Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

This is based on our current view that in the factual, the merged entity may be able to unilaterally extract more favourable terms from suppliers than it would in the counterfactual because of an increase in its bargaining power relative to suppliers.” The value of those suppliers’ outside options would consequently be reduced.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Wholesaler Metcash disclosed it has signed three acquisition agreements cumulatively valued at around $558.5 “Metcash is the logical owner of Superior Food, and the acquisition cements our position as the largest wholesaler and distributor of food to independent businesses in Australia.” Metcash agreed to pay up to $412.3

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Retail Bound

APRIL 13, 2024

When a customer places an order, the retailer forwards it to a third-party supplier, who then ships the product directly to the customer. Strategic Considerations: Retailers need to ensure that their suppliers are reliable, offer quality products, and can meet delivery timelines. Dr. Ralph F.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

As we’ve made a strategic shift to become a licensed wholesaler, it’s clear that our long-term growth momentum must be rooted in the success of our strong network of retail partners,” said Leon Bergmann, CEO of Save A Lot in a statement. This acquisition marks the final chapter in the retailer’s wholesale transformation, which began in 2020.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Wholesale beverage marketplace Kaddy is to restructure its consumer business into a pure-play B2B fulfilment service provider following a strategic review. Newly appointed CEO Steve Voorma said the business is generating growth momentum with Kaddy Marketplace and has “significant scalability” across the industry.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Wholesale distribution company Metcash will fully acquire trade tool supplier Total Tools by the end of this month. Metcash currently owns 85 per cent of Total Tools and is acquiring the remaining 15 per cent stake for $101.5 million after the current owners of the minority stake exercised a put option.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 18, 2022

Australian online wholesale marketplace startup TradeSquare has secured $28 million in funding from US investment firm Tiger Global. It now boasts more than 1000 suppliers, offering 150,000 SKUs and has more than 10,000 registered buyers. This is a game-changer, especially with Covid still restricting retail business activity.”.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 23, 2024

Tesco is under scrunity from the UK’s supermarket regulator, which is is closely monitoring its implementation of an “Amazon-style” fulfillment fee for online suppliers. The charges also apply to online orders fulfilled on behalf of retail and catering customers made through the grocer’s wholesale arm, Booker.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The retail and wholesale industry was the fifth-most targeted industry, accounting for 8.7% Being proactive According to him, for retailers and wholesalers, the speed of their response time to a cyberattack can mean the difference between minimal impact on their supply chain and significant disruption.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2023

Over time, this will change traditional wholesale for the better. With traditional wholesale suffering through the pandemic years, specialised B2B marketplaces started coming online to serve retailer and supplier needs. In 2021, B2B marketplace sales grew more than seven times faster than B2B e-commerce sales.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. IR: You started as the customer service and wholesale manager, how have you witnessed the brand’s evolution in your time at the company?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2023

However, the wholesale world remains woefully analogue. Especially in B2B markets, like wholesale, where its B2C counterpart of retail is among the most advanced in the world. They’re already here shaking up wholesale. At Dropshipzone, we have more than 1000 active channels you can sell through as a supplier.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

These aren’t the first retailers to lose Nike as a supplier. The shoe retailer reportedly closed its wholesale accounts with Fred Meyer , Zappos , Dillard’s , City Blue , VIM , EbLens , Belk , Bob’s Stores and Boscov’s in August 2020.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Rip Curl’s same-store growth sales were up 3 per cent in the second quarter, reflecting a return among the surf category, while factory shutdowns of Oboz product suppliers in Vietnam impacted meeting customer demand with 50 per cent of orders left unfulfilled.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But rather than compete on the merits, Amazon set out to ‘destroy’ Zulily instead, by coercing third-party retailers and wholesale suppliers to agree to ‘price parity,’ i.e. to artificially raise Zulily prices at or above Amazon’s and to punish any sellers who cheated.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2023

Following the group’s entry, Dahl-Thorup said that it had experienced rapid growth across the Australia and New Zealand region due to its strong partnership with key wholesale partners. It] is regarded as one of the consistently top performing brands amongst our wholesale accounts,” Dahl-Thorup said.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Brilliant Lighting is a wholesale supplier of fans, lighting, and electrical products. Brilliant Lighting has admitted to engaging in resale price maintenance and has submitted a court-enforceable undertaking to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC).

