Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its a tenet that the companys latest CEO, Corie Barry, kept front of mind as she took the helm in 2019 , throughout the upheaval of the pandemic and into today. That is what Barry has spent the last five years doing.

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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

JULY 1, 2025

The company had planned to go public in 2021, but scrapped those plans two years later. In June 2024, CEO Ryan Vero — who was brought in to lead the company in 2019 , nine months after Claire’s exited bankruptcy — stepped down , leaving COO and CFO Chris Cramer to take over on an interim basis.

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Inside Retail

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. IR : What has the reception for Dissh been like in the US and UK so far?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Michael Buckley, True Religion’s president from 2006 to 2010 and its CEO as of 2019, has previously stated, “This consumer wants a deal. As D’Arcy told Inside Retail , “There was a realisation, especially in 2019 when Michael Buckley came back, that we can and should be a lifestyle brand.” They’re not paying full price.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

Since Google introduced the Privacy Sandbox initiative in 2019, the digital marketing landscape has undergone a significant transformation. After five years of planning, this move casts doubt on the intent and effectiveness of the Privacy Sandbox, raising questions about whether it was more about appearances than substantive change.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

The brand has no plans to stop there. The brand opened its first US store in 2019 with a flagship at 113 Prince Street in Manhattans SoHo district, right before retailers and consumers lives changed drastically. People wanted to dress as they wanted to feel and people wanted to feel happy, he said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

After experiencing a shaky series of starts and stops, the brand closed down in 2018 and experienced a total re-birth after being acquired by Europerfumes in 2019. Inside Retail : What inspired you to purchase Commodity in 2019 and become the brand’s “re-founder”? If so, what locations are in mind?

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is now a clear distinction between the retail of 2019 and that of 2025. To enhance this role, MAPIC launched the International Brand Expansion Observatory, a guide published during the event, listing over twenty international brands with significant expansion plans across France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and the UK.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

trillion in 2019 to nearly US$4.29 I started experimenting with candy formulations, and one thing led to another I quit my job in 2019 to pursue Funday full time. Global online retail sales went from almost US$3.46 trillion in 2020, according to Digital Commerce 360 estimates, a 24 per cent increase.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2019, VF Corp spun off the Wrangler and Lee brands to a new publicly traded company set up as Kontoor Brands. Scott Baxter, President, CEO, and chairman of Kontoor Brands, emphasised the strategic alignment of the purchase with plans to scale the business globally.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2025

In addition, the report also shed light on possible voidable transactions including uncommercial transactions related to Mosaic’s acquisition of Ezibuy in 2019 and 2020 as well as unfair preferences. Founded in 1977, Mosaic owns clothing brands such as Noni B, Millers, Rivers and Katies. The company collapsed into receivership last October.

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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 Gazette

DECEMBER 30, 2024

. “It was the biggest opportunity that was ever available to us over the years to really grow at a significant level and take on some really good stores,” explains Taylor, sharing that the business came close to securing a deal for the high street chain back in 2019 before the pandemic hit.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

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. The Middle East [is in the plan] – because Documents has some Middle Eastern clients in China…and we think our position and our style may match the Middle Eastern market,” Zhaoran said.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

some entered the Indonesian market in 2019, citing a gap in diverse retail product offerings. The company has outlined plans to reach 100 stores globally by March and aims to enter additional Southeast Asian markets, including Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore, this year. Retail chain Oh!some

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2025

According to the executive, Tumi is now focused on capitalising on the resurgence of global travel after seeing several intra-Asia Pacific routes have exceeded 2019 levels. The overall aim is to position Tumi for strong, sustainable growth in the region while continuing to deliver exceptional products and experiences to our valued customers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2025

After first joining the company in 2019 as its chief marketing officer, Kelly Cook will be stepping into the role of chief executive officer of Davids Bridal in April. My goal as CEO is to help transform Davids Bridal into the most innovative, tech-enabled wedding retailer and planning marketplace in the industry.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Founded in 2019, Coolmate quickly became popular for its products and services catering to male customers and has consistently topped menswear’s e-commerce sales in major online marketplaces in Vietnam. We plan to experiment with a mix of retail models, including a shop-in-shop format and our branded stores,” Pham said.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

