Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

The spring and early summer was an optimistic time for many consumers who finally emerged from lockdowns looking to refresh their wardrobes and find items suited for smaller local outings during the warmer months. in Q2 2021 while its digital comparable sales grew 10% , building on the 195% growth achieved in 2020. compared to Q2 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

But after a lackluster IPO in 2020 , the company retreated from the public market just two years later when it was acquired by private equity firm Durational Capital Management in 2022. It flipped the script and put the power with the consumer, and that changed the entire category. This category is still very anti-consumer at its core.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

based wholesale and retail business assets of the Scotch & Soda brand, which will allow its products to be sold in retail stores across the country. Bluestar brought back the Justice brand as an online-only retailer in April 2021 following its $90 million acquisition of the company in November 2020.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Launched in 2017, wholesale platform Foodbomb connects restaurants and cafes with a marketplace of around 160 suppliers, simplifying the ordering process. But, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business opened its doors to direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales to buoy the market through periods of empty supermarket shelves.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The mass store closures prompted by COVID-19 in spring 2020 could have spelled disaster for equestrian specialty brand Kerrits , which had operated as a wholesale-only business for over 25 years. Once the pandemic hit, our wholesalers had to close their stores, and we had to rethink our entire email plan,” said Florin.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

BJ’s Wholesale made the most dramatic moves up the rankings over the last three years, climbing from 27th place to 10th place in 2022. In fact, club stores are gaining momentum across the board, with three of the top 10 spots now occupied by these retailers: Costco (#2), Sam’s Club (#5) and BJ’s Wholesale (#10).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2021

The retail world is experiencing a significant change in how consumers are interacting with their brands. In 2020, the growth in online sales has accelerated to reach levels not expected until 2022 due to the pandemic. Today’s retailers need to enhance their online experience to remain competitive in this new consumer environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Consumers have changed, they are less willing to be dictated to, they are harder to predict and they’re moving faster — now more than ever we’re seeing merchants and planners and designers looking for ways to be more attuned, more regularly, with what their consumers want.”. Distribution is No Longer Destiny.

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Retail TouchPoints

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. The appointment comes with Under Armour’s acquisition of Unless Collective , a zero-plastic regenerative fashion brand that Liedtke co-founded in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

GNC Holdings, the retailer’s parent company, went through a “pre-packaged bankruptcy” in June 2020 that included closing 800 to 1,200 of its stores. Millions know and trust our brand, and with this collaboration we can deliver the GNC experience to a whole new group of consumers,” said Josh Burris, CEO of GNC in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2024

This holiday season, consumers who frequently make returns may be in for a surprise. Since consumers cant physically interact with the product, misconceptions about the fit, quality and appearance can be easily made. These rules are often exploited to benefit the consumer, impacting profits and devaluing inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2022

has filed a lawsuit against BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. Cashierless checkout technologies, including these types of apps as well as those powered by computer vision that don’t require scanning barcodes, rose in popularity among consumers concerned about sanitary and health issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Walmart Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands have a unique advantage in that they own the entire customer experience — and perhaps most important, all the data that is generated along with it. million loss in Q3 2020. At a foundational level, brands should test the platforms that their target consumers are gravitating to most frequently.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

Sweaty Betty makes more than 80% of its revenue through the direct-to-consumer channel, which was a boon during the 2020 lockdowns. The acquisition of Sweaty Betty complements our strategic shift over the last several years from a traditional footwear wholesaler into a consumer-obsessed, digital-focused growth company.

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Inside Retail

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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) 2020 SOI Report, there are 150,274 C-stores in the U.S., During 2020, the industry also saw some of its largest mergers in addition to witnessing dozens of smaller chains exit the market because of changing industry conditions. in 2020 despite a 13.9%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“I love brands and I love the people,” said Dubitsky, a serial entrepreneur who recently left his post as Chief Innovation Strategist at Colgate-Palmolive , a role he took when that company acquired Hello in 2020. Everything about Method was different from what consumers were used to, from the aesthetic to the name. Johnson & Son.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Five years after launching into the market with its hero product, a true-blue fitted t-shirt, the brand now operates 9 brick-and-mortar stores, alongside thriving direct-to-consumer and wholesale operations. IR : Prior to joining the True Classic team in 2020, can you dive into your professional background?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2022

