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JANUARY 2, 2025

Marquee bought the brand from Gordon Brothers , which acquired Laura Ashley out of bankruptcy in 2020. We acquired the British heritage brand out of insolvency in 2020 and built a flexible, scalable licensing business and a global ecommerce presence over the last four years, said Tobias Nanda, Head of Brands at Gordon Brothers in a statement.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Casey’s General Stores has announced a three-year strategic plan that will include opening 350 additional stores, expanding its selection of prepared and private label foods and ramping up its community involvement. The effort will build on Casey’s previous multi-year plan, which included building 350 stores between 2020 and 2023.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Rent the Runway — which allows users to rent, subscribe and buy designer apparel and accessories — plans to list on the NASDAQ under the ticker “RENT.”. We entered 2020 with momentum behind us, poised for continued growth,” said the company’s CEO and Co-founder Jennifer Hyman in a memo included in the SEC filing. million from $256.9

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Current Kohl’s CEO Tom Kingsbury will be stepping down on that date but will remain as an advisor and board member until his planned retirement in May 2025. Kohl’s has named Ashley Buchanan, CEO of Michaels , as its new CEO, effective Jan. Net sales of $3.5 billion represented an 8.8%

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

Paire was founded in 2020 by long-time best friends Nathan Yun and Rex Zhang. The company also announced its plans to expand into the Asia market this year, alongside multiple new exciting product launches. Essential wear brand Paire has opened its first flagship store in the QV Melbourne shopping centre.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Managing this requires keen budgeting skills and pre-planning, which can cause stress for seasonal business owners. Thoughtful budgeting and money-saving strategies are a crucial part of any business plan, seasonal or not. Brandon Naughton has been the Marketing Manager at  Repicci’s Real Italian  since its inception in August 2020. 

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The new “Triple Shot” plan builds on the original reinvention strategy introduced by former CEO Howard Schultz at the company’s Investor Day in September 2022. Here are some of the details on how Starbucks plans to continue this momentum in the coming years: Shot #1: Elevating the Starbucks Brand… …through 4% net-new store growth in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

The acquisition of Royal Sporting House in 2020 provided a strong retail foundation across North Africa, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. The post How GMG plans to win Southeast Asias sports retail market appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. GMGs growth has been fueled by strategic acquisitions and high-profile store openings.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

In addition to this Southern California store, the retailer has new shops planned for Illinois, Rhode Island, Nevada, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico. Forever 21 plans to celebrate each new store with a grand opening featuring special promotions, giveaways, gifts with purchase and food.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The retailer plans to close its 35 remaining brick-and-mortar stores by Sept. While Olympia’s remaining locations have generated significant gross revenues since 2020, its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) have remained in negative territory. 30, 2022, according to a filing with the U.S.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

In February 2020, the previous CEO and chairman Jeff Gennette announced the launch of a three-year turnaround strategy dubbed Polaris. As part of its restructuring under the Bold New Chapter, Spring announced the plan to cut the fat and close down 150 of Macys underperforming stores by the end of 2024. billion, down from $24.4

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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. Right now we are negotiating with financial partners for us to expand faster,” Spurgin said. “We

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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. ” Brooklinen’s brick-and-mortar expansion was previously announced after the company raised $50 million in March 2020.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

plans to open approximately 100 new stores in 2025 as it moves toward its eventual goal of operating 3,200 locations 200 more stores than its previous target as part of its Life Out Here 2030 strategic vision. Tractor Supply Co. For its Q3 2024, which ended Sept. 28, 2024, Tractor Supply generated net sales of $3.47 billion , a 1.6%

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JANUARY 2, 2025

billion Kroger-Albertsons tie-up as well as the November 2024 end of a planned Capri Holdings and Tapestry merger. After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023. Walgreens Agrees to $192.5M

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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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APRIL 10, 2023

Bankruptcy Court in Maryland and plans to close all 39 stores in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. million in fiscal years 2020 and 2021, respectively. The Athlete’s Foot parent company Arklyz Group was planning to purchase Shoe City in May 2022, but the deal fell through. million , and Timberland , owed $1.4

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MARCH 29, 2023

Jeff Gennette, Chairman and CEO of Macy’s since 2017, plans to retire in February 2024 after a total of four decades with the retailer. Mitchell, who has served as CFO since November 2020, has been integral to the development and execution of the retailer’s Polaris transformation strategy.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Walmart Canada has announced plans to invest $6.5 billion over the next five years as it further accelerates growth in the country, with plans to open dozens of new stores. A fourth DC included in this 2020 round of investment, the Vaughan Distribution Centre, will open this spring.

