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Casper CEO’s Roadmap to Profitability: Control Costs, Expand Wholesale and Cater to Customers

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The company upended the mattress industry when it debuted in 2014, with its fresh branding and ecommerce-based approach to a category that had steadfastly resisted digital disruption. It flipped the script and put the power with the consumer, and that changed the entire category. This category is still very anti-consumer at its core.

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Claire’s Hires Children’s Place, Zara Vet as Chief Merchandising Officer

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Her most recent job was as SVP of Global Merchandising and Strategic Partnerships at The Children’s Place , where she was responsible for creating and delivering product strategies for all brands across multiple channels of distribution, as well as leading operations for the wholesale and international franchise businesses from 2014 to 2023.

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How Axel Arigato designs its stores to be like art galleries and raves

Inside Retail

Starting with a single sneaker launch in 2014, the brand has expanded into other retail categories, including outerwear, streetwear and accessories to become a lifestyle brand for all ages — from children barely old enough to pronounce the name of the business to veteran fashion consumers. AJ: It’s been incredible.

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Alibaba Separates International and Domestic Commerce Operations, Names New CFO

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Alibaba Group has reorganized its consumer and wholesale commerce divisions and named current Deputy CFO Toby Xu to succeed Maggie Wu as CFO in April 2022. Prior to his new role in the International division, Fan, who joined Alibaba in 2013, was President of Taobao and Tmall , two of Alibaba’s most successful consumer marketplaces.

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Walmart-Owned Flipkart Raises $3.6B to Fund Next Stage of Growth in India

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The Flipkart Group includes ecommerce marketplace Flipkart , digital fashion destination Myantra , Flipkart Wholesale , online travel company Cleartrip and a majority stake in the payments app PhonePe. million kiranas in India through its wholesale business and last-mile delivery program. Flipkart currently works with more than 1.6

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From Israeli Kibbutz to SoHo: Naot Footwear’s New Flagship to Serve as Brand Showcase

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distributor in the ‘90s and eventually bought the brand with his wife Susan Lax in 2014. The idea is to allow consumers not only to see the name and the brand, but also to experience the depth of the line in a way they may not in [our wholesale partners’] retail stores, as well as understand more of the brand’s story.”.

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Larry Kestelman’s LK Group to ‘turbocharge’ Brand Collective

Inside Retail

When Anchorage Capital Partners bought Brand Collective from its previous owner Pacific Brands in 2014, “it was an unloved, unprofitable, orphan company within a large public company”, he told Inside Retail. And he noted there’s potential to expand Brand Collective’s existing wholesale partnerships with retailers, such as Myer and Target.

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