Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Libby Wadle, a retail industry veteran who has filled a number of senior management roles at J.Crew Group since she joined the company in 2004, has been named CEO. Prior to filling the top role at Madewell, Wadle was President of the J.Crew brand from 2013 to 2017. She replaces Jan Singer, who has left to pursue other endeavors.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2017, Dillards faced similar activist pressure based on undercapitalization of its real estate assets). The most recent included a six -month-long long tussle with a group of investors led by Arkhouse Management which offered to buy out the company and take it private that Macys board rejected earlier this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Now, FRP Advisory has been brought in to manage the restructuring process. In 2006 Roddick sold the company to cosmetics giant L’Oréal , which sold it again to Natura &Co in 2017. Private equity firm Aurelius Group purchased the retailer from Natura &Co in November 2023 for nearly $258 million.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It has already become one of the country’s leading and most trusted cosmetic and injectables brands with 17 clinics across five states since I founded the business in 2017,” Stormeur group chairman and managing director Dr Vivek Eranki said in a statement. Eranki will retain over 60 per cent shareholding in the group.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Global investment manager LaSalle, which acquired the property in 2017, said that 17 new and existing tenants have already signed leasing agreements at the centre. Brisbane’s Post Office Square is going through a multi-million dollar redevelopment in anticipation of a resurgence of food courts as more workers return to offices.

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Cisco Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Management of multi-cloud matures. While cloud offerings have matured and consumption continues to increase, one could argue that how we manage multiple private and public cloud services has lagged consumption and is just now beginning to mature. Evolving our multi-cloud management strategy. Multi-cloud strategy adoption.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The announcements mark the first major management shifts since Alibaba was fined a record-setting $2.75 From 2014 to 2017, she was Alibaba’s Chief Customer Officer. Since January 2017 she has served as President of Alibaba’s Industrial Ecommerce group, which includes Alibaba.com, 1688.com com , AliExpress and Taobao Deals.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

As CDO, Blonder will drive the brand’s digital innovation and manage teams responsible for developing the company’s digital roadmap across both new and existing channels, as well as the company’s IT and insights team. She joins Canada Goose from Hermès where she held the role of European Managing Director.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2024

The source added that Myer did not give the employees – or even managers – any warning and that senior leaders just asked the laid off staff to come into a specified room one by one to receive the news. In 2017, the Australian Financial Review reported that Myer slashed 50 jobs by outsourcing its contact centre and digital services functions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2017, he also assumed the role of President, Trunk Club, where he led the strategic reorientation of that business to drive growth. Boyle began his career at Ernst & Young Consulting, where he helped launch and manage the firm’s Customer Relationship Management global practice.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

Gary Philbin, the company’s CEO since September 2017, is retiring but will serve as a member of the board through September 23, 2020. In a planned leadership transition, Michael Witynski has been named CEO of Dollar Tree. In December, Witynski was promoted from President and COO to a newly created position of Enterprise President.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2020

In the previous edition of the State of Marketing Report, the median number of customer data sources for marketers was projected to jump from 10 in 2017 to 15 in 2019 — a 50% increase in just two years. Hostetler is a product marketing manager focused on Retail and Consumer Goods, with a background in email and mobile messaging.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2024

The source added that Myer did not give the employees – or even managers – any warning and that senior leaders just asked the laid off staff to come into a specified room one by one to receive the news. In 2017, the Australian Financial Review reported that Myer slashed 50 jobs by outsourcing its contact centre and digital services functions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2024

Negotiations for a potential purchase of the luxury department store retailer stretch as far back as 2017. billion in term loan financing from funds and accounts managed by affiliates of Apollo, and a $2 billion revolving asset-based loan facility from lead underwriter Bank of America and other major financial institutions.

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Cisco Retail

JULY 28, 2021

OPC-UA was introduced in 2006 and most recently updated in 2017. For instance, you might want to implement more security measures in the industrial supervisory or management levels where an OPC server has access to the internet and performance is less important. OPC-UA—security for modern industrial environments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

OSHA hit the retailer with more than $1 million in penalties for workforce safety violations in four Florida stores in April 2023 , bringing its total fines for safety hazards to $15 million since 2017. Dollar General hired a third-party consultant to objectively identify hazards and contributing factors across the organization.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2021

Talking about our break entitlements was generally a taboo topic at work, so we avoided bringing it up with managers. Whenever I asked managers about paid rest breaks, they told me that we didn’t get those because we got a free drink instead.”. I felt like I couldn’t speak up about this issue or any issues at work,” he said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2023

