Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Before taking the reins of Propel Group, the company behind some of Australia’s best-loved workwear brands, Caroline Elliott was the COO who restructured the local operation of French fashion label Kookai and orchestrated the local franchisee Magi Enterprises’ acquisition of the global licensing rights in 2017.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Touchland’s rapid growth has inspired founder and CEO Andrea Lisbona to invest in a robust enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that supports scalable, data-driven expansion. Ulta launched Touchland in 1,300 stores in January 2020 — and its products sold out within two weeks.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The Flipkart Group includes ecommerce marketplace Flipkart , digital fashion destination Myantra , Flipkart Wholesale , online travel company Cleartrip and a majority stake in the payments app PhonePe. Brick-and-mortar dominates the retail scene, with ecommerce projected to account for just 7% of sales this year, up from 3% in 2017.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

My journey with the brand started in late 2016, when I was the global social media manager for Reebok, managing the Reebok and then Reebokclassics social media accounts. IR: Can you discuss Reebok’s plans for growth in the Pacific region? JC: Reebok will continue to accelerate strong partnerships with our strategic wholesale partners.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2024

Administrators at FRP said the reduced store footprint would coincide with “a renewed focus on the brand’s products, online sales channels and wholesale strategies, bringing the brand in line with industry peers and supporting a return to financial stability”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2022

Despite their old-fashioned appearance, they’ve been embraced by generations of New Zealanders and have given the brand’s more modern ranges a halo of authenticity. The brand currently has around 400 wholesale accounts in the country, but they’re primarily located in regional areas. Back to its birthplace.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alternatively, the potential breakup could just be a case of prudent estate planning given Lew is now 78 years of age and one of Australia’s wealthiest individuals. The timing tends to infer that Murray was not keen on the breakup plan or didn’t see a suitable role for himself in the future.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2023

Once I’d earned my stripes in the retail business, I moved into the corporate office and cut my teeth in sales, being trained up as the key account manager for a number of Globe brands in the Myer business. I successfully applied for a casual position in their famous Chapel Street store before following a pathway into store management.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Together, these retailers discussed the state of retail through COVID-19 and offered first-hand accounts of how retailers adapted their businesses. According to the panelists, COVID-19 has had a positive impact for some businesses, accelerating expansions that were already planned or encouraging a diversified income stream.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

In 1999, the Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica acquired the firm with plans to expand its sunglasses line. When it came to the brand’s omnichannel approach, it first reestablished its bricks-and-mortar presence via a third-party wholesale retailer. Eventually, the brand made its way back to independence once it was acquired by B.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 22, 2024

Yes, this is partly down to the fashion and home retailer notching up record sales and profits for the year, however, Wolfson was also enthused about the future and the “new era” that he believes the business is entering. Licensing accounted for £66.4m Further afield in the Far East, the Americas and Australasia, sales have struggled.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

We didn’t plan on opening an office, but our first US team member has been here for almost two years. IR: Do you have plans to open other stores in the US, and if so, what other locations are you considering? JD: We don’t have any concrete plans yet, but we will. How has that been going?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

I’m not an accountant, but stores are on the asset side of the balance sheet for a reason, and they need to be leveraged as much as possible to squeeze as much out of them as you can.”. As people are spending less on vacations and personal care, they are spending instead on retail to venture out locally (fashion, active gear, etc.).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Rollup firms are typically able to buy these Amazon businesses at anywhere from 4X to 6X EBITDA, sometimes less, according to Thomson: “As long as you manage to keep the same efficiency that any one of those accounts had when they were a standalone, you can get a 15X to 25X valuation on your company. There is massive financial arbitrage here.

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Small Biz Trends

AUGUST 3, 2022

If you’re interested in the fashion business and looking for a lucrative business venture in that realm, one of the best business ideas is to start your blog with fashion advice, reviews from the beauty industry, and other lifestyle content. High-Fashion Reseller. Wedding planning business. Own a Blog.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Spring Fair, the UK’s largest and most inspirational retail marketplace for Home, Gift and Fashion, closed on a high after four days of intensive buying, creativity and fun, and now looks ahead to its 75 th anniversary in 2025. I’ve seen some fabulous new products, and some new accounts opened.”

