Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

His previous retail experience includes leadership positions at JCPenney, Payless ShoeSource, Home Shopping Network, May Department Stores and McKinsey & Co. Most recently, Hicks served as CEO of Academy Sports + Outdoors as well as CEO of Foot Locker. He is a U.S. Military Academy graduate who served in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Saks Fifth Avenue’s parent company, HBC , announced its plans to acquire competing luxury department store Neiman Marcus in July 2024 for $2.65 Although the luxury department store is cutting back on the light show, it will continue its holiday windows tradition and add the usual seasonal design touches indoors.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Myer’s proposal to acquire Premier Retail’s apparel brands Just Jeans, Jay Jays, Portmans, Dotti, and Jacqui E has received approval from the department store chain’s independent expert.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Regal Brands Global , the new owner of iconic department store brand Lord & Taylor , plans to relaunch it as a discount luxury ecommerce platform in 2025. The site will offer designer goods and Lord & Taylor-branded products, according to reporting in Business of Fashion and other media outlets.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

billion, and department stores climbed 0.4 Household goods rose 3.3 per cent to $5.92 billion while food increased 3 per cent to $14.53 Cafes, restaurants, and takeaways grew 2.3 per cent to $5.48 billion, while clothing, footwear and accessories increased 1.7 per cent to $3.02 per cent to $1.91

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This includes significant investment into Steen & Strøm (S&S) shopping centre, the world’s oldest continuously running department store and anchor of the Promenaden portfolio, to diversify the store’s product and service offerings, as well as enhance its provision of experience-led shopping experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The department store retailer announced the C-suite change along with its financial results for Q3, which ended Nov. drop compared to the same period the previous year, with comparable store sales falling by an even larger percentage, 9.3%. Kohl’s has named Ashley Buchanan, CEO of Michaels , as its new CEO, effective Jan.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, department store sales fell 1.2 Cafes, restaurants, and takeaway sales rose 3.6 per cent to $5.57 billion and food sales inched 2.8 per cent higher to $14.62 Clothing, footwear, and accessoriesclimbed 1.8 per cent to $3.07 billion while household goods improved 1.2 per cent to $5.99 per cent to $1.94

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

store last month , with another five in development and plans to eventually operate 50 locations in the region. Additionally, Kurt Geiger operates footwear concessions inside luxury and premium department stores in the UK, including Harrods and Selfridges , where it sells both its own and third-party brands.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

A year after the French luxury department store originally announced it would be launching its first US location, Printemps is officially opening a brick-and-mortar store in the heart of New York Citys financial district on March 21. Department stores havent had the best reputation the last few years.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Australias department stores are at a crossroads. Competition has never been more fierce and while data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed an uptick in department-store sales in November, this is likely temporary with earlier months showing stagnation or decline. So how did we get here?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

based companies, will take the storied luxury department store private in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $6.25 Members of the Nordstrom family along with Liverpool , a Mexican retailer that has recently been expanding relationships with U.S.-based ownership of the company and 49.9% to Liverpool.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Meanwhile, department stores declined 0.2 Food retail sales rose 3.1 per cent to $14.5 billion, while cafes, restaurants, and takeaway climbed 1.4 per cent to $5.46 Clothing, footwear, and accessories increased 0.8 per cent to $3.04 billion, and household goods improved 0.03 per cent to $5.82 per cent to $1.91 per cent.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The store features giant head kinetic objects highlighting the brand’s compelling visual narratives. The flagship follows the openings of the label’s travel retail boutique at Sydney International Airport in November 2022 and a shop-in-shop at David Jones department store in Sydney last October.

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MARCH 3, 2025

billion, and department stores jumped 2.9 Clothing, footwear, accessoriesrose 4.5 per cent to $3.07 billion while cafes, restaurants, takeawaygrew 3.8 per cent to $5.58 Food climbed 3.1 per cent to $14.69 per cent to $1.93 Household goodstotalled $5.91 billion, reflecting the lowest category growth rate of 2.5

