Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The winners and highly commended entries will be announced at a unique awards ceremony to be held at Proud Embankment on 14th October 2021. The 2021 shortlist can be viewed in our official launch video below or keep scrolling to view a breakdown of our shortlisted entries for the 2021 event. Wembley Park Market.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With port delays, extended delivery times and increased consumer demand, what can retailers do to salvage the 2021 holiday season? After retailers finalize all inventory shipments and secure holiday storage, it’s time to implement a strong integrated digital marketing strategy. What is an integrated digital marketing campaign?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

This year, the publications expanded nominations to include all roles and job functions in the retail ecosystem — from ecommerce and marketing to innovation and store design. The 2021 winners of Retail TouchPoints’ and design:retail ’s 40 Under 40 are: Liz Aiello , Senior Associate , MG2. Mia Croft , Creative Director , Native.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2023

For example, 16% of consumers purchased natural wine in 2021 and sparkling wines are also rising in popularity. Wine marketers have an exciting opportunity to identify ways to educate new consumer segments, show up in key commerce channels and drive marketing ROI. The key is to avoid early mass media investment.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To achieve this target, the Copenhagen-based company will increase investments in brand desirability and the store network with a refreshed marketing strategy and elevated in-store experience. Looking back at the past few years, we are proud of our achievements.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Commerce trends that were on the horizon were suddenly adopted at a brisk pace, including online food ordering, curbside pickup and BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store). So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021? These are four with staying power: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“Kroger is committed to creating a seamless shopping experience for our customers, and our collaboration with Gatik enables us to continue to enhance that experience,” said Ben Hamilton, VP, Logistics and Engineering Network Strategy at Kroger in a statement. for multi-city deployments of autonomous delivery vehicles in September 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Consumers always say they’ll move up, but often their behaviors don’t follow exactly what they’re going to say ,” said Hilding Anderson, Head of Retail Strategy at Publicis Sapient in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “I Big Box Stores Will Take Market Share From Amazon.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Build-A-Bear Workshop has appointed Julia Fitzgerald as its new Chief Marketing Officer with the goal of further driving the company’s profitable growth through the “strategic evolution of the company and monetization of the powerful brand equity.” She has also held senior executive positions at Yahoo! ”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2022

Between inflation, increased marketing costs — especially paid ads — seasonal shipping costs surcharges and potential supply chain disruptions, finding every last opportunity to increase profits during the busiest time of the year is critical for brands. Greg Zakowicz is a Senior Ecommerce Expert at Omnisend. Focus on key automation.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 7, 2023

That’s a big reversal after 2021 and 2022 were very much the years of the labor shortage and everyone was talking about how they were struggling to find workers,” said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. We’re at a tipping point now.”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Panels on “Global forces shaping the retail business landscape,” moderated by Andrea Bell, vice president of consumer insights at WGSN, and “The Vogue Business Index: Luxury’s new global gateways,” moderated by Anusha Coutiggane, head of advisory at Vogue Business , were particularly enlightening. billion by 2031. Reduced spend: 25.6

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2021

The first-ever all-digital CES 2021 welcomed 2,000 exhibitors that unveiled next-gen innovations across a variety of sectors, including almost 700 startups from 37 countries. New companies exhibiting at CES 2021 included ASUS, BioIntelliSense, Bose, Sono Motors and Volvo Penta. Maverick Carter, CEO of The Springhill Co.;

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2024

In an era marked by economic flux and shifting consumer preferences, the global retail landscape stands at a pivotal juncture, ripe with both challenges and opportunities. China is the world’s largest retail market, accounting for almost 50 per cent of global retail transactions. It was valued at $3.8

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

But, as a company statement pointed out, market conditions have shifted dramatically in the last six months. Instead, WBA has decided to keep both Boots and No7 under their existing ownership, for now at least, and find ways to focus on growth and profitability opportunities. “We

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SGN Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Registration is now open for the Summer 2021 Atlanta Market (showrooms July 13-19, 2021; temporaries July 14-18) which marks a major advancement in its post-pandemic rebound with its most expansive product offerings since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. Buyers sourcing new product at Atlanta Market.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2022

Following on strong Q2 results, Ulta Beauty has debuted a new marketing campaign designed to “widen the lens of beauty and inspire all to reclaim beauty on their own terms.”. lift in comparable sales from Q2 2021 and net sales of $2.3 The podcast will be hosted by Ulta Beauty Pro Team member David Lopez.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2022

Even though it has not been around for very long, it’s created such a long-lasting impact in its short lifespan that it will be transformative for the ecommerce market in the years to come. Made complete with unique identification and metadata, they are a real one-of-a-kind entity with usually just one sole owner at any given period.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

Tommy Hilfiger has appointed Alegra O’Hare as Chief Marketing Officer of Tommy Hilfiger Global, effective April 12, 2021. In this role, O’Hare will develop and execute global marketing strategies to reach and engage existing and upcoming generations of Tommy Hilfiger consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retail rode strong into Q2 2021 as shoppers returned to stores even as digital sales remained elevated. in Q2 2021 while its digital comparable sales grew 10% , building on the 195% growth achieved in 2020. There’s been a framework for this,” said Charlie O’Shea, VP at Moody’s in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

