Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
McDonalds Australia CEO and managing director Antoni Martinez is leaving the Golden Arches after nearly 20 years with the fast food giant and almost than three years in the leadership role. Stepping up to the dual role, Joe Chiczewski, McDonalds Australias chief restaurant officer who will transition into the leadership position over the coming weeks.
Cisco Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance User Experience, showcased at Mobile World Congress 2025, leverages AI to transform mobile network operations by delivering real-time insights for high-quality customer experiences. This innovative solution integrates seamlessly with the Cisco routing portfolio, providing actionable insights across wireline, wireless, and non-terrestrial networks.
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Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Last year brought some challenges for the Australian fashion industry. A series of shifts and challenges have placed the sector under strain. High-profile brands like Dion Lee and Mosaic Brands closed their doors, and IMGs departure from Australian Fashion Week disrupted the sector. Rising operational costs, increased global competition, and shifting consumer behaviours are among the contributing factors.
Cisco Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
At MWC2025, were showcasing our Mobility Services Platform, capable of delivering a high-value use cases for people, places, things, and fast-evolving intelligent machines. Built and deployed globally, and delivered as-a-service with an extensive API ecosystem, its open to developers, Communication Service Providers, and enterprises to create new, differentiated value from the network, from traditional IoT and voice services to a new wave of AI-based services for people, spaces, and machines.
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Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Retail Drinks Australia is calling on the NSW Government to address trading restrictions that will force 3000 packaged liquor retailers to close on Anzac Day. Meanwhile, hotels, clubs, and restaurants will remain open for takeaway alcohol sales. Shane Madden, owner of Retail Liquor Specialists which operates eight stores in regional NSW, expects to lose $110,000 in revenue due to the restrictions. “People will be baffled when they go to their local liquor store, the one they’ve been
Retail Gazette
MARCH 2, 2025
WHSmith is in talks to offload its 500 high street stores as part of a strategic shift, but the sale will involve the retailer relinquishing the rights to its iconic brand name. The decision marks a break from over 230 years of high street history, as the business looks to focus entirely on its more profitable travel retail division. As part of the sale, the high street businessknown for its stationery, books, and newsstandswill no longer carry the WHSmith name, which has been a fixture since th
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Retail Wire
MARCH 2, 2025
Big Lots has an interesting future ahead of it.
Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Pana Organic, founded by founder Pana Barbounis in 2012, is one of the many specialty chocolate brands having to adapt in real-time to the cacao shortage. Global cacao commodities sat at around US$2000 a ton for several years but soared to US$12,000 a ton in 2024 now in the lead up to Easter it averages US$10,000 a ton and Easter chocolate is expected to rise up to 20 per cent as a result.
Retail Wire
MARCH 2, 2025
Carnival Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean have new policies.
Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Last week, consumer-activist group The Peoples Union USA called for a 24-hour buying blackout of all non-essential goods on February 28, particularly from big-box retailers like Walmart , Target and Amazon. The protest follows months of rising prices on goods and services and more recently, many companies rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
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Retail Times
MARCH 2, 2025
Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Female-founded, UK-based wallpaper and fabric studio Barneby Gates launches a limited-edition pyjama collection with Stripe & Stare on 2nd March. Featuring Barneby Gates idiosyncratically English designs on Stripe & Stares luxuriously soft, sustainable fabrics, this collection of pyjamas effortlessly blends classical design with super soft comfor
Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Take a hike to the top end to experience House of Darwins bold bricks-and-mortar flagship, before trekking to French lifestyle brand Salomon and Japanese retailer Standard Products and Daiso, showcasing a first-of-its-kind ANZ retail fit-out. Dont forget to pop into Longines new luxury boutique in Perth, before travelling east to peruse Atomica and witness Lululemons biggest store statement.
Cisco Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
The AI revolution isnt just about bigger models and smarter applications. Its also about the network infrastructure that enables them. As AI evolves, service providers must rethink their architectures to deliver the future of global secure connectivity. What was impossible just months ago will soon be the baseline expectation for customers going forward.
Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Decjuba has appointed Audrey Nania as its new CEO, marking the fashion retailer’s first change in leadership in almost 17 years and emphasising the brand’s female-led identity. Nania joined Decjuba as an assistant planner in 2009 and rose the ranks until she became a COO in June 2021, her latest role before the new designation. The company said that Nania will focus on taking the business to new heights through an evolving retail and digital landscape.
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Inside Retail
MARCH 2, 2025
Malaysian restaurant operator Berjaya Food has reported its fifth consecutive quarterly loss, attributing the downturn to the underperformance of its Starbucks franchises in Malaysia. The company links the decline to boycotts of US fast food brands following Americas support of Israels offensive in Gaza. For the six months ending December last year, Berjaya Food recorded a net loss of US$16.75 million (RM70.3 million).
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