Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. Its 10th store will open at Sunshine Plaza on March 10, and its 11th store at Pacific Fair on May 4. It also took home the award for outstanding growth.

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APRIL 24, 2024

The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J., for additional reinvented stores it will open in 2024 , including at the brand’s NYC flagship and locations in Paris, Melbourne and Delhi.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2021

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. Justice has returned as an online-only retailer with the launch of its new ecommerce site, ShopJustice.com.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2024

Walgreens will integrate jewelry, hair accessories, cosmetics and seasonal pieces from Claire’s into the assortment of more than 4,400 stores by the end of this month. Each participating location will have dedicated displays merchandised by Claire’s in their seasonal sections. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2022

The company — which operates 650 locations under the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company banners —announced plans to nearly double sales of its owned brands, from 19% of the business to one-third by fiscal 2026 (the fiscal year ending January 30, 2027).

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

The brand has a range of partnerships in the works, and recently opened its first domestic flagship – a 167sqm store at Chadstone Shopping Centre, showcasing new trends and styles, and introducing new customers to the vintage brand. At the end of April last year, the keys changed hands to the current operating partner, Brand Collective.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Claire’s is adding to its growing retail presence through a new partnership with Kohl’s that will see an assortment of the brand’s jewelry, accessories and cosmetics featured in Kohl’s stores nationwide in time for the holiday season.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 3, 2022

MINISO is a design-led lifestyle retail store for all the family, offering a full range of high-quality and innovative products including toys, tech, stationery, accessories, homeware, food, health and beauty – all for great value. The store will be located on the ground floor of Exhibition Square, opposite Primark.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

Renowned Australian footwear business Munro Footwear Group (MFG) recently acquired the popular but beleaguered New Zealand kids’ footwear brand Bobux, as part of a plan to consolidate its presence in the children’s market. The long-term plan is still being finalised,” he said. The initial focus is on stabilisation.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 24, 2024

JD, New Look and Ann Summers are set to open new concept stores at Derbion, the Midlands retail and leisure destination, following a combined investment of over £5 million. By actively managing the centre, Derbion has unlocked space to ensure brands benefit from the optimum footprint and location to drive footfall and sales.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The report found that 73 per cent of Australian men identify as size ‘large or above’ with 48 per cent agreeing that it’s “hard” to find stores that cater to their size or fashion needs at a “reasonable price”.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

She told Inside Retail that the brand would likely look and feel completely different, if not for the location. You go down to the beach at 6am, and there’s hundreds of people doing soft sand runs, swimming, or hitting the gym,” Oayda said. We’re constantly looking at ways to improve that and be better.”. A moving target.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2023

Bloomingdale’s plans to open its third Bloomie’s location in Seattle’s University Village neighborhood some time in 2023. The Bloomie’s stores offer a curated edit of top brands in a wide range of men’s and women’s categories including apparel, accessories, beauty and gifts.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Retail Gazette sits down with chief operating officer Saad Usman to talk about Miniso’s UK plans. The store also stocks kitchen accessories, homewares, electronics, snacks and drinks, as well as the brand’s newly launched makeup and fragrances collection. In fact, two new UK stores will open before Christmas.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 8, 2021

Dutch fashion retailer Scotch & Soda is accelerating its global expansion plans with a total of 15 new brick-and-mortar stores and 12 shop-in-shops opening worldwide over the next six months. IR: How are you planning to grow the brand in Asia Pacific? We have modernised our brand icon and brought a new life and movement into it.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

In a call with analysts on March 12, Zwillinger stated that the company plans to close between 10 and 15 underperforming US stores in 2024, about a third of its total number. Allbirds went from having 22 brick-and-mortar global stores in 2020, to 35 in 2022, before rapidly ending up with 58 locations by the end of 2022.

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

Four years after launching online, Australian accessories brand Maison de Sabré has opened its first bricks-and-mortar store, an 85-square-metre pop-up on Pitt Street in Sydney that will serve as a testing ground for creative store concepts and services as the brand looks to expand its physical presence around the world.

