Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When Edward and Judy Kwon founded Calpak 35 years ago, they modernized the luggage and travel goods sector by investing in innovative design and marketing. In 2019, Calpak tested its store hypothesis even further by opening a pop-up in New York City. The brand recently became an online-only partner for Nordstrom.)

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Purple Innovation , the digitally native mattress brand, has hired Keira Krausz as its Chief Marketing Officer following the departure of Patrice Varni, who joined the company in June 2021 as Chief Marketing and Digital Officer. From 2013 to 2019, Krausz worked with Nutrisystem as the company’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Additionally, the retailer will adjust its 125 planned closings for 2023 by closing an additional 10 stores in January 2022, but taking a second look at another 60 that were intended to go dark. The change in closure plans goes hand in hand with the retailer’s expanded digital presence. compared to Q3 2019.

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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 To hit the $10 billion mark in the next five years, the company plans to increase DTC revenues from their current 36% of the total to 55%.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2021

The solution provider plans to expand the app’s current offerings to help c-stores attract new customers by receiving offers funded by CPG companies and streamlining enrollment in retailers’ loyalty programs. “By GasBuddy’s partnership with Audible was the subject of a 2019 Retail Innovation Conference session. Berenson & Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2022

Resale has a new player with the launch of DICK’S Sporting Goods ’ in-store buy-back program, available in select markets through a partnership with outdoor and adventure gear resale platform Out&Back. DICK’S will pilot the program at DICK’S Sporting Goods locations in Pittsburgh and Lakewood, Colo. and its Cranberry Township, Pa.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2022

From its launch in 2019, My Foodie Box has grown from 35 subscribers to more than 1650 and delivers around 1000 boxes per week. Now, using its fresh capital, it plans to expand into a broader online food retail offer, ramping up its marketing activity and further developing its technology platform to expand its geographical footprint.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Numerous conferences and sessions held over the first two days provided a comprehensive overview of market trends, featuring many exclusive international speakers. Retail investment has been especially driven by the strong performance of the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets, alongside robust results in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

with plans to reach more than 95 locations by the end of 2021. The brand posted a 56% net sales gain versus 2019 in Q1 2021, which ended May 1. Comparable sales grew 27% year-over-year and 46% versus 2019, with digital growth soaring 113% compared to Q1 2019.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

Hog’s Breath Cafe is looking to rebuild its restaurant footprint, and has plans to open another 20 restaurants by 2029. We will build restaurants the right size to suit the market. Hog’s Breath growth strategy “The fact we are here shows the real power of the name in the market.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The off-price retailer announced plans for 1,050 new store openings, 1,750 store remodels and 100 store relocations; the launch of 1,000 pOpshelf locations by fiscal 2025; and the company’s entrance into Mexico with 10 stores in fiscal 2022. Dollar General is preparing to embark on a massive expansion as it comes off a strong Q3 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

Luxury home brand Brooklinen is planning to triple its brick-and-mortar retail presence, first with the addition of four stores in new markets in 2022 and plans to reach 25 to 30 locations by the end of 2024. At that time its stated goal was reaching the 30 -store mark by 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2025

Since 2019, Google has been working on plans to eliminate, or at least minimize, the use of digital tracking cookies on its popular Chrome browser, but now the Privacy Sandbox initiative seems to have run its course.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement. I’m thrilled to have Mark join our team and lead this important work.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

However you look at it, healthy people are at the center of any successful sustainability plan. At Bragg, we review employee compensation annually and ensure that we remain competitive to market. Establishing a solid economic foundation for team members enables a stable organization that is capable of executing our work plans.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mexican restaurant chain, Mad Mex, has acquired back the 50 per cent ownership from its Singapore-based venture partner, 4Fingers International, shifting focus to its home market. Under the partnership, Mad Mex launched its restaurants in Singapore and Malaysia in 2019. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

Ingka Investments will hold a one-third stake in the project alongside preferred equity components and full ownership of the building’s prime retail space, an 80,000 -square-foot store with a corner entrance on Fifth Avenue where Ingka plans to put an Ikea “customer meeting point.” in a statement. . in a statement.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2025

Inside Retail connected with the CEO and creative director of Dissh, Lucy Henry-Hicks, on how the brand has approached international expansion and finding the Dissh girl in new markets abroad. The short-term residency offered an invaluable opportunity to test the market and gauge local appetite. LHH: Yes, and no.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2022