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

In a crowded market like the home fragrance category, where everyone from fast fashion and beauty brands to discount department stores and pharmacists are selling candles, it’s near impossible to create and retain cut-through, much less develop an iconic brand synonymous with luxury and quality like 60-year-old Parisian brand Diptyque.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 31, 2023

From new online luxury competitors, to the casualization of fashion, to a pandemic and now historically high rates of inflation. Why should a brand sell wholesale when it can sell directly to its customers? This has resulted in many luxury brands lessening their reliance on wholesale accounts like Nordstrom.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Bütema offers mobile ERP solutions for the fashion and lifestyle trade as well as for wholesalers. Apps for staff scheduling, for example, allow branch staff to take over or fill shifts independently, view duty rosters and time accounts in real time or submit holiday applications digitally.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Started on a whim in 1999, Ksubi has grown into a globally recognised fashion brand worn by the likes of Kendall Jenner and Travis Scott. Here, we speak with CEO Craig King about the business’ revitalisation under General Pants, its in-store experience, plans for expansion in Australia, the UK and US, and the magic behind the number 23.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2022

But within a few weeks, the local non-Asian population was accounting for four out of every five sales. But we tested the market with a local wholesaler and via e-commerce and we realised it had a lot of potential.”. Typically, these collections are planned a year in advance of launch and take 10 months to develop.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Tom Kirkhope founded the Australian fashion footwear brand Alias Mae in 2011. Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. Our major wholesale accounts are managed in-house.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

trillion dollars and account for 59% of all global ecommerce by 2027. “It’s In fact, there are three retail areas in particular — wholesale, off-price and grocery — where the marketplace opportunity is still wide open, primarily because each faces unique digitalization challenges that have slowed their move online.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2023

He also discusses his plans for the SA1NT Layers brand, and what growth will look like moving forward. Inside Retail : Tell me about the inspiration and vision behind SA1NT Layers, as well as your plans and goals for the new brand? Are there plans for stand-alone stores, a wholesale presence and so on?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ten years ago, brands had a fear of upsetting wholesale partnerships. The days of paid digital media being the hero of your revenue growth plan are over. However, all that has changed. eMarketer estimates that by 2022, just one month away, the number of DTC ecommerce buyers will reach more than 103 million.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

We’ve just hired a new CFO, a new head of retail and wholesale, our new head of digital started in August and of course, myself. IR: Speaking of those ups and downs, do you attribute that to Covid, or more to the previous rebrand in 2019 not really turning out as planned? Tigerlily is a brand that is so well loved already.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Because in early August, Qatar Duty Free (QDF) at the country’s Hamad International Airport (HIA) launched a premium ‘fashion avenue’ called Viale di Lusso with – what else? – a fashion parade. Freshippo currently operates three Store X outlets and plans to open a further eight during 2021. Move over, Changi.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2022

At the same time, I was involved with the team that launched The Iconic, back around 2010, when Zara and Uniqlo and stuff first entered the Australian market and were kind of destroying the wholesale retail department store model. IR: What’s the plan for the business in the short to medium term?

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Scot: [27:18] Just wrapping up the Friendster account. If the biggest impact of Jeff stepping down in the long run is less retention from the other s team members and along those lines I notice that Rent the Runway which is getting ready to do. Jason: [27:21] Oh no I’m hang on at that bad boy. Like stupendous digital growth. [35:49]

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

The US is Grace Loves Lace’s biggest market, currently accounting for 70 per cent of sales. Despite restrictions on weddings and disruption to planning, the pandemic has been kind to Grace Loves Lace, with the business delivering a 35 per cent increase in sales in FY21. Wade said there has been strong demand from the US since day one.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Jason: [3:19] So what I haven’t figured out why it is I don’t see them like I have a verified account and I don’t know if there’s some. Jason: [12:07] Yeah so you roll all that up and let me just say like we went into two strong years in January and February a lot of people are planning a lot of aggressive.

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Retail Next

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fast fashion and affordable products are cool. The quality is acceptable for the price, and they always get to look fashionable. Social media marketing requires careful planning. Target customers can use their app to scan a code on an endcap; then, the account code is shown at the checkout and they get their discounts. .

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

Matt: [2:02] Yeah have you too I like to think about my career or having two careers to date the first one was, very foundational for what I’m doing now but very quantitative, process-oriented mechanical engineering patent law Manufacturing, Ops Consulting things that had nothing to do with retail or fashion or e-commerce and then I. [2:32]

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

These data and technology access concerns reflect brands’ desire to link their CSR plans and track their progress against a clear set of KPIs. Fashion apparel. She has eight years of experience in retail and retail technology, including five years of merchandising and fashion product development roles at Gap, Inc.

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