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Retail Focus

MAY 1, 2024

The global retailer introduced the reinvented retail format at its Willowbrook Mall location in Wayne, N.J., At Foot Locker , the retail store experience is the heart of sneaker culture. continues to progress against its Lace Up Plan, which was introduced in March 2023. President and Chief Executive Officer. “As

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365 Retail

AUGUST 14, 2023

Both are relocating from their existing separate units at the destination into adjacent stores on the Upper Mall, bringing the sister brands together into 6,000 sq ft of retail space. Premium footwear, accessories, and jewellery from both brands will also be on offer. JLL and Time Retail Partners represent Merry Hill.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

At the end of the day it’s still a hard landscape right now. The PAS Group deal, which was finalised in April 2022, aggregated 26 brands and 15 character licences, which operate across 300 retail locations across Australia and New Zealand and employ 3000 staff. It’s a very considered, strategic [expansion],” Digby told Inside Retail.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sovereign Centros has announced that local homeware and gifts retailer, Fig & Fox, has opened at Festival Place, one of the UK’s top 25 retail and leisure destinations. Founded by couple, James and Helen Mitchell, this opening marks the brand’s second permanent location, joining its sister site in Romsey.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2023

Yoga, running and training apparel and accessories will be sold in 12 countries via the Zalando Partner Program, with orders fulfilled by Zalando Shipment Solutions. Last month , Lululemon announced an international expansion strategy that included plans to open 50 net new stores this year, 30 to 35 of which will be international locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

Lids Sports Group has introduced its new Lids U mall- and outlet-based concept in three stores, with plans for eight more brick-and-mortar locations in 2022. On July 22, 2022 the first Lids U stores opened at Gurnee Mills shopping mall in Gurnee, Ill.; Mall of Georgia in Buford, Ga.; Mall of Georgia in Buford, Ga.;

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The new official Club store is located on Queen Street in Toronto and follows the successful opening of the Fanatics- and Lids-operated PSG standalone store in Los Angeles in 2021, flagship store openings in New York and Europe in 2022, and Miami and Las Vegas locations that opened earlier this year.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2024

After two years of declining revenue and profit, the American footwear retailer Foot Locker appears to be progressing on its turnaround plan, dubbed Lace Up, with its launch last week of the first “store of the future” at Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New Jersey. billion in annual revenue by 2028. What inspired Foot Locker’s revamp?

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365 Retail

JULY 18, 2023

On the back of this increased demand, Trentham Shopping Village in Staffordshire, is considering plans for another phase to house additional big brand retailers and a new restaurant. This will make Trentham the joint second-highest location of Supercharger clusters in the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

Sephora plans to begin selling its beauty products on online footwear site Zappos , according to the Business of Fashion , which cites a webinar in which Sephora executives spoke about the new partnership. Neither Sephora nor Zappos has yet released a formal announcement about the deal.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

The 2,900-square-foot ground floor space will be GU’s first store outside Asia and will offer a selection of on-trend clothing and accessories for men and women. Sharing its FY2023 plans in an April 2022 statement, Fast Retailing, which also owns fashion brand Theory , noted that it was inspired by the strength of the North American market.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Colette by Colette Hayman has bought luxury online accessories brand The Daily Edited after a three-month search for a buyer. The Daily Edit has strong local and international brand recognition with a flagship store at the QVB, Sydney. and they will continue to immediately provide fresh stock.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

The media brand launched a website for merchandise inspired by its hit shows in 2021 , followed by a multi-brand pop-up in LA’s The Grove mall in 2022 as well as a dedicated section at more than 2,400 Walmart stores. retailers; Luxury British cookie company Biscuiteers has designed a collection of iced lemon-flavored biscuits (a.k.a.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

After liquidation and the sale of its trademarks and intellectual property in August 2019, the Charming Charlie brand has returned with the opening of its first physical store at the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta. The openings had originally been planned for March 2020 but were delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Since its beginning, Witchery has sought to dress the working woman with premium, quality-led designs, and five decades on, this is still very much at the heart of what we do. Customers have missed the experience of shopping in-store, and we’ve seen strong support across our suburban stores, with improvement in CBD locations in recent months.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Menswear retailer Psycho Bunny will open its first East Coast location on March 31. The brand opened its first stores in fall 2019 with locations in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Hollywood, Fla., followed by three California stores at Century City, Valley Fair and South Coast Plaza.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Australian luggage brand Nere is anticipating strong sales this holiday season, thanks to the ongoing travel boom, growing appeal of practical gifts like suitcases, and high-profile location of its first stand-alone store, which opened in November. Nere releases new colours and accessories every season.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Following a March 2022 announcement that it planned to expand beyond its roots in electronics, Best Buy is entering new categories including health and wellness, outdoor living and transportation. In November 2021, Best Buy acquired outdoor furniture brand Yardbird. Yardbird showrooms are also open in Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Australian luggage brand July recently launched its first US bricks-and-mortar location in the heart of New York City’s shopping-centered neighborhood, SoHo, at 127 Greene Street. New York City was an obvious choice for the brand to locate its first US store said Athan Didaskalou, July’s co-founder and director.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

Iconic French fashion brand Longchamp has just opened the doors to a newly renovated apartment at the ‘Paris end’ of Melbourne’s Collins Street in a way that is très chic. A family business Longchamp is a French luxury brand with four generations of family business at its heart.

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