Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

Frisk, who has been with the company since 2017 and at the helm since 2020, will stay on as an advisor through Sept. The last five years have been a turbulent period for the sportswear brand, which saw business begin to slide in 2017 following years of record growth. 1, 2022 to help with the leadership transition.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The mass store closures prompted by COVID-19 in spring 2020 could have spelled disaster for equestrian specialty brand Kerrits , which had operated as a wholesale-only business for over 25 years. Once the pandemic hit, our wholesalers had to close their stores, and we had to rethink our entire email plan,” said Florin.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

BJ’s Wholesale made the most dramatic moves up the rankings over the last three years, climbing from 27th place to 10th place in 2022. In fact, club stores are gaining momentum across the board, with three of the top 10 spots now occupied by these retailers: Costco (#2), Sam’s Club (#5) and BJ’s Wholesale (#10).

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The brand was acquired by Crescent Capital in 2017, but fell into voluntary administration in March 2020, largely due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The brand currently operates 10 retail boutiques across Australia and distributes its products worldwide via 40 wholesale partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back. Product that Delivers on its Promise. We’ve built this business in a more traditional, grassroots way.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

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. Brick-and-mortar dominates the retail scene, with ecommerce projected to account for just 7% of sales this year, up from 3% in 2017.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

RM Williams has opened its third UK store in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the company’s first store outside Australia since 2017. ” Aside from the physical stores, RM Williams also sells its products through 90 wholesale partners in the UK. Another UK store will open in Cambridge in December.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Before joining Under Armour in 2020 as SVP of Americas Wholesale, Baxter served as President and CEO of LIDS Sports Group from 2016 to 2019. Under Armour saw business begin to slide in 2017 following years of record growth. Prior to that, Baxter held various leadership roles at Adidas and Reebok.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The company has been profitable since 2017. Launched in 2016 as a DTC business, Vuori has since expanded to brick-and-mortar via wholesale at retailers including Nordstrom and REI , as well as with 10 standalone stores. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Launched in 2017, wholesale platform Foodbomb connects restaurants and cafes with a marketplace of around 160 suppliers, simplifying the ordering process. The post How wholesaler Foodbomb is taking its suppliers direct-to-consumer appeared first on Inside Retail. Now it’s unlikely to turn its D2C offering off.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

During that time, there were a lot of listicles going around celebrating Black-owned business to shop and follow, and I found myself and my previously-owned brand Nyakio Beauty (acquired by Unilever in 2017) was at the top of all these lists, Grieco told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In the case of Chemist Warehouse, the acquisition would position it as a superpower in the Australian pharmaceutical market, dominating the wholesale and retail markets through vertical acquisitions across the value chain. New Zealand was naturally the first international market for the retailer in 2017, and it now has 48 stores there.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Before taking the reins of Propel Group, the company behind some of Australia’s best-loved workwear brands, Caroline Elliott was the COO who restructured the local operation of French fashion label Kookai and orchestrated the local franchisee Magi Enterprises’ acquisition of the global licensing rights in 2017.

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Inside Retail

JULY 15, 2024

Once positioned at the pinnacle of the American apparel industry, the BCBG Max Azria Group faced a series of fiscal and operational difficulties, which led it to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 28, 2017. But now it appears to be attempting a comeback.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As we explored in our eBook, “ The Wholesale Brand Disruption Guide ,” direct-to-consumer is defined as “the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers from the brand manufacturer.” percent of all retail growth in 2017, and eCommerce sales increased by 16.4 What Does Direct to Consumer Mean?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

It forms part of a transformation genda for MFG – which owns more than a dozen retail and wholesale brands including Williams, Midas, Ziera, Diana Ferrari, Colorado, Mountfords and Mathers – focused on strategic acquisitions, investment in new technologies, facilities and omnichannel growth, and the continued growth of its store network.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

Founded by Michael Pratt in 2017, the digitally native brand is known for its patented design, which allows the wearer to slip the shoes on and off hands-free. Innovative sneaker brand Kizi already has a firm toehold in the footwear industry.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

Brothers Omar and Zane Sabré (l to r) started the accessories label in 2017. Since launching in 2017, Maison de Sabré has grown into a multi-million dollar global accessories business with dedicated e-commerce sites in Australia and New Zealand, Japan and the US, and an international site that ships to customers around the world.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The company’s revenue has grown from $217 million in 2017 to an expected $1.3 Additionally, the retailer sold its wholesale business to AmerisourceBergen Corporation for approximately $6.5 VillageMD currently operates more than 230 practices across 15 markets, with plans to expand nationally in the future. billion in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Harmony783 also is a reinvention of pluggz , a grounding shoe company that Whiteley sold in 2017 but recently reacquired. I sold the company in 2017. The changes that have happened recently are seismic — as seismic as the change in moving from the wholesale/retail model to online shopping was. How have sales been going?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