The retailer said one of the signatories to the class action was claiming “less than $20” According to the Australian Financial Review , the law firm alleges the discount retailer underpaid up to 1400 salaried managers an average of $40,000 to $65,000.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Jeff Gennette, Chairman and CEO of Macy’s since 2017, plans to retire in February 2024 after a total of four decades with the retailer. Prior to joining Macy’s, Mitchell advised retailers as a Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Group and was CEO of home furnishings retailer Arhaus LLC.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2021

While the online marketplace launched in Australia in 2017, Kiwis have long needed to purchase goods from the US marketplace, according to the business, and will now be able to access faster delivery times from Australia’s warehouses. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

Chriss joined Intuit 19 years ago and has held roles of increasing responsibility, including creating Intuit’s Partner and Developer Platform, leading the Self-Employed Solutions team and serving as Chief Product Officer of the Small Business Group from 2017 to 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2021

Four to five days is the maximum acceptable wait time during the holidays, and for the rest of the year that shrinks to two to three days , according to Sean Whitehouse, Managing Director of Strategy & Consulting, Supply Chain & Operations, Retail Lead at Accenture in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Garcia will report to eBay CEO Jamie Iannone and will manage the marketplace’s Core Product organization and cultivate tech-led reimagination to improve the user experience. “We Before joining Meta in November 2017, prior to its rebrand from Facebook , Jansen served on the boards of Culture Whisper, TMG and Trader Media East.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2023

Benno Dorer, who has been VF’s Interim President and CEO since December 5, will continue to serve on the board, a role he has had since 2017. Richard Carucci, a VF board member since 2009 and interim chair during the organisation’s recent leadership change, has been named chair.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2023

Andy Dunn, founder of Bonobos , will join WHP Global in an advisory role to help the company manage the recently acquired Bonobos brand. Walmart parted with Bonobos at a significant loss —the retail giant had spent $310 million to acquire Bonobos in 2017. Walmart also sold plus-size fashion brand Eloquii to FullBeauty Brands in April.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Caroline could have wished for a trip anywhere in the world, or a shopping spree for herself, but instead she is focused on helping local animals in need,” said Marti Skold-Jordan, Manager of the Tractor Supply Foundation, the retailer’s philanthropic arm, in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2021

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. Over the course of career, Schulman also has held various roles at Jimmy Choo, Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci. “I

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2024

Some 20 stores in New Zealand are also affected, managed by the Australian business. The brand was founded in 1976 by the late Dame Anita Roddick who sold the business to L’Oreal in 2006 for £652 million, which later onsold it to Natura in 2017 for £880 million.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2021

As CEO, Spaulding will focus on driving the next phase of the company’s growth, including the ongoing development of new consumer shopping experiences, inventory management innovations and international expansion. Stitch Fix now boasts an annual revenue of $1.7 billion with close to 4 million clients across the U.S. and UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham will develop customized systems and capabilities to enhance the experience for Home Hospital patients, and the hospital also will leverage existing Best Buy Health technology and support services , including: Current Health , Best Buy’s care-at-home platform that connects patients to nurses, paramedics, advanced (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2023

In April, OSHA said that since 2017 it has cited Dollar General in more than 180 inspections nationwide. of officer- and director-level management positions, respectively. The off-price retailer has taken some steps to address complaints about pay. Additionally, while the retailer’s workforce is 67.8% female and 55.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Founded by ex- Amazon and Staples executives in 2017, the company now counts among its 50+ clients Chico’s FAS , GNC , McDonald’s , Black Rifle Coffee Company and Cadre Style. A project manager’s life is finite within that project; it’s one and done, next project.

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Inside Retail

MAY 20, 2021

The move was welcomed in New Zealand, where Countdown Supermarkets was one of the first employers in the region to launch a Gender Affirmation Policy back in 2017, prior to combining the policy with the wider Woolworths Group the following year. I am very proud that Allianz has taken this important step.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2021

In 2017 ModCloth was sold by its founders to Walmart as the big-box chain made an ecommerce play by acquiring a host of digital-first brands. Founded in 2002, ModCloth offers exclusive indie- and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35- year-old women of all sizes.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Bendon has delivered losses of more than NZ$78 million since it was acquired in 2017, and could have likely ended in liquidation had Naked Brands not successfully raised capital earlier this year after a Reddit-fueled short squeeze pushed the brand’s stock up 700 per cent.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

Maurici said, after 16 years at the helm, they are looking for a successor to not only give the business even more depth, experience and capability but to also allow him to work more “on the business” and less “in the business”, as a managing director. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For digital marketers, strategic decisions about marketing spend allocated to specific retailers is now largely shaped by these factors; retailers unwilling to let a brand manage its own media, and the inability to run off-platform strategies to specific retailers. Brady Donnelly is Managing Director at Sela , a PCA Group company.

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