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WHP Looks Beyond Toys ‘R’ Us with $375M Investment from Ares

Retail TouchPoints

Brand management firm WHP Global has received a $375 million equity investment from funds managed by the private equity group of Ares Management Corporation to fuel its next wave of brand acquisitions. The transaction values WHP at $1.6

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The Future of Retail Takes a Digital Shift to Omnichannel Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

Finally, the once-static world of retail marketing is transforming. One by one, retailers are finding that their marketing models — co-op driven, lacking in transparency, and largely traditional in form — are secondary options when compared to the self-serve, data-driven models of digital marketplaces.

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Off-Price Retail: A Double-Edged Tool For Brands With Excess Inventory Needs

Retail TouchPoints

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. Technology has revolutionized the way brands manage their excess inventory.

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Why Canada Goose is flocking to Australia amid huge Asia-Pacific growth

Inside Retail

The expansion in Australia is part of a long-term strategy for Canada Goose, which will operate under a brand management agreement with Brand Collective. Although he was aware of the brand, a recent overseas trip affirmed the ubiquity of Canada Goose products and how the brand had taken off.

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Category Managers. The kind of people the world needs more of.

Shopper Intelligence

Sometimes being in Category Management might feel like being a United Nations peacekeeper, a global summit negotiator, or like you dropped into an episode of Game of Thrones. (We We have a whole booklet of cartoons about life as a Category Manager! ). Retailer vs Supplier. This is the holy grail the brand manager chases.

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[Webinar] Increasing Your Share of Shelf with Suggestive Selling

Wiser

As a result of putting these efforts in place, the National Association of Retail Marketing Services attributes 8. 1 percent lift in profits to planogram compliance, another noted 3 percent increase in brands on-shelf availability, resulting in 1 percent increase in sales. Manager saw the data on Wiser and a shipper.