Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

New vision Graeme Moore is the head of Salomon ANZ and joined the business in 2019 after 14 years with Adidas Australia. An immense passion for outdoor sports and strategically accelerating brands drew Moore to the Salomon business, where he is now leading its next phase of growth within the ANZ market.

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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. Do their customers really keep coming back?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A Pea in the Pod parent company Destination Maternity closed all its banners in late 2019 following bankruptcy proceedings. The retailer was acquired by Marquee Brands for approximately $50 million in December 2019 with plans to emphasize “ecommerce, select wholesale partnerships and strategic marketing relationships.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The money raised will be used primarily to secure a new warehouse, venture into wholesale, scale marketing efforts, and introduce new products – including developing a ready-to-drink range. million last year, and online sales growth of 60 per cent yearly from 2019 to 2022. The company reported a revenue of $1.3

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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. “With deep market knowledge and outstanding expertise we look forward to their proven leadership qualities helping to architect our next growth chapter.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

Reporting directly to Linnartz, Dausch led global brand, marketing, digital engagement and customer experience across all commerce channels. From 1996 to 2019, he was acting CEO and Chair of the Board of Directors, and in 2020 he was appointed Executive Chair and Brand Chief. When Dausch leaves the company on Aug.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

The brand’s overall digital sales also increased 19% globally, while wholesale revenues were down by 1%. A big piece of Nike’s direct offensive has been a shift away from wholesale and toward DTC. Wholesale Will Still Play a ‘Very Important Role’. Revenues were up 5% YoY in the company’s fiscal Q3, which ended Feb.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

McDonald has been CEO of Barbeques Galore since 2019 and has played a key role in the company’s growth, including the introduction of 40 award-winning new design stores and brands such as Gozney and Masterbuilt. Alex Foster, who has 20 years of retail experience at discount supermarket Aldi, will take over the position.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Dexus Wholesale Property Fund is offering a 20-per-cent interest in Gold Coast’s Pacific Fair Shopping Centre and a 25-per-cent stake in Sydney’s Macquarie Centre. The stakes were held by the AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund before its recent merger with Dexus Wholesale Property Fund. Macquarie Centre in Sydney.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

a robust online business and wholesale distribution at Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s and 600 specialty boutiques worldwide. He first joined the Kendra Scott board in 2014 and in 2016 joined the company as Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer. and increasing the company’s wholesale presence.

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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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Inside Retail

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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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Wholesale revenue soared 157% despite the company’s plans to exit between 2,000 and 3,000 wholesale partnerships. Sales across all Gap’s banners were up 29% versus the same period in 2020 and up 5% compared to 2019, but Athleta led the pack with sales up 35% compared to 2019.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In the case of Chemist Warehouse, the acquisition would position it as a superpower in the Australian pharmaceutical market, dominating the wholesale and retail markets through vertical acquisitions across the value chain. They sold Australis in September 1991 to the Smorgon Family.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2025

Thailand’s The Nation newspaper reported that, in 2023, the wholesale and retail trade sector contributed about THB2.8 It also hosts Songkran (Thai New Year) celebrations and offers an indoor floating market. trillion ($84 billion) to Thailand’s GDP, accounting for about 15.17 per cent of the total GDP.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

The company underwent several rounds of jobs cuts and a $200 million dollar restructuring in 2018, followed by an SEC investigation into its accounting practices in 2019. Frisk’s remit when he joined was to reengineer Under Armour’s structure, systems and go-to-market process. Browne has held the role of COO since 2020.

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Inside Retail

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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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2025

From e-commerce roots in 2019 to retail partnerships with Sephora and launches across the UK, Southeast Asia and North America, the momentum hasnt let up. And yet they pulled off a four-market ERP rollout in just six months right before Black Friday. Its tech stack, however, couldnt keep pace. Want the full story?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

As M+A activity continues, convenience retailers are experiencing increased pressure to maintain market share. decrease from 2019 primarily driven by the decrease in single-site operators. despite less than desirable market conditions. Take the tech leap. despite the pandemic. You Can’t Afford to Wait.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2021

The number of planned Halloween pop-ups is still well below the 250 the retailer opened in 2019, largely due to continued volatility in the market. compared to Q2 2019. The quarter was highlighted by robust trends at retail with the recovery at wholesale underway, as expected,” said Weston in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 25, 2023

In her new role she will lead Nike’s global product engine and integrate its brand marketing storytelling to help the company build deeper relationships and engagement. Williams, who currently serves as President, Jordan Brand, will now lead Nike’s four geographies and its marketplace across its direct and wholesale businesses.

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Inside Retail

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. Rising opportunity in resale .

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

O’Shea pointed to two other other retailers that have leveraged their large store bases into convenient ecommerce destinations: DICK’S Sporting Goods and BJ’s Wholesale Club. compared to Q2 2019. Both of these retailers also posted strong Q2 results: Dick’s posted 19.2% year-over-year and 5.8%

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

In 2019, Touchland closed deals with notable retail partners like Urban Outfitters , Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus. Touchland also implemented NetSuite Demand Planning to better gauge consumer demand across its network of wholesale partners so i t can tightly manage the inventory it keeps in stock.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Brands that take a strategic customer-centric approach can benefit from what funds customers do have and with ‘Euro summer’ heating up – Bydee is investing in meeting market demand with a localised approach. This was achieved by tapping into the travel-inspired swimwear niche and pivoting the expansion to markets that resonated.

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Inside Retail

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 12, 2023

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

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The luxury market is categorised by its exclusivity, maintained through a combination of high price points, consciously limited product volumes, reputation and customer experience, amongst other factors. Phillipe created a partnership with another family-owned business, Hunt Leather, to tap into the Australian market.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2021

Selling internationally provides greater access to fast-growing foreign markets for increased sales and revenues, while buying internationally enables companies to diversify their resources to pivot against supply chain disruptions in certain areas of the world. Prioritizing Ecommerce Fulfillment.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2021

Julia Browne, founder of the Melbourne Fashion Hub, an organisation that supports emerging designers, said international wholesale orders “would have simply evaporated” for some brands. Many designers would not have been able to take part in international trade shows and further engage with emerging new markets.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2023

The business formed when Jordan and I were at university, both studying marketing. In our final year, we did a bit of travelling together over in Europe, and when we were over there we noticed that there was a gap in the market back home in Australia for on-trend, mid-length swim shorts.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

In 2019, Kizik’s parent company, HandsFree Labs, received a minority stake investment from footwear giant Nike and last year the brand was stocked in five Nordstrom stores in the Midwest and West Coast. Innovative sneaker brand Kizi already has a firm toehold in the footwear industry.

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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 Chip has transformed this company and will leave it far better than when he arrived.

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2025

For as many segments as there are within the retail industry, there are arguably few as competitive as the food and beverage market. As of 2024, Fishwife was stocked in over 1800 retail locations, with wholesale partners including Whole Foods, Target and Pop Up Grocer, and had about US$6 million in annual revenue.

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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. Retail, Wholesale and Distribution leader in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from these unusual times, it’s that pausing marketing is not an option.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We’ve just hired a new CFO, a new head of retail and wholesale, our new head of digital started in August and of course, myself. It was our best month online since December 2019. IR: Speaking of those ups and downs, do you attribute that to Covid, or more to the previous rebrand in 2019 not really turning out as planned?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2023

Image supplied IR: What does Tag Heuer’s presence in Australia look like in terms of stand-alone stores, online and wholesale? And then we have our wholesale partners, where we find our clients have a loyal database. IR: Why do you think Australia is such a strong market for Tag Heuer?

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