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Apple Store Creator’s ‘Commerce-at-Home’ Startup Enjoy to Go Public via SPAC

Retail TouchPoints

Retail pioneer Ron Johnson — the man responsible for the Apple Store and Target ’s first designer collaboration — is taking his new retail company public through a SPAC merger with Marquee Raine Acquisition Corp. BT Group in the UK, Rogers Communications in Canada and Apple in select U.S.

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Customer Base, Digital Capabilities and Strategic Synergies are Driving Valuations in DTC Mergers and Acquisitions

Retail TouchPoints

The mergers and acquisitions market remains strong for direct-to-consumer firms that operate across a spectrum of channels, but investors are now going back to the fundamentals and targeting companies with evidence of economic success. For others, it is necessary for survival.

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Former Eckerd CEO Stew Turley dies at 89

Mass Relators

for three decades, died last week at his home in Florida after a battle with lymphoma. During the course of his tenure at the retailer, which began in 1966 when he was named manager of non-drug operations, Eckerd grew to 2,778 stores and generated annual sales of $9.6 Acquisitions included J. and Eckerd of North Carolina.

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Distribution and Wholesale Seek Retail Skillset to Gain Competitive Edge

365 Retail

Georgia Hartley-Brewer, Senior Consultant at people advisory business New Street Consulting Group examines the reasoning behind this upwards industry trend. It calls for seamless integration into the category and buying processes and it opens the low-cost option of supplier APIs.

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Retail Media will add Fuel to the Fire for M&A in AdTech

Retail TouchPoints

Currently, Amazon dominates the space with almost 78% of retail media ad revenue in 2021, trailed by Walmart at a significantly lower rate of 5.4%. Will this landscape accelerate mergers and acquisitions, and what should we expect in such regard? Might Alphabet make an ecommerce acquisition shortly in response?

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Why Investors are Racing to Buy Up Amazon’s Hottest Third-Party Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

consumers starting their online searches on Amazon, it essentially functions as a product search engine — and a very popular one at that. The driving force of this aggregation is the dominance of Amazon itself , not any one product category. There’s a lot of money at play on all sides of the equation.

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What DTC Disruptors Can Teach Legacy Brands About Leveraging First-Party Data

Retail TouchPoints

In contrast, the legacy brands manufactured by the biggest CPG companies only use first-party data in limited ways — that is, if they collect it at all. And how does that extend to product assortments and offers, line extensions, mergers and acquisitions, all those kinds of things? Take the toothpaste category as an example.