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Aesop CEO Michael O’Keeffe to depart after more than 20 years

Inside Retail

At any company, there is a time that a CEO should be there.” Brazilian company Natura & Co acquired a 65 per cent interest in the brand in 2012 for US$71.6 Aesop CEO Michael O’Keeffe is exiting the company, where he worked for the past 22 years, the Australian Financial Review has reported.

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McDonald’s Australia CEO resigns, new boss announced

Inside Retail

Chiczewski joined McDonalds in 2012, and has held several roles in strategy, finance, and operations. He takes over from Martinez who started his career at McDonalds as a 15-year-old crew person at McDonalds Yallambie, Victoria. I am looking forward to continuing to build on the incredible legacy of our people and franchisees.

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How Gen AI is Helping Brands Handle the ‘Relentless Demand’ for Visual Content

Retail TouchPoints

Despite these evolutionary changes, humans still process images 60,000 times faster than text, and nearly 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual , according to Lilly Hsueh, VP of Customer Success Management at digital asset management solution Cloudinary.

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As Gen Z Enters Prime Spending Years, Brands Sharpen Their Pitch

Retail TouchPoints

They’re Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012 and comprising 20.69% of the U.S. Shein is very Gen Z oriented, so we bring in as many Gen Z team members as possible,” said Marisa Runyon, Director of Creative Content and Production at Shein. “We Shein spoke during a panel discussion at the recent FUTR conference in New York City.

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How Parachute’s consistent marketing and quality designs won over millennials

Inside Retail

While helping her friends decorate their first apartments in New York back in 2012, Kaye began to explore the different home goods brands that were out there and saw that there was a much left to be desired design-wise. Its been helpful for us internally and I think the customer feels that too, Kaye concluded.

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Luxury Veteran Named Michael Kors CEO, Preps to Move into Top Spot at Parent Company Capri in 2022

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Prior to his tenure at Coach, Schulman was President of Bergdorf Goodman at Neiman Marcus Group from 2012 to 2017, where he also assumed responsibility for NMG International with the acquisition of MyTheresa.com in 2014.

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Michel’s brand to be axed

Inside Retail

At its height the cake chain had more than 300 stores operating. Five years ago a Queensland court ruled RFG had breached Australian Consumer Law, successfully finding in favour of the franchisees claim they were misled in 2012 over quality and supplier agreements. This story was originally published on Franchise Executives.