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MAY 16, 2022

Third-party marketplaces have emerged as one of the biggest growth opportunities for retailers this year, with companies from Macy’s and Bed Bath & Beyond to Giant Food and Michaels launching marketplaces (or announcing plans to do so) in the last six months alone. Second Time’s the Charm?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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JULY 7, 2022

That was the solution for Adore Me; the internet-only company began working with influencers with large numbers of followers ( 1 million to 5 million ) in 2018 and 2019, but “we had hundreds of smaller influencers that wanted to work with us,” said Ranjay Roy, VP of Strategy at Adore Me, speaking at the RICE event in May.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Brad Lande-Shannon has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Tyler Wozny has been promoted to the post of Chief Digital Officer. The company plans to end 2022 with 80 Bars, up from its current total of 65 locations. Hair color retailer Madison Reed is strengthening its C-suite with two new appointments.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

In May 2019, the World Health Organisation officially classified ‘burnout’ as a recognised illness, while a 2018 Gallup study found that of the 7,500 full-time employees surveyed, 23 per cent felt burned out at work very often or always, and an additional 44 per cent felt burned out sometimes. Employee-choice market.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since 2018, when the OG aggregator, Thrasio, launched in the US, there has been a veritable explosion of similar startups, including Opontio in Dubai, Upscalio in India, Valerio in Mexico and Rainforest in Singapore. It has already acquired several e-commerce businesses in Australia, where it plans to focus its efforts.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2022

Liu oversees the MINISO business, including product marketing, PR, user operations and global ecommerce, so he shared some exclusive insights into the company’s expansion plans and priorities. MINISO controls the entire value chain, from product design to marketing and sales. We have plans to enter some new markets as well.

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MARCH 9, 2023

In particular, the loss of the Yeezy line led to sales growth of just 6% in the major North America market — anemic when compared with strong results for Latin America (+ 47% ), Asia-Pacific (+ 16% ) and EMEA (+ 12% ). Gulden will assume responsibility for the role, taking more direct control over Adidas’ product and marketing activities.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Scars of the 2018-2019 U.S.-China China trade war of 2018-2019 offers a cautionary tale about the far-reaching consequences of tariffs. In 2018, more than one-third of apparel imports flowing into the U.S. China Trade War: A Case Study in Disruption The U.S.-China During this period, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2023

The rise in cybercrime is increasing the market for tools and solutions to defend against hackers. This includes new types of insurance plans and preventive tools like AI and threat monitoring. This means the cost of hiring experts will be covered so companies can investigate the cause and perpetrators of an attack.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2023

Peloton is planning to relaunch its brand as the struggling fitness company works to shed its old image, but the process will run alongside a new recall involving more than 2.1 million potentially faulty original Bikes.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

The retailer originally had announced plans for the new HQ in 2016, and construction began in 2018 for an intended midsummer 2020 move-in date. To that end, REI put its newly completed headquarters in the Seattle suburbs up for sale.

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MAY 9, 2021

SS: The market trends are consistent with what Witchery has experienced in the past 12 months. In the past year, one of our proudest initiatives has been formalising our commitment to Reconciliation through our first Reconciliation Action Plan. IR: What are your plans for Witchery going into the next financial year?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

A marketing campaign by Mixue offering “1000 Sydney students to have a drink for free” was launched for the brand’s first location in Sydney. As several milk tea companies have begun to expand in the market over the past two years, Australia appears to be a promising market for milk tea players.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Brazilian restaurant chain Oakberry entered the Australian market in 2018 after ANZ CEO Renan Fretes-Pinto identified a gap in the market for healthy fast food. Renan Fretes Pinto: We opened the first international store in Bondi in December 2018. I thought that this concept would go so well in Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2021

Chang has been President of PacSun since 2018 and has served in multiple senior positions since joining the company in 2006. Chang will set and drive PacSun’s brand strategy, including design, merchandising, marketing, retail and ecommerce. All three executives are retail veterans with decades of experience.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

The deal, which covers both physical and digital retail, will see the business return to the UK after three years, having exited all 100 of its UK stores in 2018: resulting in the loss of more than 3,000 jobs, according to The Guardian.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Dillards has been executing a highly successful strategic plan focused on improving operating margins, prudently managing capital expenditures and aggressively returning capital to stockholders, said James Mitarotonda, Chairman of Barington in a statement. However, we are concerned with Macys large capital expenditure programs.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It started in 2018 when pioneering marketing executive Melanie Babcock saw an opportunity to let the Home Depot’s suppliers bid for retargeting traffic. She got her start at a web development agency in the early days of the internet, helping brands build websites and buy keywords (that very first of digital marketing tactics).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

At eBay ’s investor day March 10, CEO Jamie Iannone shared details about the company’s long-term growth strategy and previewed new products, including plans for the eBay Vault — both a physical storage facility and a digital marketplace for trading cards and other high-value collectibles.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

“This new direct-to-consumer experience is the next step to bringing a fuller expression of the brand to consumers in key markets,” said the brand in a statement announcing the store plans. 2022, we coming in HOT!