We also opened stand-alone stores in Los Angeles and New York in 2016 and 2017. With our wholesale business, because we went to the best retailers, we got paid on time. The breadth of our offer – the leather goods, the gold jewellery – is much more significant than a wholesale partner is ever likely to pick up.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2024

The firm’s head of retail and wholesale Sophie Michael said: “Since we started tracking both online and in-store sales in 2017, the only time we’ve seen results this poor was during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period, when the majority of non-essential retailers were forced to remain closed.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. IR: You started as the customer service and wholesale manager, how have you witnessed the brand’s evolution in your time at the company?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

They call this the “wholesale” shopping experience. Awards received during her tenure included: Forbes Best Management Consulting Firms: IT-Implementation 2016, 2017, 2018 and IBM Business Partner Award: 2016 IBM Commerce Winner. Emma sees the mattress and pillow shopping experience spanning both spectrums.

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2023

Blakeslee has broad experience in the apparel retail and wholesale industries, having served as president of sister companies Alo Yoga and Bella+Canvas since 2017 and held senior positions at Alphabroder. Apparel company Gap has appointed Chris Blakeslee as president and CEO of its US$1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Launched in 2013 as a pure-play DTC business, Madison Reed expanded into wholesale through a partnership with Ulta Beauty in 2017 and recently began opening retail locations, dubbed Hair Color Bars. The company now operates 30 Hair Color Bars across the country and plans to double that by the end of 2021.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 22, 2024

Local village stores have raised concerns, alleging that Tesco is employing tactics like limiting their access to groceries to force them out of business via its wholesale division, Booker. Independent retailers have aired their grievances to The Guardian , highlighting recent changes implemented by Booker.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Soon after Britain’s Tesco abandoned its retail business in Thailand and Malaysia in early 2021, its buyer, Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group, merged it with its Siam Makro wholesale arm. The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 billion baht ($9.4 Harnessing the synergies.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Since changes to the Food Standards Code in late 2017, permitting the sale of low-psychoactive hemp seed as a food in Australia, the ingredient has become a popular addition to products across food, beverage, skincare, petcare and more. Hemp goes mainstream. Elixinol Wellness is a global leader in the hemp industry based in Sydney.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. Daniel, the founder and CEO, sought out business mentors in late 2017 after the business had been idling around $3 million in annual revenue for five years.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2023

IR: I think some people might not know that LSKD – which stands for loose kid – started off as a wholesale brand. I never had the intention to do wholesale, but that’s what was around back then. In 2017, I started trying to find our “why”. We pay for their Audible accounts so they can listen to books that we recommend.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Body Shop has been snapped up by private equity investor Aurelius Group for £207m, just a fifth of the price that Brazilian cosmetics giant Natura paid for it in 2017. The sale, which is expected to complete next month, is far below the £500m price tag that Natura was understood to be targetting.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Gnesin launched his rollup, Elevate Brands , in 2017, but didn’t acquire his first brand until two years later. Both Richman and Gnesin, as well as many of their counterparts, talk about eventually taking at least some of the brands in their portfolio into other channels, whether direct-to-consumer , other marketplaces or wholesale.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 23, 2024

The ecommerce giant’s trading director Sam Brocklebank, wholesale and product operations directo Marie Laskowski, and product director Claire Asher, are believed to have left the business, Drapers reported. A raft of senior Boohoo directors are understood to have left the online retailer.

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Talking Retail

APRIL 7, 2021

Unitas managing director, Darren Goldney, is to join wholesaler Pricecheck. He brings a wealth of varied industry experience having led the merger to form Unitas after joining Today’s Group in 2017. Goldney, who is due to leave Unitas in late April, will join Pricecheck as commercial director.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2024

It also operates the online marketplace Styletread and a wholesale arm. M&A background A few years before he joined MFG as its CFO in 2017, Bartlett worked at Wesfarmers, where he was involved in the acquisition of Coles Group and later Guy Russo’s turnaround of Kmart Group.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 6, 2025

McKoy joined the bootmaker in January 2015 as global category manager for footwear, before being promoted to global product and merchandising director in 2017. for the 26 weeks to 29 September as elevated costs and weakness in wholesale revenue, especially in the US, weighed on its bottom line.

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