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David’s Bridal Shakes up Leadership Team with New COO and CFO

Retail TouchPoints

The promoted executives include: Bob Walker, who joined David’s Bridal in 2019 as Chief Retail Officer, has been promoted to COO. The retailer, which filed for bankruptcy in April 2023, was purchased by CION Investment Corp. in July 2023. She will report to Marcum and brings more than two decades of marketing and ecommerce experience.

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How Retailers Can Democratize Data to Buoy Performance

Retail TouchPoints

For years, retailers have invested in digital tools to help gather data on critical items such as from point of sale (POS), inventory management, foot traffic, specific stores and more. Information is stuck in separate systems divided by function: finance, human resources (HR), operations and others.

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Meet the Aussie e-commerce aggregator that plans to be a unicorn next year

Inside Retail

In 2019, third-party sellers generated roughly 60 per cent of Amazon’s product sales, double the percentage they represented a decade ago, Marketplace Pulse found. The reason so many are popping up now is due to the rise of online marketplaces in recent years and the third-party sellers that populate them. Juju is a case in point.

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Solving the Shopping Mall ‘Identity Crisis’ with Community Data and Careful Curation

Retail TouchPoints

Coresight also found that traffic at top-tier malls was up 12% in 2022 over pre-pandemic 2019 levels, while traffic was up 10% at non-top-tier malls. over the first half of 2022 and is now ahead of 2019 levels. In Q1 2023, consumer spend at The Dolphin was 7.8% ahead of the same period in 2022.

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How US retailers are preparing for this year’s holiday shopping period

Inside Retail

With the peak trading period only a few months away, now is truly the time for retailers to double down and invest their efforts into optimising their inventory and fulfillment operations. However, there are some factors that retailers have to keep in mind to ensure they aren’t placing energy or finances where it is not best applicable.

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How Castlery came back from the brink to disrupt the furniture industry

Inside Retail

In 2019, we made the decision to be purely online. One of the biggest problems in the furniture industry is inventory, so this allows our close partners to work with us, so we get better inventory management. But being a banker for 10 years, I was very clear that financing model did not work.

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New Zealand Manufacturer More Profitable in 18 Months with ERP

Global Shop

As the business continued to grow, so did the need for a more flexible, customizable ERP product that could manage the company’s two separate business streams in an all-in-one system. That’s when they acquired Global Shop Solutions ERP and went live in November 2019. Planning for Special Exception Jobs.