Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

The acquisition of Royal Sporting House in 2020 provided a strong retail foundation across North Africa, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. The post How GMG plans to win Southeast Asias sports retail market appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. GMGs growth has been fueled by strategic acquisitions and high-profile store openings.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Regal Brands Global , the new owner of iconic department store brand Lord & Taylor , plans to relaunch it as a discount luxury ecommerce platform in 2025. Lord & Taylor was an early victim of COVID; the retailer closed all its physical stores in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

In 2024, our business performed well in a challenging retail environment, and we made significant progress on our Life Out Here strategy, said Hal Lawton, President and CEO of Tractor Supply in a statement, referring to the retailers long-term strategic roadmap revealed in October 2020.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

In February 2020, the previous CEO and chairman Jeff Gennette announced the launch of a three-year turnaround strategy dubbed Polaris. As part of its restructuring under the Bold New Chapter, Spring announced the plan to cut the fat and close down 150 of Macys underperforming stores by the end of 2024. billion, down from $24.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Marquee bought the brand from Gordon Brothers , which acquired Laura Ashley out of bankruptcy in 2020. We acquired the British heritage brand out of insolvency in 2020 and built a flexible, scalable licensing business and a global ecommerce presence over the last four years, said Tobias Nanda, Head of Brands at Gordon Brothers in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

billion Kroger-Albertsons tie-up as well as the November 2024 end of a planned Capri Holdings and Tapestry merger. After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023. Walgreens Agrees to $192.5M

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

Walmart Canada has announced plans to invest $6.5 billion over the next five years as it further accelerates growth in the country, with plans to open dozens of new stores. A fourth DC included in this 2020 round of investment, the Vaughan Distribution Centre, will open this spring.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Becca Millstein and Caroline Goldfarb launched tinned fish brand Fishwife back in December 2020, few could have predicted how the consumer packaged goods brand would blow up. IR : Since launching in 2020, what has Fishwife’s growth trajectory been like? billion-plus US tinned fish sector.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to close all its stores in 2020 could have been seen as a rare failure for beloved childrenswear brand Hanna Andersson. Lapic also plans to ramp up the collaborations, in particular with more unexpected brands like Baggu, as a way to grow the Hanna community even further. “We’re

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

Paire was founded in 2020 by long-time best friends Nathan Yun and Rex Zhang. The company also announced its plans to expand into the Asia market this year, alongside multiple new exciting product launches. Essential wear brand Paire has opened its first flagship store in the QV Melbourne shopping centre.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In 2020, the brand announced its goal to only use recycled metals by 2025, a mission achieved sooner than expected in December 2023. Rising from the metaphorical ashes, the strategic plan has revived Pandora’s image and profits, especially amongst Gen Z consumers, who make up approximately 53 per cent of its buyer population.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2025

Amazon opened its first rural delivery station in 2020 and began scaling up its network in 2023 with improvements that have helped increase delivery speeds by 50% on average, according to an Amazon blog post by Udit Madan, SVP of Amazon Worldwide Operations. million square miles an area the size of Alaska, California and Texas combined.

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Retail Wire

MAY 19, 2025

sales since the pandemic in 2020 , with same-store sales (sales at stores open for at least a year) reporting a 3.6% The locations are opening amidst concerns of a “McRecession,” following the fast-food chain’s recent dismal quarterly earnings report.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2025

H&M, which has been using Circulose materials since February 2020 , is seeking to transition a substantial share of its man-made cellulosic fiber (MMCF) to fiber made with Circulose. Since then, Renewcell was acquired by private equity firm Altor , and the H&M partnership will be critical to Circulose’s future plans. “H&M

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The app’s initial rollout covers major cities like New Delhi and Mumbai, with plans for nationwide expansion. In 2020, India banned Shein’s app alongside other Chinese applications like TikTok due to security concerns during border tensions. Prices start at 350 rupees ($4) for dresses.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Earlier this year, it was reported that Harrolds’ Melbourne and Sydney stores would be relocated as part of the business’s plan to return to sustainable profit, however, the business remained plagued by difficulties in the retail sector. Notably, Harrolds was a latecomer to e-commerce, only launching an online shopping site in 2020.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2025

The administrators’s preliminary assessment shows that the retailer had been potentially insolvent since December 31, 2020. 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.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

The brand has no plans to stop there. With consumers stuck inside during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, Farm Rio noticed exponential growth in e-commerce in 2020 that not only stabilised the business but helped it thrive during this difficult time.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2025

in September 2020 ; however, development and scaling of drone deliveries has been fairly slow, even among companies with the resources of Walmart and Amazon. The latter also announced plans to expand its drone delivery operation in the U.S. and internationally in October 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2025