In November 2019, Noni B changed its name to Mosaic Brands and a controlling stake in the New Zealand-based multi-channel retailer Ezybuy was secured. Mosaic Brands succeeded in becoming the biggest specialty fashion retailer in Australia but didnt seem to have a business plan to match its ambitions.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Between her background in event-planning and hospitality, and Robinovitz’s background in the world of journalism, public relations, and influencer management as the co-founder and former CEO of digital influencer management company Digital Brand Architects, their professional backgrounds create a highly effective Venn diagram of skill sets.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2019, private equity firm KKR made a $70 billion offer to buy Walgreens, back when the company was valued at over $55 billion. Since 2019, Walgreens financial standing has only worsened in the face of inflation and low reimbursement rates for filing prescriptions.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 3, 2025

Study Finds Most Will Celebrate Fathers Day This Year This study found that 48% of consumers plan on purchasing a gift for their father or stepfather. The study showed that 43% of shoppers plan to give the dad in their lives a subscription box, while 30% plan to gift an experience of some type, up from 34% and 23%, respectively, in 2019.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2025

Odyssey acquired the chain in 2019. The chain later announced that it planned to open 35 stores in New Zealand over the next 10 years after signing a deal with a new master franchisee. Founded in 1998, Sushi Sushi has more than 190 locations, 60 per cent of which are franchised.

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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 with plans to expand into Canada and the US, that level of complexity was no longer sustainable. But its the ops stack that can quietly make or break it. The rollout wasnt small.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 20, 2025

The brand floated on London’s junior AIM market back in 2019. The brand launched plans to cut jobs in December in efforts to battle against falling sales before its return to the London Stock Exchange. In March 2023, the company, which was once valued at 100m, was sold to Baaj Capital for just over 1m.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2025

IR : In the year ahead, what areas of opportunity are you planning to tap into? IR : Since launching in 2019, what has the brand’s growth trajectory been like? The vision is to reintroduce these practices not only to Indian homes but also to households worldwide.

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Inside Retail

MAY 6, 2025

Andrew says the key to the familys success has been to work in an area they are passionate about, hire the right specialists to grow each instrumental business unit, and move with the times when it comes to retail planning, e-commerce and digital marketing. Sky Music started using Shout for SEO and SEM services in 2019.

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A1 Retail

MARCH 17, 2025

percent admit they are not aware of the Act at all Act applies to any business which serves customers in the EU Just a quarter (25 percent) are fully prepared and have a detailed plan in place 16 percent say they are not prepared at all Only a fifth (19.5 percent say they havent started yet, but plan to. Most worryingly, 9.5

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Annual revenue hit a low of $416 million in 2019 and has been up and down since Covid, but consolidated net revenue was $470.8 We are prudently planning the second half through a more conservative lens, as we expect the trends we’ve seen in both brands to continue.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2025

They are part of a planned strategy to boost retail sales, attract domestic and international customers and merge traditional culture with modern commerce. Thailand hosted 35 million foreign tourists last year, nearly matching the record 39 million it hosted in 2019, the year before the pandemic.

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Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2025

The intention was for SurfStitch and EziBuy to tap into economies of scale as a combined group, but a year later, in 2019, Noni B ended up buying EziBuy to leverage its digital expertise across its brands. million in June 2019. The plan was to plug Ginger & Smart into Alceon’s online “infrastructure” through EziBuy and SurfStitch.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 10, 2025

Research and development for Nevold – short for “never old” – began in 2019, but the brand gradually built its capabilities in textile recycling and waste management, leading to this year’s formal launch. Nevold is that system.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2025

IR : Since launching the brand in 2019, what has the brand’s growth trajectory been like? IR : How did the Credo Beauty partnership come about and what does this signal about the brand’s strategic plan for the US retail market? EL: The partnership with Credo came about organically.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2025

In May, the company quietly sold the SurfStitch and Ginger & Smart businesses, which it acquired in 2018 and 2019, respectively, to an undisclosed buyer. It was just the latest portfolio consolidation. General Pants Co foggy history Alquemie Group acquired General Pants from the Smorgen family in May 2022 for more than $60 million.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 28, 2025

Launched in 2019 by influencer-turned-entrepreneur Grace Beverley, Tala began as a digital-only brand focused on core activewear delivering thoughtfully designed, flattering essentials for women, made by women. But despite the chaos, Tala hit its planned May opening. In an increasingly saturated market, it quickly stood out.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Marshall, who managed the retailer between 2017 and 2019, says that when he joined the garden centre chain its “biggest seller” was its 10-piece breakfast available in its restaurants. EBITDA profit for the year ending 29 December 2019, up froma loss of 114.5m What is going on in the world of garden centres?

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