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Denim brand Ksubi to open first standalone store in London

Inside Retail

Next year, the brand will mark its return home to its Australian roots, with stores planned for Sydney and Melbourne. . Originally called Tsubi, the brand quickly spread to London, debuting in a disused tube station in 2002, before being renamed Ksubi in 2006 following a trademark dispute.

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The Body Shop: What went wrong for the pioneering beauty chain?

Retail Gazette

The brand also returned to its founding roots, becoming B Corp certified in 2019 and rolling out refillable stations across its store network in the UK and eventually the US. Portas told The BBC: “L’Oreal knows how to use brands. It did not know how to run a retailer and so the soul went out of it.”

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What’s next for online retailers as investors lose faith?

Retail Gazette

The refocus to home turf has also helped electricals retailer AO World, which returned to profit last year driven by the simplification of its operations and closure of its German and Dutch arms. He also sees opportunity in its beauty division, which he says sits in one of the least penetrated and fastest growing online markets.

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The Body Shop’s Path to Revival Amid High Street Hurdles

365 Retail

The acquisition by L’Oréal in 2006, for £652.3 The administrators’ strategy for The Body Shop involves a significant reduction in the brand’s physical store footprint while concentrating on enhancing product offerings, online sales channels, and wholesale strategies.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 314 – Lovesac Founder and CEO Shawn Nelson

Retail Geek

But I also guided the company through a complete chapter 11 reorganization back in 2006, spearheaded by Venture Capital, which was painful and ugly and embarrassing and humiliating. We don’t have any wholesale. So what does it even mean?

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China’s ‘Victoria’s Secret Town’ at risk as US tariff loophole faces closure

Inside Retail

Efforts by US President Joe Biden to “plug the loophole” in his final days in office, and incoming President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to raise tariffs on China , are threatening investment returns and livelihoods in largely agrarian Guanyun, home to about 1 million.

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