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The Body Shop Australia facing ‘cashflow crisis’

Inside Retail

The Guardian has quoted sources explaining that the money earned by the key overseas businesses during the peak trading period in November and December was paid into a global account, based in the UK – “a practice termed ‘cash pooling’”. As a result, global subsidiaries are struggling to pay suppliers for services rendered during that peak.

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How the Y2K Revival is Expanding True Religion’s Shopper Community

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The True Creators Program is designed to provide several emerging designers with the resources, from manufacturing to materials and marketing support, to craft and launch limited collections for the brand. Starting as a Senior Designer in 2006, he worked his way up to VP of Innovation before he left the company in 2017. said Wells.

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Amazon is Moving Beyond its Own Walls Like Never Before…What Will it Mean for Retail?

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Last week, at the company’s fifth annual Accelerate conference for its third-party selling partners (which now account for 60% of its sales, by the way), Amazon continued down a path that it started on 24 years ago, when it first turned its website into a third-party marketplace. Will Any Brand be Able to Avoid the Pull of Amazon?

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How (and Why) Amazon is Sharing its Tech with Retailers Around the World

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billion in annual operating profits, accounting for approximately 63% of the entire company’s operating profits for the year. The division closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 With those numbers, the Jassy appointment starts to make a lot of sense.

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Why Ksubi CEO Craig King reads a book a fortnight, and says you should too

Inside Retail

When I was about 28, my girlfriend’s best friend was dating a guy who was reasonably famous from a marketing perspective. By the time I was 35, I felt fairly polished in accountancy, P&Ls, human resources – areas I would have to be good at. I landed the job of GM at General Pants in 2006, and then in 2010, I became CEO.

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The Case For Subscription Service In CPG

Retail TouchPoints

On average , large CPG companies have shares in physical stores that are 5%-10% higher than online market shares. The costs, as a percentage of net sales, for CPGs to serve their retail partners has been rising by an average of 40 basis points since 2006. The Next Big Move For CPGs: Going DTC.

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Sustainable packaging and food safety – what you need to know

Inside Retail

In Australia, compostable packaging is fast gaining interest and uptake, however is still only accounting for around 0.1% of plastic packaging in the market. For an item to be considered ‘compostable’ it must be certified to the Australian Standard AS 4736:2006.

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