Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

Payless, which has dropped the “ShoeSource” from its name, plans to open 300 to 500 freestanding stores across North America over the next five years, beginning with the opening of a prototype store this fall in Miami. We saw an opportunity for the brand to relaunch into the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2023

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 tour also will feature a number of integrated co-marketing partnerships with brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WHP Global plans to expand the Express brand to multiple countries in Asia and Latin America through a series of licensing agreements. This marks the first major announcement since the brand management firm announced its strategic partnership with Express, Inc. late last year.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 13, 2021

Interstore | Schweitzer has created and implemented the new 2000 m² BRIDGE market Flexstore concept in Zurich for the largest Swiss retail company, Migros. BRIDGE market has been conceived as the connector between a diverse fresh food market, creative catering with products from local partners and a wide range of events.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Authentic Brands Group (ABG) — which has made a name for itself by scooping up bankrupt retail brands such as Forever 21 , JCPenney , Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers and bringing them back to life through licensing — is planning to go public. In June 2020, ABG also bought fellow brand management company PVH Corp. ’s

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

An affiliate of brand management company Bluestar Alliance has purchased the U.S.-based based wholesale and retail business assets of the Scotch & Soda brand, which will allow its products to be sold in retail stores across the country.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the time, she was a brand manager at Mecca, so she understood the power of a highly curated and branded shopping environment, and a first-rate customer experience, but she felt like it didn’t exist in the baby goods category. What was really important to us was how the customer would actually experience that store.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But in the past, it was a lot harder to market to A.P.C. IR: When do you plan to launch the new websites? IR: Were those stores planned and delayed due to Covid, or has there been a recent increase in demand? DL: We hired a new marketing manager, new buying manager, new creative brand manager.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2022

Inside Retail : I understand Sheike is planning to expand to South Australia. Sandra Kennedy: We’re planning on opening the store in the middle of this year, and we’re very excited because it’s actually our first SA store in the portfolio, and it will also be our first strip store, so our first store outside of a centre.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The company had hoped that its partnership with brand management firm WHP Global would help in this regard. The company’s total debt at the end of the third quarter was $274.7

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Brands have been clamoring to sell on TikTok almost from the moment the platform began its meteoric rise and the #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt hashtag proved its commerce potential. Now it’s here: first launched in the UK and several Asian markets, TikTok Shop was quietly made available in the U.S. and managed by the U.S. in November 2022.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2022

Brown has been a brand manager at True Alliance since 2009, most recently managing the Ben Sherman brand. In that role, he was responsible for product sourcing, buying, design, marketing, wholesale and retail sales, brand positioning and organisational development.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Having found out that “traditional” management tools have become less relevant, brands were forced to rethink their processes to survive, stay relevant and true to their audiences. . In addition to perfecting each brand touchpoint’s management, it is the liaisons that matter the most in an omnichannel context.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

Brand management firm Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has added another major retailer to its portfolio with the acquisition of beleaguered British fashion chain Ted Baker. The first, an IP holding company, will remain in ABG’s control.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

into a multi-brand fashion retailer by bringing together the Express, Bonobos and UpWest brands , and included plans to expand the monetization of the Express brand through global licensing partnerships. The partnership transformed Express, Inc. to buy Rag & Bone.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

Oh great, another screen I need to market on, said no brand manager ever. And yet 2023 may be remembered by C-suite marketing teams everywhere as the year when the not-very-exciting category of digital signage became supercharged thanks to two key elements: retail media networks and first-person data.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The company will still operate its ecommerce site, which directs shoppers to Amazon to make purchases, and license the Toys ‘R’ Us brand to stores in non-U.S. and The Galleria in Houston in time for the 2019 holiday season, but plans for additional brick-and-mortar stores in 2020 were cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 20, 2021

. — Publix Super Markets’ vice president of marketing Mark Irby plans to retire at the end of February. Renfroe, 42, began her Publix career in 2005 as a marketing support associate in Lakeland, Florida. She was promoted to her current role of director of marketing operations in 2019.

