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Nordstrom Financial Chief Bramman Steps Down; Insider Appointed Interim CFO

Retail TouchPoints

SVP and Chief Accounting Officer Michael Maher will step into the role on an interim basis while the company conducts an internal and external search for a permanent CFO. “As Maher has more than 25 years of finance and accounting experience and joined Nordstrom in 2009 as controller.

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Dollar General Adds 100+ Private Label Products as it Expands Fresh Food Offerings

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Originally introduced in 2009, the expansion will bring the range of Clover Valley items to approximately 600 , with new additions including sauces, condiments, entrees, sides and snacks. “We Internal company research also has found that consumables now account for almost 80% of total sales at Dollar General.

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Afterpay parent Block’s Australian shares slump after Hindenburg report

Inside Retail

Hindenburg’s report, which was behind a market rout of more than $100 billion in India’s Adani Group earlier this year, said it found that former Block employees estimated 40 per cent to 75 per cent of accounts they reviewed were fake, involved in fraud, or were additional accounts tied to a single individual.

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Analysis: where employers are wrong about Labor’s industrial relations bill

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While multi-employer bargaining is allowed under current laws, no such agreements have been made since 2009 , and few since the introduction of enterprise bargaining in 1993. Taking into account the relative sizes of their workforces, Australia lost about 10 times as many days to industrial action as Denmark in 2021.

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How the Olympic Games could drive sales of female sportswear

Inside Retail

A 2024 apparel and footwear report released by Euromonitor International, found that women’s sportswear sales accounted for just 36 per cent of all global sportswear sales, despite having a higher compound annual growth rate than men’s sportswear sales between 2018-2023 (5 per cent versus 3 per cent, respectively).

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Officeworks MD: “Product trends are constantly evolving”

Inside Retail

Inked in history Initially, Officeworks was a cash-and-carry solution for customers, and in 2009, the retailer launched its first ‘proper’ website. Today, Officeworks’ product offering has expanded beyond office supplies to include education resources, art, furniture and technology. “Our

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“I learned that people had a lot of bag problems”: CEO on launching Dagne Dover

Inside Retail

Melissa Mash: I came up with the idea for Dagne while I was working for Coach’s UK distributor at Heathrow Airport in 2009. MM: At Coach, I had managed brick-and-mortar wholesale accounts and I was part of a three-person team that launched the wholesale e-commerce channel. Inside Retail : How did the idea for Dagne Dover come about?

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