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L’Occitane buys Australian skincare brand Grown Alchemist

Inside Retail

Hong Kong-listed beauty giant L’Occitane Group has acquired a majority stake in Australian-based clean skincare brand Grown Alchemist for an undisclosed sum. . Grown Alchemist was founded in 2008 by Melbourne siblings, Jeremy and Keston Muijis, with a focus on futuristic anti-ageing technology and unique botanical skincare formulas for optimal skin health.

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Losing Shoppers in the Economic Downturn – Why its not such a bad thing!

Mike Anthony

Yes. We’re all in the same boat. The last couple of years were unprecedented, unexpected and impossible to predict. But 2022 will be different, in that arguably the biggest challenge of 2022 is DEFINITELY something we can prepare for. In many parts of the world, inflation and other pressures mean that we are heading for a significant economic downturn.

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As western retail brands exit, Russia looks east for replacements

Inside Retail

Russia is looking to China, India, Iran and Turkey to plug the gap created by an exodus of western retail companies, an industry body said on Friday, as Moscow grapples to find ways to combat its growing isolation in the face of sanctions. The Russian Council of Shopping Centres (RCSC), an organisation representing developers, shopping centre owners and retail chain operators, said it was negotiating with its corresponding representatives in the four countries about finding alternatives to weste

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Increase the Performance and Security of Your Network

Cisco Retail

For container-based applications that need to scale, the capability to analyze the traffic between services is key to optimizing and managing the system. While the service mesh facilitates communication between microservices, the observability of component traffic and health requires more tooling. This is where Service Mesh Manager—an add-on to Cisco Intersight—steps in.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Premier’s Covid-resistant strategy pays dividends

Inside Retail

Last week, Premier Investments’ chairman Solomon Lew called the last six months one of the “most challenging and unpredictable halves of the pandemic”. In the 26-week period ending 29 January, Premier lost 42,675 trading days to government-enforced lockdown measures aimed at controlling the spread of the Delta and Omicron variants of Covid-19, resulting in a 16 per cent drop in net profit to $163.6 million.

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Inditex, the Bigger Picture by RBC

Fashion Retail

A few years ago, in a conference in Barcelona, I described how growing global uncertainties were impacting businesses and, as a consequence, how important was to invest in digitization and become a data-driven company. Examples of uncertainties included social riots (eg Yellow vests riots in France, Peruvian protests), weather extremes due to climate change or … More Inditex, the Bigger Picture by RBC.

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Driving store network productivity through intelligent analytics

Inside Retail

In this Post-Covid trading environment, where online sales are now accounting for 25 per-cent or more of retail sales, the majority of Australian retailers are reviewing their physical store network. In reality, many retailers may be better served by retaining a smaller, high-performance store network. To achieve this outcome, retailers are pursuing optimisation efforts that typically fall into two streams. .

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Here’s why SA-based Sportitude won store design concept of the year

Inside Retail

Adelaide-based footwear specialist Sportitude won the major gong at the recent Retailer Awards for its store design concept. Here, CEO Roumen Staykov and general manager Josh Willoughby discuss how the brand began, its expansion plans and how it’s become part of the Adelaide running community. Inside Retail : What’s the story behind Sportitude? Roumen Staykov : Sportitude is actually a combination of two businesses.