Spring 2022 holidays will see a return closer to pre-pandemic normalcy than 2021, according to the Spring Holidays 2022 report from Information Resources, Inc. More than 25% of consumers report that they’ll exceed last year’s Easter or Passover grocery spending. Retailers should increase merchandising to promote fresh ideas to a weary public.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

Tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft have gone all-in on the metaverse, based on the idea that it’s the future of digital experiences like gaming, collaboration and marketing. The metaverse is the next frontier for marketers, offering them the opportunity to blend physical and digital marketing tactics.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2022

Once the deal is finalised, 287 stores across the three Asian markets will be added to DPE’s store network. This is a tremendous opportunity for our business,” said Don Meij, Group CEO & MD at Domino’s Pizza Enterprises. Domino’s Pizza Enterprises currently has a network of 3400 stores across 10 markets. million (or 59.4

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

Naturally, many marketers see this as an exciting opportunity to win some points in the struggle for attention. Taking responsibility At Lush, we consider ourselves a socially responsible brand. Transparency is and will continue to be at the core of everything we do. The post Lush left social media in 2021.

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Cisco Retail

APRIL 21, 2021

Register now for Cisco at Red Hat Summit 2021 on April 27-28 and June 15-16, 2021. In the next week, we are participating (virtually) at Red Hat Summit 2021 as a gold sponsor. Join us at Red Hat Summit 2021 and discover how Cisco and Red Hat can help you : Optimize and secure a cloud-ready platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2021

Conversational marketing enables marketers to build brand equity and improve campaign performance by transforming the customer experience through a combination of strategy, approach and technology. According to Gartner , 87% of brands expect to compete on customer experience in 2021. Leveraging Conversational Marketing.

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Cisco Retail

MAY 5, 2021

Meet our new Head of Global Partner Marketing at Marketing Velocity Digital . As a Marketing organization, we strive to support, enable, and lead our partners to growth. Luxy Thuraisingam Senior Director of Global Partner Marketing. Empowering our partners to become future ready is fundamental to their success.

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Cisco Retail

JULY 29, 2021

As a result, our customers benefit from: Proven end-to-end solutions and services that include market-proven integrated solutions and services with robust capabilities to help meet our customers’ business objectives. Kandyce also discusses the IBM Security Technology Alliance Program , which launched in March 2021. Technology support.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At its core, the company has successfully stayed true to its roots, creating products for the “youth counterculture,” niche skater and hip-hop communities specifically. But between its marketing strategy (or lack thereof) and uber-exclusive partnerships, Supreme has nevertheless evolved into a highly coveted, and profitable, brand.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2023

The size of AI in the retail market exceeded US$2 billion in 2020 according to Global Market Insight and is expected to grow at more than 30 per cent between 2021 and 2027. Marketing: AI can also help provide insights into the ideal target market for a product. How can AI genuinely help?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The brand is working to “make sure we are in tune with local markets and the operating dynamics that we’re working with today,” according to CFO Jane Nielsen. An emphasis on retail operations also would build on the subscription rental service the brand launched earlier in 2021. Revenue grew 26% to $1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

It was a tough week to be at the top in retail with a number of companies announcing CEO switch-ups following disappointing performances, including Petco , Under Armour , Fossil Group and, as Retail TouchPoints previously reported, Allbirds. This will be the third CEO switch-up at the company in nearly as many years.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Specialty food retailer The Fresh Market is expanding its partnership with video commerce platform Firework to launch what it is calling a “shoppable video live commerce (SVLC) retail media network (RMN).” The Fresh Market will leverage the Firework platform to enable a video-driven RMN experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The company revealed its plans to double its store fleet by the end of 2021, reaching 53 locations in the U.S. in April 2017, MINISO has forged a unique place in the market. Our expansion comes at a perfect time for holiday shopping. and 55 in Canada. The retailer also has opened a new flagship store in Flushing, N.Y.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Walgreens Boots Alliance and VillageMD will open the next 40 Village Medical at Walgreens full-service primary care clinics by the end of summer 2021. The first markets slated for expansion include Houston, El Paso and Austin, Texas; Phoenix; and Orlando, Fla. markets in the next five years. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

The biggest standout was Target’s same-day digital services, which grew nearly 55% in 2021 on top of the 270% growth posted in 2020. in Q2 2021, maintaining some of the momentum from the 24.3% Walmart Posts Solid Ecommerce Growth. Walmart’s total revenue hit $141 billion , up 2.4% compared to Q. YoY led by brick-and-mortar.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s estimated that these figures will continue to rise gradually in 2021, due to the ongoing prevention methods put in place internationally along with the changes in consumer spending habits. In this scenario, ecommerce businesses must be able to adapt quickly to changes in the market, offer competitive prices and keep up with new trends.

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