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Shopper Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2021

Category Managers. 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! (We Buyer vs National Account Manager.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Master franchisee Seagrass Hospitality is opening the long-awaited fast food brand at the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club on the busy Mulgoa Road. Robby Andronikos, brand manager of Five Guys Australia, said “It’s been an incredibly fun journey to bring the Five Guys opening to this point.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

has partnered with the global brand management firm WHP Global — which owns the Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us brands as well as a stake in Express — to acquire the New York-based fashion brand Rag & Bone. and two stores in the UK, and the brand also is sold in boutiques, department stores and online globally. “It

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 5, 2021

Williams names retail general manager. Williams has appointed Steven Woolley as its new general manager for retail. Having operated at the cusp of change for more than two decades, Steve is familiar with the market pace needed to deliver digital, cultural, organisational and functional change that builds competitive advantage,” R.M.

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Retail Focus

JULY 5, 2022

It would be best if you had a business goal before creating a design business and a working plan to achieve it. . Create A Business Plan. After you have organized your thoughts, the following line of action is to devise a working business plan. What sets you apart from the competition and makes your method unique.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Express has entered a broad-reaching partnership with brand management firm WHP Global , owner of the Toys ‘R’ Us , Babies ‘R’ US and Anne Klein brands, among others. The deal includes plans to acquire “multiple” fashion brands as well as the expanded monetization of the Express brand through global licensing partnerships.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2023

According to Volley’s partnership manager Renee Jaeger, the NGA approached the brand after seeing Volley’s Wear it with Pride campaign. Volley’s content and marketing manager Anna Geason told Inside Retail that the best collaborations happen when there is an authentic connection between partner brands.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

Increasingly popular and worn by the rich and famous, luxury outerwear brand Canada Goose is planning to spread its wings in Australia via a partnership with Melbourne-based fashion house Brand Collective. We have a very diversified portfolio which is aimed at different demographics and sectors of the market.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2023

The collaboration also extends to Skechers t-shirts, leggings, shorts and racerback longline bras, and marks the brand’s first coordinated apparel and footwear collaboration. He added that Skechers is the third largest athletic footwear brand in the US, and has a global reach in over 180 countries with over 4500 stand-alone stores. “We

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2023

per cent take in the Richemont-owned luxury fashion e-commerce company Yoox Net-A-Porter, was approved by the European Union, seven months after the UK Competition and Markets Authority gave its stamp of approval, and over one year after the deal was first announced in August 2022. This week, Farfetch’s proposed acquisition of a 47.5

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SWOT analysis, an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, is a strategic planning technique that can provide valuable insights for your business by analyzing internal and external factors. These could be an untapped market, a trend that favors your product or service, a competitor going out of business, etc.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

FJ Benjamin, a leading brand management company in Singapore with a portfolio of more than 20 iconic brands including Cole Haan, Marc Jacobs, Rebecca Minkoff and Guess, is back in the black after announcing a full-year profit of $3 million in FY22. We have ways of managing costs, inventory purchases, and so on.

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Rain Pros

APRIL 3, 2024

As an entrepreneur with a company that experiences seasonal cash flow, planning ahead for off-season slumps is crucial to managing your operating costs and building a sustainable business. During these periods, people buy holiday gifts like toys and gadgets, plan fun activities, and explore winter deals.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Market trends shift rapidly, consumer behavior fluctuates, and competition intensifies. Optimize Marketing Efforts: DSOS can help you measure the effectiveness of your marketing and promotional campaigns, helping you to finetune your strategies for a better return on investment.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

This new generation of online surveys is starting to have a significant impact not only on ad testing but on the entire spectrum of product development and marketing research, from consumer behavior analysis to pricing and brand tracking. Rasto Ivanic is a Co-founder and CEO of GroupSolver ®, a market research tech company.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2024

This fear of getting it wrong – or worse, being cancelled – is what’s holding back 95 per cent of brand managers and marketers. The king of brand comedy – in my opinion – is Aldi. Find ways that are most meaningful and relevant to your brand. But what about when things go as planned?

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Wiser

APRIL 29, 2024

Frequent adjustments and competitive pricing can help in attracting price-sensitive customers, thereby increasing market share and sales volumes. Planning and Execution Framework The eCommerce Perfect Store Framework is designed to help brands navigate and excel in the online marketplace.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

The brand’s first rebranded store opened its doors on the 18th of May in Serangoon Nex shopping mall. Sanae Inada, the General Manager of Rive Gauche, said this new branding initiative reflects the brand’s evolution over the last three decades. So, that’s what we are doing now.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Most of them, of course, achieved their initial success through the use of creative advertising and storytelling, often in mass-market print and television. However, that’s not the aspect of their brands that consumers are craving today. Brand managers can write a script, cast their agents and create a performance.

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