Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

billion, and department stores climbed 0.4 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 ” The post Strong boost in Australian retail sales in October, says ABS data appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

On April 17, Takashimaya, Japans upscale department store company, released the results for its fiscal year ending February 28. The latter two stores ran a slight operating loss and underperformed company expectations. This store may not even have existed had the company followed through with its pre-Covid plan to shutter it.

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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 Since fiscal year 2014, Macys has spent $9.7

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Current Kohl’s CEO Tom Kingsbury will be stepping down on that date but will remain as an advisor and board member until his planned retirement in May 2025. The department store retailer announced the C-suite change along with its financial results for Q3, which ended Nov. Net sales of $3.5 billion represented an 8.8%

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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

But for Jeff Warren Macys vice president of selling and customer experience, and one of the key people involved in reinvigorating the department stores relationship with its customers sticking with the status quo is not an option. billion and stores numbering 868 globally. By last year, Macys global net sales amounted to $23.1

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2025

In his first earnings cycle at the helm , Kohls new CEO Ashley Buchanan laid out his plan to turn around the embattled company, which has struggled for years to return to a position of strength while fending off activist investors. Sales were down at the department store in both Q4 2024 and for the full year, both of which ended Feb.

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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. In-store, we increase our staffing levels, with extra team members focused on assisting customers in stocking shelves promptly to keep up with demand.

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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. Along the way, they’d be enticed by storefront displays, food court offerings, and shops they hadn’t planned to visit. Think of malls before the rise of online shopping.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 5, 2024

M&S has been granted approval by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government to redevelop its flagship Marble Arch store, after almost four years of delays and legal battles. At the time, Machin called the decision “utterly pathetic” and defended the proposals as essential for the area’s revitalisation.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 15, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Team Coco (@teamcoco) How Macy’s Store Closures Factor Into the Job-Cut Wave Although craft chain Joann and several pharmacy giants have grabbed headlines, Macy’s looms large in the 2025 retail retrenchment story.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Seeking to focus more on ecommerce and other digital businesses, Alibaba Group plans to sell its more than 70% stake in Sun Art, operator of RT-Mart and M-Club stores in China, for $1.6 Alibaba plans to sell its stake to private equity firm DCP Capital even though the asset disposal will lead to a $1.8

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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 TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

based companies, will take the storied luxury department store private in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $6.25 Erik and Pete Nordstrom, the CEO and President, respectively, of Nordstrom, first floated plans to take the retailer private in March 2024. ownership of the company and 49.9% to Liverpool.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2025

So it is, too, with Japan’s department stores, particularly at the high end, which are trying to scale last year’s dizzy heights when the yen was weak and tourism was rebooting. The department store leadership was well aware this problem would come: Tourism growth was bound to level off, and the local currency would regain ground.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Its true that many stores are expected to close this year, but this reflects natural churn in the industry, not a new trend. Many of these closures are long-planned, and most are independent of shifts in consumer behavior or broad-based economic pressures. Lets start by looking at the landscape.

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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

JUNE 11, 2025

While David Jones’ chief executive Scott Fyfe has positioned the department store’s new loyalty program in partnership with Qantas as a key element in the group’s recovery strategy, retail experts aren’t convinced it’s that simple. “A

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VMS

JULY 18, 2025

Two high-profile luxury department store enterprises have hired new CFOs, typically the number-two post in a company’s c-suite hierarchy, reporting to the CEO. had not disclosed its plans in light of Dilts’ exit. They are: Nordstrom Inc. Seattle), which has named Kelly Dilts CFO, effective Aug.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

Over the past few weeks, the retail industry has been buzzing about the news of legacy retailer Nordstroms privatisation plans. Nordstrom has been one of the weakest performers in the department store space, Saunders continued, adding that many adjustments are needed to fix recent missteps with merchandising, operations and store standards.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

retailers currently use AI in their strategies, with 97% planning to increase investments in 2024. According to one Gartner Market Guide : “By 2025, the top 10 global retailers by revenue will leverage contextualized real-time pricing…to manage and adjust in-store prices for customers.” through 2028.

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Retail Dive

MAY 27, 2025

Ruby Liu plans to open "a new modern department store concept," though it’s unclear whether the stores can continue to operate under the iconic brand.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

The monetisation of retail assets has come a long way since department stores like Myer and David Jones first sold physical space within their stores. To avoid this, develop joint marketing plans with a customer lens, not just a commercial one.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Landsec has secured planning permission from Cardiff City Council to transform a former Debenhams unit into a dynamic 102,000 sq ft city square. Our plans will transform a former failing department store into a new public space, equivalent to almost one and a half football pitches, incorporating nature, play and leisure.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The Middle East [is in the plan] – because Documents has some Middle Eastern clients in China…and we think our position and our style may match the Middle Eastern market,” Zhaoran said. That means whether we design 13 different stores or use the same style in each one, it’s the same cost for us.”

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Retail Gazette

MAY 14, 2025

Saks, the heritage US department store chain, is planning to launch a storefront on Amazon’s UK website as it looks to expand its global reach. The American retailer hasa designated section on Amazon’s US site where it sells luxury products from brands including Balmain, Dolce & Gabbana, and Stella McCartney.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Myer’s acquisition of Premier Investments’ Apparel Brands appears to be the next step in Olivia Wirth’s plan for the department store’s loyalty program, Myer One. This is an opportunity to continue to grow it in a way that is a step change,” Wirth said about the impact of the acquisition on Myer One, which has 10.6

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Earlier this year, it was reported that Harrolds’ Melbourne and Sydney stores would be relocated as part of the business’s plan to return to sustainable profit, however, the business remained plagued by difficulties in the retail sector.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 23, 2024

George (left) & Mike Heaton (right) The Manchester store is set in the heart of the city’s iconic shopping district, positioning Represent alongside fellow luxury retailers such as Louis Vuitton, Selfridges, Paul Smith, Canada Goose, and Harvey Nichols.

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2025

Seven & I countered with its own vision: a possible IPO of its North American convenience store unit and a plan to return 2 trillion yen to shareholders by 2030 through share buybacks while retaining control of its crown jewel asset. In 2022, it divested the struggling Sogo & Seibu department store chain.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Now, Mosaic’s presumably ‘core brands’, Millers, Noni B, Rivers and Katies, are also on the chopping block as the retail group looks to accelerate its rationalisation plan and attract new customers across metropolitan and regional Australia through the administration process.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2025

Even though more than half ( 56% ) of retailers surveyed by KPMG completed a major payments modernization program within the past year, even more 83% already are modernizing their payment infrastructure, or are planning to do so in the new future.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The brand plans to increase the number of locations from four to 24 by the end of next year. It’s all about experience Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, the managing director of the International Association of Department Stores, said there are three main types of retailers that cater to the 1 per cent.

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