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

Retail TouchPoints

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

Retail TouchPoints

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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Alibaba Separates International and Domestic Commerce Operations, Names New CFO

Retail TouchPoints

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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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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“It’s the right time to open some stores”: Ksubi CEO Craig King

Inside Retail

A group called Bleach stepped in and picked up their debt and ran the business until 2014. All the while, General Pants was Ksubi’s biggest account, so when the second iteration of the brand ultimately went into administration in 2014, General Pants took over running the brand. In 2008, they actually went into administration.

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From Snoop Dogg to DVF: How collabs help drive growth at Skechers

Inside Retail

The collaboration follows a rebuild for DVF following Covid-19 restrictions – where the brand was on the verge of bankruptcy – with the eponymous founder, Diane von Furstenberg, explaining in a recent interview that it had slimmed its operations down from $500 million in retail volume to $130 million, between 2014 and present-day.

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Guarding the Retail Fortress: Cybersecurity Challenges and Network Interruption Risks

Retail TouchPoints

A cyberattack that compromises customer personal information can diminish the trust consumers place in a brand. In 2014, cybercriminals used a third-party vendor’s credentials to enter Home Depot’s network and deployed malware on the self-checkout systems to steal customer information.