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Guess?, WHP Global Team Up to Buy Rag & Bone

Retail TouchPoints

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.

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The Global Reach and Sustainable Impact of Green RFID Technology

Retail TouchPoints

Textile production accounts for approximately 20% of global clean water pollution and 10% of global carbon emissions — a number that is only expected to get worse in the future. Joseph Schlossberg is a VP of Global Sales at Sourcing Solutions International.

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Day three at NRF: Unpacking retail’s global future

Inside Retail

Panels on “Global forces shaping the retail business landscape,” moderated by Andrea Bell, vice president of consumer insights at WGSN, and “The Vogue Business Index: Luxury’s new global gateways,” moderated by Anusha Coutiggane, head of advisory at Vogue Business , were particularly enlightening. billion by 2031.

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Build Resilience with Global Sourcing

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The ongoing global logistics disruptions continue to impact businesses, and many of them recognize the need to better equip their supply chains by identifying alternative trading partnerships and developing a broader list of suppliers across the globe. Global Sourcing. billion (USD) in 2021 and the market is expected to reach $15.6

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

Global inflation is at record highs and the Great Resignation has given way to the Great Reshuffling, leading to uncertainty in talent markets. If those disruptive forces weren’t enough to make our jobs harder, the economy has faced headwinds as well. What will 2023 bring?

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Global first: The Body Shop offers fully vegan product formulations

Inside Retail

The Body Shop has earned the title of being the first global beauty brand offering 100 per cent vegan product formulations certified by The Vegan Society. We were the first major global beauty brand to use cruelty-free musk in our fragrances,” said The Body Shop CEO Ian Bickley.

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WHP Global snaps up denim label G-Star Raw 

Inside Retail

Toys R Us US and Issac Mizrahi parent, WHP Global, has acquired a majority stake in the Dutch designer clothing company G-Star Raw for an undisclosed sum. The deal, scheduled to close in the fourth quarter of this year, is expected to help G-Star Raw further expand its global presence with WHP Global as its strategic partner.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Most have already sustained massive damage, and we still have yet to see the scope of this global pandemic. Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities.

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The Great Supply Chain Gear-Up: Sustainability and Agility for 2023

Speaker: Peter Kraemer, Chief Supply Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev

The past few years have shown us that nothing is constant in the supply chain industry. In fact, change is inevitable. Innovation through exploration, development, and scaling of technology has enabled markets across the globe to remain agile while responding to challenging times.

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Exploring the Advantages and Hurdles of Direct Store Deliveries

Direct Store Delivery, or DSD, is a common practice among global suppliers and retailers – like PepsiCo, Frito Lay, CVS, and Dollar General – and its popularity is growing, with the global DSD market expected to reach $1.19 trillion by 2027.

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The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Data Providers, Q2 2021

In our 24-criterion evaluation of B2B marketing data providers, we identified the 11 most significant vendors — Data Axle, Dun & Bradstreet, Enlyft, Global Database, InsideView, Leadspace, Oracle, SMARTe, Spiceworks Ziff Davis, TechTarget, and ZoomInfo Technologies — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.

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Sustainability at Retail

In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development.

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Disruption Reimagined: How to Conquer, Not Crumble, During Supply Chain Instability

Speaker: Robyn O’Brien - Founder of Sirona Ventures, Adjunct Professor at Rice University’s Business School, Supply Chain Optimization and Logistics Expert

And, by using tried and true methods of collaboration and innovation between teams, you can equip your supply chain to withstand external factors such as climate change, global banking instability, and more. The question is… how do you get started?