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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers naturally plan a lot of spend around this, with extra staff and extra marketing. This means that marketing spend aimed at these high-spending visitors over Christmas is likely to get less return than usual. Christmas in the UK is already in full swing.

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Rent the Runway Plans to Sacrifice 2023 Revenue to Meet 2024 Profitability Goal

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Rent the Runway has lowered its revenue expectations for 2023, now saying it plans to at least match 2022 revenues of $296.4 We made significant progress in Q2 across the bottom line, exceeding our profitability guidance, and with Adjusted EBITDA margins hitting a historic high at 10.2%. 8, 2023. “We

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As DTC Business Wanes, Solo Brands Taps New President and CEO

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During his five -plus years at Vista Outdoor, he helped reposition and transform the business, growing revenue and profits to “historic highs” by focusing on organic growth, direct-to-consumer (DTC) initiatives and strategic acquisitions, according to a Solo Brands press release. will take over.

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Can Superdry’s restructuring plan save the business?

Retail Gazette

Superdry co-founder and chief executive Julian Dunkerton issued shareholders an ultimatum this week: support my restructuring plan or the business will collapse into administration. However, is the retailer’s radical restructuring plan enough to save the business or is it simply too little too late?

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Ecommerce Marketing Lessons from Q4 2023 

Retail TouchPoints

Still, I believe that had more to do with the sustained consolidation of ad budgets on the major platforms as marketers reallocated marketing spend in the post-IDFA (identifier for advertisers) and soon, post-cookie world. And it’s never too early to start planning for Q4 2024.

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

Retail TouchPoints

There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. A few days before reporting Q2 earnings, Wish also announced plans to cut approximately 34% of its workforce, or about 255 employees, in order to “refocus the company’s operations.” Approximately 160 of those positions will be in the U.S.,

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Why NPS Falls Short in Ecommerce, and the Case for Earned Growth Ratio as a Better Metric

Retail TouchPoints

At the same time, it is common knowledge that keeping an existing customer is cheaper than getting a new one, which makes it a worthwhile investment to understand and implement strategies (and proper incentives for internal teams!) One negative interaction can easily drive them away. Most companies can calculate this relatively quickly. (2)