Coco Republic is to launch two flagship stores in California ahead of a progressive rollout in selected US markets and other global locations, the company has announced. It follows the success of a partnership with Restoration Hardware and the launch of an outdoor collection at an HD Buttercup store in Los Angeles in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft is gearing up to take a bigger piece of the growing retail media pie with the debut of a suite of new capabilities through its PromoteIQ marketing platform, which the company acquired in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. The brand is “actively considering” expanding into wholesale and plans to have five brick-and-mortar stores open by the end of the year — two in Chicago and three more in San Jose, Calif.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2025

This is not how I planned for you all to hear this news, but a media leak unfortunately expedited the timeline by several weeks. Rogers joined Instacart in 2019 following nearly 11 years at Apple , where he served as the Managing Director for Apple Canada.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

The company is planning to open 100 new stores this year while at the same time relocating or closing 25 existing stores, bringing the net total of new stores in 2021 to 75. We feel good about the merchandising and operational plans that we have developed for this smaller prototype.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2022

That was the solution for Adore Me; the internet-only company began working with influencers with large numbers of followers ( 1 million to 5 million ) in 2018 and 2019, but “we had hundreds of smaller influencers that wanted to work with us,” said Ranjay Roy, VP of Strategy at Adore Me, speaking at the RICE event in May.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By using future-focused insights, retailing marketers can evolve their strategies to stay abreast of change. A marketer’s crystal ball? No matter the position your brand or business holds in the market, foresight tools are designed to support you in building on your goals. Looking to the future is the future of marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

Nike is pushing forward with its digitally focused direct-to-consumer strategy following a strong Q3, with plans to build “the marketplace of the future” and bring standalone Jordan stores to North America. To that end, Nike plans to begin testing a new Jordan-only store concept in North America in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2025

Kohls Interim CEO Plans to Continue Turnaround Efforts Bender has served on the Kohls board since 2019 and was elected as Board Chair in May 2024. His prior retail experience includes President and CEO of optical retailer Eyemart Express as well as leadership roles at Walmart , Victorias Secret and PepsiCo.

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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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2024

Parade was founded by Columbia University dropout Cami Téllez in 2019, with a purpose to disrupt the market and champion inclusivity, body positivity and sustainable manufacturing. Businesses like Brava are championing change through inclusivity and representation for formerly marginalised individuals represented in the market.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In 2019, third-party sellers generated roughly 60 per cent of Amazon’s product sales, double the percentage they represented a decade ago, Marketplace Pulse found. It has already acquired several e-commerce businesses in Australia, where it plans to focus its efforts. The numbers behind the business model. Fours levers to grow revenue.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In May 2019, the World Health Organisation officially classified ‘burnout’ as a recognised illness, while a 2018 Gallup study found that of the 7,500 full-time employees surveyed, 23 per cent felt burned out at work very often or always, and an additional 44 per cent felt burned out sometimes. Employee-choice market.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Tru Kids has closed the two Toys ‘R’ Us outlets it opened in 2019, according to Bloomberg. The original Toys ‘R’ Us was liquidated in 2018 , but Tru Kids acquired its intellectual property and resurrected the retailer in 2019. The new entity opened stores at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J.

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2024

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority had also scrutinised Google’s plan over concerns it would impede competition in digital advertising.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

The two decided to fill in the white space themselves and started with a small booth at an independent fashion market. The brand has no plans to stop there. Over the past 10 years, the team has focused on growing in the US market. But what is behind the US consumers love for this Brazilian brand?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2023

Over the last several months we’ve demonstrated the extent to which we work every day to mitigate risk and protect our people, and our publicly available data show we’ve reduced injury rates nearly 15% between 2019 and 2021. What’s more, the vast majority of our employees tell us they feel our workplace is safe. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 11, 2021

Sales were up 15% compared to 2019, showing strong recovery from the pandemic and associated lockdowns. million in Q1 2020, up 60% from Q1 2019. million for Q1 2020, but down 7% from Q1 2019. “In A deal with Sycamore Partners fell through in May 2020, and the retailer reaffirmed its plans in February 2021.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

From acquiring an engagement ring to buying a wedding dress, few life events are as rife with retail opportunities as planning and hosting a wedding. In 2019, that number was US$28,000, reports The Knot, a global technology company that provides content, tools, products and services for couples planning weddings.

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