Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

The UK-based JD Sports acquired Shoe Palace in December 2020 and DTLR in February 2021 as part of a push into U.S. Lifestyle retailer DTLR and footwear and apparel chain Shoe Palace both owned by JD Sports will deploy mobile POS and inventory orchestration solutions from Jumpmind across their combined 450 stores in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2024

” Founded in 2020, Ecommerce Equation entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Glow Capital Partners in February this year. . “Travis brings a unique blend of strategic vision, hands-on experience, and empathetic leadership to Ecommerce Equation,” said Jay Wright, Ecommerce Equation founder and CEO.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

Smith brings extensive experience in retail finance posts, including serving as CFO at Walmart from 2010 to 2014 and at Target from 2015 to 2020. Smith as its new CFO, effective May 29, 2023. Most recently, she was Chief Administrative Officer and CFO at Bright Health Group.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Bumpsuit was founded by international model and entrepreneur Nicole Trunfio in 2020. There will also be labour and delivery classes, mommy-and-me events, sound baths, and women’s circles. The post Maternity brand Bumpsuit launches six-month popup appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Tokinomo

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The global big data analytics in retail market size was valued at $4,854 million in 2020 and is projected to reach $25,560 million by 2028. The retail industry is an ever-changing landscape. How do big data and retail combine? This shows us the importance of big data in retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

Hoffman previously served as CEO of Vince from 2015 to 2020 before leaving to lead Wolverine Worldwide, first as President and then CEO through August 2023. (VNCE) , giving it a 65% stake in the retailer. P180 was co-founded by former Vince CEO Brendan Hoffman, who will become CEO of the brand again on Feb.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He previously held various leadership positions during his 32 years with Nike before retiring in 2020. He took the company’s top seat in January 2020, succeeding Mark Parker after his 14-year tenure. Hill will also become a director of the board and a member of the executive committee.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Optus hired these employees as retail consultants and store managers around Australia between January 2014 and March 2020. The backpayment includes more than $5.4 million in wages and entitlements and more than $2.4 million in superannuation and interest.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

This is the second time the local master franchisee of the Chinese discount variety products retailer has entered administration, having previously undergone a restructuring in 2020. Spring said that Miniso suffered from normal market forces such as labour costs, supply chain issues, and inflationary pressures.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

Paire was founded in 2020 by long-time best friends Nathan Yun and Rex Zhang. Essential wear brand Paire has opened its first flagship store in the QV Melbourne shopping centre. The company started with selling socks and has grown into a multi-faceted business known for its sustainable and functional fashion.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2024

Ulta Beauty isn’t the first retailer to take on the challenge of recycling these products’ containers and packaging, but with the chainwide expansion it’s certainly among the largest in terms of scope.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2022

The court found that in January 2020, the company deceived consumers through misleading misrepresentations of hotel room rates on its website and in television advertisements. . Online travel booking company Trivago has been ordered to pay $44.7 million in penalties by the Australian Federal Court for misleading consumers over hotel prices.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Lord & Taylor was an early victim of COVID; the retailer closed all its physical stores in 2020. Rather than open its own physical stores, Regal Brands reportedly will seek to position Lord & Taylor products in other luxury retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

Bunnings lost the title of Australia’s most trusted brand to Woolworths in May 2020. Bunnings has been named the most trusted brand for the year to December, dethroning Woolworths and ending the supermarket’s three-and-a-half-year dominance.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2024

The brand was acquired by Crescent Capital in 2017, but fell into voluntary administration in March 2020, largely due to the impact of Covid-19. Founded in 2000 in Sydney, Tigerlily is known for its patterned dresses and bikinis. The business started to reemerge after Travis Wright , former GM of Esther & Co, became CEO in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

Bluestar brought back the Justice brand as an online-only retailer in April 2021 following its $90 million acquisition of the company in November 2020. The Bluestar portfolio includes brands such as Brookstone, Bebe, Limited Too and Hurley. He brings 25 years’ experience running both U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

The retailer will instead rely more heavily on its smart Amazon Dash Carts , which have been deployed at Fresh stores since 2020 as well as at Amazon subsidiary Whole Foods. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2024