By building your promotional plans around digital incentives instead of discounts, youll end up with the win-win of better value for both you and your customers. Baradoy also led Lightrail – an API payment infrastructure for customer value – as CEO from 2016-2020. Leif Baradoy is the CEO of Giftbit.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2025

The German grocery giant will be able to go ahead with its plans to launch the pub inside its Dundonald store, based near Belfast, after a judge dismissed an appeal raised by another trader. Lidl has been granted permission by a High Court to open its very first pub in Northern Ireland.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Examples in action: A streaming service partners with a travel booking platform to offer downloadable shows and movies tailored for travelers, enhancing the journey experience while creating a seamless connection between entertainment and travel planning.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2025

When brands like Target and Amazon announced they would deprioritize company DEI efforts, social media erupted with boycott threats and planned blackouts. In today’s polarized landscape, companies face complex decisions when it comes to taking a stance on social values. While 73% of U.S.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Davis-Urman was previously the director of special projects at Saks Fifth Avenue but she left to start Barrière in 2020. The brand’s first stock-keeping unit was several styles of aesthetically designed face masks, the accessory of the year for 2020 to 2022. Her co-founder Alexa Adams also left a career in corporate fashion.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2025

My goal as CEO is to help transform Davids Bridal into the most innovative, tech-enabled wedding retailer and planning marketplace in the industry. Brides shopping behaviors, wedding planning needs and timelines changed overnight. KC: Navigating the post-pandemic landscape was a challenge across both the retail and wedding industries.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

So, in late 2020, the Documents concept was born, and eight months later, the first store opened in Shanghai. “We 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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VMS

JULY 22, 2025

With 37% of shoppers planning to cut non-essential spending into summer and holiday, private label brands and secondhand options are seeing major momentum. In keeping with that thought, Elden’s firm has compiled the following three trends retailers should focus on in the second half of the year: Price continues to be paramount.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 30, 2024

James Taylor explains the business’ growth – which reported a 28% surge in pre-tax profit to 6.48m last year against sales of 51.9m – has come mostly through acquisitions, with Cardzone acquiring the outlet business to most of its sister brands gradually over the years including Yankee Candle’s outlet business in 2020.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2025

Now, with Monday Haircare, weve partnered with over 200 retailers, scaled globally across 43 countries, and are on track to do US$600 million since we launched in 2020. Are you planning to focus on those five brands for the time being, or are you already working on something else?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2025

UK-based skincare brand The Ordinary’s AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution went viral on TikTok in late 2020, leading to stock shortages across multiple markets and a sustained lift in sales through 2021. This wasn’t a planned media buy – it was organic, user-driven buzz amplified by algorithmic force. The retailer’s response?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The company also plans to open its first physical store in the US, further enhancing its omnichannel strategy. Data from Koreas Ministry of Food and Drug Safety indicates that K-beauty exports to the US have grown at an average annual rate of more than 20 per cent from 2020 to 2023.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2025

Founded in 2020 by entrepreneur Joyce Zhang, Halara is illustrious for its viral products, namely, its coveted flex denim, active dresses and subsequent belt buckle skirt famously worn by Taylor Swift at Coachella last year. What’s next Pop-up events are next on Halaras trajectory, conducive to a plan to enhance its offline presence.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, due to factors like the rise of e-commerce, the increased availability of cheaper, “dupe” denim brands and an outdated aesthetic at a time when athleisure reigned supreme, True Religion fell off the retail grid and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy not once but twice in 2017 and 2020.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2025

Since launching in January 2020, Viv for your V has steadily built its direct-to-consumer (DTC) and e-commerce presence via retailers like Amazon and TikTok Shop. IR : In the year ahead, what areas of opportunity are you planning to tap into? IR : What are your long-term plans for the brand’s future?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

Then came the downward spiral, and the company was seriously exposed, with store performance problems and unresolved integration issues, as the Covid pandemic gouged sales and earnings across the 2020, 2023 and 2024 financial years.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Co-founded by longtime friends Nyakio Grieco and Patrick Herning, the CEO of plus-sized fashion brand 11 Honor, the idea for the business came about during the height of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. This is where Thirteen Lunes next plan of action comes in. As part of the integration, Thirteen Lune has been restructured.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

trillion in 2020, according to Digital Commerce 360 estimates, a 24 per cent increase. DK: Weve seen 114 per cent revenue growth calendar year to date, with plans to grow this into a nine-figure business as we scale our online business and grow in other major export markets. Global online retail sales went from almost US$3.46

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