Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Lululemon has opened its largest Australian store yet at Emporium Melbourne. The 11,000sqft store is almost triple the size of its previous shop at Emporium and has a significantly larger menswear section. It also offers womenswear and accessories and has a dedicated footwear space.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

At the end of the day, the customer’s connection with a well-informed and engaging store associate in conjunction with exclusive beauty services, such as Ulta Beauty’s robotic eyelash extension machine, is the winning combination to excite the customer and lead to profit. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

this spring, available online and in select retail locations, with a global rollout that also will include footwear and accessories planned for 2026. Now, by partnering with Nike, the undisputed leader in athletic performance and innovation, were poised to create a new standard in the global fitness and activewear market.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The recent opening of Lululemon’s new flagship at Emporium Melbourne marked a key milestone for the brand and its robust growth strategy in the region. At over 1000sqm, the store is Lululemon’s largest in Australia and New Zealand and houses new concepts, more menswear and products for all.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We Wear Australian, an initiative created by Showroom X, is activating at New York Fashion Week with an immersive retail activation on 7 February. I think our aesthetic, our way of living, our innate ability to be sort of relaxed but beautiful at the same time has [helped us] find our feet in this international market, she added.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Give Them the Offers They Need Whether online shoppers are buying dental implants, fitness accessories or items for the house, they have their own conditions and styles. On the back end, retailers can employ gen AI to help recognize patterns in customer shopping history and use it to support the crafting of personalized emails at scale.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 20, 2025

Festive sales at Battersea Power Station increased by 13.4% on a like- for-like basis in November and December, while jewellery and accessories sales increased by 13.3% Demonstrating visitors inclination to indulge at Christmas, Vagabond Wines sold over 1,304 cheese fondues in December.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. Amazon, the $2 trillion gorilla, arrived on our shores officially in December 2017, just in time for Christmas.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2025

Golden Goose aims to gain more market share in Australia by establishing a strong retail presence and building lasting community connections through new retail experiences. Inside Retail spoke with Mauro Maggioni, Golden Gooses Apac CEO, about how the business plans to grow its market share in the global US$39.91

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When Edward and Judy Kwon founded Calpak 35 years ago, they modernized the luggage and travel goods sector by investing in innovative design and marketing. Success is looking [at those metrics] within a specific mile radius from our store. You want to show them the breadth of products for all these other moments and milestones in life.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

And with such a vast target audience that spans 14 to 65 years old , the ShopSimon team needs to “nail that person down,” according to Kelly Cahill, VP of Marketing for ShopSimon. A lot of that generation doesn’t have credit cards, and they’re looking at different ways to use debit cards,” Cahill explained. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

Achieving this level of personalization and marketing effectiveness is difficult given the range of Fender’s channels and customer touch points. Even if consumers buy their new guitars at a retail partner, they can go online and register their instruments on the Fender site.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2024

High-profile fashion collaborations are nothing new, but does making luxury accessible and marketing it to a younger audience come at a cost? It does not feel luxury at all, and brand cues are lost with a product that looks generic, and store environments without brand cue,” Mansfield said. billion Bitmoji avatars globally.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2025

Premier Investments has posted a decline in sales for the fiscal first half, with the results dragged down by a double-digit drop at Smiggle. At Peter Alexander, sales rose 6.6 Meanwhile, sales at the stationery and gift chain Smiggle dived 14.5 per cent decrease. per cent to a record $297.7 per cent to $157.3 per cent to $148.4

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

. “It’s truly inspiring to see how the jewellery designers have drawn from the iconic patterns that originated at a kitchen table in Pimlico over 70 years ago, and transformed them into a collection that seamlessly blends modern sophistication with timeless elegance,” said Poppy Marshall-Lawton, VP at Laura Ashley.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Omar Sabr, the brands CEO, spoke with Inside Retail about how the retail disruptor has created its own lane, how to align with the right IP partnerships and what this business approach looks like in international markets. Mid-market brands chase mass appeal. IR : Are DTC stores on the horizon for any markets? Why or why not?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

On-site stylists will help visitors remix their looks with trend-inspired upgrades and accessories before they have their picture taken by a professional photographer. When they enter, visitors will be immersed in festival trends brought to life via interactive installations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

A runner waits at the ready to collect each customers selections from the stock room ensuring fresh garments await their try-on in the change room. She identified a gap in the market, as well as the problem of overconsumption. Its just the way I like to shop. I love being guided through the pieces.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2024

Every year designers take over the runways at Carriageworks, except for a few offsite shows, to debut their newest collection with the hopes of it being picked up by buyers. On holding your own The Iconic is the largest fashion platform in Australia and is in regular attendance at AFW in search of the next big designers.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2024

