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From Niche Product to Viral Sensation: How Bogg Bag Ventured into 1,800 Target Stores

Retail TouchPoints

However, this latest expansion has kickstarted a new growth trajectory for the business, which started in 2008. RTP: You’ve gone through quite a journey from when you started the business in 2008. There’s going to be a mixture of different colors, and we’re playing with some fun elements to speak to that crowd.

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Three trends shaping the luxury retails sector in 2025

Inside Retail

Social commerce Zheng commented on how luxury brands and retailers are increasingly using social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok to advertise and promote their products, leveraging targeted ads and sponsored posts to generate consumer interest in their offerings. billion market in 2023.

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How a modern store concept is helping Desigual reach new customers in Asia

Inside Retail

When it comes to Singapore, the brand landed in the island republic back in 2008, and later expanded to different markets. When it comes to social media, social commerce and key opinion leaders, a humble and open approach is crucial. Balazs Krizsanyik, general manager of Desigual in Asia. The Singapore marketplace.

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

A 45-year-old family-owned luxury business might not be the kind of company one expects to be at the cutting edge of digital commerce, but thanks to President Ken Natori, the company’s second-generation leader, Natori is just that. And earn his stripes he has.

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Starbucks Australia pursues plastic-free future with new cup and start-up

Inside Retail

After initially launching here in 2000, it withdrew from the market in 2008, before relaunching that same year under the ownership of the Withers Group. A greener way to do business better Despite its overseas success, Starbucks’ journey in the Australian market has been anything but smooth.

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SHEIN’s Head of Strategy on Setting (and Achieving) Firmer ESG Goals

Retail TouchPoints

Since its inception in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the retail industry’s most remarkable growth stories, but it also has been routinely accused of committing some of the retail and apparel industries’ worst offenses — including having an outsize carbon footprint and allegedly condoning (or at least turning a blind eye) to the use of forced labor (..)

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The Big Idea is Broken. Welcome To Weirdvertising.

Retail TouchPoints

You can’t understand the wolf art content that Axe is tapping into these days unless you’ve been chronically online since 2008 when it first became a thing.” In a way, Axe is simultaneously tapping into the alpha wolf meme and reviving it, which serves as a form of social currency for the brand. They get the in-jokes.