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MAY 22, 2023

With the exception of 2020, the total number of shoplifting complaints across New York City’s five boroughs has increased every year since 2018 — although there are signs that this tide is turning in 2023. The plan includes targeted solutions to reduce retail theft perpetrated by individual shoplifters as well as by organized crime rings.

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MARCH 21, 2024

That’s why retailers must find ways to optimize their cloud resource planning strategies ahead of a time of demand. Scalability Is Key One key aspect of effective cloud resource planning is being able to dynamically scale infrastructure. Here are three key components of a well-managed ecommerce cloud strategy. So Who’s Doing It Well?

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Nike has laid out a plan to cut up to $2 billion in costs over the next three years in a bid to “accelerate future growth while building a faster, more efficient” organization, executives shared during the company’s fiscal 2024 Q2 earnings call. dollar that has negatively impacted second-half reported revenue versus 90 days ago.”

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JULY 3, 2024

Since its debut in 2020, Bookshop.org has raised $31 million for independent booksellers through its unique profit-sharing retail model , with 80% of profits given to the nearly 2,000 bookstores in its network.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Amazon reportedly plans to close eight Amazon Go convenience stores as part of a larger restructuring of its physical footprint , according to CNBC. The latest project involves the construction of three 22 -story office buildings and is part of overall plans to spend $2.5

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Current MD of itsclothing & home arm Richard Price, whos been in the position since 2020, will be stepping down after a handover period at the end of April. Lemming said: The reset of our international business is focused on taking the right time and actions to build strong foundations for sustainable growth.

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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. LSKD was recently named ‘Business of the Year’ in the 2024 Telstra Best of Business Awards. It also took home the award for outstanding growth.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

JCPenney’s “Make it Count” customer strategy and brand proposition is the centerpiece of the turnaround plan. The retailer has seen a more than 5% increase in shopping frequency among customers, with a 20% increase among its key segments. Can JCPenney Truly Differentiate Through Experience?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Becca Millstein and Caroline Goldfarb launched tinned fish brand Fishwife back in December 2020, few could have predicted how the consumer packaged goods brand would blow up. IR : Since launching in 2020, what has Fishwife’s growth trajectory been like? billion-plus US tinned fish sector.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to close all its stores in 2020 could have been seen as a rare failure for beloved childrenswear brand Hanna Andersson. Lapic also plans to ramp up the collaborations, in particular with more unexpected brands like Baggu, as a way to grow the Hanna community even further. “We’re

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MARCH 22, 2023

A 2020 survey on behalf of Germany’s Environment Agency found that the “first-use” lifespan for products including televisions and large household appliances has decreased in recent years. The post EU plan would force brands to repair worn-out products for up to 10 years appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2023

The debut of the Walmart+ membership program in September 2020 was a significant departure for the retailer. “We I’ll leave it up to you to think about what might be next, but there are so many exciting things planned.” Membership is a bit of a different variable in that equation. That’s where we’re hunting.

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JUNE 7, 2022

Brok, who took the CEO job in September 2020, is a retail and brand veteran with more than 30 years’ experience, most recently as President of EMEA for Starbucks. He will be replaced by his predecessor, Chris de Lapuente, Chairman and CEO of the Selective Retailing division of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton , Sephora’s parent company.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2024

“As CEO, Tamalin has done an excellent job delivering Adore Beauty’s financial and operational successes and developing the strategic plan. This will be the third CEO since Adore Beauty’s co-founders Kate Morris and James Height stepped down from the chief executive role in 2018 and 2020, respectively.

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MARCH 7, 2025

By building your promotional plans around digital incentives instead of discounts, youll end up with the win-win of better value for both you and your customers. Baradoy also led Lightrail – an API payment infrastructure for customer value – as CEO from 2016-2020. Leif Baradoy is the CEO of Giftbit.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2025

The German grocery giant will be able to go ahead with its plans to launch the pub inside its Dundonald store, based near Belfast, after a judge dismissed an appeal raised by another trader. Lidl has been granted permission by a High Court to open its very first pub in Northern Ireland.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Earlier this year, it was reported that Harrolds’ Melbourne and Sydney stores would be relocated as part of the business’s plan to return to sustainable profit, however, the business remained plagued by difficulties in the retail sector. Notably, Harrolds was a latecomer to e-commerce, only launching an online shopping site in 2020.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

compared to the same period in 2020, for totals ranging between $843.4 Somewhat surprisingly, 2020’s increase over the previous year set a five-year record, climbing 8.2% In preparation for an unprecedented early holiday season, Target is kicking off what it calls “Holiday Best” deals — “best planned prices of the season” — on Oct.

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