argo has made a decisive strategic pivot, one thats seen the business abandon traditional wholesale partnerships in favour of a direct-to-consumer model. Wholesale was great for early exposure and building brand trust, especially as a newer brand that many people hadnt heard of.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

The other factor that makes Unpaired possible is the wholesale pricing Everyhuman has negotiated with Friendly Shoes and Billy Footwear, the two adaptive footwear brands that are part of the initiative. “We’re “We do it in a way where we offer a core range that’s going to be an ongoing range as opposed to seasonal styles.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon Over the past decade direct-to-consumer businesses have popped up in nearly every corner of the retail sector. From mattresses sold by Casper to prescription eyeglasses from Warby Parker ambitious founders have taken a page from Amazon’s playbook hoping to sell goods directly to consumers online. million and $58.5

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JUNE 9, 2022

Fast-growing local fragrance brand Who Is Elijah is on track to hit $3 million in revenue this calendar year as it continues to expand its direct-to-consumer and wholesale presence in Australia, New Zealand and the US, and gears up to launch into the UK and Canada. . Growing direct-to-consumer sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2024

The partnership launched in 2019 with Minnie ear designs and art and evolved into exclusive collections within Disney-owned and -operated locations in its parks and retail destinations like Disney Springs. When I joined, we were known as a direct-to-consumer resource for fashion jewelry.

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