In 2020, we set an ambitious goal to become plastic free by 2025, which pushed our company to aggressively innovate and collaborate while enabling change in our business and across the industry,” said Jeff Yurcisin, CEO of Grove Collaborative in a statement. Since 2020, Grove has avoided 7.8

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The campaign, which ran from January 2020 to August 2021, was for a 60-month interest-free and no-deposit payment method. The Federal Court has ruled that Harvey Norman, along with Latitude Finance Australia, made false and misleading financial claims in a national advertising campaign.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It entered voluntary administration in 2020 citing challenges caused by the Covid pandemic. In Australia, G-Star Raw permanently closed 57 stores in 2020 after failing to find a buyer. Founded in 1989 in Amsterdam, G-Star Raw has flagship stores in New York City, Melbourne, London, Boston, and Shanghai.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Beauty retailer Beautyque NYC — which debuted in 2020 as the first 3D virtual beauty store — is testing out a new technological innovation in the beauty space: a virtual reality app that will allow users to immerse themselves in a virtual beauty store where they can interact with and shop for products.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2024

The Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU), established in June 2020 , stopped more than 700,000 attempts by bad actors to create fake selling accounts in 2023. That’s down from 6 million would-be fake account attempts that were thwarted in 2020, the year that the CCU launched — an 88% decrease in less than four years.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

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. Founded in 2000 in Sydney, Tigerlily is known for its patterned dresses and bikinis.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Buchanan, who joined Michaels as CEO in January 2020, received praise from Andrew Jhawar, Chairman of that retailer’s board: “Ashley has led Michaels through significant transformation , delivering on key strategic initiatives that have enabled sustainable and profitable growth.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On behalf of the board and management team, I would like to thank Julie for her valuable contributions since she joined Bath & Body Works in 2020,” said Boswell in a statement. In Q2, which ended Aug. 3, 2024, the retailer reported net sales of $1.53 million , a 2.1% decline from the same period the previous year. “On

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Since 2020, the company has outsourced its design, production, marketing and distribution to Chinese licensee Glamel. A new CEO has quietly taken the helm at Diane von Furstenberg , and under this new leadership the fashion label plans to bring its operations back in-house, multiple sources report.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

Founder Carolyn Rafaelian lost control of the company to investor Lion Capital in 2020, and Alex and Ani filed for bankruptcy in 2021. The company, which was founded in 2004, had more than 100 stores across the U.S. during the height of its operations. The brand emerged from the process in 2022 with a $17.5

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Bryson was fired in April 2020, several weeks after participating in a protest over working conditions during the early parts of the COVID-19 pandemic. She also noted that the firing took place before the union was formed, which makes it different from cases where organizing support was slowed down as a result of the firing of an activist.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

In October 2020 Walmart and several CPG brands partnered with Ibotta to offer cash-back rewards on Thanksgiving meal staples, and in July 2023 Dollar General began offering cash-back rewards in partnership with the Ibotta Performance Network.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2020, Pavement entered voluntary administration as it struggled with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our brand’s ethos revolves around providing our young people with clothing that empowers them to showcase their personalities,” said Brooke Norton, divisional general manager at Designworks, the new owner of Pavement.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2025

Reserve Bank of Australia data shows payments using mobile wallets accounted for 11 per cent of retail sales in 2020, surging to 35 per cent in three years later, in 2023. More and more Australian consumers are relying primarily on mobile wallets , which are on track to replace bank cards within seven years.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

After acquiring Mirror in 2020, Lululemon announced plans in April 2021 to expand its shop-in-shop strategy for the fitness technology to more than 200 locations. Tonal has been moving into traditional retail; Best Buy recently began offering its products to online shoppers.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Since Meta introduced its short-form video feature Reels on Instagram in 2020, it has been in a fierce battle with TikTok for users' engagement. However, two recent studies indicate that Reels are gaining traction and capturing the spotlight among social media enthusiasts.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

The company admitted that its customer service staff told 40 consumers between November 2020 and February 2022 that they did not have the right to a replacement because the two-year warranty period had expired.

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