His eponymous boutique is located on Glenmore Road in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, where customers can shop his jewellery, fragrance and accessories alongside the gowns. The next step for the fragrance and the shoes; that are coming, would be retailing to a bigger market.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And when you go to the Jersey Shore, it’s an all-day affair: you pack up at 7 a.m., Vaccarella: We started selling them at a local store in my town, and then we brought in 600 additional bags, and then a whole 45-foot container. This was the only bright spot at an otherwise dismal time. so we spend every summer there.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Launched by friends Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R Miller in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1982, the brand became well known for its wide array of colourfully quilted handbags and accessories.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

For Heroes & Villains , a fan-first destination for apparel and accessories, NY Comic Con has become a pillar event for bringing its brand promise to life. Although the team already had a concept in mind, plans changed when they saw another vendor with a very similar concept at a different show. “We So, we pivoted,” Johnson noted.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Local celebs including Emma Barnes (Married at First Sight), Amy Williams MBE (Olympic Gold Medallist) and Lucy Carter were given an exclusive look inside the store the night before the opening. Shweta Munshi, Vice President Marketing, LEGO Retail at the LEGO Group, said: “We love bringing new LEGO Stores to our fans and local communities.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But amidst the traditional marketing blitzes and seasonal promotions, a new force is opening doors to partnerships that wouldnt have been imaginable even a few years ago and quietly reshaping the retail landscape in the process: commerce media. Laura Cosgrove is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in ecommerce technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2025

During an exclusive tour of the location provided to Retail TouchPoints, Courtney Dres, Chief Merchandising Officer at Princess Polly, noted that its an especially exciting moment for the brand because were really starting to get into our groove, understanding what our customers want and love. The soft launches arent soft at all.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Shoppers can visit this page to generate a prepaid shipping label and send their apparel, shoes and accessories to ThredUp, earning Stitch Fix credit for any items that sell. “At Technology advancements, a refreshed brand identity and a new marketing campaign showing how Stitch Fix solves common shopping complaints are being rolled out.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2025

As Vhernier is from Milan, the boutique showcases pure Milanese elegance through its minimalist shapes and soft colour palette, accented with touches of coral and eggshell, Marta Moruzzi, collection merchandising manager and international development at Vhernier, told Inside Retail. per cent during 2024-2032.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2024

The Sydney store will be moved to Westfield’s new development on Market Street, joining a lineup of other luxury brands. The retailer will also offer “heavy” discounts for all clothing, footwear and accessories lines at its Sydney and Melbourne stores, starting Thursday.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

Valued at US$11.85 billion last year, the bridal wear market is expected to reach US$18.54 billion by 2030, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 6.6 percent in this time frame, Maximize Market Research states. This is significantly faster than the global wedding ring market, which is expected to show a CAGR of 5.9

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The downfall of the almost 40-year-old business raises the question of whether this is a sign of things to come as retailers struggle to compete with the increasing e-commerce capabilities and convenience of retail goliaths on the global market, or whether it is a case of Harrolds facing a ‘perfect storm’ of challenges on multiple fronts.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The Tasmanian brand opened its first store in Hobart in 2013, followed by a flagship store three years later at Melbourne Central. Rachel Vasieck: I fell into the retail industry without really being aware at the time of what I was doing. Inside Retail: Tell me about your career journey and how you got into the retail industry?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The new retailer will market itself as “Your walk-in jewellery box” and open a store at Sunshine Plaza, among other planned locations. Former Lovisa CEO Shane Fallscheer is launching his jewellery business, Harli + Harpa, which plans to roll out several stores by Christmas.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Two major new brands are setting up shop at Northern Ireland’s premier outlet destination, The Boulevard , following the schemes record breaking sales. We are delighted open at The Boulevard and look forward to meeting our new customers.” We can’t wait to welcome new customers through our doors and become part of The Boulevard family.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Meanwhile, former Cedar Brands CEO Warwick Blunt will assume the newly constructed role of GM for digital commerce at Myer in November. The department store chain has yet to name the appointees for the newly created roles of GM of merchandise for beauty, accessories and services and GM of merchandise for women’s apparel.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2025

As a result of this partnership, two students from FIT and FSF have created, produced and will sell exclusive capsule collections online through macys.com and at select locations nationwide. Pearsons herself secured two recommendations for a design position at Macys, which has opened exciting new career possibilities, she said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Tech accessories company Casetify has ventured into the luggage space, with a made-to-order luggage collection – Casetify Travel. New category To maintain the strong brand identity Casetify has established in the tech accessories space, the company introduced bold colourways and signature lettering to the luggage collection. “Of

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