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited has signed a franchise agreement with American luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue to expand its luxury retail portfolio through its subsidiary Reliance Retail, the company said in its third-quarter financial report last week.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Iconic denim lifestyle brand Levi’s has unveiled a unique storefront takeover – the largest of its kind in Europe – with premium London department store celebrating the campaign launch of REIIMAGINE Chapter II, featuring global icon, Beyonc.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Japanese department store Matsuya has introduced a digital platform with a click-and-collect service including tax refunds in a bid to tap into the growth of international tourists. Established in 1874 as a kimono retailer, Matsuya Co operates department stores in Tokyo’s Ginza and Asakusa districts.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Department stores, which have traditionally been one of the favourite retail go-to places for high-end chocolates, have had to think a little bit out of the box (or out of the square if you prefer). Chocolate isnt everything A worldwide scarcity of cocoa isnt the only thing thats bothering Japans department stores though.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Shoppers would park on one side, entering the mall and passing smaller shops on their way to the large department stores. His portfolio of work represents all corners of the globe and a spectrum of retail-driven product types, including retail stores, department stores, shopping centers, master planning, and mixed-use developments.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Many people will be left to handle a store, understaffed, underpaid and without the chance of getting to spend time visiting family.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

The San Bernardino facility is one of 15 EFCs and distribution centers, and the closing stores represent approximately 2.3% Like other department stores, Kohls has had trouble adjusting to changes in consumer shopping patterns. of Kohls 1,150 locations. Net sales for the retailers Q3 2024, which ended Nov. 2, 2024, declined 8.8%

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The department store chain has yet to name the appointees for the newly created roles of GM of merchandise for beauty, accessories and services and GM of merchandise for women’s apparel. Meanwhile, former Cedar Brands CEO Warwick Blunt will assume the newly constructed role of GM for digital commerce at Myer in November.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 9, 2024

days, on par with other department stores. Their approach sets the standard for returns and highlights their commitment to a seamless customer experience. The Iconic: Free returns form part of the success story The Iconic, meanwhile, has an average refund time of 7.1

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2025

FedEx Faces Off Against Amazon, UPS The inclusion of Kohls as a dropoff site for the new FedEx program comes as the department store retailer, which has had a long-time partnership with Amazon to accept returns in its stores, has reportedly stopped accepting them in some locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Sales were down at the department store in both Q4 2024 and for the full year, both of which ended Feb. In Q4, net sales decreased 9.4% and comparable sales were down 6.7% year over year, mimicking results for the full year where net sales decreased 7.2% and comparable sales were down 6.5%.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Alibaba had sold its Intime chain of department stores in December 2024 at a shareholder loss of $1.3 Alibaba plans to sell its stake to private equity firm DCP Capital even though the asset disposal will lead to a $1.8 billion loss for its shareholders.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

The consensus within the retail industry is that Nordstroms partnership deal with the Mexican retail group will improve the department store retailers chances of thriving at a time when many legacy players, like Macys, are struggling to survive. However, long-term success for Nordstrom wont come without further changes.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

After acquiring the distressed department store in 2022, Boohoo Group has pivoted the once-beloved high street favourite into a new direction, reintroducing it as what it claims to be Britains leading online department store with a marketplace model. How Boohoo Group is evolving and what’s next?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To address this problem, Barington believes Macys should form a separate real estate subsidiary to optimize the value of its real estate portfolio as well as significantly reduce capital expenditures , following the example of its department store peer Dillards. (In

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

Department stores may face large amounts of packaging materials, unsold goods and returned items, while ecommerce retailers often deal with higher volumes of cardboard boxes, bubble wrap and plastic packaging.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2024

Central’s acquisition move is not unusual,” Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, International Association of Department Stores managing director, told Inside Retail. Central Group made the headlines again in 2022 after snapping up Selfridges Group, making it the largest luxury department store operator in Europe. What’s next?

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Last week, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) snapped up a 40% stake in Selfridges Group , which includes the British department store chain, along with the De Bijenkorf department stores in the Netherlands and Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland. This led to a new auction for its stake in Selfridges.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2024

Marking the culmination of nearly seven years of on-again, off-again negotiations, HBC , parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman , will acquire another storied luxury department store brand, Neiman Marcus , for $2.65 Current Saks.com CEO Marc Metrick will become Saks Global’s new CEO.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The partnership will also expand the distribution to more channels and formats including mono-brand retail, beyond the brand’s existing presence in ‘escentials’ and department stores, the company said on LinkedIn. Moreover, the parties agreed to increase investments to grow the Amouage brand across all joint markets.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Typically, consumers seek out department stores and shopping centres to get in the holiday spirit but LaManna has managed to position itself as the exception. LaManna, the 10,000sqm independent supermarket located at Essendon Fields, is rising to the Christmas occasion.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

” H&M: Delivery outpaces competitors by four days Meanwhile, H&M’s dispatch time outpaces its rivals in the low-priced department store segment by 1.4 A lot of retailers overlook how important this is.” The fashion retailer delivers orders about four days faster than competitors, while delivery speed is 2.2

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