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4 Tips for Retail Businesses Hungry for Venture Capital Funding

Retail TouchPoints

Investment Darlings: Sustainability, AI and Personalization While the industry is rife with new brands designed to challenge the marketplace and offer consumers more pointed solutions, investors are considering the ripple effects of external forces, like inflation, that will undoubtedly impact the long-term ROI of their investments.

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How Sustainable Brands can Connect with the True Champions of Their Cause

Retail TouchPoints

Not only do they sit at the moral crossroads of products that are less harmful to our planet yet have a higher price tag, but also the majority of consumers believe they are more environmentally conscious than others and actually overestimate their level of “ personal environmental engagement.”. Why is this a challenge? Not exactly.

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4 Tips for Retail Businesses Hungry for Venture Capital Funding

Retail TouchPoints

Investment Darlings: Sustainability, AI and Personalization While the industry is rife with new brands designed to challenge the marketplace and offer consumers more pointed solutions, investors are considering the ripple effects of external forces, like inflation, that will undoubtedly impact the long-term ROI of their investments.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

After several years of declines and a host of executive switch-ups (particularly in the CEO role), Wish began a major overhaul of its business (still underway) and launched a marketing blitz to “reintroduce” itself to consumers in August 2022. The very next month Temu debuted in the U.S. Wish is based in the U.S.,

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How Asos plans to bring itself ‘back into fashion’ – and will it work?

Retail Gazette

GlobalData senior apparel analyst Pippa Stephens says: “The new test & react model has seen pleasing results so far, with styles experiencing faster sell throughs.” Asos expects the model to be scaled to over 10% of its own brand by the end of its current financial year.

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Can Superdry’s restructuring plan save the business?

Retail Gazette

Shares in the retailer have sunk by more than 80% over the past six months alone, giving the business a valuation of around £6m – a fraction of the £1.8bn valuation it had at its peak in 2018.

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Foot Locker Deepens Relationship with Adidas as Both Retailers Focus on Digital Offerings

Retail TouchPoints

The deepened relationship will combine new product development, exclusive Foot Locker positioning, increased product allocations, shared marketing spend and an elevated premium presence across Foot Locker’s entire portfolio of banners, with a focus on key cities and communities that the companies jointly serve.

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