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JUNE 26, 2023

Amazon will increase its planned investment in India to $26 billion by 2030, according to an announcement made by CEO Andy Jassy after he met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Amazon has reportedly planned to invest $12.9 The move will involve adding an additional $6.5 billion on top of other previously announced investments.

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MARCH 29, 2024

The Home Depot has revamped and rebranded its retail media network, which first launched in 2018. Don’t miss the chance to hear directly from Babcock about The Home Depot’s plans and the future of retail media at the Retail Innovation Conference & Expo taking place June 4-6 in Chicago.

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JUNE 4, 2023

When he took over the helm of Myer in 2018, it was losing sales and struggling. King established the ‘customer first plan’ which helped the department store navigate the pandemic and return to being a profitable and stronger business. The Myer board will conduct a local and international search for King’s replacement.

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JULY 20, 2022

off-price apparel retailer plans to open 75 Ross Dress for Less and 25 dd’s DISCOUNTS stores. This summer, we expanded our presence in our largest markets of California, Florida and Texas, and also added locations in newer states, including North Carolina for dd’s as well as Ohio for Ross. The Dublin, Calif. A new Stamford, Conn.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The travel retailer also plans to increase the Melbourne Airport store’s footprint to 5800sqm in the future, eyeing annual sales of $243 million. The company expanded into the Australia-New Zealand travel retail market in 2018 after acquiring five duty-free shops in the region from JR Duty Free.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The original Toys ‘R’ Us was liquidated in 2018 , but Tru Kids acquired its intellectual property and resurrected the retailer in 2019. and The Galleria in Houston in time for the 2019 holiday season, but plans for additional brick-and-mortar stores in 2020 were cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Under Armour has named Massimo Baratto to the newly created role of EVP, Chief Consumer Officer, to oversee all aspects of Under Armour’s consumer strategy across global marketing, ecommerce and retail. Baratto has been with Under Armour since 2018 as Managing Director of the company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

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MAY 10, 2023

The retailer was acquired by South African holding company Steinhoff International in August 2016, then filed for bankruptcy protection as part of a reorganization in October 2018. In January 2022 , Mattress Firm filed for an IPO, but cited market volatility when it put those plans to bed one year later , clearing the path for an acquisition.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The retailer instated the delivery fees to avoid raising prices of the groceries themselves, starting with pilots in six markets during the summer of 2021: Portland, Maine; Providence, R.I.; Amazon acquired Whole Foods in 2017 and introduced a free two-hour delivery option in 2018 as it steadily expanded the grocer’s delivery footprint.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Buzzfeed has sold youth culture media company Complex to livestream shopping platform NTWRK , which plans to use the acquisition to build a “next generation content and shopping experience.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Burberry’s new chief executive Jonathan Akeroyd will on Thursday set out his plan to finish the job started by his predecessor: boosting growth at the British luxury brand to the levels of its European rivals. Leather goods account for around 20 per cent of Burberry’s sales versus 70 per cent at Bottega Veneta.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

19 investor day, Ralph Lauren revealed that its growth plans through 2025, which will include opening 250 stores globally. Since our last investor day in 2018, we have transformed our business — building a strong foundation with multiple engines of growth that are already showing momentum,” said Louvet. At its Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Thanks to its core product — stylishly packaged, “beauty forward” hand sanitizers crafted in partnership with the well-known Givaudan perfume house — the brand achieved a $60+ average order value (AOV) from its inception in 2018. We can see how geo-localized marketing initiatives boost sales in specific geographies within the U.S.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Musk is now willing to proceed with his original plan to buy the social media company for $44 billion and late on Tuesday he tweeted: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” Yes, Snapchat parent Snap Inc previously introduced peer-to-peer payments called Snapcash, but ended the feature in 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2020

“We already had plans to grow our ecommerce direct-to-consumer business before the beginning of the COVID pandemic, but we had no idea it would happen so quickly. While not without challenges, with those plans for growth we were prepared to handle the influx of new customers to our direct-to-consumer business.”.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Signet plans to drive operating synergies by leveraging its scale in purchasing, targeted marketing, connected commerce and jewelry services to enhance Diamonds Direct. The smaller retailer’s current leadership team will remain intact, with President Itay Berger reporting directly to Signet CEO Virginia Drosos.

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