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JULY 2, 2024

Ingka Investments will hold a one-third stake in the project alongside preferred equity components and full ownership of the building’s prime retail space, an 80,000 -square-foot store with a corner entrance on Fifth Avenue where Ingka plans to put an Ikea “customer meeting point.” in a statement. . in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The retailer plans to close its 35 remaining brick-and-mortar stores by Sept. In 2019, RSG Acquisitions bought Olympia’s intellectual property, online stores and 75 of its then 152 stores. Olympia Sports has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, seeking an orderly wind-down of its operations. bankruptcy court in Delaware.

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MARCH 18, 2024

million nonfatal workplace violence incidents between 2015 and 2019. Despite these statistics, many retailers still don’t have functional workplace violence plans. If they do have a plan, it’s likely that it hasn’t been recently updated, and many employees may not know it exists. A 2022 U.S.

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JUNE 2, 2022

We are emerging from the pandemic a much stronger, more profitable company than we were at the time of our IPO in 2019,” said the company’s President and CEO Chip Bergh in a statement. “We To hit the $10 billion mark in the next five years, the company plans to increase DTC revenues from their current 36% of the total to 55%.

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APRIL 20, 2022

Luxury home brand Brooklinen is planning to triple its brick-and-mortar retail presence, first with the addition of four stores in new markets in 2022 and plans to reach 25 to 30 locations by the end of 2024. The plans were likely delayed due to the impact of COVID-19, but recent sales growth is a sign that the expansion can begin.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

Hog’s Breath Cafe is looking to rebuild its restaurant footprint, and has plans to open another 20 restaurants by 2029. He has a number of growth solutions, including opening corporate stores with a plan to franchise them once established. Spurgin said “The brand had struggled; it closed 19 restaurants in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

However you look at it, healthy people are at the center of any successful sustainability plan. Establishing a solid economic foundation for team members enables a stable organization that is capable of executing our work plans. Integrating corporate wellness into sustainability plans is just good business.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

In 2019, Calpak tested its store hypothesis even further by opening a pop-up in New York City. Calpak put its brick-and-mortar plans on hold during the pandemic but then doubled down in 2022 when “revenge travel” ramped up and demand was more sustained. The brand recently became an online-only partner for Nordstrom.)

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MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The off-price retailer announced plans for 1,050 new store openings, 1,750 store remodels and 100 store relocations; the launch of 1,000 pOpshelf locations by fiscal 2025; and the company’s entrance into Mexico with 10 stores in fiscal 2022. Dollar General is preparing to embark on a massive expansion as it comes off a strong Q3 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

These plans are part of the brand’s near-term climate target of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 37% by 2032 compared to a 2019 base figure. Lego also plans to work with its suppliers to collectively reduce environmental impacts, noting that 98% of GHG emissions come from outside its operations.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

These facilities are significantly smaller than traditional fulfillment centers but are designed to prepare items for immediate delivery — and Amazon is poised to expand from 45 same-day sites (as of 2019) to at least 150 in the next several years, according to MWPVL International.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Its a tenet that the companys latest CEO, Corie Barry, kept front of mind as she took the helm in 2019 , throughout the upheaval of the pandemic and into today. That is what Barry has spent the last five years doing.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

This distinct self-identification has become increasingly important now that Starboard Group is moving onto dry land, with plans to support resort boutiques at a Westgate Resort s property in Las Vegas beginning next month. A second store at another Westgate property is slated to follow later in 2025.

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MARCH 23, 2022

Nike is pushing forward with its digitally focused direct-to-consumer strategy following a strong Q3, with plans to build “the marketplace of the future” and bring standalone Jordan stores to North America. To that end, Nike plans to begin testing a new Jordan-only store concept in North America in 2023.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2022

The plan coincides with the appointment of two key executives in the US: Eric Bauer as global CEO and Skye Westcott as president of North America who will lead what Coco Republic, the Australian-founded furniture and homewares chain, describes as an “accelerated global expansion, initially focused on the California market”.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Microsoft is gearing up to take a bigger piece of the growing retail media pie with the debut of a suite of new capabilities through its PromoteIQ marketing platform, which the company acquired in 2019.