We look forward to growing the Gap business across key international markets,” said Adrienne Gernand, Managing Director of International, Global Licensing and Wholesale at Gap Inc. Altogether, the company has 150 million customers and operates in the fashion, lifestyle and consumer electronics verticals. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The retailer managed digital growth despite direct-to-consumer penetration falling to 41.2% in Q2 2020, a sign that the brand is a high achiever both in-store and online. Wholesale revenue soared 157% despite the company’s plans to exit between 2,000 and 3,000 wholesale partnerships. of net revenue compared to 61.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

Buoyed by a return to growth in Q4 2020, Adidas has unveiled a new growth strategy that will transform the company into a direct-to-consumer-led business with an emphasis on sustainability. The sportswear company’s new “Own the Game” 5-year growth strategy was unveiled at its Investor and Media Day March 10. More than €1 billion ( $1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

While certain ecommerce verticals saw mind-boggling sales increases in 2020, luxury goods, including jewelry, enjoyed more modest revenue boosts, according to Signifyd Ecommerce Pulse data. Upscale jewelry designer Gorjana, for example, saw 300% growth in 2020, with a 400% monthly increase in sales between April and May 2020 alone.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The wholesale partnership will help Athleta meet its goal of reaching $2 billion in net sales by 2023 while giving REI a selection of women’s activewear items — a category that has held strong throughout the pandemic. Athleta is REI’s second major retail partnership following the introduction of the REI x West Elm collection in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The core of this approach is “aligning our brand with the values and expectations of today’s consumers, while expanding our reach and optimizing our operations.” After measuring our first carbon footprint in 2020, our attention turned to reduction.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In the last five years, a bevy of brands including Nike, Levi’s, Crocs and Under Armour have turned their attention to their consumers as they looked to cut out the middleman. And it’s little wonder given that in the US alone, direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce sales are expected to grow 16.4 per cent to reach US$197.11

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Lucky Brand is a wholesaler of dungarees and related lifestyle apparel as well as a retailer. In an analyst call following the release of Simon’s Q2 2020 earnings, Chairman, CEO and President David Simon said the company is not buying Lucky Brand or Brooks Brothers to recoup rent payments. “We’re doing it for one reason only.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

While the name Burton is almost synonymous with the snowboards the company began making in 1977, Burton has diversified over the years into new categories — including surfboards, apparel, goggles/optics and other sports gear — as well as expanding beyond manufacturing into direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail, both physical and digital.

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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. With so many resources directed at these critical functions and capabilities, early 2020 saw brands’ non-essential processes drop into a state of suspended animation. And, of course, toilet paper.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. Brooke Norton: The team and Designworks and Big W understood the power of Pavement, being parents themselves.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

It is this experience in retail, that I gained from an early stage in my career, that has helped me as Alexa Adams and I branched out to create our own wellness-oriented DTC brand, Barrire, in 2020. IR : If you could go back in time to the first day of running Barrire, what piece of advice would you give yourself?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, empty shelves were due to spikes in demand, as shoppers responded to lockdowns by buying more toilet paper, pasta and other consumables. Apart from the first wave in March 2020, shortages were localised. Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began.

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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. Ulta launched Touchland in 1,300 stores in January 2020 — and its products sold out within two weeks.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Designworks is the wholesale arm of Brand Collective, which recently merged with Pas Group to form a $600 million business in April. Designworks’ divisional general manager Brooke Norton told Inside Retail that the brand sells about 15 million units each year and is heading towards $200 million in wholesale sales.

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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. Overall time in transit was 22% faster in 2022 over 2021 — and 42% faster than in 2020. and internationally.

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Independent Retailer

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After the pandemic-driven surge in consumer demand that triggered a frenzy of shipping activity and skyrocketing prices, logistics and transportation companies are signaling a fast slowdown. Shipping and wholesale prices are plunging and orders are not being placed as often. . Wholesale Imports. Wholesale Imports.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

He brings extensive experience in building global retail brands and a deep understanding of the Indian consumer market, Retail Week reported. He was previously head of category for brands at M&S and will now be tasked with bringing together the franchise and wholesale selling models under a unified structure.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2020

The wide adoption of digital channels has dramatically disrupted the way consumers shop, and the recent COVID pandemic has exponentially increased the velocity of that change. Digital-first brands are jumping on the opportunity to meet these expectations and build one-to-one relationships with consumers.

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