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2023

Australian online wholesale marketplace startup TradeSquare has stopped taking new orders as the company shifts direction to “a new business model” focused on North America. While TradeSquare is no longer accepting new orders, Harpaz said customers could be assured that all existing orders will be looked after, as well as all suppliers. “We

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

The consumer watchdog ultimately decided the acquisition is not likely to substantially lessen competition in the wholesale food distribution sector, as the two companies do not compete for a majority of their customers. And] while there were concerns expressed by some suppliers, many suppliers did not raise competition concerns.”.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2024

Clearly, each of the five major chains, Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Costco along with the grocery wholesaler, Metcash, have financial, legal and market analyst firepower to attempt to fend off punitive or harsh regulatory restrictions.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

Several submissions advocated splitting the wholesale and retail arms of the two players, Woolworths NZ and Foodstffs, thus reducing their ability to influence prices through convenience stores and independent retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

The brand’s overall digital sales also increased 19% globally, while wholesale revenues were down by 1%. A big piece of Nike’s direct offensive has been a shift away from wholesale and toward DTC. Wholesale Will Still Play a ‘Very Important Role’. Revenues were up 5% YoY in the company’s fiscal Q3, which ended Feb.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

The business helps luxury brands, distributors and wholesalers clear end-of-line and off-season products through online marketplaces, such as Farfetch, Net-A-Porter, Vestiaire Collective and The Iconic, as well as its own e-commerce site, Azura Runway.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They invest in new storefronts and build strong wholesale relationships. Select and launch additional storage capacity, retail or wholesale distribution or ecommerce fulfillment in weeks instead of months. Create space close to suppliers, manufacturing facilities, ports and — most importantly — customers. Reduce cost.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

“Amazon makes consumers think they are getting the lowest prices possible, when in fact, they cannot get the low prices that would prevail in a freely competitive market because Amazon has coerced and induced its third-party sellers and wholesale suppliers to enter into anticompetitive agreements on price,” the suit alleges.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Foot Locker is in the midst of a reshuffle prompted in large part by the retailer’s biggest supplier, Nike, which has been pulling back on its wholesale business in favor of a direct-to-consumer approach.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In this article, we outline some of the key BNPL trends and the benefits that suppliers and wholesalers can enjoy by providing more payment options to business customers. This helps suppliers get paid faster while reducing the financial risk associated with typical B2B payment processes such as trade credit.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2022

Rip Curl continues to trade strongly across both retail and wholesale channels and wholesale demand for its Oboz footwear products remains significantly above pre-Covid levels. Oboz suppliers, impacted by Covid-related factory closures, have resumed full production and inventory levels are returning to normal.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2023

Woolworths Group’s star performer seems to have been its B2B arm, where its PFD wholesale business achieved a 28 per cent increase, underpinning a 16.4 Sales at Big W grew by 5.7 per cent, growth impacted by a slow start to seasonal apparel sales ahead of winter. per cent increase division-wide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

Many retailers today face two major problems: supplier cost increases and overall supply shortages that are driving inflation rates higher than have been seen in at least 40 years. Retailers are at the mercy of suppliers to fill the shelves as they experience a significant risk to the bottom line and potential lost sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

More than 1,000 exhibitors and 170 sessions featuring a wide array of speakers, from leading retailers to suppliers, analysts and other industry experts — plus a bit of star power (basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Martha Stewart and Drew Barrymore, to name a few). 13 to 16, 2024.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sourcing closeout and liquidation wholesale suppliers is a great way for retailers to purchase merchandise on a budget. What Are Wholesale Liquidators? Wholesale liquidators are suppliers who have large amounts of surplus wholesale merchandise. What Are Closeout Suppliers?

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Retail Gazette

JULY 16, 2023

Tesco is leaning on suppliers to pass on cost savings as it strives to cut prices faster than its rivals. The grocery giant met suppliers on Thursday and made clear that it wanted to lead the way on price cuts as it described the market as moving “from inflation to deflation”, according to The Sunday Times.

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Retail Bound

MARCH 21, 2024

In the competitive world of wholesale retail, sustaining growth and optimizing financial performance are paramount objectives for established retailers. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the strategic utilization of net terms to drive expansion and bolster revenue growth for wholesale retailers.

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A1 Retail

MAY 22, 2023

Lord Zameer Choudrey CBE SI Pk, Chief Executive of Bestway Group, and Dawood Pervez, Managing Director of Bestway Wholesale, presented a cheque for £100,000 to the UK’s largest children’s charity, Barnardo’s, at Bestway Group’s Head Office in Park Royal, London last week. We are very pleased to help Barnardo’s continue its amazing work.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

About 14 per cent of big retailers take more than four months to pay their small business suppliers. Delaying] the timely payment of small business suppliers just puts pressure on other parts of the economy when cash flow is critical for those smaller enterprises.” Many of these businesses recorded annual turnover of over $100 million.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Hello Drinks founder JP Tucker said it is a first in the Australian liquor industry and is a win for both customers and wholesalers. But with third-party logistics (3PL) impacting its bottom line, Tucker looked at how he could work with wholesalers to eliminate these costs. We had around 200 truck deliveries from wholesalers last year.

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