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Ann Taylor Returns to Canada with 90 Hudson’s Bay Shop-in-Shops

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Fashion brands Ann Taylor and Loft are headed back to Canada via a series of shop-in-shops at Hudson’s Bay stores across the country. The partnership was developed by brand management firm Centric Brands and will mark the first time either brand has been available in Canada since 2020.

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Bluestar Revives Justice as Online-Only Retailer, Plans to Expand Tween Brand into Tech, Home

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Justice has returned as an online-only retailer with the launch of its new ecommerce site, ShopJustice.com. The tween retailer shuttered its remaining brick-and-mortar locations in late 2020 — which had numbered 2,800 at the brand’s peak — following the bankruptcy of parent company Ascena Retail Group.

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Barneys New York Finds a New Home at Forever 21

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Just in time for New York Fashion Week, the iconic, now defunct luxury department store Barneys New York has made its return to fashion, albeit not in a way that many of the brand’s devotees would have imagined. Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 has released a limited-edition collection featuring the Barneys brand.

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PVH Sells Off Heritage Brands as it Turns Focus to Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger

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is selling its Heritage Brands portfolio — which includes the Izod , Van Heusen , Arrow and Geoffrey Beene brands — to fellow brand management firm Authentic Brands Group for approximately $220 million. This sale marks the latest in a broader shakeup among the larger brand management firms.

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EssilorLuxottica acquires Supreme from VF: attractive deal or risky move?

Inside Retail

billion in 2020, little did it know that the label, which it believed would be a promising addition to its portfolio, would turn out to be a lucrative lesson. That said, EssilorLuxottica has strong distribution capabilities and is good at brand management, so Supreme fits better with them than it did with VF,” he said.

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Adrian Cheng’s resignation marks turning point for New World Development

Inside Retail

“A key challenge for the new CEO will be bringing the firm back to a more sustainable debt level and delivering higher returns to shareholders,” Ng added. In a filing, the company announced it would spin off its flagship retail K11 brand management to a newly established company by Cheng for HK$209 million, aiming to reduce operating costs.

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PacSun CIO Reveals the Array of Behind-the-Scenes Tech Needed to Meet Gen Z’s Expectations

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She recently implemented a solution to unify and organize customer data, including not just online and in-store purchases but also returns and call center activity. PacSun CIO and IT veteran Shirley Gao turned out to be the right person at the right time to turn this goal into a reality.

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