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MAY 24, 2021

This Memorial Day offers retailers an opportunity to benefit from pent-up demand: 48% of Americans plan to shop for something over Memorial Day weekend this year, according to a survey by BlackFriday.com conducted through Kelton. In comparison, men are more focused on electronics than women, at 47% and 23% respectively.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Over the last several months we’ve demonstrated the extent to which we work every day to mitigate risk and protect our people, and our publicly available data show we’ve reduced injury rates nearly 15% between 2019 and 2021. What’s more, the vast majority of our employees tell us they feel our workplace is safe. “We

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Inside Retail

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.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

with plans to reach more than 95 locations by the end of 2021. The brand posted a 56% net sales gain versus 2019 in Q1 2021, which ended May 1. Comparable sales grew 27% year-over-year and 46% versus 2019, with digital growth soaring 113% compared to Q1 2019.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019. The company plans to equip two of its Whole Foods stores with cashierless solutions in 2022. for its Ame Go convenience stores.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

4, Amazon is offering what the retailer calls “Black Friday-worthy” deals, along with Epic Daily Deals and an Amazon Holiday Prep Shop hub to help consumers organize their holiday gift-giving and event planning. For its part, Walmart plans to hire 150,000 new U.S. Beginning Oct. 10, coinciding with the launch of Target Deal Days Oct.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In 2019, VF Corp spun off the Wrangler and Lee brands to a new publicly traded company set up as Kontoor Brands. Scott Baxter, President, CEO, and chairman of Kontoor Brands, emphasised the strategic alignment of the purchase with plans to scale the business globally.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Now, the retailer plans to increase its investment in the technology in order to leverage its 4,700 stores, which put the retailer within 10 miles of 90 % of the U.S. Walmart has been working with Alert to customize technology for its market fulfillment centers (MFCs) since 2016. population, for storage and fulfillment.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Nike also ended its status as a first-party seller on Amazon in late 2019, showing that the brand is not afraid of severing ties with even the largest retailers. The shoe brand is planning to expand its own brick-and-mortar footprint with 30 additional stores in the second half of 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Cinnabon plans to open a second Sydney location by the end of next year and add 15 additional locations to NSW over the next five years. . Under the partnership with a local franchise company, The Bansal Group, Cinnabon stepped into Australia in 2019 with its first location in Queensland. .

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JUNE 24, 2024

Under Armour revealed in November 2019 that it had been the subject of a federal investigation into its accounting practices since 2017, with the Wall Street Journal reporting at the time that both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission were looking at the retailer’s financial reporting. 16, 2015 and Nov.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Beck’s planned departure was first announced in September 2019, at the time when fellow Co-founder and COO Barry Beck left the company. Macy’s updated its “Polaris” growth strategy in late February 2021 as it announced better-than-expected Q4 2020 results, marking a return to profitability for the department store chain.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Allbirds has filed for an IPO, with plans to sell 19.2 The retailer, founded in 2015 as an internet-only seller of wool footwear, expanded into apparel in August 2019 with the addition of sustainably manufactured socks and added an activewear category in August 2021. million in 2019 and $25.9 million in the U.S. million in 2020.

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JULY 5, 2022

The brand already operates nearly 40 stores and three local-language websites in France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, but Spain will be the first new European country lululemon has moved into since 2019.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

in 2020 over 2019 — and b8ta’s collection of high-end electronics made its shops a target for thieves. b8ta Japan was formed in 2019 as a joint venture between US VC Evolution Ventures and b8ta, but in September 2020 it ended its direct relationship with the U.S. The city had been suffering from a surge in burglaries — up 50.9%

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MAY 29, 2024

The Memo, founded in 2019, opened its first store in Armadale and aims to bring more experiences to the baby goods market. The brand is planning to increase its physical retail presence over the next six to 18 months. The post The Memo opens two Melbourne boutiques appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since 2019 Ikea has opened shops in major cities such as Tokyo, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and New York to grow its presence on busy high streets. It now plans to open Ikea Oxford Street in autumn 2023, following the planned launch of its Hammersmith store later this winter.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Target has tapped Michael Fiddelke, who has served as the retailer’s CFO since November 2019, to add the COO role to his responsibilities. Current COO John Mulligan announced his retirement plans in October 2023. He will wear both hats until Target names a new finance chief.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The digital retailer has since stated that it experienced 82% growth between Q2 2019 and Q2 2021. Saks’ IPO plans are reportedly what prompted Jana Partners to take a stake in Macy’s and push for the department store to spin off its own ecommerce operations. Petco kicked off the parade, debuting at $6.4

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MARCH 13, 2025

After first joining the company in 2019 as its chief marketing officer, Kelly Cook will be stepping into the role of chief executive officer of Davids Bridal in April. My goal as CEO is to help transform Davids Bridal into the most innovative, tech-enabled wedding retailer and planning marketplace in the industry.

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